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how do you enter any events without it ??? its got all the regs you'll need in it without being rude the south midland centre review didn't have much in it ....

my club and my experience is different from the majority of lads on here I'm very involved in my local centre which puts on trials, MX, enduros and grass track (actively), and my club puts on three of the four in MX and grass track, youth are pampered by their parents and if they are successful they do get sponsorship in enduro we don't have youths full stop! now i don't mind youths at trials, because for some magical reason you eliminate the schoolboy dad problem, which youth MX is plagued by. of all the funding priorities that i and many other believes that the centre and the ACU should be spending money on supporting youths (and top adult riders) is often very low down fundamentally what is the ACU there for ??? is it to further this minority to elite status so we can compete on a world stage ??? - and if it was so how do we benefit form this - we (ACU, grass routes, etc) don't benefit financially or otherwise from top riders or is its job to help the grass routes, should the money not go on helping putting on clubmans rounds for the masses, investing in new technology, funding land purchases and paying lobbiest to fight the hippies and tree hugers ??? because, from my background anyway, i see youths progressing perfectly OK without the help form the ACU or centre i think this whole academy idea is a real load of BS and a real waste of my (levy, affiliation, etc) money now i don't object to people running charity trials to aid this cause, or if they're centres feel this is a good idea, raising their centre levy (or whatever fund raising system you use) to pay for it - but you've got to get consensus first. i really don't think you'll carry the south east on this one ....

actually IMHO its a great idea the basic technical stuff, where to find local events, the mastery of of getting an ACU trials affiliation / SACU licence, etc - it allows people to tailor advice for a particular area the benefit of a wiki format it that we can update it easily and while everyone can edit it, there are bots and recent edit watchlists to allow you to keep an eye on vandalism

if i had my bike at uni (keele) i'ld love too, but its down south at home

i wouldn't say that ..... TSM - see here http://www.mxsoutheast.co.uk/tsm.htm

I'm opposed the majority of riders are club riders and while a lot of people here seams to support the idea of spending money on riders to get them to the world champs (ie youth riders) this is not universally supported, IMHO why on earth should my money be spent on the brats. personally i don't like youth riders. if they want to succeed they can pay for. IMHO this ACU academy is all BS and a complete waste of my money. but you disagree. now how on earth do you think Rugby (ie Trials and Enduro Committee - TEC) can impose this concept upon the centres - do all 20+ centres agree on this. take remembrance Sunday for example, the ACU ban events but this hasn't stopped promoters going to ORPA and putting events on we in the south east lost several trials club to the AMCA over the matter of enforcing the trials helmet rule - think realistically here lads, some people will take central dictates VERY badly and say f*** you'all and sod off and run their events elsewhere thus the ACU needs to be the broadest possible "church" to incorporate all these different opinions to be the strongest unified "church" to fight the corner of trials as effectively as possible - you don't want to end up like MX or enduros with a plethora of governing bodies and independent clubs unable to take on the big external threats due to our ravenous internal differences

don't mention that!!! we've had a directive from the Trials and Enduro committee (TEC) sent to all clubs saying (again ) that ACU events can only use "TSR-22-A" and "TSR-22-B" and no deviations, variations or other schemes are aloud at all on a bigger reflection I'm now less convinced that John Collins (and the TECs) stance is right. why shouldn't clubs be able to decide what observation rules they use ??? surly its being over imposing dictating this centrally and / or offering only two option my dad rode a long distance trial where one section was like graded hill but had more than 5 boards - that falls foul of the TEC stance why should we not be able to have a hopping trial ??? if we went ORPA or AMCA they couldn't give a **** how we ran out events (in terms of marking rules) so why does the ACU make such a mountain out of a mole hill

as above, the observers mark is a "statement of fact" and unappealable. if the rider had a problem he should file a protest to the CofC (fee

with all due respect to the Lancaster and morecombe team, the TBM really do motorcycle journalism well, its a real read, with real letter and telling the truth and doing real stuff and writing about it and i wish them all the luck in the world In MX we have 3 mags and the L&M mag (DBR) still outsell the the nearest rival by at least double even when there is a mag of better quality (Moto) out there ....... don't know what the answer is but i wish TBM crew the best, and congrats on the recent (but small) trials bits in the back of TBM

we are a vast democracy, a 20+ member committee and a club of around 500 members

i've forwarded it on - don't know what the opinion is im going to be working (nights) instead

yeah we've gathered - just can't find any space in the national, centre and our club's calenders to put an event on

Sidcup & DMCC's Expert trial this weekend (Sunday 21st May) at Canada Heights is cancelled due to lack on entries (Only 12 at the closing date ) If people could pass the message along Sorry everyone

I'm pretty sure (correct me if I

any bike that goes IMHO.....

Sure you could enduro a husky 125 (or any other 125 for that matter) quite competitively at most events The problem is if its your only means of transport do your really want to "race or rally" your only transport ??? LDTs are one thing but enduro is another !!! Sure it looks cool at 17 to ride a "dirt bike" on the rode ***IMHO*** you're seriously wasting both your time and hard earned (and scarce) cash! - get any old road bike (eg DT125, never go wrong type of thing) or better yet get your car licence, while, if you can, ride off road (be it trials or enduros, etc) on some older less up to date machine to save the cash - realistically off road is 90% rider and 10% bike when using most machines made in the last 5 to 10 years ....

like here ? www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.8236&lon=-3.0138&scale=25000&icon=x

star in a reasonably priced car does it for me IMHO - I'm not celeb fan but IMHO its as funny as f***

GB team is very injury dependant after swordy's leg at the German GP problem is the classes are MX1, MX2 and Open - thus sensibly youl'd have two 450's and one 250F if it was tommorrow i'ld imagene it being Noble, Billy Mac (on a 450F) and either Nunny or Searle Billy, Nunny and Searle are doing equally as well Billy can ride a big bike Noble is running OK It would give us a consistend team that would do OK Obvisouly stuff changes over the season, and Sword's fitness would be the critical facotr. A fit Sword would IMHO mean dropping Noble *OR* Billy - depending who is in the managers opinion the better 2nd 450 rider

what as an enduro bike? or as a road bike for a 17 year old? or as a dual sport (to do both enuro, green laneing, LDTs and road stuff) ???

i observed there one year for our team. single route, but each team has to have a expert, inter and novice. No way would i want to ride it , it was wet the time i was there as well

nah we're (GB) aren't going to win the MXDN even with Nunn, Billy Mac, Searle, Sword or Noble (no idea what the pick will be) Obviously Australia, USA, Belgium, etc are early favourites

depends upon the club, we put 4 on in the height of summer on wednesdays and run 4 routes (expert, inter, novice and wobbler)

by **** it was a good race yesterday, won by 0.2 seconds right at the end, rossi fought like a deamon - damn it had everyhting!

sx is a few weeks behind at 4:30 am on friday nights / saturday morning - perfect student tv time for me! the ruel in the states is if you've got so many points or something over 3 years you ***have*** to go up to the big boys. i also understand that grand langston really likes the pro circuit team and they don't run big bikes - you'ld have to ask a more knowledgeable person (probable a yank) for the spercifics as for 450F class - i got lost witht eh diffrence betweent the FIM and AMA champs standings ....