Andy

Our very own Perce used to be a master at this art, but not one of my photos of him from this year's SSDT has his tongue out. Maybe switching from Gasser to Mont has cured him???

What may happen - and it's undecided yet - is that folk are asked to pre-register and chip in a few quid towards hiring a good-sized marquee. The weather was kind to us last year, but no saying it will be the same this year. We'd still do the same barbecue, big screen Trials, limited free booze, but have it more centred around those who actually use Trials Central. A much bigger tent with everyone inside would be easier to control.

Nah. Ain't gonna happen. I'd LOVE to make it public if it could be like Friday night, but it ain't gonna happen. If there are people there who'd stoop to stealing things like a bag of bread rolls or a box of wine then I only want those there from this site and by pre-registration only. Shame the minority spoil it for all, but that's the way it is. We'll have a better, more relaxed night if we know who folk were.

That's favourite at the moment. Friday night was spot on - couple of hundred folk, entertainment for the kids - everybody enjoyed themselves with no hassle. Saturday night. Hmmmm. How do you restrict it if it's not cordoned off? I have Bikespace down as a bouncer. Take a brave man to argue with him

That will absolutely happen. It's controlling access to ensure it's only Trials Central folk there that's the issue.

Hmmm. I've been invited to take part in the organised L&M beer tent in the camping area, but they're subject to licencing restrictions. A bring your own booze private party isn't subject to that. However, I don't want the hassles of last year with freeloading, stealing or muppets getting p***ed up and doing daft things like trying to tip toilets over. It's under review!

Sebastien Charpentier

Good stuff - especially when both are on four-bangers and neither of them have really had that much serious competition time on them

Shouldn't you be keying results or don't you lower yourself these days?

There's not much in Edinburgh itself. Obviously Edinburgh & District organise the SSDT and PRe-65 events, but that's about it. Edinburgh St. George do the Lauder Trial, but I'm not sure how active they are other than that. Overthehill is the man to answer on that one, but I heard he's kinda busy this week Just across the Forth, Dunfermline and District are pretty active. They seem to have a reasonable number of events on and Lanarkshire do a fair bit too. You've picked a bad time to ask this as loads of folk from this area are at the SSDT. You may want to bump this topic back up in a week or so once everybody's back.

He's got a satellite enabled PDA.

Sat at home and not letching at Eil's boobs like our so-called team-mates. Not that we would do such a thing of course, being the consumate professionals that we are

Like Kinell said (and he knows better than most!) your scores don't matter as long as you enjoy it. Even Dougie had to start somewhere!

Well when it came to drinking on Saturday night, Ishy whipped Perce although Perce won in the "Looking most alive on Sunday" competition

Andorra is Sunday 3rd September. Last year was my first time there and my observations: 1) It's a fair old drive from Barcelona airport 2) It's bloody hot, dry and dusty 3) The hotels are very basic 4) The beer is cheap 5) Prepare to have your car searched at the border on the way out. 6) Cracking place if you want to take photos.

You mean Ishy who was last seen well tanked up in the Alex around midnight and hasn't been seen since?

you know I only do that to wind you up

You sound surprised! How typical is this?

I could watch bike trials vids all day. They absolutely fascinate me.

It was nothing that would affect anybody running Windows. Trials Central runs under RedHat Linux (Fedora actually for the techies out there). I believe the cause of the problem was Dovecot which is an IMAP/POP solution which I installed last week for email - unaware of the potential problem. If I haven't already lost you with geek-speak, details of the vulnerability are here

I must point out that it was NOT a virus that caused the recent problems. It is not possible for anyone to get a virus from visiting this site. My "real life" job away from this site is working for the largest computer security company in the world. Take my word for it - You will not EVER get a virus from visiting Trials Central. The problem arose due to an (unknown at the time) vulnerability in software I recently installed on the site around email services which allowed those of a malicious mind to launch what is known as a Denial of Service attack on another site. Denial of Service basically means they flood the site with requests until it goes down. The affected software has now been removed and everything is back to normal!

Dabster - I've stuck a CD in my camera bag that Ben Morphett's Grandfather sent me. I'll show you it in America. It's very well put together and great to give to any potential sponsors. I'm sure between us we could put something together for Alexz (and Ross, Ian) that would look slick and be sent out to potential sponsors. I'm taking plenty photos of both of them. There's some video too already with more to come. The basics are there. We can build on that for both riders and do some decent promotion for both - and any other youth rider I'm currently covering. I have tons of stuff that could be used.

Indeed they have. A copy is en route to me for review. More once I get it.

