rabie

i like that one! persoanlly i'm using "iespell" and its pretty good (works in most text windows, excpet a few java based ones, dosne't work in firefox though)

there is a icon file that is loaded somehow when you visit a site in your favourites, and it goes next to the link in your favourites. Quite how IE (or other browsers) handle this i don't know, presumably its stored in temporary intent files and disappears after a while - thats why it doesn't stay there

i think we're running yet another natioanl one down here in the south East some time soon (Guilford IIRC), if you want to travel that far i can get you some details

apaprently the Indy has a thing of putting in great photos of boscure sport, which while they may not cover normally they want to print - part of them being the indy i think. they taken a few at our natiaonl MX and put a two page coulour spread of it - really impressive. see http://3276.e-printphoto.co.uk/independent...amp;action=view - from a phtography point of view its not the standard type of shot MX photogrpahers take

Sunbeam are a very local club to us (Sidcup) down here in the south. As i understand it Fred Pinhard was a major helper around here, not just for the Sunbeam club (which back then organised lots of events, including some very major MXs and Trials) but also for the centre (editor for our Gazette for many years). I i remember rightly he was a New Zealander and before they joined the FIM directly he represented them at the old ACU General Council (like Scotland is a national club or something). While it may by a Sunbeam MCC award, but it has been seen a national award for some time and been awarded at the ACU awards dinner for some years. It was the only award that went across all the disciplines of the sport at the awards dinner, so when i won i was very chuffed! Its also a huge great big trophy, unlike many trophies (eg Alexz Wigg was next to us picking up a British Championship of something and got a tidily little award) hope that answers your question BTW thanks for the extra, info, i'll update my little spreadsheet

have a look at http://www.sidecartrials.com/ - based in the IOM though also havea chat with the the popel at JAM sport in Farnham, Surrey - run by several of the Talmag club sidecar people - http://www.jamsport.co.uk/

its a big minefield of an area simply put the fact we are doing something is alomst certainly a great step in the right direction (its better than doign nothing!) however i've seen the fun the norwich vikings have been in with their local H&S - well not too bad, but they think that volunter clubs are covered by H&S

being a past recipient of the award; a) i wish Alexz all the best and congratualtions past winner - well i'm just sad enough to have typed them all up while in posession of the trophy (i've added some notes) Year Name (on trophy) Notes (by me) 1950 JR Milner 1951 PL Hodgson 1952 Muureen Towler Orgnaiser from East Yorks ? 1953 WH Martin 1954 J Surtees John RR ? 1955 JU Smith 1956 AJ Lampkin Arthur Scrambles and Trials 1957 RS Pepcow 1958 SMB Hailwood Mike "the bike" - RR & ? 1959 DF Shorey 1960 C Hutchinson 1961 Scott Ellis 1962 MG Davis 1963 MJ Andrews 1964 DJ Adsett 1965 DJ Baybutt 1966 GJ Farley Gordon ? Trials 1967 T Milton Tommy Milton Junior Trials and others - Scotland 1968 M Rathmell Malcolm Trials, MX, Grasstrack, Enduro 1969 ML Dawes 1970 C Pusey 1971 HM Lampkin Martin ? 1972 CJ Baybutt 1973 RM Shepherd 1974 C Smith 1975 G Noyce Graham MX 1976 N Hudson Niel MX 1977 J Reynolds 1978 GW Phillip Gordon MX (scottish youth and adult champ), GT (champ), ISDE gold winner 1979 MA Lee 1980 G Padgett 1981 VJ Lampkin James ? Trials 1982 D Thorpe Dave MX 1983 S Patrickson 1984 S Saunders Steve Trials 1985 K Nicoll Kurt MX 1986 I McConnachie 1987 P Edmondson Paul Enduro 1988 W Braybrock Wayne Enduro / Trials 1989 J Lawyer 1990 J Dobb James / Jamie MX 1991 S Colley Steve Trials 1992 J Higgs Jason MX 1993 D Lampkin Dougie Trials 1994 P Hurry Paul ? (Guess) Grass Tack ? 1995 M Baybutt 1996 G Jarvis Graham Trials 1997 S Conner Sam Trials 1998 C Nunn Carl MX 1999 M Crosswaith Martin Trials 2000 JR Walker John

i assume you mean you've been sent a renewal by the ACU licence dept as the booklet with it says, you only need a new photo if your appearance has changed, or your last licence was pre 2002 (IIRC, ie before computerised photos) fill in the first bits, and then get your club to stamp it

im not sure about MX, he only came 10th when he rode a round of the british champs swordy was excellent on the kx450 until he crashed in germany, and nunny didn't seam tor ide well on the 450 at the MXDN - the problem is we rode the MXDN with 3x 250F riders not 2x 450F riders! (that and searle is still new - ish)

my mums been with them for over 5 years now. we have a few problems with some emails taking a few days to get to the final destination (i think its their problem, as the headers, upon receipt, show it bouncing off their servers). its not a perfect service but nothing to uspsetting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei would seam like it is the ROI, due to the abbreviation of Eire

