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Entries for the Centenary Colmore Cup are now closed as the maximum number plus eight reserves has been reached. Check out the club web site to see who's in. Pete

It's really good to see more clubs supporting the youngsters on Osets, if we were a bit closer my daughter Jess would certainly ride in this series. Both the Stratford-Upon-Avon Club and the Earl Shilton Club ran E class championships in 2010 but sadly only a few riders competed, both championships be running again this year, so I hope the take-up will be better in 2011. All the very best to the Yeadon and Guisely Club, we look forward to seeing the results. Pete

Have a look at this thread. HERE.

Carefully strip, clean, examine, grease and rebuild. Do this once a year and it will pay off in the long run. I always take a few stage photos as it comes apart then if I can't remember what went where, I just look at the pictures.

Good question Big John. I wonder what sort of money the WTC riders make? Lets not think about the regular round winners, but what about the lower orders. How many are making the average UK wage of around

Some of us, and this includes me, loose sight of the fact that there is more to life than just motorbikes. Just because someone is very good at trials doesn't mean that they want to keep doing it. Good luck to Joanne, what ever her reason for retiring.

I used Halfords plastic primer then normal primer then colour then laquer on my Daughters Oset and it worked very well. Keyed the plastic with 400 wet and dry first, then used 800 between coats. Pete

All good advice One of the weak points on all trials bikes that have a link/rocker in the rear suspension is the bearings/bushes in the links. They are made without a grease nipple to save weight but are often overlooked by owners, if there is a lot of free play, or if they are seized it can be a very expensive job to sort out. Look out for this and price the parts before you make an offer, as a full kit they can be very expensive. Running a trials bike is cheap, especially compared to road racing, you can send less in a whole year on trials than you would spend in just one race meeting! Pete

I suspect the remaining knobbles will wear or even break off really quickly. Not sure what you are hoping to gain rom your experiment unless you ride an awful lot in those type of conditions but not in competition?

110 entries recieved to date.

The yearly reviews on each bike are little more than adverts for this years machine. It's funny how last year there wasn't a bad thing to be said, but this years bike is always a big improvement. Like I said, you won't get your answer but it is still worth reading.

Had the same thing on mine a few years back. right at the start of a trial. I laid it down flat on it's side until fuel leaked out of the carb, I stood it up and it ran more or less ok for the rest of the trial (a bit fluffy), good enough to get a finish. When I got home I stripped the carb and got some rubbish out, it ran perfectly once I'd cleaned the carb and put it back on.

Changing this years bike so quickly must have meant that you really didn't like it. In what way was the Gas Gas better? Is there really that much diference between the two?

Although if you just want your licence to be able to ride road trials then it won't be an issue.

You won't get the full answer you need, but it would certainly be worth looking at last weeks T&MX News if you've not read it yet.

Absolutely. I agree, however the book doesn't say the hardest route has to be the main route, it seems logical to have the route with the most riders as that. But then we are talking about club trials with three and sometimes four routes! But as I've said, this is all irrelevant to our club trials now as we've been using pairs of coloured arrows to mark out club trials for three years now. For the Colmore, the main route is the one with the most riders, hence it is blue/red. The Non championship route is a different matter and I have yet to be instructed on the colours we will be using for this.

Well I set out perhaps 50 trials over a 10 year period using this method and it worked ok, but each to his/her own. As I said earlier, we now use a diferent system anyway. Coloured arrows which has been universally approved by all the riders who've commented to me after each trial.

When you've got 60 riders at a trial with 35 on the B route, 20 on the C route and only 5 on the A route, it makes it a lot easier to set out the standard route as the B and make a Hard A diversion and an Easy C diversion.

Yes, for a few years before we adopted the current system of pairs of arrows, we used red/blue for out most popular route which was the B route (Clubman if you like). The few Experts who rode followed the red/blue until they saw the white A+ (hard)deviation. The Novices followed the red/blue until they saw the yellow/green (easy) deviation. Like you say, it made sense for our standard route to be the one with the most riders. The B route. With the current system there is no main route, every route has it's own coloured arrows.

I couldn't find a real photograph that shows the system we use.

Although pairs of arrows are the ideal, it's perfectly acceptable to use pairs of squares, or sticks or whatever you have providing they are the correct colour and the course setters try to make sure the 'pairs' are obvious. There's nothing worse than getting through a long section to be told you've gone the wrong way through the wrong pair of markers; that's where arrows really help. I think it's a good move by the ACU and long overdue.

It sounds like the battery has given up, I have a 2008 12.5 in the garage which is only used very occasionally, the big daughter has a 16" and the younger one can only ride on stabilisers at the moment, so it goes months between charges. I keep it topped up when not in use and it still seems to work well. It will do at least 90 minutes riding on a full charge.