Andy

How about "Beave's Bull"? I could easily do so if that's what you guys wanted. A kind of "flame Pit"

That Cota Kid is a bad influence. :thumbup: You guys were lucky actually. Behind the building where the indoor section was, I found a pile of "Police Line - Do Not Cross" marker tape. I took a wad of it planning to tape up your bedroom door. Fortunately for you we had no sellotape On another note, I found out some news on Sunday night that is going to devastate r2w - Bou has a girlfriend! Sorry mate, but it's best to find out now before you start making wedding plans

I'm not so sure about the autograph, but thanks for your kind words Joe I'd be happy to meet up for a As for you r2.... BTW, interesting out of the 50 or so entries for Portugal in so far, only 3 people think Bou can do it again opposed to the 34 who think Raga will bounce back.

First Round results now published and entries open for round 2

Well I looked for the Cota Kid last night. Round about 9pm it was and was told by the Scarborough boys he'd gone to bed. Must be some kind of girl who can't handle his beer BTW - Steve/Shaun - don't have your email addresses, but since I can't make your Youth rounds, I'm definitely up for the two-day providing it doesn't clash with a world round. Drop me a line - andy AT trialscentral.com.

I got home from the world round at 8:15pm tonight and have shedloads of catch-up to do with stuff from the weekend. With almost 200 entries to this competition it's going to take me a bit of time to process everything and work things out. I'll try and get it done tomorrow night, but it's probably going to be Wednesday before I sort through all the entries and work out scores. If it's successful (which it looks like it's going to be by the number of entries!) then I'll automate it for next year, but the idea was a last-minute thought I had so it's worked out manually for the time being. Don't worry - I've got all the entries and wilol go through them. Just going to take a bit of time to do so.

We're in the Mirimar Hotel. Hope your travels are less uneventful than mine!

Despite the hellish walk across the moor in the driving rain and knee-deep mud, I'm glad I did it. I was really pleased with the photos. With the white water and barren backdrop they looked great and, in my opinion, showed the Scottish as it should be shown. I'd do the walk again, no question. PS. I'm even more glad that I stopped at an outdoor shop in Glencoe en route and got myself some heavier waterproofs!

Why bother? If it's not raining, it's snowing

No. He's my website bitch I meant my World Championship bitch

Fly out Thursday morning (and with the way work is at the moment I'll be bloody glad to get away for a few days!) No idea where I'm going or where we're staying, but my bitch will sort all that out See you out there.

I'm not aware of anybody in that specific area, but Garry at Highland Leisure Sport is building himself a pretty good reputation in Scotland and may do mail order. Link

Must have been deleted by Ishy himself. It certainly wasn't deleted by me, nor would any moderator have done so. I back him 100% on this one. If you cheat (and I've seen it) then the only person you're cheating is yourself. Yeah, we take the **** out of Kinell, but he finished that Trial fair and square. He can be proud of his finishers award. How could you be proud of finishing knowing that you cheated? It's beyond me, but I know there are folk out there who do.

The season

I don't have a problem with "carb", but text talk is a no-no. Because a) it's lazy and B ) the terms and conditions of use of these forums - which you agreed to when you signed up - clearly state that text talk is not permitted. A copy of the terms and conditions of use can be found here

Try here.

You forgot the linky!

Watching this as it's an interesting topic. To me... Retired = Unable physically or mechanically to further compete in the event. Withdrawn = It was not in the spirit or interest of the event to continue or there were sufficient complaints to justify a withdrawal. Not the same thing - not by a long shot. I think he did what he felt was right and withdrew his lad. The lad did not retire. He withdrew under pressure. Whether he should have been riding that class or not is an entirely different argument.

That's what happened in '04! Enjoyed myself in the morning. The afternoon was bloody miserable. BTW, full results now up on front page. Click me

Your report is on the front page now. I've got your application to post news, but am up to my ears in migrating websites to new hardware. It may be a week or so before I get round to sorting it out. Thanks for the report

I've got full results and they'll be front page shortly - Monday night is always a busy night. No photos (well not from me anyway). I had the joys of 15 hours of moving websites yesterday due to losing Saturday How was the weather yesterday?

Yes. They'll go on the front page tonight. Results - A Route: Gary McDonald-5, Gavin Johnstone-27, Gary Kennedy-30, Roger Mount-35, Neil Dawson-38, Grant Adamson-43, Non expert- J. McDougal-61, Novice - S. Boyd-125. Results - B Route: Daren Chalmers-12, Ian McPhail-19, Tony Cook-24, Alastair Milligan-25, G. Murray-28, G. McIntosh-29, Novice- C. Stewart-73.

Blimey. From Scotland to the US in a week. I'm impressed! Thanks for your kind words

If anybody else was, like me, taken by the backing music, it's The Church - Under The Milky Way Tonight. Never heard it before, but it's a great track so Googled a bit. Got a kinda Beloved ring to it. The Aussies seem great at pulling these retro bands out of the hat at big events. Seeing Midnight Oil doing Beds Are Burning at the closing of the 2000 Sydney Olympics was awesome. And as a bonus they even gave us Kylie

Cool That'll be something to tell the grandkids!