nigel dabster

What is really annoying is that the efforts this year went off half cock. Maybe no stop is the answer to our woes but ffs why didnt everyone get behind the effort? The importers, at least some of them were adament that n/s would be the answer but did they support the series? Where were their displays try a bike extra publicity, rider incentive programmes and so on(at some events there were bikes but I certainly didnt see much at the events I was at). Where was the acu extra publicity? Where was the event razmatazz? A bigger screen for results? where was the osset try a bike for youngsters? why were the ladies/schoolboys not there on the saturday to make the event bigger, maybe alongside the a big acu display? where were the clubs that want to run n/s unlike scarborough who clearly didnt (it was imposed on them?)? And gizza b40 otf and jj how many events did you lot go to? why were the sections eased to such an extent that it helped the riders moaning about n/s. Why were the sections so lame, at addingham there was much more scop but they avoided anything spectacular and cant think there was one step at all. Where was the support of the riders, there was no real effort by the acu to get the riders on board, and most of all what were the goals and aims of the series? everyone agrees that the series needs a shake up but unless we all pull together and get some kind of momentum for a showcase championship with spectators its a dead duck. Much like addingham was. Really think we are going to throw the baby out with the bathwater if we dont buck our ideas up, it needs a concerted effort by all.

They're probably not hard enough, the jack wood in 2011 had browny and wiggy on one each, trying to think of others. Think the main argument against is that once established as a championship event it ends up being a ten or twenty marks lost for the winner and good lads like Thorpe end up on 50 then the rest much higher scores. The top two are streets ahead and the only way to allow others to get near is to ease the severity. To repeat we are talking about 6 events which should be an elite championship for the best in the country, and championship which is not compromised simply to increase entries in the hardest route? Spain Italy and France all have a handful of entries the same as ours. Overall numbers are not up and I wish someone could be bothered to work it out exactly and get some stats.

the plastic one is the tickover or has the air screw gone plastic, is it air anyway or fuel?

me too

the other explaination would be the one i gave above, where are the bubbles in the water coming from?

Thats not really anything like whats recommended or I've heard used before, have you had it in for long?

so no stop is easy and stop allowed is hard?

or to avoid all this controversey have trials hard enough so a five like this wouldnt matter?

So a bent rim (with the very unusal ability to leak) is more likely than a leaking rim tape?

so have you put the back wheel in water to see if its going down slowly? the famous leaking spokes?

if it takes 50 psi to pop on the first side of the tyre bead and it comes off at 7psi there is someting wrong here other than the obvious.mine go on at that i run at 4.5 to 5 and weigh a fair bit more, cant remember the last time one came off without a puncture. when do you measure 7?

If that was the case, and this is maalcoms view btw, then the coc should have been at the first section with an early yellow card so everyone knew that transgressions would be harsh at this round and not the same as the previous five?

Why is more people in a championship better? One other winner once this year?

...but surely to pick on one person at one incident at one event, is that fair? The rules in various shapes have been bent and disregarded all year. Surely the biggest disappointment is that it has affected the Championship outcome, either one way or the other, just a bad ending to a bad championship ill thought out with clearly no aim or goal set out before it started, so how anyone can deem it a success mystifies me.

any small cheap one will do http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wolf-FOX-Air-Compressor-Oil-Free-1-5HP-6-Litre-6-35CFM-240v-with-5pc-Spray-Kit-/251143659256?pt=UK_Home_Power_Air_Tools&hash=item3a79541ef8 like this

does it say tubeless on the sidewall?

poi he wasnt the minder the rules did not allow him to be in the sections

Whilst not there it seems rathmell has decided to forget all the times he did the same when Graham was trying for a win in the BTC not that long ago, and cannot have been watching the same rounds i have been to this year and stating entries from six to 30 is a blatant lie to try to influence others views of what has not been a success in any shape or form, and the final championship decided in the jury room rather than tough trials for the British elite. What was the aim of the btc this year, and did the no stop rules help it achieve that? Answers please.

the fim should think about the cost of all the riders junior and youth aswell going to the other side of the world if they cant get two riders to switzerland.

Maybe expense, I would say the fim need to say get your arrssess over here or we wont come to japan for the wtc its a joke.

Conversly I have always had bigger engines like the beta 290 and now the 300 gasser, which has the weight!

No im not saying youshouldnt have the weight, see original comments, if it works for you then great. I think my point is that as a general rule a 250 for majority doesnt need a weight.

november in the uk i believe

why leave jotagas? no money there?

pol and jono in juniors on monts?