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Rode the 80th Bemrose today with my lad and some mates, great trial and very well organised, single lap of 40 sections, butty wagon, no rain, bike didn't miss a beat (Yamaha!!) and some cracking scenery. The work that goes into these events is often overlooked by riders so many thanks to Alan and Ruth Nixon and team for a great day out. Eiger.

Rode the 80th Bemrose today with my lad and some mates, great trial and very well organised, single lap of 40 sections, butty wagon, no rain, bike didn't miss a beat (Yamaha!!) and some cracking scenery. The work that goes into these events is often overlooked by riders so many thanks to Alan and Ruth Nixon and team for a great day out. Eiger.

Thanks for the replies, the fan worked with power to it so fitted a new voltage regulator and its sorted and only

My 08 270 overheated today and the fan wasnt running. I joined the two wires together and the fan still didnt come on. Any ideas what might be the problem? Thanks

My point is that (and I reckon I can speak as I've got experience as clerk of course of a number of club, center and National trials, , have ridden the SSDT 15 times, am 45 years old with 30 years trials experience under my belt, have no qualms about observing when required and regularly mark out). Oh yes going back to my point: Firstly calling someone a b***end aint particularly constructive Lennie regardless of what you may or may not think, but thanks for supporting my initial observation. Observing is not easy and the rules not quickly learned and at many of our club trials some observers are first timers on the day. So we need to make the rules as easy to follow as we can.

As an organiser, route/section planner, observer and rider the rules need to be simple and readily understandable. In many trials, as we'll all know, a lot of observers don't know the rules that well after being pushed into doing the job as the club are struggling to find a volunteer one cold and frosty morning. So the rules have to be made easy to grasp in a short space of time, don't they? Eiger

Yamaha TY250 Mono Pinky: Good points:, air cooled, front disc brake, rear drum, well protected air filter, easy to work on. Six speed box, quick on the road, reasonable fuel capacity and if access to older steel tank then superb fuel capacity (plastic tank is still good capacity), brilliant and easy machine to work on and fantastically balanced and easy to ride. Probably the best balanced and most well designed bike of all the trials bikes Bad points: not many! - tube type rear tyre, rear wheels have 'Z' type spokes which Yamaha no longer supply (Birketts do em but they aint readily available) narrow footrests which dig into your feet. (You can get a Hebo fiiting kit from Birketts which needs a welding job but is well worth the effort). Pink mudguards - nice if you are in touch with your feminine side!! must be THE MOST RELIABLE AND WELL MADE TRIALS BIKE OF ALL TIME!! Cheers Eiger

Yep, its a cracking trial run by those Hipwell boys and the sections are superb, sadly I can't ride this year as working but my lad is riding with his mate. The Hipwell boys do a great deal for our sport and Andy does a great deal for the local brewery although it was sad to hear they sacked him after he drank most of the profits!! Apparently Kev used to drink too but gave up last year after a drunken local lad from New Mills gave him a lesson in playing pool he'll never forget!! Hope its a great day folks

Muel/Kev/Woody. Thanks for the replies, already respoked the original rear wheel after Birketts supplied me with a new set of spokes so no probs there but have found the tube type rear IRC tyre falls off the rim very easily and as i've been told I cannot get any other tube type tyres I was looking at converting to tubeless - easier to fix punctures too. Converting to any available conventional rim has appeared to be an expensive option IE over a

Evening folks am after a tubeless rim (cheap as poss!) to fit my Yam pinky mono rear to replace the tube type rim. Anyone got any info on whats best or cheap - or both hopefully! Ta Eiger

Fuel height in the float chamber is critical. Too high and it'll sound like its choking up on up to quarter throttle, beyond that its fine. Can't remember the measurements but I'll try and dig out the manual Eiger

For those of you who have not ridden in this event - get it in your diary for next year. The organisation is first class as is the course, sections and scenery, all in all a brilliant trial and thanks to all those involved for yet another superb event this year.

Despite watching/riding the SSDT most years since 1985 we've never been to watch the pre 65 so this year we're going up earlier. Can anyone advise on what sections to go to and what the route is or has it not been published yet? Apologies if this has already been discussed but can't find it if it has. Thanks

Anyone know when the regs will be out for the Loch Lomond 2 day in May, did it for the first time last year and it was one of the best events we've ever done. Superbly organised and brilliant sections, just don't want to miss it this year. Eiger

I registered my Yam TY Pinkie by writing to Yamaha UK asking for a dating certificate so you can obtain the correct age related plate, Yamaha Motor (UK) Limited, Customer Services Dept, Sopwith Drive, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0UZ.I enclosed a self addressed envelope but they returned this unused and the dating certificate (Yamaha UK headed letter confirming bike age) was free of charge I then insured the bike on the frame number through Carol Nash tel 0800-2985511 (they allow around 2 weeks before you have to provide them with the registered number). Then obtained an MOT also on the frame number, filled in the V55 registration form from the Post Office and sent this off to my local DVLA office (addresses available from your Post Office or via the internet on the DVLA website) along with the insurance, MOT, dating certificate and registration fee which including the excise licence was about

Yep, a superb trial and well organised, would have loved to have done another lap - but not today! Maybe the day after tomorrow when my knees stop creaking! Great ride round between sections too coupled with great scenery and a good mix of sections which were made more enjoyable with a tasty bacon and egg butty tucked away. A cracking finale to a superb weekend which saw Barnsley stuff Chelsea and Portsmouth dismiss the Manchester primadonnas, (eh Karlos!!) about time Ferguson got to eat humble pie! Shame Scotland took the honours yesterday, as would have loved to have given Sandy Mack some grief today but managed to avoid the issue although I did get some abuse for different reasons. Brilliant weekend and a cracking days sport. Sithee soon. Eiger

We've had a Kliponoff trailer for about fifteen years now and its been ultra reliable, just after renewing the indespenion units and hubs but can't find any contact numbers for the company. Heard they stopped trading a while back but someone at a trial recently said they had started up again somewhere West/Souty Yorks area. Be grateful if anyone has a contact number for them. Thanks.

