Andy

I should never have replied, but you buggers got me wound up so.... Here's a good example from the press up here in the past couple of weeks... A 69 year-old lollipop man quit after being told giving "high-fives" to primary school children and giving them sweets on his birthday and at Christmas was "a health and safety risk". One single parent complained after their child who had a nut allergey was inadvertantly given a sweet that contained nuts. Full initial story here There was then a mass protest by parents who RIGHTLY thought this way over the top. How did the Council react? They confiscated his Lollipop stick because it carried "illegal stickers" Story here You really couldn't make this **** up. The world has gone totally crazy. All the parent had to do was approach him, explain their child had a nut allergy and ask him not to offer them sweets - or even better - educate their child to say they couldn't accept them. Instead they lodge a complaint and cause all sorts of turmoil. That's just one example. I like to read the online press with my coffee in the morning, but the nonsense I see these days daily winds me up so much I need to give it up.

The clock does go wonky from time to time. It's because of the way it updates itself (or doesn't as the case may be). It was out by a couple of hours so I updated it manually, but it didn't like that. As for Copey's response, as much as I love going to the US, think it's a fantastic country and everybody I have met there has been fantastic as individuals (yup, even Copey!), we have them to blame for the mess we are in. The whole "compensation culture" thing came from the USA. Sue for everything. Where there is blame there is a claim. I was in Vegas a few months ago and had a few days to kill before the conference I was attending started. Watching TV in the hotel room, every second ad was for compensation lawyers. Sue for this, sue for that. That spread to here and now we're screwed. you can't even fart without fear of being sued for it. That is where all the health and safety and nanny state bollocks have stemmed from. US lawyers looking to make a killing and US people looking to make a fast buck - mostly through their own stupidity. We have a confirmed case of a US woman suing the manufacturer of a microwave oven after she put her dog in it to dry it out because it was wet and the dog died. Her basis for suing was because the microwave didn't carry a warning that she shouldn't put her dog in it. We have confirmed cases of US people suing fast food companies because they got scalded by coffee or tea that they bought from those fast food companies. That is why if you now buy a coffee it says "Caution, contents may be hot" on the cup. Well - DOH! If you aren't intelligent enough to realise that then you're too stupid to buy a hot drink as far as I'm concerned and should stick to cold pureed food in the home for the "too stupid to drink hot drinks" It's the compensation culture that has led to the Health and Safety bollocks we now have, and subsequently the Nanny State. Everybody is terrified of being sued so take things to the ultimate extreme. It sucks.

I need to find a way to ban myself from this topic so I don't get started. Given I can bypass the swear filter, it wouldn't make pretty reading...

Just added to front page

Now seems to be a good time to clarify to the many that read this (registered users, guests and those that find this via search engines) who are unaware - Borus is the Xispa Importer for Canada and therefore has a vested financial interest in the Xispa marque. His comments and replies should not be considered as unbiased reviews of either the bikes or Xispa, the company. TC has nothing against Xispa and would treat any importer the same if we felt what they were saying was in any way biased. We're actively looking for and would be keen to hear from any genuine Xispa riders who are not connected to any importer or dealer who can provide totally UNBIASED feedback on how the bike performs.

At the top of every topic in the bar towards the right there is a drop-down menu named "options" click on that then switch view to "standard" That'll fix ya :-) for some reason when you come to the forums via a search engine it changes the display option and you have to switch it back

The loss of any practice venue is bad news. One thing I've been aware of for a long time is that folk come on here and post looking for practice venues. That's only natural as folk want to ride somewhere and they want to do it legitimately. Trials folk, being friendly people are more than happy to help. What neither party realise is that everything is indexed by Google and all the other search engines out there so anyone, regardless of what they ride, can search online and find places to ride and that contributes to the loss of these venues. With that in mind, I've created a new forum for UK people to ask these questions and for others to respond which is ONLY viewable and accessible by TC registered members (not Supporters, just being a registered member is sufficient.) I've also set it so it can't be accessed by search engine spiders so anything posted won't appear on any search engine websites. If people keep requests for places to ride and responses to that forum only then it will go some way to keeping them Trials-only and not accessible to the masses.

Full results now online

'Trials HD' shifts 300k copies

My text talk senses are tingling Individual scores aren't published anywhere. Even at the TdN events I've been to I've never seen individual scores even in stuff we get in the Press room. It all comes out just as Team results.

I didn't know Leigh, but looking at my photos I certainly caught him on camera quite a few times over the past few years. My sincere condolences go to his family. For family or friends who want what I think is a nice photo of Leigh riding at the 2008 SSDT, I've uploaded a shot taken at Fersit in full high resolution. Do feel free to take it. Click here to download

Can you get this back on-topic please. This isn't the TMX feedback forum. PS. Well done girls

Yup, the ACU release several versions of the calendar. It'll appear on the front page once released and then any amended versions also published.

Dog was padding about at 6:30 wanting out so got up.

That takes place today starting in a couple of hours time. BTW, I'm not at TdN. Prior family commitment.

I've taken this and posted it on the front page of TC. Classic stuff, nice find, but too good to hide away on the forums

Popcorn anyone? This could get very interesting

The real figure is at the bottom of the Forum index - "We have 7590 registered members". The incremental number includes those who never complete registration validation and the spammers who register, but we zap before you ever see. 7,500 is still a very respectable number for a niche sport and way beyond what I ever thought it would get to when I started this whole thing!

Every time something went wrong at the weekend (and trust me, there was plenty) we just said "What country are we in?" - that says it all. They are a law unto themselves...

I've given Mr Miller a wee reminder ;-)

I believe it's being unveiled at the TdN in Italy in two weeks time. (topic moved to Sherco forum)

It's all kicking off here with Raga trying to organise a petition against no-stop...

It's being widely talked about here in Spain. It's being pushed for by the factories...

Hand isn't good, but he will ride.

You been reading too many Cota Kid posts