The bike is definatly not one of the comerfords 40 as verified by Dave Renham.
But the frame number is very close to the modified bikes, so he is not ruling out the posibility that it was a bike modified by reg around that time !
i.e. untill he discovers evidence disproving this, he will not rule out the posibility of it being some form of comerfords bike, there must have been some 'experimental' bikes before the 40 replica's were produced ?.
It may be a while before any proof surfaces as i am sure Dave has better things to do with his time than trawl through old pictures and documents for me.
Been talking to mr Renham who says his records show the engine was prepared
for Rob shepherd.
He is unsure of the frame and is still checking (engine & frame have different numbers).
There is a photo of Vesty in the book spanish trials bikes (going up a water fall) with the back end modified exactly the same.
It has definatly not got one of the box section swing arms in, but it rides so well that i think its been done by some one who knew what he was doing !!
Funny you should mention TBM. I have just spent an afternoon with Mike Rapley testing the 4RT for this magazine.
We also took Mike,s trusty 2004 315 with us for comparison.
Some of the comparisons we made on the sections were lets say, intresting.
I will say no more as you will have to read mikes article in TBM (which was going to print today), knowing Mike as I do, I donot think he will duck any issues, and will tell it like it is.
So you may get the un-bias comparison that you are looking for.
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I have been watching this post with interest and would like to make the following observation.
Myself and Lancsvet (who appears on these pages from time to time!) did the lions share of the course
plotting for the Lancs County round.
I would like to say that modern bikes do not enter my mind when setting sections for this event! I am of the opinion
that if you can take 6 to 12 marks of the likes of Nigel Birkett, Phil Wiffen & a certain fat lad on a Majesty twinshock
or similar marks off Dave Thorpe & Neil Gaunt in the pre 75 class then the modern bikes will fall in line behind.
If someone on a Beta Or Sherco goes round for 1 or 2, well good for them !!!!
So far as Majesty340's theory theat the series in badly supported or dying! our entry was split as follows-
17no Pre 75
43no Twinshocks
14no Air cooled mono's
71no in the modern bike classes
No Novices,Intermediates or Experts to prop the entry up, just the classic classes!!
That is 74 riders in the 3no what I would call the classic classes, hardly a bad entry for a trial on
their own?
There was a similar split and numbers at Bootle the day after.
My own theory on this good classic entry is that both trials have no roadwork!!
A lot of the older twinshock & Pre 75 bikes are not road registered and who wants to spend
a couple of grand restoring a bike and then thrash it around the roads?
Thats what Honda Fireblades are for!!
So as Woody has said earlier, I dont know what rounds you ridden or orginised Mr majesty 340
but you obviously have not been up north!!!!!