Might be a surprise to some but bar the SSDT and the pre65, to the best of my knowledge, there are no other road based trials held up here in Scotland.
Like Chewy, I'd love to ride a 30mile lap road based event that's not too exacting. I just can't see it happening up here though, what with all the cost of getting the bikes road legal, and of course it makes life difficult for the young 'uns. Also a major headache for the organisers who have to try and find that scarcest resource of all, observers.
Not sure I'd want the one that stopped at the ferry time control on Friday. He'd boiled it up on the road and it had got so hot that the petrol pipe had melted through where it was touching the barrel. That sorted out, he fired it up and water was peeing out of the head. That tightened down, leaking from the radiator hoses. Finally sorted and on his way. He told me next day that the water pump impeller had basically dissolved with the heat and wasn't pumping. Reckoned that it had started when he roasted it after the thermostatic switch had packed in on the Wednesday.
I'd buy a Mont 4t after the Scottish, but anything else??
BTW, if you're offered a bike with a section of purple petrol hose between the tap and filter, steer clear!!
I made one up on my old '02 Rev-3 using a T-piece and a clear hose running up the bottom of the tank to the headstock.
You had to loosen off the tank cap first before venting the level tube, as the Rev-3 cap had a small valve assembly inside it which held the tank at a very slight pressure above atmospheric. If you unplugged the level tube first the fuel just used to flow out of it.
Thanks B4ORT , After repairing a Tubeless tyre with these repair strips , What is the best system to inflate the tyre if the tyre is out of the rim?
It happened to me last Saturday , I was alone training in a stream late evening , the tyre went out of the rim , and had to go down the stream one hour pushing over the rocks (the rim did't touch the tyre so no traction) another hour pushing on the path. I reached home dark night (good training ) , i wonder if this situation happens to us in SSDT we have the risk to be in the middle of the highlands dark night, and raining...
You need big cable ties (bridas largas y anchas) incase the tyre comes off the rim and you can't get it on again. You can normally get them in the Parc Ferme.
Hi all, my mate has pulled his c15's gearbox out of the centre casing without removing the clutch so all the bits kind of fell out.
The camplate has been inverted to give an other-way-round gearchange. He's stripping the clutch off the shaft to reassemble it but was wondering if the selector forks still go back in the normal way that they would with the camplate the right way up.
The reason he's opened it up is that it's jumping out of first gear, any ideas??
I made a similar set-up recently for a Scorpa wheel.
You could just turn down the ends of your original spacer to fit a smaller inner race bearing.
Or if the spacer is parallel all the way through, you could machine off the spigots and fit 'O' rings or something on the outside of the spacer to stop it moving round in the hub. That's what I did with my Scorpa one. It's the length of the spacer between the bearing lands that's important.
What's the numbers on the original bearings? These bikes were around in the mid 80s so it's unlikely that they used a bearing which is now obselete.
East Neuk Wobblers trial near St Andrews 07.03.10. Nice easy trial with 2 routes, great for those just starting or wanting a fun day out on the bike. See the website, http://eastneukwobblers.webeden.co.uk/#
Good report mucker, I'll back you up on that, a brilliant event, suitable for all levels. I got round on a '94 Mont 314, anyone that knows me will testify to my non-ability! Mont was grippy as hell till it came on the pipe, it then took off enduro-stylee, great fun.
Definatly worth the effort of going if events like the SSDT are beyond you, Chewy's report says it all, photo of him in action
There's a ty350 one here; http://northover.com/Bike/YamahaTYManual.htm. I'd imagine a lot of it will be the same as the 250 bar maybe the timing, barrel and piston details etc but I'm no expert.
Several sources including John Cane of TY Trials http://www.tytrials.co.uk/ used to do a CD for the 250 monos, they seem to have dried up for some reason, maybe a copyright issue. Might be worth calling him, might have an old copy propping up the office desk...
Too late now but in general you should always ask at the Parc Ferme if you've lost anything as the observers usually hand that kind of thing in there. The riders regularly leave rucksacks, camelbcks etc lying at the sections, time controls, lunch checks etc.
Seen as it's Wiggy's though, might turn up on eBay anytime soon...
I'd wager that Ian Austermuhle lost this year's trial on Wednesday at Upper Mamore when his bike, running like a bag of spanners, died about 2 bike lengths short of the ends cards on the first half of a double sub for a 5, then got a three on the top sub after getting his bike started again, still running rough as hell. Might've been better sorting it out before riding the top one...
Wiggy took his only 3 marks of the day on that top sub as well, could say that lost him the trial too.
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Might be a surprise to some but bar the SSDT and the pre65, to the best of my knowledge, there are no other road based trials held up here in Scotland.
Like Chewy, I'd love to ride a 30mile lap road based event that's not too exacting. I just can't see it happening up here though, what with all the cost of getting the bikes road legal, and of course it makes life difficult for the young 'uns. Also a major headache for the organisers who have to try and find that scarcest resource of all, observers.