Andy

You know the rules. No Text Tal.... oh it isn't

Ish - any chance of a few photos and a wee story on this? Be a cool story to cover and give Jim a bit of publicity.

And Kinell shows exactly the way to put a SCOTSMAN off an idea... Allegedly a MENSA member too

I'm toying with the idea of a "Backing Dougie For Eight" campaign on the site. I normally like to focus on Trials Central being International - and it is - but the majority of traffic is from the UK and the US. The US have no world contenders right now so I'm not going to upset anybody there by showing a little national bias. The remaining traffic is marginal and split globally. It's a bit tabloid-ish, but what the hell. Very easy to set up - a "send your messages to Dougie" page. I get messages before each world round, print them out and deliver to Team Lampkin. Motivational for the guy, almost zero hassle for me and cool for folk to know the message they've sent will actually be delivered.

The word "OWNED" springs to mind!

That could possibly be arranged as long as you two don't do any kissing or canoodling in front of me.

tc is really starting to expand and become very big. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tell me about it!

Working on results for front page now - thanks

You're kidding! "his chances for achieving a place in the final were nearly fade away" I'll stick to writing my own based on the results!

You were online then disappeared when the results came out. Doing anything special?

Wonder how long it will be before the Gas Gas protests go in about this "guest rider"? Bou doing this is not only helping his own cause, but helping Cabestany a lot too.

Confirmed: Results: Final 1: Bou 9, 2: Cabestany 23, 3: Raga 25 Heat Qualifiers: 1: Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas) 6 (faster time),, 2: Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco) 6, 3: Antonio Bou (SPA-Beta) 11, Non Qualifiers: 4: Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa-HRC) 15, 5: Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Gas Gas) 20, 6: Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Montesa-HRC) 26, 7: Shaun Morris (GBR-Gas Gas) 31 No official press release yet, but the Dougie one is in

Like rocking horse s***. It's impossible to get hold of a Dougie Montesa shirt. Many have tried and failed miserably. I wouldn't even try.

I'm not a rider, but even I know a crock when I see one!

Now Steve I could maybe arrange.

If you want a seven times World Champion, you get the seven times World Champion price tag! Dougie ain't cheap and has very limited time available for training. It *might* be possible to get a bit of a discount for one of the days of his annual summer schools, but I doubt it as they sell out at full price year after year.

I'll sign shirts no problem. What do you want? "With love to Gareth, Andy XXX"?

Training day with who? Trials Central have a great relationship with James Lampkin (Dougies's Minder) and one of the things I'm considering is a deal with him to provide training days with discounts for Trials Central Supporters.

Did '04 and loved it. First time I'd been in that neck of the woods. Great little hotel and a good venue. Would have definitely been there last year, but was at my folks after my Dad's stroke. Looking forward to my first outdoor coverage of 06 - champing at the bit!

Cota Kid would win. He'd just wear it on his next appearance on Booze Britain

I'll contact each of you by email once I have the stickers in stock. As far as competition prizes go, what sort of things would you like to see? There will, obviously, be the odd TC Shirt once I get them, but I was thinking of trying to get hold of some stuff that was a bit different - like using my trips to the World Rounds to get some shirts (A Japan or US world Round shirt would be something your mates wouldn't have!), or maybe a program from that event signed by the top three finishers - stuff like that that's a bit different from the norm. PS. I've updated the Member Map too to show Supporters.

They're literally in the process of being ordered! I spent a fair bit of time on this yesterday (when I should have been working ). I've had one quote of three back and should get the other two on Monday. I'll be ordering early next week. I'm taking a far more serious approach to publicity and marketing this year.

There's nothing stopping you posting links to them on other forums. What we've started doing with some of them is putting links to Trials Central at the start and end to add publicity.

Just booked meself into the rather nice Milburn Hotel in Rosedale Abbey. I'll be down to cover the Colonial next weekend. Hope it's warmer than it was in '04

Yup. You were indeed. You beat GIZZA5 by four minutes