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Atom, Waddaya mean by "dominate"? I know they have the widest selection of specialized models, they aren't ashamed to ask the highest retail prices for said models, and the people who buy them would "never buy one of them Jap bikes", but where do you get "dominate"? Ya been hangin' around Ringo and drinkin' his orange Kool-aid?

Uh Oh... Somebody pushed Sendero's AMA button again... Does Trials need the AMA? Nope. BUT... The AMA needs Trials. We all ride motorcycles, on and/or off road, and it' doesn't matter what discipline. Therefore we need the AMA, and to be as strong as possible, the AMA needs us. Those of us that are members already know this. Non AMA types, pack your gearbags, you're goin' on a guilt trip... If you ride motorcycles of any kind and you do not belong to the AMA, you are proving to the rest of us that you do not care about the sport, or your right to participate in the sport, enough to do your small part to preserve it. Is this how you see it? "Screw the AMA, man! They're a buncha dicks! They just want our money! Yea, and they don't do anything for us, man! What about us? What about OUR needs? They can't answer that, can they? Ok, so I'm not joining. Ha!" I'm sure that you can find a much better use for 40 bucks, can't ya? Besides, Attack of the Fiddies is on sale right now, and your first copy got scratched, and Sepultura has a new CD out that's supposed to be killer. Therefore, if you ever find that your... excuse me, OUR right to ride has been denied, the only thing you will be able to say (after you turn the music down)is that you played your part in watching it die. Then you will be able to watch Attack of the Fiddies on Sunday mornings and wax nostalgic for the days when you could actually ride your Fiddie on your own property. Alternatively, for a paltry 40 bucks a year, you can say you have done what you can to preserve our right to ride motorcycles and therefore you deserve to ride. Trials riders are the LAST group of riders that can complain about 40 bucks a year. Of all motorcycling disciplines, Trials is absolutely the cheapest sport available to those that want to ride a running motorcycle. Being critical of the AMA does not buy you the right to ingore your 40 dollar a year responsibility to motorcycling. If you don't pay your dues, you cannot bitch. If you are paid, you get to bitch! Oh boy! Yay! Be advised that bitching will do you no good, but at least you will be able to face the mirror on Sunday mornings with a clear conscience, knowing you did your part, while your kids are loadin' up the motorcycles to go ridin' for the day. Now pony up that 40 bucks, ride hard and proud, try to talk another rider into joining the fray, and vote! Who else is gonna fight the politicians in Washington for your right to ride? Your local Trials club? humpfff...

Dude, get some help. Ringo? Beta? Right... What's he gonna do about that Montesa tattoo on Little Pink Johnny? You gonna remove it for him? Huh? I have the two cleanest and most pristine Betas in North America and he forces me to park 'em out of visual range just so he can eat, and usually on the downwind side of the motorhomes where the trashbags hang. And he's gonna ride a Beta? GFR. Did you seriously just call the Champ a "loser"? Save yourself. Take it back, or... or... or I'll not like you anymore.

So wadda we know about the Beave? (big inhale, Ace Ventura fast talk voice) Beave says Ron needs to kick down some big dough before Beave will ride World stuff for him on a Beta, Ish is gettin' rich on the backs of World Trials riders and fans, Geoff Aaron is the lamest thing to ever sling a leg over a Trials bike and he is the Champ only because a bunch of aging National guys who just don't care, have conspired to systematically empty the US youth talent pool, but in spite of a dramatic crash/injury in the rocks, Beave is still Ringo's biggest fan, and the only way the US will ever produce a World Champ ever again is with the paid guidance of the Beave himself, and some mystery man who knows who he is, is spanning the globe and makin' out like a bandit with the proceeds from the ETDE raffle money... and after all this, we find that back in the seventies, the Golden Age of professional Trials, the good ol' days when the Beave was King... The Beave went bankrupt ridin' pro Trials. (big inhale and gasping to catch breath) Beave, I think I saw you in a movie. Weren't you the stunt double for Ace Ventura when he wore a pink Tu Tu and tried to get committed to the Happy Home? Every time I see that scene, I think of you. "I'm gonna execute a 180 degree flip turn in super slo mo. Brrrrrrrr rrowwww fwaaaa, buuurrrr wah grrrrfoowah." "Let's see it again in instant replay. Hawoofrrrrg haw rrruuub aaaawf wwworr rrrrrrrrB." "Put me in coach. I'm ready to play. Just give me one more chance. I've been training hard. Please!" You are a classic, Beave. Love ya! :wall:

