Andy

If anybody else was, like me, taken by the backing music, it's The Church - Under The Milky Way Tonight. Never heard it before, but it's a great track so Googled a bit. Got a kinda Beloved ring to it. The Aussies seem great at pulling these retro bands out of the hat at big events. Seeing Midnight Oil doing Beds Are Burning at the closing of the 2000 Sydney Olympics was awesome. And as a bonus they even gave us Kylie

Cool That'll be something to tell the grandkids!

Get her out somewhere with a piano. She'll tell you all about how she's a trained concert pianist then wuss out when you challenge her to prove it It adds more to the story if Ishy is snoring in the background, BTW

You ain't having a booze-up without me and until I know my Japan/USA flight details I can't say how much time I'll have at the SSDT

Good stuff. It would be a boring world if we all got along, but yeah - the Beave is more controversial than most (putting it mildly!) and I can understand folk saying enough is enough! However, we've a good community here and I don't want folk to leave because of any individual.

There is an option for anyone not wishing to read posts by any user. Simply click on "My Controls" up near the top of the page then on the left under "Options" you'll see "Manage Ignored Users". Add that user and bang - they're gone.

Absolutely definitely. I checked each envelope against my spreadsheet before posting.

I'm going out to the Japan World Round. Don't know if there will be anybody selling this kind of thing onsite, but if there are then I'm happy to take a few back if there's demand (and the price is right - obviously!)

Hmmm.... Sheffield Indoor - Sell-out every year. Sheffield Indoor - 2006 - Largest waterfall obstacle ever seen anywhere in the world at an Indoor event. Sheffield Indoor - Our crowds appreciate all the riders and don't boo riders from outwith their own country. Spain also gave us Octagon. Enough said!

A series of urban Trials. Along the lines of the Red Bull one in Manchester. That pulled in the punters aplenty and would help to spread the word.

I should ban you for such flagrant abuse of the forums, but instead I'll stick in a fiver. It is relatively local to me after all and is for a good cause

This is new stuff to me. What is it about the quality that makes it poor? I'm open to you saying the quality is poor, but need that quantified as to what exactly makes it "poor". What would you want to make it better? Tell me that and I'll fix it.

Guys - I want to know of any problems with them i.e. lack of stick when they get wet or come off when the bike is washed etc. The guy assured me that wouldn't be a problem if they were applied properly, but I'm holding off on ordering other sizes until I'm sure.

I'm never going back to that Trial again! I went two years ago and wet? I was like a drowned rat. Being serious, I'd love to go and it was in my plans to, but I've a server upgrade to do before the end of the month so that's going to take all my time.

And I should have checked the forums before replying to your PM

Oooh - got both the modern and the Retro look! Nobody else got theirs then? Took me bleeding ages on Friday night to sort that lot out then caused a major queue in the Post Office on Saturday morning. "These are going within the UK and are pre-stamped. These are UK too, but can you weigh them just in case, this one is to France, this one to Canada, these to the USA, oh and these to Australia". There was a lot of tutting and sighing behind me

Yup. Went out on Saturday. Should start arriving with folk today. Would have been sooner, but I was working in the Western Isles last week.

Sounds pretty much spot on!

Are you into Pushbike Trials or Motorcycle Trials? If you're not into Trials on a bike with an engine then you'd be best to post in our forum dedicated to that subject or seek a site more dedicated to that discipline. This site is 99% dedicated to Motorcycle Trials.

AS iow does. He's even met the pixie.

Well AGiow or ASiow could email the results to website AT trialscentral.com and the magic news post pixie could sort it

