jrsunt

no problems to report, bike was brilliant, took 6 days of abuse and still sounded as sweet as it did on day 1. Although many of us did have a problem on friday morning caused by the army filling many bikes with water instead of petrol, resulting in draining the fuel tank, injector and pump. was back on the road within 30mins so not much of a problem.

of course.....

When i first tried the bike in mud, i couldn't get it to grip. It just takes time to get used to the power delivery and how to use it. Now not only does the bike destroy even the hardest slippery rock sections, as Mr Thorpe found out yesterday. It also inialates the stickiest of mud. It takes time and practice to get the best from the 4rt, but the rewards are exceptional.

The last group at stormy hall is always pretty impressive, just a short walk from the main road.

Its a shame about the masters class, as there are several riders who find the full championship course too much, but the experts not enough of a challange. Will be intresting to see how they mark the sections out, wonder if they'll try to make it slightly harder to accomodate the better riders. All in all should be a very intresting expert series with perhaps 6 riders in with a shout of a win.

I'll always wear a helmet whether i'm competing or not. Never used to when i was on the monty/mountain bike until i woke up dazed in a field, knocked myself out after trying to jump a wall! I agree its entirley personal choice when out practising, but no helmet, no ride in trials.

Why are the acu only letting 50 riders in, anyone know?

A 125 gas gas pro is pushing out as much power as some of the early 250 gassers, and they are a good 15kg's lighter. Perhaphs BS is right in saying not as much torque, but certainly at the top end, when one of those little 125's is screaming flat out for a step, its surprising what they'll go up. its not the bike that makes the differance its the rider. I can get a 125 beta up most of the stuff the mont does, with alot of extra effort and revs.

A very good trial by all accounts, the organisers did a very good job getting all courses right. I didn't give the mont a very good showing tho, was pretty s***e in the morning. That very same drunken lady may as well have ridden the 1st 10 sections for me!

all you need for daytime only, a working electronic horn and a rear reflector. If the lights are on the bike they MUST work. so take em off. You may also come unstuck if the bike is an import.

even with restrictors out, it falls well within the decibel limit (think the limit is 94dba).

ok, maybe not for 1 trial where the riders were not on factory bikes, how would raga and albert have faired on standard bikes? For the majority of riders who have bought the 4rt, their results have improved.

the reason why honda-montesa ceased production of the 315 is because of honda's policy of only producing 4 stroke motorcycles mainly due to the american emmision laws. Yes the 315 was/still is a fantastic bike but the 4rt seems to do everything so much easier.

Without going down the o'ring option, probably a renthal r1 chain. Lasting me about 6months

save you looking..... 15x21x12

katy's in, mark turned down and i'm still waiting......

the sizes are in the parts book along side the part number. Also the sizes are stamped on the bearings outer face behaind the linkage seal.

i never rode in 03, but thought last years round was the best in the calender.

not sure really, i travelled to alot of them in 2003, wasn't particually impressed with 7hours driving for a few twists and turns around trees. I still do the local ones, travers, presidents, allen etc. They are very good trials. I suppose it would make sense to do a full series of them, but its time really, all my holidays are taken up getting saturdays off for the BTC and Europeans, to do alot of driving early sunday morning and late sunday night does not make good results. Found out the hard way.

The Scott, SSDT and the British expert championship.

That's probably the best way, but be careful that they dont loose intrest, they may need a new challange to better themselves. If they are intrinsically motivated then let them do it, keeping them down on a easier course could do them more harm than good.

because there was a better trial on, i'm not told what i have to ride. If they wanted me to ride then i would have. The novagar championship does not really intrest me.

3RD IN SCOTT TRIAL, 1ST BRADFORD CENTRE TRIAL, 1ST BRADFORD BOXING DAY TRIAL, 2ND RICHMOND BOXING DAY TRIAL, 2ND WETHERBY BOTTLE TRIAL, 6 4RT'S IN TOP 10 AT Y&G'S CHRISTMAS TRIAL, 1ST AT ILKLEY WORLD ROUND. THATS ONLY MENTIONING THE HARD COURSE, WITH COUNTLESS CLUBMAN VICTORIES, I'M GOING TO STICK MY NECK OUT TO SAY ITS PROBABLY BEEN THE MOST SUCESSFUL BIKE OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD. I HAVE BEEN CLOSER TO MR. THORPE AND MR. DABILL THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN, AND I STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO RIDE THE BIKE 100% SO THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. AWAITING CRITISISM!

i'm off to buy 1 now. Was that by rappers?

it goes 2km further than the 2stroke, but yes carry some fuel, i ran out on the tuesday at scotland, was only about 1 mile from the fuel stop.