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This Trial is usually run during May but to avoid clashing with the World Round held near Penrith the Club cancelled the event until August. As ever it will be a single lap 40 section Trial based around Coverdale, the route will be the usual decent ride round & not shortened as has been previously reported. SIMP_09_regs.pdf

ooo errr missus, you haven''t been kissing him have you?

you bitch

This is an official statement from the Committee of Richmond Motor Club:- The Clerk of the Course, Nathan Stones, has directed Richmond Motor Club Ltd to make an amendment to the results of this weekends Mintex Trophy Trial following an investigation into irregularities that have taken place. The integrity of the Club has been compromised by the actions of an individual. The Club will issue a full set of amended results in due course & regret this unfortunate incident. Amended results attached below. mintex_correct.pdf

Well without an official protest, ie put your money where your mouth is, the Club can do nothing. The scores are put into the computer very quickly, errors are made by both the observers in the scoring books & the results team. Remember the awards presentation was held within 2 hours of the last rider finishing. Everyone does their best but things do leak through that are incorrect but I can say that everything is done in an impartial manner, if it was any other way I for one would not be involved.

Attached are the correct results for the 2009 Mintex Trial. Below are our secretaries words, not mine:- Richmond Motor Club would like to thank everyone for making today possible. To the landowners for their generosity, to the Clerk of the Course and his team for all their hard work, to the observers and marshals, thank you, to the Results team who were amazing ! Richmond Motor Club would especially like to thank all of the riders who undertook today mintex09results.pdf

To be classed as a finisher they needed to do all the sections, if they didn't do all the sections their time is null & void. So the time & / or observation awards were only given to riders who rode all the sections. I'm not quite sure who you're getting at.

Is the frame geometry the same as the previous bikes? IE is it so front end heavy again?

Is this why you look like a wrinkled old prune?

Sorry but I think not oiling an air filter is rubbish.

Grimbo had a day near Richmond & it wasn't particularly well supported. Richmond have a training school for youth only in July. At committee meetings training for adults has been discussed, get in touch with our secretary & something may be happening in the near future for adult beginners.

You come up through the hole beyond the official, doing a left turn & then it's straight up a big ramp directly into the camera. Like most stuff in the Scottish, despite most sections being big & wide, there's usually a line that's at most two tyres wide. If you miss it you're in trouble, hence I'm readjusting myself for attempt #2 up the ramp. Why can't any bugger post summat of me cleaning one, I can you know.

Unfortunately it's the only bike I've done a 'Shirty' on in the first sub, round the corner, half way up the slab & then hey up, a quick 180 & I'm off back down the bloody thing. I've even cleaned that sub on a Gas Gas with the choke on. I'm sure Gizza is now going to post a picture of me lying on the floor in the second sub. Gizza was a big fat monkey on my shoulder last year, I was upside down every time he saw me.

Aye, he's got a pot belly to go with his tits.

an even cheaper mod is to extend the grove in the tube, I think Al the Spanner uses two hacksaw blades taped together to form the correct width.

Is that cos he looks like a kebab?

Pictures of him in his tent on the roundabout outside PF will do for starters.

Is he Michael's brother?

Can you give exact location details, cost etc?

Somebody I work with from the Leeds area is looking for legal venues to practice at as he's wanting to get a Trials bike. Can anybody give me some info to pass on to him?

& what do you predict with the tea leaves?

I'd have thought Thursdays run will have at least 45 road miles. I like the way they're having to do the roughest moor first thing Monday morning, there's nowt like breaking them in gently. I've fought all the way down off that moor going the other way round, so god knows what it'll be like to ride up. I hope no one does a Kinnel & turns left when they get off the ferry

Normally you get done for vat + a service charge,

It was just under

they must have heard about your riding ability or summat I've taken out a policy with them, not cheap but it saves me being daft & not paying for RTA insurance, how many more of us do that?