Yeah, it isn't that I object to paying any import duty due, just that I have'nt a clue how much it could be and I don't want to order from USA and be landed with some huge customs bill.
I realise this isn't strictly bike related so apologies in advance.
I can buy a small hydraulic pump (to build a logsplitter) from Nebraska at about a third of the price for the same item in Glasgow, Scotland. Shipping from Nebraska is $36 but I wonder if there will be any import duty or taxes on this, other than VAT.
The exceptionally long routes, and road work, proving what? Is this just excess bulk on the trial?
Should it all be condensed to accept modern bikes and their limitations based upon current design, which is minimal at best?
A very interesting thought.
Almost certainly the SSDT will have to change format, probably in the forseeable future. It could take only one major landowner to withdraw permission for the trial to cross their land for half a dozen others to take the opportunity to do the same.
Don't be fooled into thinking that all the landowners or managing agents concerned are avid motorbike fans. It has far more to do with the politics of the local tourist industry and the potential wrath of the Fort William landladies if they lost their season opener. Add to this the growing interest among landowners in conservation, regeneration, environmental issues, erosion of footpaths, etc. There are large long term grants available for these things which far outweigh any "benefit" the landowner gets from letting hundreds of bikes tear up their hills!.
Expanding on Copemechs post, it is possible to envisage the Scottish Six Days Trials. Think of six one day trials in the week in SSDT country - Leanachan, Kinlochleven, Ben Nevis, White Corries, Fersit, Strontian spring to mind as daily venues for starters.
If it's the same as it was a couple of years ago I think you'll find they're Enfield fork legs. It's actually quite a trick little bike though it might not look it at first sight.
Two of my lads turned up for the Brian Barnsley Memorial trial run by the Hamilton Motorcycle Club at Te Kauwhata last Sunday.
They paid their fees, hired a 1965 Bultaco and had a terrific time in a super friendly atmosphere. They say that it sounded as though half of Yorkshire was there, judging from the accents.
I've had a Fuji S602Z for about 5 years. I't's giving a few problems now but has taken some super trials pictures over the years and suits me as it has the feel and bulk of the old SLRs I'd always used previously. It has a proper viewfinder and even an electronic "shutter click" but is probably a bit big to carry on a bike as it couldn't easily fit in a pocket and a padded bumbag is really needed for it.
Presumably the s5700 and the s6500 are the more up to date replacements for this model?.
I'm planning on taking a look at the s6500 at an early opportunity, prices are now about a third of what I paid for the S602Z.
My son has had a couple of the Fuji compact digitals which also have been excellent and are easy to fit in a jacket pocket but I just can't get on with waving them about in front of my face trying to hold them steady and frame the picture on the LCD screen, give me a viewfinder any time, especially for action shots.
And the Fuji service shop can be highly recommended if anything does go wrong with their cameras.
Very interesting Woody. I bought a Miller taper kit 2 or 3 years ago for a 199 and found that the outer races were too big for the steering head. Didn't pursue it at the time, they're still lying in a drawer somewhere so I'll see if I can find them and measure them up.
I suspect you're right on the Miller method and that my ones just haven't been ground down.
Broke off the remains of the spindle head and cleaned it up as far as possible with a cold chisel.
Drilled freehand from each side a pilot hole in the spindle as far as just inside the line of the cases.
Stepped up drills as far as 12mm, the spindle is 14mm and I left 1mm spare all round in case not quite central.
Using a reversed clamp, spread the frame just enough to get a junior hacksaw blade between the frame and swinging arm and cut through the remains of the spindle.
Using the old bolt/nut trick, spread the front of the swinging arm just enough to get the junior saw blade between the cases and the swinging arm bush and cut through the remains of the spindle here too.
Sherpa Paint Spec
in Bultaco
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Long ago (!) when aerosol cans were being used, the colour was Ford Silver Fox.