Centres decide eligibility (eg some have residency requirements, some don't) but youth classes are based on age ......
Points are recorded by the centre recorder / that sport's reordered in the centre - but they are often dependant on what are sent in by the club - so depends how proactive they are
Also some twit might protest that xyz is too young to be in that class - possible legal implications .... ????
then again it was still f***ing impossible - the hardest subject i've ever done!!!
theoretically you could rpobalbe get into some uni's with no qualifcations, but most just want (literacy wise) a GCSE C (though im sure you can get round that )
when its a long post im normally bothered enough to cut and paste it to word for a spell check, and at home i've got a spell checker plugin added to internet exploer, but here at uni they havne't ......
don't worry my spelling was much worse when i first came online all those years ago
IMHO - paper is amde from the trees in places like scandinavia, where for every tree chopped down three ar eplante din its place -> thus saving paper isn't that bigger deal. to save the plannet we should stop buying dogey mahogney from the rainforests.
saving paaper and thus going "save the the trees" is therefore BS IMHO
Any way as for trials become that popular and prices going up (ohh you know your talking about trials when every ones worry is the price - ROFLOL!!!)
Trials - IMHO is very popular- conceivable it could still become popular still
Fundamentally it is a very cheap form of motor sport that many people can do, it requires little capital expenditure (the bikes are cheap), little maintenance, little outlay per events (trials cost peanuts). Also on the organisers side, very few people are required to organise a trial, land is available, and you don't upset anybody
I help organise Trials, MXs and Enduros (and know a little about grass track in the centre too) - trials has very little of the problems any of the other 3 sports have.....
Big John is right, Defra are about to tell us they have downgraded the majority of green lanes to bridalways. They are also introducing a farmers subsidy scheme to keep mechanically propelled vheicles of farm land. Mabe one of the officials from the acu could tell us what the new legislation actually is and how it is going to affect us!!!
you can access sports council money but its hard because you've got to be very involved in the relevant sports politics to get it - football, rugby, cricket, tennis and athletics steal most of the money (I'm told) and then you have to present a very car fully filled in plan (that is very PC, satisfy hippy this and tree hugging that) to get it
we've done it twice i think for MX in our part of the world (out of London sports council) but its very hard and the avenue we took has since been closed (i think)
While I have to admit I like such stickers, etc on the van (makes you look less of a white van man, etc) it does at time seam like your driving round with a sign going "I have motorcycles, please steal them". Many people (MX, enduro, trials) complain of people following them home to find where they live and then steal their bikes
Just a word of warning - other than that it looks cool
agree rabie, and well done with the sidcup 60 - great trial
Cheers
As for the manufactures, well its up to us (clubs, rides, ACU, etc) to put pressure on them (manufactures, importers, industry) to produce a bikes that are quiet enough that we can ride with out upsetting anyone
The problem is from a rule book / and legal point of view you have say this is the line in the sand - i.e. 92 db
Now if we conclude that some bikes (be they not maintained two strokes, old British bikes or new four strokes) are too loud then the rule should be changed
In Denmark if i understand it correctly they've moved to a ride by test
The RPM's that are in the chart in the handbook are universally acknowledged to be out of date and thus too low
Maybe it is possible to write four strokes tested this and that way and two strokes another way but it would have to be done in such a way that the industry didn't get upset
Maybe a trials person will do what Derek Elwell did all those years ago and make a quieter pipe for bikes and sell it (and hence DEP pipes)
re residents complaints - you have to show the council that your conducting noise tests, enforcing that and take readings from around the area - every centre *should* have a noise meter operator (or more) - get on to your centre or even Rugby if you are having problems
the "saga" of funding inter centre is an old chestnut
trials has 3 teams to send (youth, adult and sidecar) plus the separate pre65 inter centre trial (with solo and sidecar teams).
now we (SEC) normally subsidise (IIRC) the riders and team manager, but it is still expensive .....
most modern people aren't up for all getting together in one transit and camping in a tent in afraid ........
anyway MX and Enduro haven't had an inter centre for some time (don't if grass track still does) so some *may* argue why should the centre spend money on them (personally any attempt to beat Yorkshire is worth the money)
also the southern centre was *involved* in the very costly (circa
seams like a good idea because i don't drive my car at night normally and thus would lower my expensive premium
but when I'm going from home to uni, especially after an event back home i could be driving lots of miles that late at night (home is 200miles from uni) - so dunno if it would really work that well for me
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