That was a real tear jerker, wasn't it Atom? I was bellowing chunks all over the keyboard. How 'bout the part where he "has traveled the path before" or some such drivel. That made my head spin 360's while spewing coffee-plasm all over the walls. Beave, I gotta give credit where credit is due. I come here every day, not for the "Trials needs to grow" stuff, not for the NATC stuff, and not for the World domination stuff. I come here for the same reason I slow way down to look at a traffic accident. I check in every day to read the latest Beave stuff. Thank you Beave, and keep up the good work. Sendero

I think we should take into consideration other motorcycling disciplines and the names of classes that they are used to seeing. For example, an Expert level MXer isn't going to want to ride Beginner. He will be more likely to sign up Sportsman or Novice. He will be familiar with the term Sportsman and what it means, from the club he regularly rides with. Sportsman is commonly the "I'm just doing this to see if I like it, I don't care if I win or lose" class, in other disciplines. Let's not drop Intermediate. It is everywhere. I've never seen Clubman anywhere. Let's stay with traditional names. Ridge's KISS in mind, Expert Advanced Intermediate Novice Sportsman (forget the NATC) Junior (kids) Champ is real simple. The standard (AMA) has always been "It takes three to make a class". Don't bother to lay out Champ lines unless you are sure you will get three. Otherwise, they can ride the Expert line, or call ahead and request the lines. They won't snivel. They're Champs.

Right on, Ridge. That entire post nails it down perfectly. Would you consider a run for Trials POTUS? You got my vote.

Atom. Dude. WTF? Come in, over. Thought it was ISHY!?! It's The Beave and The N-Gasm that desperately want American World Champs in our lifetime. That's TWO guys out of, dare I say, a thousand plus guys. All thousand plus of the rest of us just ride Trials when we can, help when we can, and READ with comprehension. Peace out.

Hang around a while and you'll hear from some Plonkers. If you show up to a Plonkers event, be prepared to party and ride hard. Great bunch. It just so happens there's one comin' up soon. I'll be happy to tell ya some stories for a couple gallons of gas or a cheap beer. Don't listen to Ringo's stories... they're all lies.

I'm back! I made the same old mistake I always do... I tried to load software that would allow me to move the photo from my phone to my PC. As usual, the Way Back Machine (my PC) started smokin' and clankin' and ultimately imploded. It took Peabody and Sherman (our local computer geeks) all this time to fix it. So the photo will remain on my phone until I can get some teenager to get it to here. Peabody and Sherman wouldn't touch the project. They're smart computer geeks. Sorry 'bout that. I'll keep tryin' Beave. Ya gotta see this.

As soon as my kid gets home from school, he'll try it.

Beave, I couldn't make this **** up if I tried. It is a VERY small world. A few minutes ago I got a call from a ridin' buddy who said "Sendero! Get out of the life sucking chair and git yer *** over here, ya gotta see this bike!" (I'm not working today cuz I'm part mexican.) "Si Senior, I'm on it. I'll be right there." I jumped in the Polaris Ranger and melted it over to where the bike was. There was my buddy who called in the sighting, and there it was... the PERFECT Beave bike. Based on a KX 500, this thing was ready for section clearing. No livin' thing is getting anywhere near this bike, or in a section, unless the rider allows it. I couldn't believe my eyes. EVERYTHING on it was cammo, even the tires. It had an M-249 SAW on a Dobsonian turret mounted to the handlebars, an M-4gery (AR-15 for those that don't know) with telescopic sight and silencer hangin' off the side, a LAW rocket launcher on a rack on the front fender, a radio set with satellite up-link and infared targeting capability hangin' off the side, and a mil-spec helmet and goggles resting on the rear fender. It even had Guillie stuff hangin' all over it. It was all done in six color "Shwartzkoff" desert cammo. The guy who owned it was there loadin' some stuff in the truck. I just had to ask "Dude! Is this a movie bike?" "Yup." He then proceeded to tell us all about it. It's been in this movie that movie, we got 12 of 'em, Arnold wants one, etc. etc. etc. After listening to all that, and tellin' him how impressive his work is, I just had to ask "Do you know Lane Leavitt?" "Oh yea, I know him." Then he proceeded to tell us all about you and the things you do. It was all very positive. You are very well respected in the industry. Right on, Beave! After we were done talkin', I managed to snap a photo of the bike with my cell phone camera, but I have no friggin' idea how to get the photo on this board, nor do I wanna spend the time learning how. Here is your mission, Beave, should you choose to accept it... Get ahold of your buddy, Gary Robert, and somehow post a photo or a link to a photo, of the bike for all us TC Heads to see. This bike is YOU baby! Get on it! Sendero

