I'm not sure why the above should offend anyone, although some clubs still give out trophies which together with engraving costs would reduce any surplus. I've never asked my local clubs, but have always assumed that organisers take reasonable expenses for travel and telephone etc. Giving up time and effort is fine but i wouldnt expect them to be out of pocket.
That said, i'm sure lots of clubs have accumulated substantial sums and have no real plan of what it could be used for. Indeed my local club, Leicester Query no longer organises events yet still has a substantial bank balance. Maybe if a few local clubs pooled assets, they could purchase some land.
I've never had a prob with the wireless ones. Its out of range for the signal if the speedo is handlebar mounted, so i have a bracket on the fork leg (coming off the mudguard bracket lugs on a Norton leg). Been there 6 years without a prob. 100% accurate too.
Loughborough car club has a summer series near me. There's several classes but most use their everyday saloon car as its pretty much non damaging and i suppose some are company cars anyway! You need to take a tyre pump as its best to let your tyres down a bit for the event. Its hilarious if youv'e not been before, seeing modern cars used for something not intended. I used my mother in laws car once- luckily she never found out,but she did remark the following day that the car seemed to go better.
In 1977 i stayed at the Alt Nan Ross hotel at Onich while riding the Scottish.The owner of the hotel had Daves Bantam in his garage. I believe he eventually sold it back to the family. Bet BJ knows for sure...
Pykett alloy barrels had one less fin than the genuine ones, resulting in the fins having larger than normal gaps between them. That looks to be the case with this one.
Its hard to see how it can survive in the long term. My main purpose for buying it was to see the results of an event i'd ridden in. As often as not the results were either a week late or didnt appear at all. That was if you managed to get a copy in the first place. In my area it often arrived late at the newsagents, meaning a return visit usually on the Monday, by which time you had ridden another event anyway.
Every club i ride with now post the results on the web and its getting commonplace for them to be posted on the same day. As Totalshell knows, Yorkshire Classic results are waiting for you before you get home.
So they will never be able to provide a decent results service, which leaves the adverts and the bike tests.
The bike tests are legendary, but for the wrong reasons. Its obvious they are so grateful to have a bike to test that they daren't say anything bad or they wont be getting one at all next year. My favourite was when the editor, i think, 'tested' a four stroke trials bike and actually managed to make light of the fact that it simply refused to start when hot- rendering it useless!
Yes, a shame but they have been really unlucky with the weather. A couple of years ago there was rain like i've never seen before. My lasting memory was a bloke with Graham Jarvis who kept pushing the bikes around in their marquee,apparently for the sake of it,doing little stoppies, then looking around to see if anyone had been watching!
Dont know about the pig huts, but its got me thinking about the traditional first section in the Manx-Gasworks steps. It would be a waste of time now- for the main event, at least as it was so easy, but 25 years ago it was always a relief to get that section out of the way.
Well said Mike ,it's not that difficult although a bit time consuming with a decent entry, it takes me longer to write the report than my sec to do the results,although it doesn't take so long for Trials and northern Motocross News to edit it right down so as to fit another advert in
TMX news has done the sport more harm than a little. Outsiders picking the paper up will assume that the sport is as amateurish and crappy as the paper itself. A paper with nobody involved who even rides. Had TMX not come along, results would still be in Motorcycle News- two days earlier and without most of the spelling errors. Motorcycle News is not the finest paper in the world, but the results service did ensure that Trials and Motocross was publicised amongst a much bigger audience.
Not quite sure who wrote this as it appears under Rappers and Andy, but as it quotes 42 years experience it must be Rappers because Andy can't be much more than 25 !!!
Anyone who starts to read this will probably think Mick Wren jumps in to defend the ACU again, but quite a lot of what Rappers wrote is quite true.
Most of the responsibility for running and disciplining the event does lie with the Clerk of the Course, this is quite true. From a personal point of view there have been many times when I have known that there was absolutely no need for me to have been at a particular trial as the organisers of the vast majority of events are superb.
There are however a couple of points I have to take issue with. Firstly it is a condition of the insurance policy, a Steward validates the cover for the event.
Secondly to include the permit fee in the figure quoted slightly distorts the picture. A National permit is
They didnt seem to ride very often,but if it was an east midland championship round or one of the harder trials,they would turn up, clean up and disappear again!
Ariel road bikes had frame numbers with the XG prefix from 1939-1941. Its likely that a previous owner has had a log book from one and stamped the number on the replica frame so it can be used on the road.
A reduction in fuel duty, although very welcome would be made up from increased taxes elsewhere, and if there was increased administration involved in collecting it, we could be even worse off. The fact is,as we all know, Britain is seen worldwide as a haven for easy handouts and we have too many people taking out of the system and not enough paying in. Added to this we have outrageous saleries for the chosen few, such as your local GP- on up to 250K per annum, despite opting out of out of hours work and resisting any changes which could benefit the public.
Hiya Charlie, A bit of speculation is better than nothing- Theres talk that Tony Calvert has won it (on 2), nobody's sure 'till the official results are posted,but if correct,well done to Tony and John Holmes, who built and maintains the bike.
Thats a rare bike now-Not sure if its a MK1 or a MK2, both had big hubs. MK3 was the first with small hubs, and, more importantly, the clutch operating arm was moved to the top of the crankcase,instead of underneath the engine.
Have some posts been deleted from this thread...!!?? So it's finally been mentioned that reducing the squish will also increase compression - another cause of detonation - but a day after recommending it should be done so it is a bit late.
The recommendation to remove metal from the base of the barrell (post deleted?) doesn't mention that this will also alter the port timing. Machining say 1mm off will mean that the piston at BDC no longer fully clears the transfer port and this can cause lumpy running off idle - I know this from experience. That is in addition to the increase in compression. Another reason not to go indiscrimately hacking off metal.
Several posts have been deleted,presumably to negate the responses from others,which is a shame.-spoils the thread.
Not wanting to rise to the bait put down by the Majestyman340 I will just remind all that a TY250 has a steel liner. And he is now deleting posts in other threads if people do not bite. Last time I get involved with the idiots waffle.
I too , along with others, it would seem, have decided not to respond directly to his posts. Most are not worthy of a response anyway, although posting inaccurate technical information,if deliberate,is a matter for others. In this same thread he is advocating mixes of both 80:1 and 40:1.-Unhelpful at best. Granted the latter figure appears to be because he has picked up that a steel liner was refered to,as most do rather than cast iron, but chooses not to say that.
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I think Alan Whitton might be able to help- they are the same as on his James.