nigel dabster

....because they are not perfect! Unless maintained much more than normal rims then they can have problems.

Before you slag off the wheel was it staying up before you ditched the mitch? If so as a qualified engineer you will know that as soon as you mess with something there is a chance that you have initiated the problem, and that to get a tyre on and off the tape can be disturbed. The tapes are supposed to be oversize so they squeeze into the gap.

not too sure if I understood all that, but yes the vw's are reliable, as has the vito's i've had, and the warranty on the mercs has been exceptional. My vw T% 178 dropped 4th gear at 100k and the gearbox man said it wasn't the first. So they all can give trouble.

The materials are much much lighter than they used to be, try and get a closer look. http://www.barbour.com/

what size i have a mate in the trade who is thinking its time to offload as the weathers warming up here?

give a little with care and feeding.

To be fair I nearly got stuck 4 times in an hour when the snow came down on saturday last and I bet 90% of the bm drivers haven't read the manual . There are 3 settings on one button which give different levels of traction control and even the almost off setting is pants. My missses has refused to drive the thing and i think shes right this time. having said all that we had a subaru sportwagen a few years back and with the low profile tyres that wasn't much better even with 4wd. Bet there was a button on that I didn't know about on that!

Nice. Harold Crawford replica gloves all round too.

There is nothing worse than a northern tw^t is there. Oh yes maybe one that also has an intimate knowledge of the "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy". what a barrel of laughs you must be

pretty much every trials shop, where are you.

banjo filter?

Teachers unions are far from militant so that disproves your thoughts about teachers, in fact one of the unions has a policy of no industrial action(http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk/index.cfm/page/why_voice.cfm/ncid/1051) bet you didn't know that. Yes there are bad teachers just the same as bad council workers bricklayers doctors and so on, but if you had cared to read my original post i said by and large. So there you go typing without reading. The fact is that teaching is not cushy and if you think it is my suggestion is you try it.

twt we all get bank holidays and weekends so 2 weeks plus is the norm for most people certainly construction, most sites are shut from monday as well so leave teachers alone or become one if its so marvellous

back on track, its a real shame about derek and white bros I hope things work out ok.

very true but why have we heard diddly squat about whats happened to the banks and city bonuses?

Teachers do not get 3 weeks off at christmas, you are talking out your ar$e. The teachers of this country by and large do a brilliant job, if you think its so easy why don't you do it?

So you didn't think that the land rover 4x4 guys made that point?

There are some valid points here but to claim that the unique event like the SSDT is proof that no stop is the answer to every declining entry/ person that chooses to not ride/ gives up in trials is a leap too far. It seems to me that dans original point that no stop should be adopted by all is based on anecdote assumption and no substantial proof of any kind. it seems to me we are jumbling up all the arguments from club trial severity to numbers in the wtc. The acu has given clubs the choice, if that isn't the fairest solution then i don't know what is. We should be all on the FIM rules as a world sport but thankfully our federation has given us a choice. There is no significant evidence that a change to force no stop is wanted by the majority, or more importantly would ever increase trials participation. Otherwise I would be all for it.

i don't think the itwc is any good unless you podium.

good point.

thought they were 665?

thought the trf guy missed a trick when the rambler said ban everyone .

is it rules or severity that dictates the numbers of entries? Simple fact is that trials as with stop allowed and a high skill base results in sections which are at times impossible, and cleaned only by the best rider(s) in the world. Is this the severity of the sections per se or the desisgn of the sections. I would say as usual with this debate that the arguments are being clouded by what is ridden in no stop events Not the rules. My suggestion would be that IF Dan Thorpe is right lets get Richmond motor club to experiment with stop allowed rule for their 3 day and see if the entries drop off? Maybe Fort william last year was an extreme example of world class sections WITHOUT the big steps and drop offs Dan Thorpe imagines.

The next thing you'll be saying is the sun is shining its warm weather and no real restrictions on where you ride?

funny very funny