I am LMFAO!!! After all we've heard over the years, the Beave finally reveals to us lowly serfs, Trials World Championship Secret Number One... Carry Firearms! I can see it all now... "Waddaya mean I dragged a foot, ya sumbitch!? Waddaya tryin' to rob me of my world domination here, pal? Huh? Huh? Stare into this here 38 caliber video cam, ya smartass! Ya see my foot draggin'? Huh? I didn't think so, Stevie The Wonder Checker! Now punch me a clean before I come to my senses, and we'll just forget all about this. Ya readin' me PUNK? Why I otta... "

The chicks, the money, the fame.

Finally! The humor is back! So is it safe to say that AB has established the title of this bout? The Internet Trials World B*** S*** Championship? The I.T.W.B.S.C. That's a good one AB! There is a lot more work to be done to make sure that this world class event goes off without a hitch. What date, what location, what line, how many sections, how many loops, etc. As a level 9 turd slinger myself, I would like to do my part to groom the next ITWBSC Champion for the good of the sport and for national pride. If Ringo will accept my offer to be his minder, I will gladly follow him around while he trains for this event, and every time he screws up I'll gladly poke him in the eye with the aforementioned sharp stick. It's the least I can do. :beer:

I'm definately on board with this!!! We need to set a few parameters first. What class/line are they gonna ride? I've seen the Beave ride Intermediate. 3 loops, no points, one first place trophy. Others on this board have seen him ride Champ. If I remember correctly, he got some fives and no trophy. I've seen Ringo ride. Champy sized stuff, but alot more drama. How 'bout we make 'em ride Champ stuff, but we hold the event pre-surgery, and just duct tape a stick to the side of Ringo's knee? :beer:

2000 - Craig = 999 ? Wow Craig, you are worth 1001 riders. Dang! How many is the Beave worth? He's out. He's an ex World guy so he's gotta be worth more riders than Craig. That automatically puts us in the red. (Hey, RED RIDERS! Now that's funny right there.) Ringo is out for a while. There goes another seven. Don't ask. Bagg got a DRZ and has been doin' some GP's, he could be out. He's gotta be worth at least 3 riders. (including the little Baggies) I'm out cuz I got a CRF450X and can't stay off of it. Lucky for Trials, I'm only worth one rider, and even less to those that have ever had to watch me ride. They're droppin' like flies! Will we have any riders left? Tragedy could be looming... Anyone else out? If so, please provide an explanation.

Oh... my... GOD!!! BEAVE!!! This is THE best post I've ever seen by you!!! Phenom... finoim... fenominaoil... phenominal!!! This spells it all out, and it's right on the money!!! You are proof positive that there is indeed life on other planets. I've held out as long as I could. I wanted to see how far this was all gonna go. I was really hopin' to see some masterful Beave pummelings. But after this (Beave post # 240) I'm just gonna have to carve my own slice of this pie, and shove it right back at ya. Drop them chaps and stick yer head in the fence, Beave. Paragraph 1: Top Ten? Maybe so, but irrelevant. You were banned. Let's go down to paragraph 4 where you finally admit WHY you were banned. "I simply rode the US Championship..." Stop the tape! No, you didn't. You rode a couple of events at best, and even that has been called into question multiple times on this board. Word is you rode a couple LOOPS! "... to show what a joke it is today." Yea, we knew that the whole time. You tried to make a mockery of our sport. Gee. Thanks. We got your point well over a year ago. Unfortunately for you, you have managed only to make a mockery of yourself. Here's what ya don't get, Beave. You seem to be the only person in the USA who reeeeelly cares where we stand in the World Trials Championships. Not even our beloved Champ, Geoff Aaron cares that much. He is just like us, only way better at Trials, of course. He just wants to go ridin' and have fun. Which is what has been goin' on for a long time now, all over the fruited plain. From sea to shining sea. Even thru the Beave and Re-Beave eras, America has been ridin' Trials, and buyin'/sellin' Trials bikes. Among the many reasons this board has slowed down lately, is the fact is most of us spend more time on the gas than you do. If I typed as much as you do, I would have no time to ride. Ride hell, I'd have no time to work! Here's an idea... Take your own advice. Stop typing and ride more. Use your three secrets to World Class greatness. Let them flow thru you like the Force flows thru Luke Skywalker. Hell, use the Force too! Walk the rice paper like Master Poe did. Do whatever it takes. Get good enough to compete at the national level. Spank some people. Not us Terminamediates, I mean some real good guys. Then, as the Top Rider, Grand Poo-bah, Founding Father, President and CEO of the presumably newly formed "US Federation" of Trials, wing on over to Europe and spank some World guys. Then you'll really show us how it's done. As far as the 4th spot on the US TDN team? That spot has to be earned. Stop typing so much and go earn it. We're right behind ya, cowboy.

