nigel dabster

where does it say no minders?

I believe the 2009 evos were jetted wrongly as supplied is yours standard?

Are pidcocks doing a mont service at the ssdt?

Did Steve irwin live near you?

details of 2011 models for most brands are out june july with the earliest models available in september october. I doubt a struggling manufacturer would release a bike a couple of months before this unless they wanted to commit commercial suicide. My guess is no 2010 bikes.

probably max 1000ft.

This is a great observers bike if she is riding around to watch if not get a 200 2t if she wants rideability in sections.

Berkos land isn't that great but its all we have at the moment till the Buzzards get sorted and best of all its legal.

Hux have a practice area there and berko is 20 mins from that.

How far is Denham from you?

I gather the later engines from the aircooled monos are the latest fiddle by a few of the top twinshock riders in the Normandale championships.

You are asking the wrong person I've only spent two days there in 08.

I guess we never got round to the story about Gratterolas engine the year before,08. He took a dive section 8 near the top of the loop and filled the Sherco up big time when it was on full chat and it blew the head clean apart, massive hole and the cylinder aswell. Day over. Then next section who pops up with a nice sounding sherco, yep grat. Well despite accusations and so on and the apparent refusal of anyone to check the id markings he rides the next few sections and returns to the start. Final two sections in rolls grat with a bike with a blown head complete with id. fortunately he finished well down so there was no point in making much fuss but I wonder what would have been the situation at Hawkstone had it been a british rider? The odds are always stacked against everyone and France Italy and Spain its a tough life and you can only give it your best shot. If pat comes and works hard at it then he can give a good showing, lets hope he can.

Tell me which 10 lads have more support than pat? Is pat coming back? When for how long? No one is tearing anyone down the thread was quite different to start with you yanks turned it round to "pat can be world champ" not anyone else.

I bet the guy that wants the new tank for his montesa doesn't think it junk.

I saw pat ride in the wtc in 08 and more closely in 09. I never said he didn't have talent. He was an also ran because for whatever reason he didn't show enough commitment to stay longer. The route to succes at world level is to be at the WTC period. Professionilism would come with experience. Drive would allow him to stay here and work. I don't buy this Americans get it harder its just as tough for all the unsupported guys from the uk as they have to struggle with finance, language and everything that pat had to. Our teenagers are, well, teenagers!

Sandifords didn't dump the importership it was taken away from them as was the honda solus and husqvarna dealerships. Whether caroline was nice to you or not, I only had one contact with her and she wasn't very nice it would be easy to say hard cheese to them all, but as stated above Martin does seem to be a good guy and to see such a good marque floundering for whatever reason is sad. Yes she could have done more, had more riders, promoted the brand better, been more approachable, but at the end of the day if the punters , or at least not enough of them, don't want the bike what can an importer do. I had a 4rt and loved it, but then struggled with it the next day. I remember a very poor showing at the bvm test day a few years back and overheard a conversation about "commercial viability" then so its been coming a long while. I also rode one at a dealership in Spain before they even landed here first time which may have said something way back then. To end up with so much on an auction is a sad day indeed. The quality and reliability are great pluses but many have had them including me and now are riding others, the trials market is shrinking with the recession and they are at the expensive end. Whether the emergence of Greeves at

and wiggy

Everything is up for auction and sandifords are in administration.

insurance

As iow will from now on be called "Victor Meldrew"

Sadly he has missed the boat. He needed to be in and around at both youth and junior level.All within 1 year of his age his peers like wigg Gomez challoner frrier moret have already done sevral championships, wigg and Gomez and jack within a year or so will all be top route.

Sherco have shouted about the xispa possibly because it was a direct copy of everything on their bike, and appeared to be in production? The fact that in these economic times factories making a sound product tried and tested can't suceed where does the greeves fit in? and who will buy it?

Try a 30?

There is something in this, but would bernie have been a champ had he stayed in so cal? Would Fujigas ever have done what he did without embracing europe? Would Adam Raga have been champ had he not ridden in the uk for a year?