Andy

Spotted in Spain. Bloody made me jump.

We'll be fenced off, admittance by wristband only, policed by on-site security. I think our bread rolls will be secure! Same fun and laugh we had last year with overall the same folk. Just taking advantage of the security offered by the organisers to ensure it is TC folk who are there and to prevent the freeloaders and thieves.

Worry ye not. That is in hand.

Applications to attend this event are now closed. I'll contact all those who signed up within the next couple of days to get addresses to send wristbands out to. We're looking at around 250 people from forum posters plus established forum lurkers who don't post and site sponsors. That is the ideal number in my opinion. A great chance for you all to get together, but not an excessive number. We've some great plans which will be communicated to you and I look forward to seeing you there. If you've missed all this and want to attend then email me immediately - andy AT trialscentral.com - The Trials Central get-together for 2006 WILL be fenced off and on-site security will be checking admittance. Unless I personally know you, turning up on the night will carry no weight!

Normally for sale adverts are not permitted in these forums. However, given this is a bit special and there is a good Pre-65 following on here who may not look at the Classified Ads that often the Ad will stand. I hope you find a good home for your kit.

I know there are a number of readers who don't check the front page too often. I have Hawkstone tickets (and a bit more!) up for grabs HERE

You can see video of it on this BBC page. Link about 2/3 down the screen.