...which brings to mind my favorite all time cowboy joke. These two cow punchers are a-ridin' fence. (out on the trail and all) They ride up and over a small hill, where they find a sheep with it's head stuck in the fence. They look at each other... they look at the sheep... one says to the other "I gotta have me some of that." ...so he jumps off the horse, drops his chaps, and does his business to the poor little sheep. The other cow puncher sees all this and says "Yup. I gotta have me some of that too." ...so he jumps off his horse, drops his chaps, and sticks his head in the fence.

I heard the Beave did his own stunt ridin' in that flick. Or was he the guy in the sheep costume? Either way, it's no wonder he likes them real high foot pegs.

When I start readin' about bringin' back 450 pound Bultacos, I just gotta let one fly here... Who was it... Brendan I believe, that said Trials is just a bunch of old fuddy duddies or something to that effect? Judging by the Beaves' last few posts, one might begin see it that way, but keep in mind the Beave is not your typical Trials rider of today. He is special... very special. Nobody but the Beave wants to see FAT gas tanks and puffy seats on a Trials bike. Allow me to speak up in defence of the rest of the Trials world... We want the trickest, best performing, lightest, most reliable Trials bikes the factories and their riders and engineers can build, for the cheapest retail price possible, built for the specific purpose of riding Trials in local and national competition... and that IS what we get. We apreciate the fine work they have done over the last few decades, and we look forward to the advancements that will come in the near future. We consider ourselves lucky to be able to purchase such fine machines, built for such a small obscure sport (here in the USA) for the affordable price that we pay, which is less than a modern MXer. If we want a T-r-a-i-l bike, we will go down to the local Honda dealer and plop down 7k for a bike that was built for that purpose, which is what most of us happily do. Beave, snap out of it. Did you really have to walk/ride a Bultaco uphill both ways to get to school when you were a kid? If so, that might explain it. Sendero

Ridge! It's good to see you on the boards again. You are right on the money as always. I would imagine very few, if any of you on these boards, have ridden a Ridge event. I have had the priveledge several times, and hope to do as many as possible into the future. With all this talk about growth of our sport, the guy with the answer (IMHO) is here amongst us once again. Ridgerunner. I've ridden scads of events with Arizona, California and Utah. The Utah stuff I've done was laid out by Ridge. At a Ridgerunner event, you will go big. Not dangerous big, FUN big. How can big be fun and not dangerous you might querry? Cuz it's big and wide. Real wide. Lotsa room. So wide that you will be able to select from multiple lines to get to the next split card. So wide that you will be able to lay out your own line for the section. Choose your poison, so to speak, within the same class/line. So wide that your buddy that you competed against for the day, has ridden in the same class as you, but did not ride the same exact lines as you. That makes for fantastic Bench Racin' Seshes after the event. Therefore line selection and related strategery becomes an added factor in the days competition. This also opens it up for one of my favorite games... the Phsyc Game. I spot a line that looks like the best for my style. I need to keep Bagg off his game and off my cool lines... "Hey Bagger... you goin' up that dude?" pointing to some ridiculous line. "Ballsy! I gotta see this. There aint no way I would go up that. I see nothin' but hospital bills stapled to that card. I'm goin' this way." All BS of course, but SOOO much fun! Did I say big? Yea, big. We've all heard this one... "Ya can't send Beginners up that kind of stuff till they learn how to ride. Here, make 'em turn real sharp in this sand. That'll teach 'em." Ridge blows that one out of the water. His Beginners are gonna ride on rock. Period. He's not scared of the whiners. He knows how to get a Beginner up on rock, as we all should, cuz we have ridden for years. Wide. Real wide, and multiple line chioces. The Beginners love it cuz they get to ride on big rocks TODAY. Not just after years of turning tight in sand. Allow me to describe the absolute BEST Intermediate section I have ever ridden in my life, laid out by the master himself... It was a big rock face about 15 feet high. Nice round approach, nice vert face, about 5 feet of it was near vert, and a clean, easy round top to recover on. Real wide. Everybody from Intermediate and up was gonna do this one. I looked at it and was definately challenged. It was bigger than I had ever gone before, but people were watchin' and I had to do it. Period. The approach was just freeway flat dirt. plenty wide with no jumble, no nothin'. Now here was something I had never seen before and have not seen since... Everybody had a 90 degree turn before the step. After the turn, the Champs had a six foot run at the step, the Experts had about a ten foot run at it, Advanced had about 20 feet, and Intermediate had about 40 feet. AWESOME!!! I popped up on the top of that slab three times that day, and I still suffer from Post Dramatic Perma-grin Disorder when I think about that step. The ridin' is what we're sellin'. Not World Champions and all that drivel. We have to make it fun. We should lay out the section for SUCCESS, not dirty tricks to humiliate and intimidate. When a rider goes home with a sense of accomplishment and memories of triumph, he will return. When he is told and/or shown that it will be years before he is good enough to ride up here with us Great Ones, he will not return. Simple as that. Thanks for the memories Ridge! Sendero

