bilco

For the first three years that I helped to organise our five round club championship we had four routes. Youth A, B, C & TY80 (previously there were just two routes,) putting on the extra routes doubled our entries over night. Each route had a championship with a points table attached to every set of results and trophies for the top three at the end of the season. Eventually due to lack of interest in the D class we dropped that and ran just three routes for a couple of years. Last year at the prize presentation evening, I took home more trophies than I gave out. Lack of regular entries has caused us to drop the championship. There were just three youth riders who rode in every trial. If four routes, a championship for each and triophies down to third place doesn't help attract the youngsters, I am at a loss as to what I can do? I whole heartedly welcome any suggestions or ideas on how to make our events more appealing to young people. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> first thing i'd look at is try and find out where they went did they give up because they found the section's to hard and did'nt like taking a fall,when they watch the pro's jump up a cliff face from a standing start they think they can do it, when i was a youth rider many years ago we could only dream of doing that on our old lumpy twinshock's,in them day's every rider was more or less equal not the case nowday's.That's probaly what your up against how capable are the rider's,confidence run's out quick with kid's. Did you have practice day's.

i know jack_h. trouble is these days you have to pay for enjoyment.would love to get my angle grinder to work on that.

maybe we should have a league like football. club to club competition's where one club goes to the other's ground and so on, i think that will give it more feel of actually being part of a club and not just a user of one. that way the small clubs would still be able to survive. on the other hand nobody seem's to have time to be part of a club in depth these day's all they want to do is turn up on the day do the trial and then go home.so yes you've given us food for thought i think.

tell you what mate,ill give you 300 quid for it just so i could scrap it,,cheers for the laugh mate.

hi ants. it's possible one of your crankshaft seal's has gone hard,which means that engine oil will be drawn into your cylinder and on to your plug,if that happens you got no chance of catching a spark.strip down the top end to see if all is well.you may also need a rebore.your problem does'nt sound electrical i'd say its more meachanical.

one more thought,your problem might be your flywheel key has broken on my 200 the flywheel nut has to be done up to the right tourqe else the key will break = no spark. its a good bet

hi. think its time for the gym. spend a day in practice with it your get it. if u use the throttle right and your body its easy.

hi. check your stator coil readings out again,its possible your new ht coil was to much for the old stator coil,check for bare wire's on your wiring,disconect kill switch and then try for spark. i have a fantic i just got out the garage again after 17 years of standing i found i'd replace one thing and another would go,think i must of replaced the whole bike now,but well worth it there a great bike.

hi. stay with the old bikes with seat's mate, as your gonna need it for waiting at section's before it's your time.