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"Mr Kinell" has gone very quiet, Still Training, Still Prepping Bike or "HIDING IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE" You can stop polishing, the first ride through "Lick me a**e forest on Monday, and you wonder why you did all the polishing!!!!

Just ahead of you Kinell No. 18, I will have the pleasure in meeting you and "TEAM WOFTAM" Only a foolish man would follow an orange flag into a bog !!! When there is a perfectly simple route round. Would it be vindictive of me to say sometimes, only sometimes they put the flags there on purpose !! No they wouldn't do that !!!!!

Kinell, mental preperation will not help you when going across "Clunes" trust me I am only a novice in Scotland, having done it 22 TIMES !!!! Brother is also riding this year, other hobby being scuba diving, as I write this he is going through Glencoe for a weekend somwhere across the Coran Ferry. Anyway P***ing down with rain, waterfalls full, Moors looking ever so slightly on the damp side !!! Ishy how many sets of "GORETEX" can you bring over ?

My name is "Markus Leanachen Laggan Lockus" Commander of the Army of DABBERS General of the PUSHERS Loyal suporter of the true trial "THE SSDT" 11 Days to go!! 11 nights to sleep!! And I will have my vengance on "WITCHES" in this trial or the next !!! Hows everyone's training going................???? Drinking plenty of "RED BULL", but no wings yet to fly up these sections !!!!

Nice weather in Fort William the next 10 days !!! Hope youv'e all got your "GORTEX" it can't be as wet as last year.....................Can It !!!

Gaff I remember it well !! Indeed I can tell you a littlte bit about the bike in the picture posted. John Lamkin did indeed develop them, and I am not really sure but the bike in the picture may have been ridden by a member of the ARMY TEAM in the SSDT the year being 1986. I was a member of that team and dragged one of them round Scotland. These were the first production models produced and the ARMY TEAM had the first four, in all fairness pretty robust bike for the late 80's of course competing against the air cooled TY it probably was a bit heavy. The previuos year we rode the Armstrong 350 Twin Shock, this was the engine out of the SWM Jumbo, bits fell off the bike as the week went on, it was in a sorry state by the end of the week !! we had frame numbers 9, 10, 11 & 12 and again I don't think they made anymore !!! Fair play to Alan Clews trying to make a go at producing/assembling a bike that we would class as British !!! Lastly before I post a funny story about Alan, I was in Germany serving at the time and my Army Team Mate and myself ordered 2 Amsrong twin shocks (the one with the HIRO engine in). We had aranged to go to the factory to pick them up, and Alan was obviously reaaly enthused about this, the fact that 2 GERMANS!! were coming over to pick up some bikes. On walking into the factory, greeted by Alan "DOO YOOOU SPEEEEK ENGERLISH" to which we replied "YES MATE, BUT DO YOU" !!!!! ROLL ON SCOTLAND 22nd Year for me and it gets better and better!!