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Every Outing First, give the bu&&er a good clean, don't blast bearing sites with the power hose, dry it off. Check all bolts for tightness or take em all out and loctite the bu&&ers in. Take off timing side cover dry it out give it a blast with WD40 Take bolt off bottom of float chamber on Carb empty it out and make sure there are no deposits in the bottom, if so clean em out Clean Air Filter Give chain a good soak in deisel, wire brush the worst of the cr@p off, wash it to get the rest off it put it back on the bike and give it a blast with chain lube (the better ones disperse any water left between plates rollers etc. Check all breathers/fuel hoses for cracks, blockages, splits etc replace as necessary Every 12 - 15 hours use All of the above PLUS Change Gearbox oil (use 500cc Dextron ATF) Check for play in bearings (Wheels, suspension mounts etc etc) replace as necessary Check for play at head stock, re-adjust if necessary Check brake calipers, clean them make sure pads aren't lipped or overly worn replace as necessary Strip Carb blow through jets etc with an airline or compressed air canister Check play in Chain adjust as necessary, check wear on sprockets replace as necessary That's the routine stuff I do plus dealing with any other issues as they happen, hope this helps

Interesting to know, does anyone know if this still happens? Boof you've moved......yeah be interesting to know what there is, might join again if it's worth it

FAT LADS WHEELIE - dead easy Pick 3rd or 4th gear, give it a handful and hang your lardy butt over the back of the mudguard....some of us are experts at this

Joined CSMA years ago not long after I started working for the Met Office (22 years ago!!!) membership lapsed after a few years but often think about joining again.

Moved to Sherco Forum...

Nah - I've seen how he rides his bikes Was that one of them right place right time coincidences....... I'd be shouting for commission at least Andy

And as if by magic, the shopkeeper appears By the way tuck chow away mate you'll be catchin up soon....... My body is a temple.....Just that the conservatory and other extension show as well. It works Spud, there's more weight to move around

Dodgy ground Spud Dodgy ground.........

Ade, Chances are you have dinged something enough that you need some repairs. Before that try the adjustment on the rod, scroll the rod out in steps and try the brakes every turn or so, you might find that does it if not there may be issues with the master cylinder....they are not that expensive from Lampkins. If thats the case once you change it and put the system back together the best way to re bleed (after months of d!cking about and numerous phonecalls to Lampkins) is to attach the cylinder to the frame, get a long screwdriver and use it to pump the system till you get pressure in the system. Once there take the cylinder off and reconnect the rod and remount in the frame then adjust the acctuation rod until you get the feel you need in your brakes. This works believe me, good luck

Gutted.......

yeah lots...Stevenston (!) Dalmellington and Lanarkshire clubs

....and are you government employed....doing covert design work do you introduce yourself as Tim, Too Fast Tim and do you prefer your vodka martini stirred or shaken....... ....... I could tell you but...... Presently working for a company that manufactures teslameters (guess what they measure). High energy physics institutes (for those that don't know) use magnets, big magnets and lots of them. Also working on instrumentation for ITER (http//www.iter.org). Will be visiting JET (http://www.jet.efda.org/) in 10 days time as well as some of those institutes listed above. Donald, for somebody who plays Tetris on a Cray this is a bit rich I'll bet that you have one of the few Crays in the UK, you and GCHQ! I always thought Teslas were the girls OMD sang about......it explains your magnetic personality Tim Think we only use the Cray for space invaders now, it was deemed too slow for our needs and we now have one NEC SX-8 and 2 SX-6 Super chappies for Tetris, doom and occasionally forecast modeling, if the climate change mob don't get to it first..... Seriously they run on "Nodal" processors at huge speeds and processing power of 19.5 TeraFLOPS, pretty poor when beside Blue Gene but it seems to do the job...for now

....and are you government employed....doing covert design work do you introduce yourself as Tim, Too Fast Tim and do you prefer your vodka martini stirred or shaken....... .......

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.

