nigel dabster

Rodney and Rodney Trotter

I had six shercos but only had two problems, the thermostat went in 03 I think and the 04 a stator went. The thermostat was changed for a gas gas one which was 100% reliable. Sherco changed to this the next year anyway. People used to say that the mains were suspect but they never were on mine. The gas gas that I have had have been very reliable 06 and 07, one minor problem with a clutch master cylinder (ajp part not gas gas) and they have been fine except when I filled one up with water, my fault! If your dealer in his pdi does the airbox they are very very good there. I honestly believe that with some care and preparation they are as good as any other make. If you don't want to spend a few hours in the workshop buy a montesa its the only bike you can wash and leave alone completely.

I think the belgians are the ones to thank for this. Whilst taking nothing away from Iris the severity was not hard enough for laia to recover from a mistake, she is without doubt the best lady rider the world has ever seen.

I really cannot think that there is a british manufacturer left who produces bearings.

A good tip and correct use of correct material waterproof grease is spot on. When removing the seal cover fit to the inside face so the untouched one is outside. (Even perce does this greasing and he is not reknowned for his fettling!)

All new vw's come with a decent warranty, and touch wood my 60,000 mile t5 174 has spent 3 hours non service in the dealership. Best most reliable van I have ever had. Do fancy a V6 204 bhp merc though, chipped to 240!!!! Any long wheel base vw or long vito will do 6 seats plus 3 bikes.

If you are good enough to ride a 300 it has to be a Raga. Where's it coming from as I was intrested in one?

Cota Kid is there I believe.

Please explain...? Not quiet sure what Gizza means as the minder he has had all year, since joining the Beta factory as their four stroke rider, is very good in deed.

Senor Cercos has a very different style to Shaun though, and has several others to do the things shaun has to undertake during an event tyres and drinks being just two. One size doesn't fit all and to find a minder which suits is very difficult. I sincerely believe that locally Jack Lee would not have been singled out as a good minder even a year ago but without doubt has been an essential prt of Dabils continued improvement this year and the two seem good mates and more suited than perhaps Shaun would be. Michael is a quiet and determined character suited to shaun's more "outgoing" personality so thats probably why they are such a good partnership. The youngsters coming through are mostly supported/minded by there dads and family members but a good minder with a bit of experience can do wonders. I think having a full time minder can be more important than a more experienced part time one.

The shape and size of everyones heads are different. You must try on the one you want to buy.Most have removable liners now which is essntial. I have always gone for Shoeei as they fit me so well, but tried on the carbon Hebo and that was alot lighter, but fitted as good.

As an aside, Regardless of make change your plug regularily, every couple of months setting the gap etc keeps the spark how the manufacturer intended, keeps the motor sharp, they are cheap and new is good.

USD Forks, not that good in trials. Throttle by wire only with efi?

We've touched on this subject before........Bourne bike As for the film, I liked the 1st one but I thought the later 2 were just franchise money makers. I really dislike the Bourne Ultimatum for it's ''manic'' unsteady camera work which tries to 'edit in' more action,it's just not needed. Bourne's dis-arms,counters and take-downs are done well enough. Ahh, so my pirate copy was meant to be shakey then?

How does that work, can someone explain? Is this if you are running a trial or does it include practise as well. Just buy the land, get 2 sheep and if anyone asks your using the trials bike to round them up, most farmers use quads these days so its not much different. As for building obsticles dry stone walled sheep pens can make a challenging section, or a pile of logs shaped like a beaver dam , just be very discreet and if possible to to make obsticles look like they belong there, a trench filled with rocks would over time look like a real stream more so if you lined the bottom with polythene to hold water, a fallen tree would also be good, plenty of posibilities without bringing much attention to yourself. Great idea can you tell me if there are many beavers in the Milton Keynes area?

Boysens are the key I'm sure, then someone who can set up Kehins.

I too had a few sherco's and would reccomend them, but not over and above a Beta as I havn't had one as much as anything as whenever I have ridden one it seemed "uncomfortable" nothing wrong with the bike just didn't suit me. There are very few betas in the youth classes compared to Gassers so that may indicate something aswell......

Would take

Get down to bvm's test day and try them all>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

with michelins its not the getting off which is hard its getting them back on.

That was at the beginning of the year when he was working out of the Gas Gas Truck I believe.

How well the world riders do on bikes doesn't really help me pick a bike at all, whether they're riding stock bikes or one-offs. If anything, I'd figure that a bike was optimized for their skills levels would be wholly inappropriate for a mid-level slogger like me. Shauns is stock, grimbos has a paxau engine I think,then stock.

Just south of |hatchlands park is hook woods, access clearly marked from the A 246 http://www.multimap.com/maps/?&hloc=GB...ad,%20Guildford

In your opinion... you have yours, I have mine, that's what freedom of speech is all about... read my other post I'm not going to argue your points Dabster, their your opinion, but what you infer is that the sport shouldn't change because it wouldn't suit a few riders, I'd suggest that the sport is more important and that the riders should be adapting to the sport. The best riders will still be the best riders whatever the format. F1 is not a great analogy. What comparison is there with a sport whose annual turnover is in billions and where the size of the field is controlled by Ecclestone and his money men. You don't have the bucks and the guarantees you don't get in. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with it, if you think you are right argue your point, surely? I never said the sport shouldn't change just that change at wtc is not going to help the sponsorship prospects of the up coming riders at the top level. (again back to thread beginning) To explain more, F1 manages with 20 competitors they don't need 100.

You are so wrong here, just as others have said Bou would win any trial in the world right now indoor or out. Without a doubt he is the rider with the most ability and probably the one that trains the hardest practices the longest and tries the hardest. Did I mention the best team? To suggest a test across a moor will leave him wanting is naieve in the extreme. Similarily to suggest that reverting to an "old style" trial will magically restore the numbers to the British Champs is distorting the realities. Yes there will be more entries but these are riders who want to ride the colmore, like Dan Thorpe etc who don't ride the British Champs top route at present. Where would that leave our up coming youngsters Wiggy Brown and Haslam? they have the British Champs as the remaining event to fim style and so on, there are lots of Nationals for the majority of competitors why make those events harder for them and take away a stepping stone for the rising stars? The FIM and British Champs are two different things to lump them together only confuses the issues, I think Is the FIM World trial Championship on its knees, no not at all. Does it deal with the very best few in our sport over the most difficult terrain, yes. Does it matter that there are only 20 odd entries, doesn't seem to worry F 1. Give it a couple of years of established youth junior and full championships then it may well be a small but successful system showing the best. Get the xtreme channel to show more of the youth events to youth and we may yet entice youngsters away from their screens. Yes it is a different thing entirely to what we want to ride every week but does that mean its a circus? Is a circus not entertaing? So to get back on track, to the thread, there is a problem with trials sales and we all need to somehow help promoting the sport and increasing numbers or we will be struggling in ten years time for events. Let alone sponsorship. Yes it is difficult to afford to get to events but as Ross Alexz and others have shown its not impossible and if the results keep coming hopefully the support will follow. We are basically a minority amateur sport that tries its best in sometimes difficult cicumstances. Changing the format of British events on to some distant moor will not attract TV money will it???????