If Lennie enjoys the Trials in Kent as is happy to travel there then good for him.
The sad thing is (and the point of this thread) that you have to travel out the centre to ride a decent trial.
Agreed, we do have some good trials but most are far to easy. Its the same with kend but if you know the good places then its well worth the short trip.
Kent has plenty of hard trials and its well worth the short journey to do them, from where i live it takes less time to get there than some of the trials in the "north" of our centre.
organisers should aim to take 20-30 genuine marks (as opposed to slack dabs, missed markers etc.) from the top expert, which generally means marking it out as hard as possible on the land available.
Agreed, make the trials a lot harder. Around 10 points a lap would be fine.
A little bit of good news. We have recovered 3 bikes, unfortunately not any of the newer bikes. We have back 2 Yamaha WR250s and 1 Honda CRF230. One of the Yams seems to have been ridden to destruction as when we started it, it sounded like a bag of nails and upon closer inspection there is metal in the oil - a lot! *******s. The second Yam does not sound much better but we have not investigated that one or the Honda yet, but will keep you all informed.
They were found in a copse near Park Street, Herts so keep an eye out in that area - there is a gypsy site nearby, but I still don't think it was them. If you search Park Street in Google Maps you will see the big Park Street Roundabout - follow the A414 back a bit and the second field from the roundabout is where they were found - close to that little gasworks you can see on the bottom right of the field. The bikes were covered up with branches and bracken etc to try and conceal them, but a dog walker spotted two of them and the Feds found the third.
We had the insurance assessor in yesterday and he seems happy that everything is OK and the insurance claim will go through - but we have a maximum single claim of 25K which is not going to cover everything that got stolen. Ho hum!
Again, thanks to everyone out there who has sent good wishes etc, but I would like to give a special thanks to my mum, who has gathered up pretty much every penny she has in the world to help get us through the next month or two until we get the insurance money!
On an even more positive note - there will be an announcement from TrailWorld soon about a new exciting project which is just about signed and sealed - a few already have a good idea but I will put a posting up in the next few days about it all, let's just say that if you like dirt and speed you will love this!
After hearing about my friend who had his bike stolen I have also found out another one of my friends who runs a off orad tour company has been broken into over the weekend. They were stolen from st albans, hertfordshire.
Hello everyone - we have had a big setback at TrailWorld, over the weekend we were broken in to an 10 bikes have been stolen. I don't know all the details at them moment but wanted to get something up here to get you all on the lookout.
The 4 Yamaha WR250's, 1 Beta 400, 2 x brand new Sherco 450's, 1 x brand new Sherco 510. My Sherco 510 with all the bling has also been stolen.
If you get offered anything or suspect someone is dealing dodgy bikes then call me on 07595 180010 or 01727 858269
Cheers guys
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Hello all, just had the Police around etc and here is the list of bikes that have been stolen with all the Reg's and Chassis numbers. Obviously we are all completely gutted here and would love to catch the little *******s. Looks like kids - we have CCTV but they look like they knew what they were doing (Hoodies, Gloves etc)
Also stolen were a lot of the clothing including Klim helmets as shown below, which are also quite unique so keep your eyes peeled.
They came in 3 times in the night (Sun) and looks like they wheeled the bikes around the corner and loaded them in a van.
My mate crashed, broke both his wrists the other day, the bike was left parked up while he walked about a mile to the nearest house to get help and by the time someone returned to collect his bike it had been stolen.
The bike was left at grid reference 164209 on Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (Pink cover) No. 166 Luton & Herford. This lane runs from the top of the Water tower at Whitwell and goes towards Whiteway bottom, it was left at the junction where the lane splits and joins the fast blast across the field down to the lane that leads to Whiteway Bottom itself.
Bike details:
DR400 Mainly Yellow plastics with blue Werx Suzuki sticker kit and white side panels.
REG: Y716 KRX
Chassis: JS1BF111100101845
Engine: K417107474
Distinguishing marks: Has Grey Renthal grips, small tear in seat and 2 D-rings for tie downs under the side panels at the rear.
The reason that some people moan (at least the people I have spoken with) about Nene Valley events is because they are probably one of the only local clubs with the balls to set out challenging sections aimed at riders who are looking to be challenged, drop some marks and hopefully improve their riding in the process.
Many South Midland clubs are so concerned with upsetting/scaring off new riders etc etc that they lay out really easy sections in cr@ppy venues and in the process p*ss off the better riders. As a result most South Midlands trials will now only get between 0-5 expert riders attending.
If you want to ride around all and only drop 6 marks all day then N.V may not be your first choice. But if you want mainly good bits of land and tougher sections then N.V are hard to beat - for my money anyway.
As for club politics, dont know if there are issues or not as I try to avoid all that......
Nick
100% agreed, the trials in this centre should be a lot harder!!! The middle route in most other centres is harder than our expert route.
Its not a legal practice venue as far as i am aware, just go through a gap in the fence and ride. I have seen it but have never ridden there so dont know if the plod come down and ram a trunchen where the sun doesnt shine if you get caught riding it.
Anyway its just on the edge of the A40 where the B4027 joins it near forest hill.
I bent my handlebars on my 08 270 beta, what else fits apart from another set of standard bars? Do renthal or anybody else make some in this fitment and does anybody know a place that sells them for a good price?
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250 sherco.