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Two Bikes at the YG trial Sunday. People are buying.

More Vertigo Test dates staring with Bracken Rocks on 6th March, See Vertigo's website for Kettering, County Durham and Cheshire.

There is a "Leeds Back in the Day" facebook group so I have thrown the problem at them to see if anybody has any Info. I went to City of Leeds School in that Area, (before it went downhill), And the area was filled with Offices for the Leeds Permanent Building Society.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/duncan-bishop-252b5213 No Wonder the Commentary is bad!!!

Don't know who produces this but I don't think that Vertigo are a "struggling" team.

It may be a niche but in Spain and Italy it's a large and profitable one!

There is a Map for Road work that can be loaded alongside a standard Trials Map. It runs the bike a little richer for extended road use. Might be worth seeing if it has it.

These should have been in the shops in November but still cannot see any for sale. Anybody know what's going on?

About every three months or so but my sons bike is an Ossa and the filter is well out of the way. Now with Gas Gas and JGAS every ride. Keeping the Air boxes clean was a nightmare on those things. Going back to the 2004 Sherco and that was just a nightmare to seal. The Whole Airbox and mudguard was one unit so if you broke it the Filter was exposed.

As well as the Trials adverts here you could see if any For sale facebook pages have them. They also pop up on Biketrader. There is also one in Stoke on ebay which is a later model.

Just Avoid the hole in the M62!!

Then of course the Abingdon "King DIck" ?????????

To Name just one Maker whose bikes are still pretty prized. Super Rat, the Road Toad, the Thunderdog, the Dirt Squirt, the Wombat, the Combat Wombat and the Super Combat. Wonder if that's where Vertigo got the name??

Sad news really as he did look good for the WTC in the future.

The aim for Vertigo is that they will pick the bike up and fix problems not including consumibles. I believe that if anything goes wrong Vertigo want to know about it and fix the problem direct.

Chris is looking Forward to the Sections being left in situ! Should make practice days more interesting. THe next Club trial there could be a cracker too!

Best bet is Bostik All Purpose clear. Still gives up after a while but they at least hang around a while. I'm surprised ti hear a Sherco clutch is that good.Like Gasser's if you get a good one don't mess with it. Get a bad one and it is awful.

Personally I have better things to do with my week than strip down the bike,strip off the carb and clean it, take off the air filter and clean it, then clean out the Airbox which this time of year is full of Mud etc. The failure rate is the deciding factor and if the Fi design fails less then I am happy. So far the failure rate is less.

Well in the same vein as Carb replacements there are ECU repairers. The thing is probably a EPROM so you only need to replace the chipset and re-programme it. Chip's are easier to replace than carbs.

Kokusan have been producing the Two Stroke Fuel Injection system for a long time now. It's used for Snowmobiles, Boats ATV's etc. If anything goes wrong the system is available. Most cars have systems that can be repaired it is just not always financially viable.

Tricky, A lot of cars and appliances are a lot better these days. I do not remember that many Maxi's Granadas etc making 200,000 or 300000 miles back in the day. These days they easily do. I do not see people out jacking cars up and spending hours on a Sunday like they used to keeping the things going. Basically because they had to or they'd break down! Same goes for washer's fridges etc. Most are thrown out now due to a change in kitchen rather than breaking. The better makes seem to last forever. Yes buy Cheap and you will buy it again and nobody buys anything Chinese at 10% of what they used to cost and expects them to last. The Ossa we have is proving less troublesome than a 2011 GasGas and to be honest what has gone are mechanical parts rather than electrical and the effect was not major.

The Model kind of makes sense. We have relied on P/EX in the past but the last two bikes have been sold privately abet via dealers. On that basis you do need to have the funds to "bridge" the gap between buying and selling. Chris has that capability now. I would also say that the Vertigo like the 4RT is pretty much a bike for those who aren't interested in "fettleing" bikes week to week. They just want a bike to ride that is competitive but reliable. I don't see any marque able to cope with that if they work as expected.

Hopefully Billy Bolt should be there. He'd either win it or demolish the bike trying!!!!

My point is that if they do not start as kids they will not be there with the disposable income in their forties. They will be doing something else instead.