Some people take them off to obtain more steering lock, and just put some heavy tape in its place. But i think your year of bike was prone to dinging the frame at that spot, so id advise to at least put something in its place
It could be the same as that fitted from 09 onwards which is part no. BT170002809. Actually on closer look, your hole is offset, the later ones had the hole in the middle
Im not an expert on these but i remember one person trying to find engine parts for one a few years back nd they were like hens teeth. Worth a punt i guess if it doesnt need work from the outset
Id ask your engine builder to check the new pin is tight when refitting it. They were known to be on the loose side compared to the euro makes when they came new. Was it hard to press out? If birkett doesnt have any in stock he will definitely to be able to tell you whats compatible, some would say scorpa copied his bike 🤣
I think the ducati was up to around 04 and from 05 on was kokusan. If your rectifier is a leonelli then its the kokusan syste, so definitely magneto -> themostat -> recitifier -> fan
AFAIK the ducati system had the rectifier first then the thermostat. The kokusan has the thermostat first then into the rectifier. What years your bike?
Some rectifiers had the earth in the same plug as the fan, others were seperate. The white bullet plug goes to earth and the yellow goes to your thermostat
Look at it the other way around, they use ethyl glycol in brake applications so a failure does not result in oiled brakes, if it was not for that fact they would most likely be using mineral oil in all the hydraulics.
That is not why brake fluid was developed. Its hygroscopic nature, while also a disadvantage is one of the main reasons for its use
yes, and you cant buy a sticker for them. Some fit the standard sticker but its not that great looking. If youre on fb its possibly worth contacting some expert gasgas riders or putting up a post. Now that the new model has changed tanks ive seen some riders sell their old ones from when they had them fitted at the scott and ssdt
No they dont come with a tap, though they are easily swapped after removing the cobra clip. They use the same top bolt. You need to install a bit of foam tape where it meets the airbox to stop it rattling, like the standards. Heat refective tape is discretionary IMO
And from your salty post, curious where the other 1% of your trials events are held, do you have a really big boat?
By private i meant land owned by people not invested in trials i.e. farmers or quarry owners. Land owned privately by trials clubs or a person who does trials are few and far between. Im not being salty, im just stating how trials are done in this country. or from a viewpoint other than your own
I sure hope you do more then just show up to ride at events.
I do, since i was about 10 helping my dad, and i agree its very hard to cater for every grade, especially if you have a trial that tries to cater for every grade. Championship trials with only expert riders are hard to sustain because youre alienating half your entry, (even though club riders want to turn up because they think theyre missing something, and then complain that its too hard) while club trials will never have an expert rider turn up. Most centres have seperate expert and club trials because of this but ours cant really sustain this and most of our trials are aimed at every level of rider. Sometimes you get expert right and they love it and sportsman hate it, and sometimes vice versa. But our expert class has <10 riders, while clubmen and sportsman has on average over 30 each, so you have to be careful who you prioritise. They are the class who largely funds trials and are the pathway to people entering the sport. Yes, its nice to have dramatic trials and think that this attracts new people into the sport, but in reality, everyone enters at the bottom, and if they dont enjoy it they wont return.
If an expert drops less than 20 marks he feels its been a rubbish trial, if a sportsman drops more than 10 he thinks it too hard, he would much rather drop 1 and think hes toni bou even though he finsihed 20th becaue there was 19 other guys on clean. Trials riders are weird, each grade is in the sport for different reasons.
In saying all that, i do appreciate your enthusiasm for marking out a testing and exciting trial for the expert rider. There were days in the past i was frustrated that nobody put the effort into our top grade while i was riding it. All im saying is, you have to mark out the lower grades with a totally different mindset.
@bikerpet in my opinion you need to take @lemurs and @lineaways comments with a pinch of salt. Their views on how trials are or should be, are afterall unique to them. Hearing @lineawaysay he taught his son how to ride expert and move up two grades in two hours... well... thats all i need to know. People pay hundreds of pounds for one to one sessions with world champions!!! and they are barely any better afterwards because of it.
Riding the sections before the trial was common practice for years! In the british championship of all places! You had an hour to ride every section once, you werent scored and you could ride just the one or all of them. Then there was a break, and then you started the trial for real. And no, it wasnt cheating. Just because something isnt done in america, dont mean it doesnt, nor hasnt been tried before. I think you describe something a little more casual, but it worked well in the british championship for years. My problem was, my best rides were always on the practice lap 😕
On 10/27/2023 at 3:04 PM, lemur said:
'All on public or other people's private land', is extremely unlikely to work, been there done that, if you don't 100% control a venue with challenging natural terrain it will not end up being a long-term sustainable Trials group.
In the UK, 99% of trials are run on public and privately owned land. It has been sustainable for the history of trials in the UK. And some of the best trials do not have great challenging terrain. It always comes down the to ability of the coure markers and their vision to make a good section from what they have.
On 10/27/2023 at 3:04 PM, lemur said:
You can't make Observed Trials Competition any more attractive to new riders by structuring the events specifically towards novice riders, been there, done that
This... well i cant do anything but disagree. In our clubs the riders get to know the tough venues from the easier ones. The lower level riders just dont turn up to the tough venues. And the clubs suffer greatly, because across the 4 grades, 50% of the entry is the bottom grade. A tough championship trial you can get 50, and at some lower level trial around some farmers land, ie a few fields with a few rocky outcrops and really basic streams, ive seen an entry of over 180 once.
On 10/27/2023 at 3:04 PM, lemur said:
You get no sympathy from me about your age because I am older than you and intend to continue riding to at least 80 assuming I'm still vertical by then.
Sorry, that is an absolutely terrible attitude to have. You maybe dont realise it, but you are undenibaly driving people away from trials with an attitude like that.
Ive never really thought about missing one. Trials airboxes are a little more water tight than a mx airbox. Yes, water gets into both when using a power washer, but with a trials bike its usually so little that its never going to get through the air filter as well.
If however i want to wash the inside of my airbox, i usually just take the whole airbox off. This is on my gg though which is a 30 second job, dont know how hard it is to take a trs airbox off. I guess it would be handy for those really muddy times you want to wash the inside of airbox along with washing the bike, howver id be so paranoid of water getting in id probably end up taking the airbox off afterward to dry the inlet hose lol
Any forest based trial in europe is like this. Still dont know why you cant have the majority of the section then have a turn into the part where you see the guys starting from.
If youre referring to the riders at 5:30 and 5:38, if i went to a trial with 10 sections like that, that i fived 10 feet through the entrance cards, then i would never return, plain and simple.
If the rider is able to start 10 yards before the entrance cards then just make that part of the section with a similar runup, i dont see the problem here. Also, trials is not all about the biggest of rocks with big runups, its equally about shorter runups to medium steps. The former is how you drive the over 40 year old amateur away from the sport because the danger then outweighs the difficulty. Keep that stuff for the professionals and the under 30s, which make up a very small percentage of the entry. Difficult does not have to mean dangerous
Yeah i guess this terrain is nice, but its by no means special. Theres terrain like this all over the world
I generally put the hardest most spectacular part right at the section entrance so that riders have a good choice of lines to approach the biggest challenge.
This is what bikerpet doesnt like, and i agree with him. I prefer the hardest part of the section to be the very end. Seems more value for money that way, from both a riders point of view and the person who marked it out. If i took the effort to mark a section out and then heard later nobody made it past the first obstacle id be rather annoyed. On the flip side, if the rider gets the first big obstacle, then the rest of the section just becomes a formality, why even have it there?
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Because its a 15 year old bike and youre calling it a trail bike id definietly suggest no less than 60:1