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Hmmm, r2wtrials, are you fluent in japanese? Do you know if they do titanium footrest brackets for the monts, sick of bending the steelies.

yep done the french round at maisse last year, it was bloody hard, alot harder than the british championship course. I,m going again this year, but only to do the "easy course" as the french appear to put on quite a hard trial. Hopefully will do the full championship course at hawkstone park.

CAN ANYONE PLEASE SUPPLY ME WITH A PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL FOR A SUPPLIER OF THE FLAT ALLOY SUMP GUARD FOR THE SY250. CHEERS

warranty sounds like a long shot, the monts come with 6 months warranty from new, if the bikes done that much work you'll be laughed at when enquiring about warranty. As for jumping out of gear, it sounds like a bent selector shaft, as for the oil leek, could be clutch cover gasket, centre crankcase gasket, output shaft oil seal, needs a thorough strip down to locate the probs.

I never even thought of the situation, generally looking through the results, the retired or excluded riders were generally clubman, some of whom were just there for the ride out in the beautiful weather and scenery, forget the sections they were too hard for them. yes they will hold some people up, but for most you could outride them get past them without to much bother. I found everyone to be courteous. (is there a spell check on here?) People would move aside for you in queues. The top lads who were excluded but carried on, that shouldn't have been a problem, they can usually keep ahead of us. I saw a bit of james dabill after he was excluded, he certainly wasn't dawdling. he would let people through in queues, didn't matter who you were. I think the problem is people doing the right thing once they're out, yes they should be allowed to carry on, but they need to give way to riders who are still competing. If that is not followed then kick em out. With changing bikes, we only passed 1 control, i think tuesday or wednesday, why dont they check them at the end of each day. Problem solved. I bet there are a few people in the results that shouldn't have been there due to changing bikes.

Every day was pretty tight for time, sometimes you had to make up time inbetween the sections, just to allow yourself 2/3 minutes to look at the next section, that was not too bad for me, but if your not quick across the ground it must have been a nightmare. I did not like the fact that you had to push it on the road, it does the trial no good, seeing 200+ riders hammering down the road, dodging in between cars, sometimes it was pretty scary. Perhaps clocking off at the end of the last group of sections seems an obvious 1 to me.

The Richmond trial is pretty chocca full, you could try sweet talking mother into back marking or something, we're still receiving entries for it. They've no chance. Hope the fingers feelin better kinell. I'm still off work, need to be fit for the BTC this weekend. Hopefully better weather than the ssdt!

a couple of neurofen an hour, seemed to take all the other aches and pains away apart from the knee!

Got to be the monts, they just go like hell.

What a trial, never done anything as physically hard as that, due to the wet moors, very tight for time, running out of petrol 4times! the lovely scottish weather and pulling sister around as much as i could, although she had to pull me around on saturday. Good to see WOFTAM out and about, you all looked very profesional in the team gear, like you were there to do some giant killing. Did anyone else find it hard work? Kinell, big girls blouse, try it with 8 stitches in your left knee and a bent bike after a mega 50+mph crash! Well done to all the lads who finished, it wasn't easy. perce seemed to be enjoying himself all week, didn't see him smiling that much tho. Only in the pub after copious amounts of refreshments. Andy- any chance of getting that picture of my knee on here, he caught me with my trousers down in the alex and he couldn't resist a quick picci. Congratulations to maria conway for a superb week, she was having some cracking rides, certainly worring myself and her brothers as she kept clocking up the 0's in the sections before us. Well done to the organisers for such a brilliant event, although it was perhaps too tight for time, which called for some "on the edge riding" and some risky overtakes. But overall a good week.

Good luck to everyone who is riding!

if we go expecting the worse, like last year, a week of waterproofs, freezing conditions, maybe snow and hail, then we cant be disapointed as anything is better than that.

Good bike had 3 between 2000 and 2002, no problems, rode em at british expert championship standard, never found them short of power, perhaps people need to improve their technique as a 200 has ample power for the majority of riders. Yes the lump is 10 years old, what does that tell you... Its bloody good, no problems with mains or waterpumps just a well sorted engine that can be tuned. If you were riding at european or world championship level, then a 270 kit maybe required, but the bike is more capeable than any rider on this forum.

as perce says, you have to split the air box and re bond it, not with silicone but with a proper bonding agent, once it has been done properly, you will never have ****e in there again.

plenty of pain killer gary, worked for my leg! Any way all the best, hopefully cu sometime.

if you have just recently bought the bike, it would be worth strippig the rear linkage down to see what kind of state it is in, replace the bearings if there is any rust on them, if they are ok just grease em up, check the bushes, clean or replace. Depending on what you want from the suspension, standard should feel quite soft only bottoming out on the major hits, if its too soft wind the spring on say 5mm and test again, if it then feel too bouncy, give it some more damping on the little dial at top of shock. until desired feel is reached.

you aint lookin in the right place if you cant find them, Try the TMX.

SEE IF YOU CAN GET USE OF A VICE TO PRESS THE BEARINGS OUT, I THINK USE A 15MM O/D SOCKET TO PUSH THEM OUT. MAKE SURE YOU PUSH THEM OUT STRAIGHT. RING ME IF YOUR HAVIN PROBLEM 01325 483121

yep this is normal, done mine twice in the last 6 months, check the linkage arm has not gone oval due to whacks off rocks, Grease or replace the bearings, clean the rust off the bushes or replace.

LOOKING FORWAD TO IT!

yep, they are the same as the forks used in the 92/93 gas gas with usd forks, size of the seal :- 35x47x10

It seems the ssdt has got considerably easier over the last 10-15 years, i can remember watching it when saunders won on 80, Tarres 90 and Phil Alderson on 110, now its won under 20. Is it the sections that are easier? or is it the bikes that make it easy? or are we better riders? i think not!! it would have been pretty hard for the average rider judging by their scores. What do the regular riders think?

2 strokes need fully synthetic oil, wheras 4 strokes usually take semi, mainly because it burns too much, although i'd recommend on race and track bikes. A yamaha R1, will use 1litre of fully synthetic oil in 1000miles, and this is in the owners hand book!!! Back to proper bikes, that take some skill to ride correctly, I run my 04 mont at 62ml of fully synthetic oil to 5l unleaded. Some oils make the bike run better than others, The silkolene comp 2sx and the castol a747 seem to be the best.

Doug isn't looking as comfortable with the indoors this year, he's not as suited to them as raga, but i don't think anyone will be good enough to take the championship away from doug outdoors, he's got the mentality, probably even more determination to win his 8th crown. I think that alone is enough to give him the edge. Raga tends to spit the dummy, shake the pram and throw teddy out if it's not going his way, he's not thinking like a world champ yet, although his time will come.

It sounds like the carb needs cleaning out, Check all jets for blockages. Doesn't sound like air leaking, as that generally makes the rev flat out.