I'm here interviewing the next American World Champion Trials Rider, known as Igneous the Trials Crusher. "Mr. Crusher, what do you plan to do to Geoff Aaron for the upcoming Trials season?" "Let me tell ya somethin' Mean Gene!!!" "Uh, it's Sendero, remember?" "Oh Yea. Let me tell ya somthin' Mean... uh... Sendero. I'm gonna rip him from limb ta limb! I'm gonna pick him up and throw him and his stupid bike off the top of the tallest rock pile! I'm gonna snap him like a twig! I'm gonna tear him a new..." "Any plans for his girlfriend?" "Ooooooh yea!!! Don't even get me started!!!" Mr. Crusher, word on the street is that you've been doin' some top secret training with an ex-champ rider. Rumour has it that he told you the three secrets to being World Champ. Is it true?" "That's right Mean... uh... Sendero. I know the secrets, all three of 'em, and I'm gonna whip 'em on that worthless Chump Geoff Aaron in the upcoming Cage Trial at the Trial to end all Trials... Trials-Ageddon!!! Only $39.95 on Pay per View, this friday night at 6pm eastern. BE THERE!!! Aaaarg!" "Well there you have it. Igneous the Trials Crusher has laid down the gauntlet. Geoff Aaron is on notice! Back to you Mean Gene."

