trapezeartist

The Nigerian World Cup squad were so disappointed with their performance in Russia they have promised to personally refund all the fans who travelled to support them. All the fans need to do is send their bank sort code, account number and PINs, and they will transfer the money directly.

A man went to a private doctor on account of his rather diminutive 'old chap'. The good doctor agreed to an enlargement operation, but had these words of caution... "We can help you sir. We charge £1000 per inch, but don't go crazy. Some women don't appreciate the overly well-endowed man, it can get a little painful." "If I were you, sir," he said, "I would have a discussion with your wife about it, and come back next week" At the appointment next week the doctor asked the man, "So, sir, did you discuss things with your wife?" "Yes I did, and we have come to a decision" "We're getting granite worktops".

I asked my girlfriend to get me a newspaper. "Don't be silly," she replied, "you can use my iPad." That fly never knew what hit it..!

Cold stick is a pain, but not the end of the world. If rocking it in gear with the engine off doesn't clear it, put the front wheel against a wall. Run the engine, clutch in, knock it into second gear. It will probably just clear on it's own, but on my 4T it would just start turning the back wheel so I had to give it a sniff of throttle and bump my weight down on the bike. Done once, it was slightly draggy until the engine warmed up, then OK until it had stood for a few hours again.

Cold stick of the clutch is pretty normal on many trials bikes. As long as it clears quickly, it's not the biggest deal in the world. Try to free it off by putting it into gear and rocking to and fro before starting. If that doesn't work, put the front wheel against something when you first knock it into gear. Read the "clutch mod" thread in the Beta sub-forum.

Here's one. https://bvm-moto.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=193&search=amal 8 I think most trials specialists could supply the same item.

I nearly gave a similar answer. Actually I'd forgotten Ossa (hasn't everyone?) and decided not to throw a barb at Jotagas in deference to the new importers. They may just be able to sort things out. On a more positive note, I think all other manufacturers have pretty good spares availability.

With my very short time back in the sport I'm not really qualified to say, but I'll stick my neck out and say you are wrong. For me, "benefit of the doubt" is something to be applied when the observer has a genuine doubt. (Did he dab, or just wave his leg in the air? Did he stop or just about keep rolling?) Being lenient implies that you are not following the marking system laid down by the ACU. If they wanted to, the ACU could define a fail as stopping for 1 second or more, but they don't. No doubt my scores would become even more stratospheric than they already are, but at least you would know what to expect in every section.

My own personal opinion is that a momentary stop where it's hard to discern whether it really was stop or not, is perfectly acceptable. For instance for the time the back wheel is off the ground during a rear wheel hop, provided the bike start moving again immediately after landing the back wheel. Whatever, I think it would help if all observers at an event were briefed on what is expected of them, and all competitors should be told what that expectation is.

I understand where you're coming from, Intotrials. With the top 3 or 4 riders scoring 0-2 most days, who wants to be the person to give one of them a 5? Your one split-second decision is going to have a massive impact on the result. Whereas, when one of the guys who's getting a cricket score every day comes along, who's going to notice? I have no personal knowledge of how the SSDT is organised, but one would hope that with an event of this stature observers would be given very clear guidance on how to mark marginal situations. It shouldn't be beyond the organisers to provide every observer with one A4 sheet of guidance: it's something to read while waiting for the first bikes to arrive.

That could be my old bike which I rode in about 1970. Well, probably not as the aluminium side panels were removed on mine. Between trials I used it for getting to school and going down to WH Smiths on a Thursday for MCN.

I'm trying to decide if you're very cynical or very perceptive. Probably both. Unfortunately Jotagas seem to have painted themselves into a corner. Their strange commercial ways of the past few years are not easily forgotten, either by end-users or potential dealers/importers.

Well, if so they wouldn't be the first company to take some old stock lying around and turn it into the latest model with some cosmetic tweaks.

Yes. But seriously, I don't think 04.30 until 13.00 is "quick and efficient", but that's really down to the bomberos and the situation, and not to GasGas.

Yeah. Because they're not very good at putting out fires.

It happened in the early hours of Saturday. The fire started in the part of the warehouse where packaging is stored. The burning cardboard made it difficult to extinguish but only 5% of the factory has been effected, with no structural harm done. The production lines, offices and despatch area are unharmed so the company seems confident that production and delivery promises will be unaffected.

OBD?

I think you've answered your own question there, Rainy.

Without any specific knowledge of the EMs, I would be wary too. Electric bikes are new technology and therefore it's reasonable to expect significant changes and improvements over two years. It's not like run-of-the-mill 2Ts where only the stickers change.

Check the springs too. If by some strange occurrence they are short, they won't be applying the necessary clamping force.

Unless I've missed something TSR 18 only mentions this topic in relation to sub-sections. Obviously, if you fail in a sub-section you should have the right to attempt the following subs. If it's a single section and you've failed already, there's no point in continuing so it's a courtesy to everyone to get out as quickly as possible (which may or may not be though the End cards).

If you mean a crew cab pickup with a box on the back (Mitsubishi LT200 or something), be sure to check headroom. I'm not sure it would be enough as the load platform is very high.

Unless you are going to restrict your riding to somewhere very near home you'll need transport anyway. If you have the use of a van, that is the best solution (IMHO). It keeps the bike free of road salt and you don't have to worry quite so much about how you tie it down (it's not going to fall in the road). Failing that, a Dave Cooper bike rack is cheap and easy to store, although they look a bit flexible to me. Then of course there is a lightweight trailer, provided you have somewhere to store it.

I don't think stop-allowed or no-stop has any bearing. If there is a problem identifying the threshold between forward motion and stopped, there is a similar problem with the threshold between stopped and backward motion.