HONDA RACING INFORMATION Weather: Sunny Temperature: 32 degrees American Honda's Jake Zemke celebrated the Honda Summit of Speed by putting the Honda CBR1000RR atop the Superbike podium with a convincing victory on the inaugural weekend of racing at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. "It's been a year and a half of hard work and the guys never stopped working and that's what paid off today," Zemke said after his third career AMA Superbike win. "Nobody's lost their drive or their motivation during the whole process. There were some long weekends last year and this year's been really good. Up until Saturday's race, there'd been a Honda on the box every race this season." Zemke set the tone for the weekend by challenging for the win on Saturday. The Californian was bumped out of the lead on the 15th of 21 laps, dropping from first to fourth. While fighting his way back to the front, Zemke crashed heavily into the dusty run-off on the 18th lap. Undeterred, he picked up his motorcycle and finished eighth, one spot behind teammate Miguel Duhamel. Duhamel struggled with a cold all weekend and also fought a front tire push that developed early in Saturday's race. Sunday's race was stopped on the ninth of 21 laps when corner workers suspected oil on the track. Zemke was second at the time after his team had worked hard to replicate the Honda CBR1000RR he'd ridden to such good effect for most of Saturday's race. On the re-start Zemke slotted into third, moving to second lap 15, then into the lead two laps later with a draft-pass into turn one. The advantage over second-placed Mat Mladin (Suz) grew quickly and topped out at 4.134 seconds after 21 laps of racing. Behind second-placed Mladin came Saturday's winner, Ben Spies, in third. Fourth went to a determined Duhamel. Still not 100% physically, Duhamel fought back after being passed by Tommy Hayden (Kaw) on the final lap and came within just over a second of joining teammate Zemke on the podium. Jake Zemke 8th Saturday, 1st Sunday Saturday: Mat got inside me going up into the little 'S' section up there-his entrance line was really tight-and I had already turned in from the outside and I was online to make the corner and we hit pretty good and it pretty much knocked me right off the track and he went all the way to the edge of the track and that let (Ben) Spies go by us both and from then on I was just trying to play catch up and we kept getting these lappers. I finally had one lap of clear track and I closed quite a bit on those guys and then I just lost the front right on the seam going in there, right where the pavement seam is there is a little bit of a dip right there and I was pushing too hard on the front. It's funny, because at the start of that lap I told myself, 'OK, don't push too hard on the front, because I knew the thing was already just a little bit greasy.' And I pushed too hard on the front. I wasn't going to settle for anything but being on the podium, I mean, realistically, we had a great shot at winning that race. Sunday: I just tried to do what I was wanting to do yesterday which was just wait until the last five laps and really put my head down and try to make a break and today it worked. Luckily, I was able to run a couple of quick laps there and get away from Mat (Mladin) just a bit and that's all she wrote. Then I could back it down a little bit and just bring it on home. We've come a long way in a short amount of time. It's definitely worth all the hard effort that we put in to have a package like we had this whole weekend, that we can go out there and race heads-up with these guys and ride the wheels off the thing and that's what we were able to do today and that was a great race. Miguel Duhamel 7th Saturday, 4th Sunday Saturday: I think I've seen the worst of it today. I think I'll be better tomorrow. But yeah, just coughing and sneezing, you know the usual coughs. I haven't had a cold in years so, you know, I guess I was due. Well, we got a really good start. And the bike's working decent and we had a little bit of uh, I suspect it is a front-brake dragging problem, and in turn three I lost the front when I was turning with those guys in the beginning there. I was hanging in there with Ben (Bostrom) and I was like, 'Okay, not too bad.' And then coming down the chicane, I lost the front there again. I mean you tuck the front just so many times and you go, 'Hey, that was a warning and you just gotta back off.' Sunday: For the longest time I could see Mat (Mladin) and Jake (Zemke) and Ben (Spies); they were not that far off. Just that little mistake going down the chicane in the back and I lost a bit of confidence and got a little cautious and they put the gap on me and I was trying to stay there. And in the middle of the race I almost forgot what I was doing out there. My head, seriously I was going through corners, going, 'You've got to concentrate.' But anyway, I was keeping Ben (Spies) in sight and finally I said, 'Let's just go for it,' and I tried to catch Ben. In the last lap I wanted to lead deep into turn one-I didn't think anybody could pass me there-but I went extra-deep because I knew I could make some cheap time on probably Spies, and I was kind of hoping to get him towards the end, but I went wide, hit the cracks, lost the front, saved it with the knee. Sunday Superbike: 1. Jake Zemke (Honda) 2. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 3. Ben Spies (Suzuki) 4. Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 5. Tommy Hayden (Kawasaki) 6. Neil Hodgson (Ducati) 7. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 8. Jason Pridmore (Suzuki) 9. Steve Rapp (Suzuki) 10. Matt Lynn (Suzuki) Saturday Superbike: 1. Ben Spies (Suzuki) 2. Mat Mladin (Suzuki) 3. Ben Bostrom (Ducati) 4. Neil Hodgson (Ducati) 5. Tommy Hayden (Kawasaki) 6. Aaron Yates (Suzuki) 7. Miguel Duhamel (Honda) 8. Jake Zemke (Honda) 9. Jason Pridmore (Suzuki) 10. Jake Holden (Suzuki) Championship Standings: 1. Ben Spies (388) 2. Mat Mladin (367) 3. Miguel Duhamel (302) 4. Neil Hodgson (288) 5. Aaron Yates (278) 6. Jake Zemke (273) 7. Tommy Hayden (272) 8. Ben Bostrom (244) 9. Jason Pridmore (237) 10. Steve Rapp (205)

CAS Honda rider Josh Coppins produced a startling return to World Championship action today at a warm and atmospheric Matterley Basin for the British Grand Prix. The eighth round of the season initiated the second half of the 2006 campaign and a rousing 39,000 crowd cheered Stefan Everts, Kevin Strijbos and Coppins to the podium. The Matterley Basin circuit was long, elongated and dry as the usually unreliable English weather had in fact been cooking the terrain for the past two weeks and planning restrictions meant that the track had to be hastily constructed in seven days. The layout divided opinion inside the paddock with some commenting negatively on the course

Your lovemaking was not the kind of noise I had in mind

Nah, you're okay. The plan is to collect the wristbands shortly. Once I have them I'll contact each of you for an address to send them out to. For this to happen, it is essential your registered email address on these forums is correct. If you've changed email since registering them please check it and update if required as I don't have time to chase folk if their contact details are wrong! A few have contacted me about camping in the vicinity of the Trials Central tent. This may be possible, but bear in mind it may involve noise late at night. If you still want to camp close then reply to this topic with number/type of vehicles and the number of tents.