Thanks folks, had a look at that site but still don't show the one I had which was machined from a small block of steel and had a hardened steel machined bolt which pushed the pin out. Cheers for the offer Boofont but a mate (locally known as leafy!!) has one which used to be mine a while back so I can get that copied. Cracking bit of kit and better than lugging a full size splitter round with you. Eiger

Evening folks. We've got a decent but large sized chain splitter but I used to have a smaller bum-bag sized one with a 10mm bolt which is machined at the end for the chain pins and the overall size was less than a matchbox, anyone know where I can get another one from? Searched everywhere but no luck so far. Thanks Eiger

I registered my Yam Ty by writing to Yamaha UK asking for a dating certificate so you can obtain the correct age related plate, Yamaha Motor (UK) Limited, Customer Services Dept, Sopwith Drive, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0UZ. I then insured the bike on the frame number through Carol Nash tel 0800-2985511 (they allow around 2 weeks before you have to provide them with the registered number). Then obtained an MOT also on the frame number, filled in the V55 registration form from the Post Office and sent this off to my local DVLA office (addresses available from your Post Office or via the internet) along with the insurance, MOT, dating certificate and registration fee which including the excise licence was about

Just Bemrose will be as good as ever, great course and sections and a good set of lads (and lasses) setting out thanks to the likes of the Nixons (Ruth and Alan) Harvey Lloyd, Ken Eyre, Kev Stannard, Rupert Ellison, Scott Ellis and the others I can't remember . As for Andy his job is going well, so well I want a bloody job with the same firm.!! Make sure you book the Dave Rowlands, Northern Experts, John MacDonald and a bit further afield the Loch Lomond 2 day in your diary. Its just that we did the LL 2 day last year and it was superb and we had lots of beer (it helps us dab less!!) good food and the trial was simply fantastic. Sithee soon pal Regards Pierre.

Ay up pal hope all is well, only just got your pm as problems with emails and other things which I wont bore you with. Wont be making Hawks Nest as riding the Macc trial, even got a butty wagon laid on so got to be worth the trip! Have gone back to being Yamaha mounted as enjoyed riding it so much so its her first outing tomorrow for a while, whats all this I hear about a Mont 4 stroke?! Sithee soon, don't forget the Bemrose, a cracking trial but don't ride near Mac as he's got a habit of drawing the observers attention to those little misdemeanours you would have otherwise got away with. Eiger.

Try emailing Bill Brown at Macclesfield Trials Club, Bills just ordered some more for the club and he should be able to point you in the right direction.

First of all Happy new year all, secondly a message to Hop, Blip and a Jump regarding a post in this topic under another thread. You are wrong to suggest the Police don't give a s**t, most cops do want to catch the low-life that prey on decent people and their property. There was another thread a few months back which turned into a cop bashing session from a number of people who did not really have a clue about the ridiculous scumbag loving judicial system we have nurtured in this country over recent years. There are people occupying prison places who have not paid poll tax or are guilty of tax evasion, are these people a threat to society? No they are not, but the drug fuelled burglar with numerous similar convictions to his name, who steals your kids Christmas presents two days before Santa is due and only gets a community punishment order (replace punishment with 'joke') is a threat to society. At the start of each shift we have a computerised briefing where we will be made aware of various matters, far too often we are told that Joe Blogs has been released from prison to lets say a bail hostel and the prison and probation services have voiced concerns that he is a threat to society, one bloke last month was a sex offender with a history of abusing children, he was released to a bail hostel which is situated opposite a primary school, is it just me who thinks we have lost the plot? This clever Labour government have introduced an intensive offender management programme for offenders the idea being that probation and police officers and other agencies such as housing, social services etc pressurise prolific offenders well one such chap was intensively managed (!) recently with two half hour visits per week after his release from prison during the rest of his free time he was committing around five burglaries per day and taking many of his proceeds to a 'sting' shop (a shop run by under cover cops to trap burglars and handlers of stolen goods although this is frowned upon by many prominent people within the judicial system as they consider it entrapment). I am a serving cop in a large city force in the north west of Englandand have over fifteen years experience, six of those years was as a dog handler and in that time I arrested around 250 people with my dog. One of his arrests was of a burglar who ran and hid in a wooded area the multi million pound heat seeking camera equipped helicopter failed to locate the offender but my dog (weighing 120 pounds free from a good home and with built in four wheel drive and ultra sharp teeth) did and dragged him out of some conifers, it was a clean bite to his left forearm (in training they are taught to go for the right arm as most people are right handed but they will also go for the nearest limb if the right arm is inaccessible) which needed several stitches. The offender had been released early from prison for a number of similar offences (its called being on licence as his original sentence was yet to expire) and was returned to prison where he made a complaint that he was scarred for life and wanted to to take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, despite the fact he admitted to the offence. He was paid