Does anyone know where I can buy Dvds of the world championships? I've checked the usual Duke, amazon etc but I can't seem to find much beyond 2012 or so...
Maybe a bit late, but for somewhere to stay there is a travel Inn at the end of the arena car park. Unfortunately I was late with booking this year, so I'm at the premier Inn which is about a 20 minute walk away as the one on the car park was fully booked.
Not complaining though, TGI Fridays right next door so I can still stuff my face.
I'm not debating that, I'm debating if its right or wrong to 'celebrate' the death of what was, at the end of the day, a retired old woman. It must be an awful thought for her family that her death had caused joy to some.
Although I'm guessing I'm talking about an absolute minority here, most of which probably weren't around during the Thatcher era.
Out of interest, what do people think of the unions during these times?
It all seems very bizarre to me that anyone would celebrate someone dying to the point of street parties. It's great we have the freedom to do that, but whatever she's done - surely it can't be morally right?
Is Jason Finn still riding these days? Has he ever appeared at sheffield? Although I guess most of the World Championship lads can already do most of the things he does...
The rules are set by the FIM, nobody else...unfortunately.
Almost makes you wish that Sheffield wasn't part of the World Indoor Trials Champsionship then I guess then they could have had a lot more fun with the whole thing.
Still, although the format of the competition was somewhat complicated to explain, I think the majority had a good night - afterall, I'd have thought most of the people in there would come to see the riders, maybe for the first time, so aren't too concerned with the competition side of things.
I cannot link to another forum, I think it's against the rules...
But for reference...
Nov 27 2009, 04:57 PM
Just before you book, in case it makes a difference...
QUOTE (psycholist @ Nov 27 2009, 12:45 PM) *
Danny Mac's doing the interval show: END QUOTE
This isn't confirmed yet.
Dec 26 2009, 02:25 PM
he is still recovering from his broken collor bone, it seems the event organizers jumped the gun a bit when danny showed interest. I don't know for sure if he is going or not, but he said to me that he wouldn't if he wasn't 100% recovered yet.
Jan 7 2010, 11:24 AM
See you there gents! (Well, probably not, but tongue.gif) Danny isn't gonna be riding sad.gif
As a regular on Trials Forum I was well aware that Danny would not be riding the event; a couple of days before Sheffield. I was very suprised that no additional riders were drafted in at short notice.
Agreed Dabill was on form, it's the first time I've ever seen him ride and I was very impressed. Also this is the first time I've seen the indoor round; I was disappointed to see Lampkin and Fujinami have to leave the competiton - as my two heroes from my actual riding days it was great to finally see them both in action...a shame it was cut short.
The FIM have made a very bad choice with this new system; an attempt to keep the audience more entertained has gone in the opposite direction. A guy and his young kid were sat behind me, I heard him talking to this son trying to explain the new system and I recall hearing him being disapppointed that his favourite rider was eliminated. I expect a dramatically reduced crowd at Sheffield next year if this system remains in place.
The problem with this is that it can reflect badly on the event organisers - people 'not in the know' about this system will leave confused, bored and probably believing that the organisers were to blame for the chaos.
Fair play to the riders for protesting the next round; especially Toni Bou.
Promotor Neil Crosswaite was concerned at one stage that the audience had lost interest, and he felt that if they went away disillusioned they might not return another year.
Agreed completely. The crowd seemed to die down towards the end which was a huge shame for the riders and organisers. Although I think the final section of the waterfall woke a lot of them up.
I was disappointed to see most of the crowd leaving when Toni made it out of the waterfall - again I though some acknowledgment and appriciation for the event organisers was in order.
Although the scoring system is somewhat confusing, it was an entertaining night - however I agree with the Centrally Speaking column that the majority of the crowd lost interest in the event, which is a shame as they did a fantastic job in organising it. I went with the missus, she's never seen trials before and really enjoyed it.
I recieved information on the parking arrangements and parked in the Parkway along the A630, hardly anyone on there, but had to pay
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