FIM MX1 / MX2 World Motocross Championship Round 2 of 15 - Sunday 16th April 2006 Grand Prix of Spain, Bellpuig Crowd : 26,200 for the weekend Weather : Saturday - Morning rain showers, sunny afternoon, temperature 20 deg C : Sunday - Sunny periods, bright but overcast, temperature 22 deg C De Dycker 5th in sunny Spain CAS Honda rider Ken De Dycker posted a decent 5th position overall today at the Grand Prix of Spain for the second round of the FIM Motocross World Championship despite not being able to ride at full-fitness, very much the theme for many of the Honda GP riders contesting the series. The well-prepared Bellpuig circuit in the northern region of Catalunya was hard, rough and fairly dusty as the sun bore down on the 26,200 spectators who travelled to the venue over Easter weekend. De Dycker is currently carrying the hopes of the CAS Honda team after the injury to Josh Coppins two weeks ago just before the opening GP of the season at Zolder. The Belgian qualified in a decent fifth position during equally sunny conditions on Saturday and was less than a second away from Tanel Leok on pole. The 21 year old, who is still fighting his way back to peak condition after a problem with his thumb, rode a strong opening race to deprive Suzuki's Steve Ramon of 5th spot on the final lap of 21. During the second moto he split the factory KTM duo of Sebastien Tortelli and Jonathan Barragan in a mid-top ten tussle from which he emerged unscathed with 6th place by the end of the 35 minutes and 2 laps duration. De Dycker is 5th in the World Championship standings and just eight points away from countryman Steve Ramon. Martin Honda rider Brian Jorgensen was feeling fitter and looked a little more like his old self on the Spanish slopes but two mistakes proved costly in the first moto and he failed to score any points after previously hovering around the top ten. The Dane was a more collected figure in the second race and picked up 10th spot for 16th overall. His team-mate Javier Garcia Vico was competing at his home Grand Prix and was naturally the focus of attention. The multi-national Spanish Champion was disappointed by lacklustre speed that prevented him from reaching higher than 16th in Moto1 but rallied in front of his fans for an improved 11th with his second bite of the cherry. Vico is still rediscovering his feeling at World Championship level after more than a year away from the competition due to a neck problem. Stefan Everts claimed victory and was joined in the top three by Tanel Leok and Steve Ramon. Everts, now with 89 career wins, leads the World Championship standings by ten points from Leok. Team Wulfsport Honda's Gordon Crockard was luckless again with injury as a rock smashed his mouth by entering the small gap between his helmet and his goggles on the opening lap of the first moto. The Irishman was left extremely groggy as the impact spilt both side of his front lip and bent his teeth inwards. In MX2 Martin Honda rider Antoine Meo grabbed a decent 4th position in the first qualification race on Saturday. Sadly the Frenchman was the victim of crashes in both motos that saw him running at the back of the pack trying to make up positions. He managed 19th in the first heat but had to pull out with a mechanical problem later in the afternoon. He now lies 16th in the World Championship standings and is one point behind Honda's best placed representative Patrick Caps who was 12th overall today. Tyla Rattray won the Grand Prix again from Marc De Reuver and Billy Mackenzie. World 2005 runner-up and De Dycker's team-mate Josh Coppins successfully underwent surgery this week on his dislocated shoulder and is now in the initial throes of his recovery and rehabilitation programme. The New Zealander still does not have an estimated date for a return to action. The third round of fifteen in the 2006 campaign will take place in just seven days at Agueda for the third consecutive Grand Prix of Portugal. Ken De Dycker, CAS Honda: "I am quite happy today because I feel that things are getting better and better. I haven't ridden so much on hard-pack recently so it was a good race considering. I was in a fairly decent position out of the gate in the first heat but I made a few mistakes. I didn't go too crazy in the beginning and fought back using a steady speed. I felt good and passed Ramon right at the end for fifth. I hit the gate with my front wheel in the second moto and the bars went sideways so I was last around the first turn. Again I worked on coming back and being smooth. I am still having a few problems with my hand but I feel my riding getting better." Brian Jorgensen, Martin Honda: "I felt comfortable in the first moto and was just outside the top ten at the start. I tried to build-up my rhythm and find my speed because I am still lacking some race fitness. I didn't want to get arm-pump or make any mistakes but I tried to make a new rut on one of the jumps. The bike went sideways and I lost it. It was difficult to get the bike started and get going and then I went down again, this time into the fence. I was one lap behind by the time I was back on the track but followed Tortelli and those guys and set a good pace. In the second moto I focussed on making my own race. The others are fitter than me at the moment. I have to build up my confidence but because of the feeling I have on the bike I am sure that I will be ready to fight soon and that is when I will be happy." Javier Garcia Vico, Martin Honda: "The first race wasn't that good and I wasn't happy with sixteenth. I knew I had to do better later in the day and the result was OK. Still, I am not satisfied because I felt quite prepared for this GP earlier this week, especially mentally. Now I have to work hard and get more time on the bike. We have to push harder than ever. I am still nowhere near where I want to be but the team and I are working on it." Antoine Meo, Martin Honda: "This was a difficult GP for me. I had a good speed in the first heat but I crashed twice and that meant I had to push hard just to take two points. I went down again in the second heat and lost a lot of time to restart the bike. My rhythm was OK after that but there was a small problem with the carburetion. It is a shame because I felt very fast in qualification yesterday." Roger Harvey, Honda Europe Motocross Co-ordinator: "What can we say? It was a very difficult day. I was pleased with De Dycker because he had a small operation during the week on his thumb. The problem at the moment is that most of our riders are carrying some sort of injury; Jorgensen hasn't been able to do much either. No excuses though because our results were not good enough. Ken has been struggling towards the end of the races so I was happy to see that his fastest lap came at the end of the first moto and that shows us a little bit of a different rider compared to what we have seen in the last few years. Jorgensen has not been able to train and now has to work to build himself back up. Gordon Crockard was unbelievably unlucky and will have to see a dental specialist." MX1 Race 1 (21 laps = 32.466 Km) Pos / Rider / Nat. / Bike / Time 1 / Strijbos, Kevin / BEL / Suzuki / 39:17.220 2 / Leok, Tanel / EST / Kawasaki / 39:26.658 3 / Everts, Stefan / BEL / Yamaha / 39:30.175 4 / Barragan, Jonathan / SPA / KTM / 39:33.276 5 / de Dycker, Ken / BEL / Honda / 39:37.293 6 / Ramon, Steve / BEL / Suzuki / 39:40.727 7 / Tortelli, S

New user, first post here etc. I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but I'm afraid you're going to have a credibility problem launching on the defensive/offensive on your first post. A lot of the guys here have posted for a long time and, as such, are going to take a bit more convincing...