Things are almost never as they appear, and such is the case with the recent Endurocross. Those that were there saw Ringo attempt to qualify, and a noble attempt it was, but that was only half the story. Let me tell ya how it REALLY went down... I still had my pit pass on, a fake of course, and I quietly snuck in to see how the Ringmaster was doin'. I didn't want Security to spot me cuz I would have been booted out for sure. I didn't wanna miss the event. After a couple nice head fakes and diversionary "accidents", I was in... "Hey Ringworm, howzitgoin? Hey, what's all this stuff here? Looks like the poop deck of the SS Guppy in here." I yanked on the ropes a couple times. Squeek. Squeek. Squeeeeeek. "Jibe the Jib-boob and stow the mizit mast, be garrr!" Squeeeek. squeek. squeeeek. "Aaaaahhh! Stop it! Don't touch anything, Sendero! You're killin' me here, man!" "What? What? Did that hurt? Sorry. How would I know. Geez. Man, that's gotta be the biggest cast I've ever seen. Can ya feel this?" Knock knock knock "AAAAAAAARGH! Gawd, don't ever do that again! Get away from me!" "Tell ya what. I'll punch in a little more Morphine for ya. (three pokes to the button) There. Howz that?" "Don't! I'm blitzed as it is! Any more of that stuff and I'm gonna have to start robbing liquour stores to support my habit." "Nonsense. Here. Have another hit. (three more pokes to the button) Ya ready to talk yet? I wanna hear the whole story, and no BS this time. Go with the truth, OK?" "Uuuuh... Sener... odo... nurse! Rid get ass this NURSE himoutta heeeere!" "There, there my friend, now your feelin' better. Don't worry. you'll be able to form a complete sentence in no time. Morphine wears off quickly. I'll wait. I'm in no hurry. I wanna hear all about it." Just then a drop-dead gourgeous 23-27 year old level 9 knockout hispanic nurse walked into the room. "Oh, Hi Nurse... Gonzagas is it? I can't read your name tag. Can you come a little closer? Closer... Ooops... I'm sorry. It's Miss Gonzales. Ya know you have the prettiest black hair I've ever seen?" "Oh... why thank you Meester..." "Sendero. Meester Sendero." "Gonzle ridda Nurse out Sender gone here!" "Sure, Ringo. I'll see what I can do." "Did you understand what he just said?" "Yes. Yes I did. He said he would like a pastrami sandwich from the cafeteria. You'll get that for him, right?" "Of course I will. He must be in so much pain, the poor thing." "Oh you are as sweet as you are cute. Thank you dear. What was that Ringo?" "Him get eeeer make go nurse marglbarfic away!" "What did he say?" "I think he said 'no tomatos and no pickles'." "You can understand all that?" "Oh yes. I ride with him regularly. Can ya grab him a soda too? Lots of ice. Thank you." "Now... Ringo... How ya feelin? Ya ready to talk yet?" "Ug. Aaaarglebeeegle. Mugfuzzingle izle gleebin. Uuuuuuggg.Ha Ha Ha!" "Well, looks like you need a few more minutes, my friend. I've got the patience, no pun intended. My God, did you see the size of them things hangin' off the front of that nurse? Imagine the healing power of those Miracle Melons..." "Gfomblegravits. Gonga lidfildomical sugginn ifle!" "I know what ya mean, man. I know exactly what you mean." Nurse Gonzagas comes back in... "Oh dear, he doesn't look so good. Does he always drool like that?' "Yup. That's normal... But THAT'S not normal!" "Oh my God! What is that?" "I think his mind is in the gutter! He's only wants one thing! Here, pour some of this on it." "GOOGLIBOGGLEFINGLE!!!! NURSEN BOINGLADAZZLE!!! SENDER O DICKLEHEAD IGGINS!!!" "Ringo, how can you think of a thing like that, at a time like this?" "Did he say what I think he said?" "What do you think he said? Here, if it's nasty, just whisper it in my ear." whisper whisper whisper "Yup, I think he said EXACTLY that. The CAD!" "OH MY GOD!!!" "That's terrible Ringo! Nurse... slap him." "GET NURSE PLEASE SENDERO HELL THE HERE OUTA ME!!" "You just better watch yourself Meester Gringo, or I just might cut off your... pain medication." slap slap slap "Yea! And just for that, ya wise ass, I'm gonna eat your sandwich for ya. And to think this fine young lady is here to help you in your hour of need. Shame shame." "DID ANY SAYING NOT I ******* IT DAMN!!!" I looked over at Nurse Gonzagas and shook my head in disgust... "I got it from here, Miss Gonzales. I'll keep an eye on him for ya, and I'll beep ya if he says anything else like that again, so you can come back and slap him some more." "Thank you, Meester Sendero. You are such a gentlemen, unlike Meester Gringo dirty mouth over there! I just might have to wash his smart mouth out with Hospital soap!' She yanked on his ropes... squeek squeek squeek "AAAAAAAAAAAHRRRRRG!" ...and she left the room. Five minutes later... "Man, that was a killer snadwich, dude. Ya missed out." "SCREW YOU SENDERO!!! WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!!!" "Ringo! You're back! Right on! Are ya feelin' anything yet?" "Yea, I'm good, but don't hit that button ever again. I was really out there man." "I'm hip. You wouldn't believe how you handled yourself in front of that cute nurse. Tragic." "Did I say something wrong?" "No. You handled yourself... and got slapped." "No way." "Way." "You are so dead." "So, what happened?" "I did it unloading my bike." "Never fails. It's the most dangerous part of motorcycling." "Did ya bring the hacksaw?" "Yup. But hurry up. You're ridin' in five minutes. Need another hit? "Hell no! Stay away from that button, jerkweed, and start cutting!" Sendero

Glad to have you back from the Swirling Vortex of Planet Manyourgone, Beave, and this is why. You crack me up. On what planet, and how many light years from now would a Trials bike be able to take a beating like pro level Endurocross, for an entire evening of competition? If you, oops, I mean Geoff Aaron rode it that hard and fast for the same amount of time, over the same course, at the end of the night he would have to scoop up the pieces with a snow shovel and throw them in the back of the truck with the rest of the empty beer cans. The bike would "Yard Sale" itself all over the arena floor. If you did all the right modifications to a Trials bike to make it competitive, it would look and act suspiciously like a CRF 250, but would cost a fortune. Don't forget... you must get over the obstacles... FAST! VERY FAST!!!