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a WORD OF CAUTION! I do not think you will wind them on the Sherco team bikes. I understand Paxau does not like them!

Brian, don't fret, it really gets easier the older you get! Look at Jerry Young's scores in the Nationals sometime! He may be my HERO! For now, I feel much better after giving up any hope of being able to stay up with some of the older guys!

If the Beta one is for the Ducati ignition it should work.

All joking aside, I have used the Hebo's and they are good, maybe too good as I have had my boots dig in to the sharper points and not be able to get them OFF when needed! Quckly! Also the sharper teeth took a chunk out of my calf muscle once! I went back to the stockers!

Good one Sendero!

ps- Dman, We haveba couple of kids here named Roblin and Mizell that can help me find you real quick! Glenn lives a couple miles from me!

Dman, my rear end gets plenty of traction when I land on it! Thanks! I'm going to make a point to track you down in Tenn.!

I just had to try the new alum. peggies on my '05 bike! They should work better in the mud! Seem great dry! Anyone else got any feedback yet! Cheers,

I was scoring a section here once when a four foot rattler slithered out on the rock ledge behind me and accross the trail. Next rider through hit the snake after splattering the rock and started screaming! I told him "that's why we wear boots"! My best friend has usually been the, uh, how do you spell it, calimine lotion?, after gitting in the poison ivey! Which brings us to another point! Leave your gloves on while walking/climbing sections! Take them off when you wander off the trail to find a privy spot!

You sound like Craig, He quit too! Well he's back to ?NORMAL? now!

Why Do You Ride! I have often asked myself that question while either cold, wet, muddy, hot, or exhausted or any combination of the above and sitting in the middle of a section that I cannot possibly complete! It takes a bit of that quote from another post! I'll find it! Something about BALLS!

I am planning to help Alan B. provide refreshments in Tennessee and need to know just how much Mexican Cactus Juice(from real mexicans) to bring to supplement the Unleaded version that he supplies! How many of you Redcoats are coming?

The 200cc bikes may be a bit gentler for a new rider!

Sometimes I scare myself, so I bought one of those fancy tire beaders and made up a 10 ft extension hose with a clip on air chuck and a pressure regulator at the end that I control with one hand while holding a beer in the other after getting it seated! Money well spent! Never fails with a bit of silecon spray lube and some guts!

You guys are really old!

Dman, just find yourself a nice 10-12ft chunk of rock and ask them which one wants to race to the top!

Everyone welcome Clark! He's G--, Ga--, GIDDY with a new bike!

Gee Clark, I don't know what to say! I cannot stop laughing ! MC

I have my own opinions about this subject, not that anyone cares, but I will throw in a couple of things! A 125 is a very capable machine and as many of the HS class kids already prove riding the ES line in the Nationals here, AND the bikes are in most cases capable of even more as set forth by the Euro riders on even larger obsticles than we here mostly ride. I too believe that there may be too many classes in the US Nationals, why not just a 30,40,50,60,70 class, for the support AGE groups and,If you want to give more trophies, then do more places. It is a fairly standard practice here in the Texas State Series to award trophies to approx. 1/2 of the class entrants. It also serves to elevate the level of compepition of the top riders in each class. The "support " class is still the "bread and butter" mainstream of the NATC, both financially and otherwise. All that want to ride and support this series should be able to do it! And we should encourage the participation of the riders to support the series, GO FIGURE! The current JR class would be a good candidate for 125's only and could be the 125 National Championship, with a twist, it could be open to all riders. In other words, if you want to become the US National 125 Champ on the Support line, then go out and buy yourself a 125 and see if you can beat them kids! Good Luck! Few if any are good enough to try! The KICKER is that you must do the SERIES! Spending a couple of weekends riding Youth Nationals will not cut the mustard here! If the HS kids are THAT good already on the ES line, then limiting them to 250cc should not be a problem now should it! A nice transition to the EX and PRO classes. If they want to ride the upper classes on whatever they want, then let them, simple as that! Even on a 250 it is not normally considered to be a handicapp! THE SHOCKER! Kids like Pat and Cody DO NOT WANT to ride 125's! Just ask them! Food for thought! MC

Al, I have no idea what HK stands for other than the bearing number. The only other HK I know of is a German made assault rifle. I used to use one for deer hunting!

Craig, if he had asked for a re-ride due to distraction, I would have have given it!

Too! Alan, do they have sufficient power to cabin 5 to operate a coffee pot and a margurita machine?

I figured it for Duke! He's a nut!

The more I think about this, I suppose I need to expound more and tell you how to do this like a true PRO! First, unless you are still snowed in and cannot ride anyway, you need to order more parts than you need to start so that you have everything on hand that you may require to do the work. Minimum 4 bearings and 4 bushings or spacers, and be sure to get a jug of that fancy BLUE MAXIMA waterproof grease! It is the finest! Second, once that you have messed around for about an hour trying to get those things out without knowing the tricks or reading the instructions comes time for the special tools. Thirdly, you must have in your possession one of those highly finished and very expensive sets ov SNAP-ON deep sockets that you can match to the ID and OD of the bearings, of which you have found by now that only two of the four are worn and require replacement, but you are gonna go ahead and replace them all anyway because you already have it apart! Fourth, Take a nice BRASS hammer and beat the **** out of those things in a manner that drives them out of the dogbone and into the other larger socket on the recieving end. Forget about all that Jon Stoodly BS about heating them up and the thermal coeficient of expansion of whatever, all that does is smell up the house. They will knock out easily! Fifth, place the dogbones on a flat surface and gently tap in the new bearings to get them started into position, then proceed to beat thim into position flush with the sides of the dogbone using the same or slightly larger very expensive SNAP-ON socket that you used to drive them out! Once again, forget about all that Stoodly BS like placing bearings in the freezer as your ambient temperature there is probably sufficient This happens easily if your hammer is of adequate weight, if not, get a bigger one! Sixth, pack everything with two times the Special Blue Grease that you think you actually need so that everything is sealed up tighter than a duck's ass and no water can get in to foul(joke)the new bearings and bushings. Seventh, reassemble the same way it came apart, if you remember how, and you are done! You might actuallt put a drop of BLUE locktite on that lower shock bolt when you go back together with it so that it will be tougher coming out next time! Hope that helps!

Is there something I missed here or is that what I said or what I thought I said or did you say something else? You guys have WAY too much time on your hands, has the snow melted yet?