MotoGP pre-season testing came to a close when the teams and riders ended their three-day IRTA test at Jerez today. The next time they fire up their 990cc four-stroke grand prix machines it will mark the start of the 17-round world championship which opens on the same 4.423 km Jerez circuit on March 26. Honda fields its youngest ever senior class line up for a championship campaign this year. The six RCV riders have a good balance between youth and experience averaging 23 years of age, with Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner the youngest at 20, Makoto Tamada the elder statesman at 29. Nicky Hayden 24, Marco Melandri 23, and Toni Elias, a 24 year old complete the line up. In addition Team Roberts have chosen Honda power for their all-new for the 2006 season KR211V. The RCV engine housed in a Team Roberts built rolling chassis. Kenny Roberts Jnr will race the machine he has helped develop since the drawing board stage. On the last day of the three-day test the Repsol Honda pairing of Dani Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden set the pace for their fellow RC211V riders to chase. Pedrosa ended the day with a flourish setting fourth fastest time of the day, Hayden a tenth of a second behind in sixth. Both riders worked hard on race simulations using the latest Michelin rubber. While Hayden feels he improved the rear end of his all-new 2006 factory machine he hopes for more feeling from the machine at the grand prix. MotoGP debutante Pedrosa is on a fast learning curve but ends winter testing in better shape than he could have hoped for. The young Spaniard has improved each time out on the 240 hp plus RC211V but the real test comes when he returns to Jerez to race. Fortuna Honda riders Marco Melandri and Toni Elias emerged from the final day of testing in confident mood. Both men spent the day tyre testing running a series of tests on 2006 race rubber. Melandri set his fastest time of the day on lap 12 of a 15-lap session on race tyres. While Elias worked his way through an intensive tyre testing programme ending the day more as one with his RCV than at any time during winter testing. Makoto Tamada (Konica Minolta Honda) ended the day faster than yesterday but the gritty Japanese rider is still searching for the optimum base setting for his RCV. He is still trying to eliminate the chatter problems he ran into yesterday. Kenny Roberts Jnr ended the test with fifth fastest time aboard the KR211V. Roberts spent the day gathering as much data as possible for the team before they return to their UK base to decide upon the next phase of chassis development. Honda rider Lap times and quotes. Nicky Hayden, Repsol Honda: 1m 40.570s - 109 laps."Well all the testing's all over and now it's time for the real deal. Next time we get on the bikes it'll be showtime. I'd like to say we're right there and everything's all gravy but the truth is still couldn't quite get the bike to stay in line and get hooked up as good as we wanted. We've made some progress today and at the end we put on some soft tyres, not qualifiers, just to see what it would do and that definitely helped my lap time a lot. And I did a full race run to get a feeling but I it was hard to maintain the pace. Nonetheless, I'm excited to go racing. Testing's cool but going toe-to-toe with the boys is the fun part!." Dani Pedrosa, Repsol Honda: 1m 40.416s - 81 laps. "It's been a very good pre-season for me because each time on the bike I've been able to improve step-by-step. I did a lot of laps over the winter and this is very useful to get to know the bike because the step up from the 250 to MotoGP is much bigger than the step from 125 to 250. Physically I'm getting stronger and this will continue throughout the year. I'm starting to understand how the tyres work, though I need more experience with the electronics, on race starts and qualification tyres. I don't know if I'm ready for round one - we'll have to wait and see!" Makoto Tanaka - Repsol Honda Team Manager. "We have worked through a demanding menu of testing here, in readiness for the up-coming Spanish GP. Both Nicky and Dani have done lots of laps. Thanks to all of our staff, they all worked very hard during this pre-season test schedule. Dani showed very good progress today, especially with his consistency during the long run with race tyres. Dani made good progress, more than what we hoped, so we are very much looking forward to the opening race. We are the quickest Michelin runner throughout three days of testing here and Nicky showed good speed and he gave us the top two times of the Michelin runners. But Nicky hasn't got the perfect set-up yet and we still have a lot of work to do to improve his machine for the race. We have some positive feeling from a good race tyre pace but still need more hard work. We'll do our best to ensure a good race here in Jerez." Toni Elias, Fortuna Honda: 1m 40.753s - 101 laps. "Today we concluded our pre-season testing plans. My evaluation of the work done by all the team is very positive, in that respect I'm very satisfied. We have improved steadily which has allowed us to lap faster and also helped me feel more comfortable on the bike, which I think is the most important thing. I must thank Michelin for all the work they have done. I can't wait to race here at Jerez in front of these great fans

I'd rather see this on the front page than stuck away in here.

Crowd: 45,000 Climate: Warm, sunny Temperature: 25 Zemke Takes First Daytona 200 Win American Honda

In that case, damned good job I bought a camcorder