Dixie : ROFLOL !!! kinghter - legend - thats all you need say

have to admit i've never really seen any mention of any sort of classic/vintage/twinshock/etc type of enduro event out there im afriad

High point - MXDN - the atmosphere, the americans not walking all over the europeans, etc, etc

from the point of view as a club that promoter several large spectator events, the best market to recruit crowds from is the biking community. money spent advertising in MCN really does bring us results. thus we spend money advertising in the BSB at Brands Hatch last year, we have built a road bike "car" park so bike's stands don't sink etc there is a marginal tendency for leisure bikers out there to want to ride their bikes somewhere on a Sunday, and promoting going to the local motorcycle sport event as that helps us. might just be that down here, close to London / commuter belt, next to Brands hatch - we do have a lot of leisure road bikers...

the ACU insurance people have been working upon this idea for some time what we've talking bout here is insurance for being on the road while competing in an event, which insurance companies started to exclude form cover about 4 or 5 years ago. current the ACU over via their insurance company one/two day cover for about a fiver a day so you compete in events what we have been looking for (for an annual policy to give you normal road insurance AND cover you for road trials) is some idea about how many people out there will such a policy, there is no statistics about how many people might take up such a policy. presumably we need to know how many trials have road work, how many LDTs there are and how many enduros have road work. because we don't have this data the ACU insurance guru (a road racer from my end of the world) has yet to be able to go out an negotiate a bulk deal with insurance companies hope that answers your question

what I'm getting at is that the editor only does 4 issues a year, all he does is compile the material from all the sports and put it together. he is no the editor in a newspaper sense that actually writes stories, he is probable a road race bloke who knows nothing of "banana bikes" if we, the trials world get off our a*** and sort some decent content out for the two pages of whatever that trials has then no problem - in reality the point of the magazine is no to preach to the converted (ie us lot in the know in the trials world) but to the other motorcyclists (eg rich road racers who want a Sunday ride out) who might come to our events as paying punters so we can get more money to reinvest in the sport thus I'm making a fundamental critique of all the moaners out there who expect it to be more than that, and by inference they are belittle the hardworking volunteers who do so much already

*rant* oh FFS you bunch of whinging tarts for a start MX has only got a few world championship - only two real important one (MX1 and MX2), and it being such a big sport (like everywhere) means that actually having a world champion (was Jamie Dobb back in 2001 in the then 125cc class) is a real big deal. If i understand the world of trials correctly its really popular in just the UK and Spain, and very minority sports in several other countries..... but the real point is that the ACU magazine is shockingly just like your own club magazines, its only as good as the stuff written by volunteers and sent in to be published. So if no one has written anything then it isn't going to get put in! *rant over*

West Wilts Website - teh SEC centre calander i saw had just "expert and youth A" next to it IIRC (haven't got it or my TSM to hand)

there are dozens of trials on every weekend across the UK, at a rough guess at least half a dozen "near" london all depends upon what level of ridding and/or bikes you want to see (eg nationals, local championships, sidecars, twinshock, classic, etc) - and transport (i aussme you'll hire a car, although a handful of places are just reachable by public tranpsort ) shops wise, again there a hundreds of shops in the UK (the population is twice that of california), depends on how far you want to travel for the south of london (kent, sussex, surrey and south london) area check out this website - http://www.trialsinfo.com/ , there must be 25 or so trials clubs in our area alone, with at least one if not two trials every weekend for the nroth east of london (ie essex) have a look at http://www.easternacu.info/ i haven't got any link for west and north london really although there are pleanty of clubs

as above - its down to the club, and/or more fundamentally the actual observers there is very little John can do in Rugby about it

OAS 1 has a trials rider in it briefly IIRC, i haven't seen OAS II (and i don't have I with me to check)

TV/DVD combis are apparentlty notoriously bad at playing DVD-Rs (if at all), something to do with them being cheap don't know much more than that im afriad