In perfect conditions, before a crowd of 107,000 sun-baked race fans, the seventh race of this year

Now I'm in the clear I can tell the story... When I'm abroad I tend to carry my passport everywhere with me. Japan was no different. I didn't fly directly home from Japan, but went via London for a three day meeting - hence I wasn't wearing the same clothes when I did finally get home. I got home, unpacked and did the obligatory post-trip loads of washing last Sunday. On unloading the washing machine I thought "Hmmm....what's that purplish lump of papier-mache at the back?" That lump turned out to be what was left of my passport. Now, given I'm off to the World Round in France next weekend and knew I was away on business again this week, this was not seen as a positive sign and much swearing was heard in Trials Central Towers. Monday morning I phoned the passport helpline. They'll do a same day service for new passports, but not for replacements (what's that all about then - they already have all my details!) Quickest I could get one was the Fast-track one week service, but you have to make an appointment and attend in person to make the application. My nearest office is Glasgow (about half an hour away). The first appointment they had was Wednesday next week. Not good when you fly two days later. Alternatives? The Durham Office had appointments from Wednesday this week onwards. With nothing in the diary for Wednesday the clutching at straws began. I went to my local post office to pick up the forms. "Can't help you. you need to go to a MAIN Post Office". Found one in Edinburgh, got the forms and then "S*** - where the hell do I find a photo booth?" Thanks to a colleague one was found in a supermarket in Edinburgh and the forms completed. Wednesday morning the 320 mile round trip was made to Durham (which was a blast on the back roads down through the Borders ) and the application done! I'm amazed they turned it round so quickly, but the replacement passport was waiting for me when I got home tonight - two days later. For those going to France, I'll see you for a beer. That doesn't include Dom or Jake the supergrass

Let me guess - you read that in the Sun? S'okay - if you play like you played last night we won't have long to wait

That's me just back from Londonshire. Real life job getting in the way again. I've a few news applications to do and will get them done over the weekend, but for now it's time

I do know that Jake is currently tied up with the MotoCross GP this weekend. Don't worry about tickets. You WILL get them.

Banned!

The rear end featured is one "Keyra Augustina" - considered by many as the best backside on the web. More on Wikipedia. I, obviously, stumbled across her totally by accident whilst researching "August" on the Interweb as part of my hobby researching months. Honest guv.

Nothing received...

I was driven to drugs by muppets that forget passwords!

I've realised I've three world rounds on the trot coming up plus a real life job to hold down. If anybody else wants wristbands for this speak now or prepare to gaze at us having fun through the fence! I'll be calling last orders at the end of the week so I've plenty time to sort things.

Please do. I have photos.

It's being held in La Chatre on Sunday 25th June. There's a European Championship Round the previous day. Airports: Limoges: 110km Clermont Ferrand: 150km Tours: 150km Paris-Orly: 280km Tourist Information: Office de Tourisme du Pays de George Sand Tel: +33 (0) 254 482264 Email: ot-chatre@pactlachatre.com Hotels: Le Notre Dame Tel: +33 (0) 254 480114 Le Lion D'Argent Tel: +33 (0) 254 48169 Le Commerce Tel: +33 (0) 254 480025 Le Chopin Tel: +33 (0) 254 484308 La Maison Blanche Tel: +33 (0) 254 485181 Le Paradis Breton Tel: +33 (0) 254 480287 Thank you for using Trials Central tourism services. Have a nice day

I have a two day meeting in Reading next week on Thursday/Friday. We're knocking off early on Thursday so we can go to the pub and my colleagues can shout Engerland. I've found a shop in Glasgow that sells Trinidad & Tobago tops. Guess where I'm going tomorrow?

Note to self: Whiz x 4