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Was playing footy tonight ya big Lancashire puff but cheers anyhow Just want some decent hard boots or my tap dancing career is gonna go to ****.

Results up now Forest_trophy_trial_28_05_06.pdf

Are there any modern trials boots that have firly hard toes. It seems mad to me that in a sport where you are fairly likely to get your toes bashed in, the boots are made with lovely soft leather on the toes. Am I doing something wrong? I seem to have battered toes from one week to the next. This week I made a particularly good effort at crippling myself - This week I actually took my boot off to see if the toe was still attached Yep - Kinell Perce, my pegs may be lower to the ground than most with my compressed suspension Seems like a design flaw to me. I might not have any toes left soon - I need to learn to use lower gears, ride round things, or get stronger boots - here's this weeks effort: Are all the toe caps as soft as my Diadora's - Do I need to stop polishing the buggers?

Thanks Perce ya big helpful *******

Hmmm...Didn't have to edit much Beave. Tell me you weren't thinking this related to you as you wrote it

OK I forgive you ya *******! Did you notice who was winning it when you cruelly snatched it from under my nose Ya just can't trust Teesiders. Anybody else selling a Sherco rear brake lever, except Rathmell I want a spare before I try to bend mine back.

I'll send a photo of my lads old helmet when I get chance. It is a trials helmet with two screw fittings at each side to fit the face guard. This does make it look like a Moto-x helmet, but it's just a thin single layer of plastic. It never obstructed his vision or made it any hotter. It also allows you to just remove it when he gets to the safer stage.

Results will hopefully be out tomorrow night. Been a long weekend, with the charity trial on Saturday, the Forest Trophy on Sunday, and the Centre Champs trial today - we got a lot of results to catch up on - well Gasserboy has We get lucky each year - weather wasn't like last year, but at least the sun made the odd appearance, and the timing with observers worked well this year - Big thank you to all the people that get involved, it spans well outside our club, including the observers (As far as I know I didn't hear a cross word all weekend - I think the atmosphere of the trial sorts that out). We should mention the amount of effort Elwyn and Jean Williams put in to it. Everybody else together probably contribute about 30-40% of the effort, the rest is them. Elwyn is about 134 years old now, and still a human dynamo Pleasure to be involved with the club. Three trials over the bank holiday weekend, including the 40 section Trophy trial - you can't manage that without a team effort - spot on! It's about 28 miles all told by the way NWSL1 - that's what my speedo says although I've been known to take the less direct routes

Yeah - be careful with the pressure method. A little too much and it can be a bugger to fit afterwards. Look at these three clowns. A few beers, and lets have a go at that silencer. Doh! Note the safety gear though - good lads.

You've probably hit the nail on the head. I've worked over there for longer than I would want to I used to like to take my bike over so fairly often opted to take the ferry rather than fly. When you've sat on a ferry and hardly seen another person, you realise that at some point in the year they've got to make a fairly hefty profit to see them through. I find it hard to remember that when I've got me wallet out, but business is business I suppose.

Cheers Jools If you ride past a cloud of steam on Sunday, would you be kind enough to stick your foot in there somewhere and push me along

I've always use VW coolant mixed 50:50 - as advised by GasGas. Well, I've only got the Silkolene coolant at the moment - the back of the pack says it's a 50:50 ethyl/water mix. I'm presuming that means I don't need to dilute it again, it's already half the strength of VW stuff. Bit of a duffer question eh, but if ya don't know, ya gotta ask

"shoot the 5hit" ???????????????? Not sure what that is, but I'm sure we're back in deliverance country. Andy, I'm lost for words.

Please don't think that I'm ridiculing the idea. I'm putting over a point of view that I THINK might be the view of at least a section of the community. I may be wrong, and I'd expect some arguments to the contrary to be honest. What you thinking? Make it three weekends fixed across the country, or allow centres to pick three weekends each? What about the running of the events - tell clubs they must run an event every couple of years maybe, or leave it to volunteers? Where would the money go? Clubs choose their local top riders, or pool the funds and the ACU dish it out? Maybe just one weekend? But then you're profits are a third. You've still got to pay insurance for every rider, and I know we wouldn't get away without paying our landowners their

Me - and probaby one other - The others are TC members, so I won't confuse things.

The original idea was a mandatory period of fund raising trials, so clubs that don't particularly agree would be restricted from running events. You try picking three weeks of the year where you're not going to seriously miff some large part of the community. The ACU would be accused of abusing their power, or making clubs perform the role that the ACU should be performing - supporting our talented youth. I can almost hear you saying it

I think you've missed the point almost perfectly Ian What I'm saying is, in my opinion it would cause negative feeling from a massive part of the trials community to enforce this. If clubs and Centres want to put on trials for these lads, then I for one would ride them. But for the ACU to enforce this on the whole community I think would be absolutely wrong. I think a narrow mind is one that can can only see things from one point of view - his own. I'm not skint, my little red box is lit up at the side there, my hands always in my pocket for charity, and I'm all for helping these talented lads when I get chance - not everybody is in the same boat - there's plenty of the trials communtiy doing it on a shoestring budget, and forcing them to pay for the top boys won't do their fan base any good at all.

Wow - those certificates would be like rockin' horse 5hit eh?

Probably not, and I'll step in and play devils advocate here. This is not a sob story on my part by the way, as I feel very lucky to live the life that i do, but ... The majority of the people doing the sport are doing it for the pure enjoyment. For the most of us it's not a big money sport. There's plenty of thing s our local clubs would like to do if they had the money, for instance buying a few acres of trials land might be a good cause, so that trials might actually exist in a few years when DEFRA strikes. This is absolutely nothing against Wiggy, Ross, or even little Master Stay, but for those of us that drag a trailer with a couple of four year old bikes to a trial and park along side 30 foot RV's, then we don't always feel like slipping a brown envelope through the door. Many other sports are the same, and for those that want success on a big scale, their families make massive sacrifices, remortgaging houses, loans whatever it takes to raise that last few pounds to make the trip. I would love to be able to support at least one rider to the top, and I wish every rider luck in being able to do that, through one form of sponsorship or another. You may find it hard to convince the majority of trials riders that they should be forced in to doing this sponsorship, and you're more likely to turn people against it on the way. I may have missed it, but I've not seen Wiggy or Ross on here whinging that they're not being handed a free meal ticket. It's a low turnover sport you've chosen. That magical golden handshake is going to have to be fought for, and i believe that's what they're doing at the moment, without alienating too many people along the way. Well OK, that's not devils advocate, that's what I believe the general trials community's view is, and I could well be wrong. It's open for discussion

Just got a Dunlop 803 for

Just got it back. Although it was ready in a day or two, just had chance to get back there.

Doesn't look like we will make it this year Enjoy boys

Go on then...let us in on it.

Fuel pipe trapped? Dunno how close it runs to the silencer on the Beta? Just sounds a bit like fuel starvation. You wouldn't think it'd be related to the pipe cleanout eh? That could have gone on my "Stupid things I've done list" but I once took the tank offto get at the thermostat, and left the fuel pipe connected. When I shoved the tank back on I managed to give it a 360 spin and get an extra twist in the pipe