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Neon, because of your comment. Atom, no. Andy right on the money! Kevin you are CORRECT. Why do folks think it's OK to attack (Christian) religion? Can't attack any other group or your being politicaly incorrect. It just seems that being a (sort of) middle aged white male Christian from the USA that (I) we are some sort of target. What's the deal? I didn't choose to be white. I didn't choose what country to come out of the womb in. I didn't choose my sex. I'm still proud and happy to be all of these. I DID choose my Religion, and it's what I'm most proud and happy about. In my Church we pray for people. I think most of these things are an excuse to hate too but at least in this century the Christians aren't the one's cutting heads off in the name of their god. Where's Chris UK in a time like this?

Bruce to GG isn't a rumour, I hope it's not supposed to be a secret.

I think you need to have some before you can comment on it.

Use this handy compression ratio calculator http://www.csgnetwork.com/compcalc.html I wouldn't be afraid of the XR piston with a thicker base gasket. I have a small laser and I make my own gaskets. It allows me to use thicker gasket material and it's cheaper than Honda. Banging an the calculator some it looks like .031" thicker than stock gasket would lower compression from 10:1 to 9:1

Heath, I'm surprised you didn't polish up the frame/ tank on the Beta. Saw one over here done that way and it looked quite nice. I didn't care for the colors that year (03? Maroon) but the bike looked nice. Lets see. 00 Maroon 01 Blue 02 Maroon 03 Yellow 04 Red 05 Red 06 Red 07 Red Is this right?

Yep, stock bore is 65.5 stroke is 57. Compession ratio is 9:1 and the XR is 10:1 though. I'm not sure but check out an early ATC 200. Before the electric start they started with a pull rope and had fairly low compression. Somewhere around 8.5: 1 if I remember right.

What trophy was wrong?

This bike is from Germany. It's in a BMW book. Caption reads "This much modified German-owned R26 is a regular visitor to the pre 65 Talmag Trial, held in Surrey, England in January".

OK, I'm refering to Big John. He knows all there is to know about the history of this great sport. Here it is. Who's bike is this?

Dougie, Fugi (love the way he rev's the #^$*$# out of a bike) You can listen and tell that it him riding. AND this new rider Toni Seine Fishing My question is, why don't I like Raga? I can't put my finger on it!

Big John, what can I say. Andy's had that picture for about 5 years now (I remember him posting it in the past). It must be an amazing thing that happened there. He's thrown away his pictures of Sasquatch, Ghosts, and UFO's and kept the picture of you paying in a pub.

Hey Frank, What ratio are you mixing your new bike at?

Sting, e mail me if you want. brian (at sign) metalmarkers.org

Yeah, more classes, more riders! Sting, I sent you a .gif a while back. Did you get it?

What tank you talking about Al?

We have their DVD. I can't even recall the name of it now. It's a lot of fun, lots of clowning around. Reminded me of the 70's.

Good tip Don. I send spam to. spam@uce.gov Spose Ta work but you never get any feedback. Why can't we take all hackers, phishers and pop up people and publicly exicute them? Seems fair to me!

And you can get the book in CD form from Tommy.

C'mon Big John, Help us ignorant folks out. I'm personally trying to catch up on 30 years of Honda Trials stuff I never knew exhisted until a couple years ago. The internet IS good for something! Is that a short stroke 305?

The DVD is really good. Doug gets the controversial stuff. Laia's yellow card, and Fugi's big leap. Doug is an Expert level trials rider and a bike trials rider also. Get the DVD from TTC! http://www.trialstrainingcenter.com/ or here. http://www.throttledowntv.com/prod04.htm

This is what I thought of.

I thought it was a 104 link.

Probably been asked before. Why do some pictures come up in the post full size and others have a thumbnail?

And Charlie Roberts, Alex Bedley, Bruce LeRiche, and a whole bunch of the STRA club. Many hours and days spent by many people!

No to be a pain but, that motor sure isn't a TL 125 clone motor. You may get it in the frame with a little notching but you'd never be able to ride legaly in a Vintage class with it. Sounds like it could make a fun play bike with electric start.