Errr , who won it last year ? Clue Here Yep fully aware of that but he's won it before and grew up on trials of this nature. Doug won the Scott and the SSDT in 1994 before he first won a WTC crown and WTC contracts prevented him riding and apart from that, no-one (including him if I remember the article I read properly) knew exactly how he would go after years of not riding the Scott. Had Jarvis not missed sections what would the result have been??? Didn't say that, what I inferred is that trials like the Scott and the SSDT are much much more than just riding the sections, could all of the top boys handle that. Could they handle six days of moorland and roads "without" their minders and still throw out the cleans, no-one can say because they won't ride. Contracts notwithstanding, if some importance was placed on these events by the FIM, you can guarantee they would be there. Well if he did it would be a first........ As someone else has noted, whatever scenario you have as a "Championship", the best riders will always come out on top because it's marks lost that count, that's fine but for heavens sake someone take it away from the neutered, sterility of huge steps and slabs and monster climbs that only a few riders can handle. Most of us have slagged off the current format and the state of the sport but no-one has come up with a workable solution so we start with crass ideas and maybe, just maybe out of that comes something half sensible because the circus act we have now is doing nothing for the sport. Having something better might just change the fortunes as far as sales, money, sponsorship etc are concerned

Can't have the tightest man in Trials donating and me not! Sorted! Bloody ell! You guys beat France by 1 goal and its gone to ya heads!!! We won't mention your rugby scores then Ian.........

So what all these post are suggesting is that at the minute things at the top level of our sport is cr@ p....couldn't agree more. What do we, the punters, want to see; easy more of our top riders at more trials that matter. A world championship that actually represents our sport not the circus we have at the minute a battle against all types of terrain not just a few huge steps to hit properly or jump over. Entries are dwindling, there are few sponsorship opportunities, there's little money in the sport, It costs a fortune to stage a world round in its current format, we all know these problems, it needs to change. So despite the fact the the cycling world have made a complete c0ck of it, their concept of the Protour might be worth looking at. What it did was to take established events and turn them into a world championship unfortunately they screwed it but the concept is probably right. Take the British Champs and take what used to be the BIG nationals, Colmore, Colonial, Cleveland, Jack Wood, Mitchell etc etc (there's loads more, you know the ones I mean) throw in the likes of the Ian Pollock and Loch Lomond Two Day, Manx Two Day, Lakes Two Day then add the Scottish and the Scott and you get a year long competition that covers every possible terrain in the UK. Don't change the format, don't alter the fact the every level of rider can compete but chuck in five extra killer sections for the big boys to have a crack at and see what that does British Champ entries. If you expand that onto the world level, take likes of the Scott and SSDT in the UK, a biggy in the US and Canada, big trials in Spain, France etc etc etc and try to bring the Championship to the punters not take it further and further away from the sport as we know it already. It's only an idea but something has to give somewhere but something like that might give us a TRUE champion. Obviously, I don't question the abilities of the top riders but what would Bou do in Fort William, a seven hour plus day over Rannoch would kill him. How would they handle a trial likes of the Scott?????? Just my tuppence worth

High-energy Physics.......... FANTASTIC Tim I didn't realise you were a nerd try....www.cern.ch and www.fnal.gov these are fun sites as well

Isherwood, you are a disgrace.......................... but they are damn funny

YES...... mind you so am I, Kids asked what the song was as well

Admit it, he's an idle *** and needs a new bitch Comments like that'll get you bitch slapped......

Alpinestars are the stiffest but certainly comfiest trials boots, I got a pair recently, they are not hugely waterproof but a pair of sealskins socks soon sorts that out. Follow Billycraigs suggestions as well I have and they certainly work

Boys, can I ask that you be patient with the boss, he's a busy boy. In addition to TC he manages/owns other sites as well as holding down a full time job that takes in a shed load of travel. I know the work he puts in to keep TC going hence the "TEAM" of moderators on this forum to keep the nonsense down, takes a lot of the pressure off of him. I know he'll get round to you in the fullness of time Thanks Slapshot 3 Forum Moderator

I'll get your postal address off the Boss and send her your comments......... WHat Nikon Camera is it Mark?? cheers Donald

Hi Mark, nice pics.....how do you get away with the "Spousal Unit" comment, that would get me a swift kick in the dangly bits.......