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What is the nearest airport to the trial location ?

Hi mike, just wondering if you got my PM to you about the tank seat unit you have for sale in the classified's.

Only rumours worth listening to is the Fleetwood Mac album.

I have never ridden the Nebraska location before so wasn

Perce would boil over the fat bugger, I only had three dab's and a bad call five for apparently going out of the line of the ribbon while in mid air . Nice place to ride, we will see how we do with the bog section today, speaking of bogs, I just had a pile of waffals for breakfast and better pay the bog a visit.

In the early 90's the SSDT ran a twin shock class, Mick Andrews chose to ride a TLR250, I own both a mint Fantic 200 and a TLR 250, if I had to pick one it would be the TLR.

I'm not daft enough to put my name on the car, some bugger may be after me.

I received this email today, might be a good area, looks mega from the road when driving past, and offers like this are few and far between. Message: hi, wondering if you would be interested in putting on some events at the Mount Shasta Ski Park in 2009 or 2010? I am promoting AMA National 2-day Dual sport rides throughout the Summer and would like to have a simultaneous Trials expo or event during one of our weekends. no cost to you- the mountain will set up a great course - they are very motorcycle friendly and the new management seeks to create a mammoth-moto type vibe. Troy Rauh - 530-232-0874 www.norcaldualsport.com redding, ca

I know it's early day's but of what I would think to be one of the two favorites to win the trial, Dibs has had a crap first day, can he claw it back or has he blown it ?

Tell Stan, I said it's a good job the weather wasn't bad, or he would of dropped a 100, he's been Baja all winter, I wonder if the poor lad felt cold

Inversanda looks like it's having an early spring salmon run this year, well looking at Andy's photo's I can see summat bobbing about in the rapids. Few sad motors coming in to the Parc Ferme tonight.

Southern California , but it sure does in Fort William. My take on the Monday. On a Monday you get down to the start early because your keen to get going, your bike was put in after weigh in and needs no work, so you stand around chatting for half an hour, if it

Could you book him a room in that bording house next to the Cruachan, if you use your name you should get a sharp answer.

Stan Bakaard rider 240, I need some amo for the pizz take when he get's back.

Anyone know what size pilot Birk's uses for the 125 ? Ta.

My mate Stan Bakgaard left it a bit late to book a room, anyone blobbing for any reason who have a room booked or know of any availability within walking distance of the PF he would be most greatfull. He will be arriving Fort bill thur afternoon, and staying through Sat night.

It took a lot longer to upload the picture than put the marker in the rock, about 2 minutes at most to put the marker in. The point is!! it's simple, easy to understand and if enough clubs got on the boat, these could be made in a lot better plastic near on indistructable and therefore have a long life for pennies each. I held the rock up, once they are in, they are stronger than any other marker I have seen, to remove snip the wire flush with the rock.

Reet it's 8:35 am my time I'll go stick one in a rock and take a picture, tough bunch of critics you lot, I did thousands in rock for the world round, even all the ribbon boundries were done this way.

If they are color coded with the hardest class at the top, then next and so on, even if you can't tell the color the arrow will always be in the same location on the sign. The idea of every class and the direction they should take on every split marker, came about because some would argue, because the class they were riding was not stated on the sign, they read it as they could go ether way at that marker because there was no reference to their class. To me if it says champ expert to the left, then they go that way, and all others go to the right, I think this all comes down to riders going the wrong side of a marker, and then pizzing and moaning to try and con their way out of a five. There are more choices of classes now than there has ever been in the sport, our club has five and an average turnout / event of about 30 riders, all you have to do in most classes is tour round and you get a plastic pig. At club level I think a hard line an easy line and a fifty fifty is more than enough, if I tried make it law, you would sure see the toys flying., but the fact is!! Even with all the choices, the numbers are less than when there was no choice.

Just got done making the in and out cards so I'll post them too. For club events we do have a wide range of rider ability and can get them all with their own line in one section, For the event's like I'm making the cards for, we run two lines seperate sections in the morning and three lines per section in the afternoon, sound's complicated but it does work and we can draw observers from am riders to observe the pm and same the other way round. I think I rode more stream sections with natural boundries and a few marker flags up each side over there. Over here we mark the boundries with ribbon, and have more open sections with more options for lines, I think it shows a bit when you see the top US riders riding big steps easy, then struggle on the nadgery stuff. The markers we use in the past have always been printed on card, makes marking the sections a week or two before hand a pain if the weather turns bad, the best card we use costs 20 cents per card, and if it lasts the event in one peice, it then goes in the **** can, I think we can use waterproof material and reuse them, makes marking out an event a week or two before hand easier and the should end up being cheaper in the long run. If I can get some interest, I could make some boxes up, to mark 10 section club event, 10 start end cards, 100 course arrows, 100 class splits, and 250 wires for a reasonable price Once folk got the idea they would make their own. It's not fun getting five when a marker has fallen off because it's knackered, or you bump one end of a log and the marker falls off the other, or you can't read the bloody thing. It should be easy in the UK, hard course, easy course and fifty fifty, what you can do with the splits though, is just give riders part of the section that is better suited to their ability. Ay wen I wer a lad, every bugger rode same section same way, it wer no problem tha nos, now buggers is soo soft they af'T have their own line.

The NATC color code starting with hardest class, is! Black, Red, Blue, White, it would make sense to keep that order then yellow and green for Intermediate and novice. The markers do staple to trees well if you just staple the leg of the wire you can slide them out after without any dammage to the marker or wire.

The wires slide down the holes in the center of the sheet material, and can be stuck in the ground like flags, or on tight rock splits I drill a 3/16 hole with a cordless drill and masonry bit and stick the wire in the hole, then snip a peice of the same type wire a inch long and tap it down the side of the hole, the wires will not move or come out, you have to snip them off at the base to get them out.

Sample three, 4" x 4" square with stick on arrow and class labels. sample four course marker start and end cards would have a stick on label like the course marker.

Sample two, color code each class. We have five classes in our club, the sheets can be bought in the colors shown so it would be very easy make them this way.

I have been trying to come up with a simple cost effective, reusable way of marking section and course. The material is corrugated plastic sign sheet and two foot ceiling hanging wire, price per sheet of plastic Is $16 for an 8ft x 4ft sheet and the wires are $9 per 100 bundle, cost in material per marker is app 20 cents each. Sheets and colors can be changed, I used what I had around. Which would you choose of the samples posted ?. Sample one delta with stick on class labels.