January 8, 201214 yr This one is for Sid. Go and tell him now. I only see Sid a couple of times a year and each time he asks me where the Centrally Speaking column has gone, well tell him, it
January 8, 201214 yr probably thinks that the spanish kids have more chance of succeeding when all the british kids seem to get slated and told you cant do that here you cant ride that bike here and thats from experience of two kids being told this constantly ones now a royal marine and the others at university
January 9, 201214 yr I think Martin / Rappers are probably right. Most WTC rounds require skills more appropriate to dry, high grip terrain whereas most Brits learn on lower grip terrain. Also UK trials are pulled between stop / no stop schools. Quite a few in the UK (myself included) favour a return to traditional no stop trials. Only a few days ago I heard from a friend who had been talking to a prevous winner of Scott, SSDT and world rounds who was in favour of a return to the no stop, no minder type of trial. Unless the sport in Britain puts itself 100% (or nearly so) behind WTC type trials it is likely that we will not produce riders fully able to compete with those that do. I hate to say it and in no way wish to denegrate Dabill, Brown etc Anyone thought of offering Danny McCaskill a contract? Cheers
January 9, 201214 yr There seem to be more Spaniards at the 'really good level' and they certainly (well they used to) appear to get a lot more support too. Perhaps that's why there are more at that level?
