There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year.....has everyone lost interest, or are you all too busy sorting your protein intakes to chat/gurn about it these days?! I miss the old banter!

It's going to rain.

Not in the Arizona Desert it ain't?

Its the big test for the Vertigo , must be this years biggest talking point.

it better be sunny.

We'll be there. Smell of bacon cooking at leanachan? That'll be us.

Edited March 23, 201511 yr by andyrothers

Hi gizza,

Just you wait - climate change is heading directly towards Low North and it will drop rain in Death Valley, California and Arizona...

It'll be warm rain though !!!

It'll be warm rain though !!!

It's beautiful rain, watching the world's best Trial

Agreed Johnny.........miss it like crazy, but cannot be in two places at once, the years it snowed on the way up to Chairlift and it still has its appeal?

"There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year."

Interesting to hear that, I thought SSDT and pre-65 chat on TC was absolutely dead last year and didn't seem to be much on the SSDT site either.

I rather assumed it was all taking place on one of them new-fangled Twitter things or something?. Funny, but I also thought the events themselves seemed pretty low-key and lacking much of the old atmosphere.

looking for rear number plates for the ssdt.i can only find the ones with the plastic brackets( some last some dont) is anyone selling lightweight metal ones ?

Hi,

To help generate some SSDT chat - how about a puzzle picture to solve.

Photographed by Jack Knoops in 2010 at the Pre-65 Scottish is rider number 56, which the entry list clearly identifies as Colin Bailey from Whitby on a Trifield 500.

The bike is clearly an HT5 or HT3 Ariel, so is it a swop of bike, or a swop of rider and bike?

We want to use the photograph (without the watermark) in a major feature on the Pre-65 Scottish in forthcoming ORRe digital magazines - but we only use accurate images (that is complete with correct captions), so please can anyone solve the problem, 'cos if we are not sure of the correct identification - we don't use it..............

Thanks in advance for your help,

Deryk Wylde

Always enjoy a puzzle... a quick google search finds that Colin does ride an Ariel at times. Not definitive proof but another piece for your puzzle .

Colin Bailey muscled his Ariel round to beat the little maestro of the 1970s and ’80s, Brian Johnson, by three marks.

Jack Peace cleaned up in the youth intermediate category while siblings Zac and Claire Collinson took the youth B and D class wins.

The event was used to raise funds for Comic Relief.

Expert: Andy Chilton (Beta uk.com) 9, Ollie Kendra (Gas Gas) 22, Josh Sprintall (Gas Gas) 63.

Intermediate: Isaac Gale (Beta) 33.

Clubman A: Shane Monkman (Gas Gas) 9, Ben Myers (Sherco) 17, Mark Cameron ( Sherco) 19.

Clubman B: Colin Bailey (Ariel) 14, Brian Johnson (Sherco) 17, James Wainwright (Beta) 19.

From this article: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/speedway/whitby-trials-ace-andy-chilton-3665460

Edited April 3, 201511 yr by michael_t

Another piece fro you puzzle from the Arial owners forum...

Competitors are buzzing all over the place on their bikes as, with 181 starters, it can take a couple of hours to get everyone away. Here No 84 – Colin Bailey from Whitby heads to the start on his ‘HT’.

Hi Guy's.

Hi Deryk.

The fork yokes look like modified, TY 250 Yamaha to me? the complete forks may be fitted inside the Norton? sliders.

Did you know that 38mm fork stansions will fit directly into Norton sliders without the need for the expense of say £500 to have 35 mm fitted?

But that would not be right would it? But I do know of one that had 38mm under the gaiters. and it makes a lot more sense now that every thing else is covered up?

Regards Charlie.