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  1. Ive been caught with the same thing regarding Amazon Prime and BT. Transparency and your interests are not at the forefront of these organisations, only their short term profits.I know with Amazon Prime you can cancel within a short period for a full refund, maybe MotoGP have the same, although if you really intend to buy it then you have no real need. Automatic subscription should be an opt in, not something to opt out of
  2. Wheres your forks on the triple clamps? Maybe drop the clamps a little
  3. faussy

    Future of Gasgas

    Husky or husaberg didn't have a trials bike....
  4. Not a fan of those general style of levers, but formula really did a good job with them in keeping them small and neat, so much so when i had them on my 2012 gg i never replaced them. If you're a newbie, then you might not know that standard levers aren't that much of an improvement over the ones you have
  5. Why do you want to balance with the wheel straight?
  6. AFAIK yes, but ive never seen inside a 2019 so cant say for sure. Try GGUK
  7. 2019 has a different spring and adjustable preload. Spring was previously 1.5mm. 2019 its 1.2mm
  8. I kinda wish they had went back to trying a 1 for a stop, but oh well. Some people argue stopping showcases skill, and while i still believe riding something nonstop should be rewarded in some way, a 5 for a stop was much too harsh Anyone else think a minute sounds rather brief? It used to be 1min30, and i guess they are maybe trying to keep it like non stop with very brief stops, but i bet theres a lot of nonstop sections at the moment that take longer than a minute to ride. As for the extra point for the best lap, i didn't think there was really anything wrong before. Always thought 20-17 was very little gain for a win, so i don't really know if the potential to have 23-17,or even 20-19 helps. I guess it adds a bit of variation. Technically if the 6th place man has a best lap, then he will have the same points as the man who finished in 5th (11). Heck theres even the chance of the 6th place man with 2 best laps coming away with more points than the 5th place man (12v11)!! While unlikely, not very fair I hate to be critical, but i guess its good they are trying something, the current rules were definitely flawed. I wish the fim were as forthright
  9. Where did you get that from?
  10. I wonder if competitors were consulted. Sometimes you find with these kind of things, the people who are effected the most are the ones with the least say
  11. See the link below https://www.trialscentral.com/news-archive/sub-headlines/21115-british-championship-returns-to-stop-allowed What's people's thoughts? Personally I think it sounds kinda silly. Even if you don't like the current fim rules I always think you should follow them to best help our riders that compete on the world scene.
  12. My mate used to joke that thats how you could tell you had a good one. Reasonably common back in the day when new
  13. In my eyes its not an iconic raga. The gold ones have more prestige i guess, as much as i hate the sight of them
  14. It depends what you are going to be doing. If you want to learn proper trials and maybe do the odd competition then id go for the 250, the 300 could be too much in a confined space. If you're getting a trials bike just to rake about and practice the odd technical bit to enhance your enduro riding then there is no harm in the 300
  15. Agree with everything you said, bar Bou, if Fuji is anything to go by, Bou has at least another 7 years in him
  16. First year of trial2/junior was 2000, Raga won it. Bou rode the european youth class 2001, 2002, then went straight to GP for 03 at 16 years of age, rode the whole season (bar japan i think) and had a few top 10s
  17. Probably not as good as Bou's... Oh yeah thats right, he never even bothered riding trial2, straight to GP!!!!!
  18. I cant really remember back that far for details, but when youre that close to winning, ie two consecutive 2nds, i just think you have to think bigger at that age and do what's best for rider development. 2007 he was second to MB, don't think he could have done much different. There wasn't that much to choose between them at times yet MB was capable of moving up, but AW stayed down. 2008 i think 50/50, he was capable of moving up but ok, stay down and win it and then move up. 2008 came and he finished second to Gubian i think. Gubian then moved up, who AW had beaten in 2007 and yet AW still stayed down while beyond doubt capable of moving up. 2009 i think he should have cut his losses and forgot about trial2. When 2010 came, there were then 2 riders that he had previously beaten between him and MB I can kind of see TM doing the same. He may try to stay down for 2020 and then someone like gelabert might win it. But hey, im on the outside looking in, i don't know 10% of what was or is going on in both riders cases
  19. I disagree, mx trousers are supposed to be used in conjunction with separate knee protectors. On their own they are useless regarding knee protection. Slightly better heat resistance and yes prices are more favourable If your exhaust is melting trousers then you really should have a heat shield over it incase some day it ends up on top of you. As silly as lsv's post may seem, wax cotton or leather is really the only thing that will stand up to a bare 4T exhaust (assuming its your ariel thats doing the melting). I know a guy who got badly burned by a mx 4t exhaust and all he wears now are old leather mx trousers. All modern trousers are polyester, so they will all melt
  20. Yes and Alexz had spent 3 years in the junior class to get the win. Think it was too long. I don't mind grattarola and ferrer pot hunting to a certain degree, because they put in the work the last few years, and its good to have them hanging about. But they have to realise that just because grattarola no longer wants to ride trialgp doesn't mean he isn't capable or how good that makes him at a lower level. Toby could spend the next 2/3 years trying to beat him and not succeed. Although i don't know why his form dipped this year. Was the 4rt that good? Yeah, theres only so much money going around, or a certain amount of riders with the money to compete the circuit. If thats 20 riders, then you either have all 20 in trialgp, or 13 in gp, and 7 in trial2. Lowering the level won't attract people that already don't ride the WTC. That was the point. Ive said this before but i think nonstop has had the inverse effect. Tight turns and tricky sections have gone because they know they cant observe them, so to keep the difficulty in open type sections, the steps just got bigger. Stop allowed had tight turns and shorter run ups so the steps didn't need to be as massive.
  21. Are you seriously talking about DIY plating a frame? Or just small odds and ends, gear levers, brake arms etc?
  22. I think that certain someone who came very close to winning Trial2 last year should have made the leap. His performances in BTC against fellow TrialGP competitors hints he his capable. No doubt after his performance this year he will stay down another year and perhaps his performance this year justifies he's not yet capable to move up. Its hard to know, i just feel you have to keep pushing yourself at that young age and take risks. and another 2 years in trial2 could hinder him. You will probably disagree with me here, heck sometimes i disagree with myself too.
  23. He has measured his squish at 4.5mm. He should definitely bother
  24. Sounds like he didn't know what he was at first time round, so id take the advice that the mains are gone with a pinch of salt
  25. Cant you take it back to the guy that did the initial work and tell him his fix wasn't a fix? 240 with the engine already out is excessive, id be expecting around 150, to a bike mechanic its maximum a 3 hr job
 
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