Andy

I've checked and you're not registered for events/news since the site was re-vamped. The calendar is FAR easier now and there are tutorials provided to help you. I'll PM you instructions on how to upgrade your account. The major change is the addition of Google maps. Makes it far easier for spectators and those interested to find where events are being held. Most of who? Most of who you see post here? TC is far more than a forum. I think forum regulars who come straight here for their daily fix sometimes forget that. Trials Central, across the entire site, gets an average 45,000 unique visitors a month. The majority, by far, are lurkers so there's no way of knowing who are riders and who are not. I think part of your problem is geographical. East Fife is not exactly noted for Trials (BTW, I'm in West Fife and it's no different at this end of the Kingdom) and there are a lack of outlets (e.g. dealers) where you can publicise your club. You're pretty much relying on word of mouth which just isn't going to work. How about using Crail Raceway to promote your club? No shortage of petrolheads, both two and four-wheeled, there. Get yourselves a wee gazebo, set up a couple of basic man-made sections (there are a number of topics on here with ideas for making home-made obstacles) around it and do some demos when they have events on and hand out flyers. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, just enough to get people interested - make the flyers play on how cheap Trials is compared to other forms of motorsport. Could also do events at Knockhill. It's not a million miles away from where you are and again, a captive audience. People will want to look at and know about "these funny bikes with no seats" as chances are most will have never seen a Trials bike before. Because of where your Club is, you can't sit and hope people find you, not in such a tiny sport. You have to get out there and publicise if you want to grow.

Do you put your events on the TC calendar? I don't recall any request from East Fife for publishing rights. I didn't realise how popular it was until there was a riot when it changed to the new calendar and all the old events disappeared.

Was wondering that myself. With the criteria given - inspect the day before, two day event, two laps per day, no walking the sections, no minder in section without permission, it could only be a world round.

Ben Hemmo is team manager

You could even get a world championship ride and with the way entries are declining, five every section and still be in the top 10 in the world

I love these little gems that pop up on here every so often. More people need to say they like this though, the man does have a FBG after all...

What position did Mairi Jenkins finish in then? ;o) (keep it clean boys....!) I'm not quite sure how TC supports this these days as we don't even have a curry since you moved in with the inner circle , but I'll PM you a code to put a premium Ad on trialsads.com

Topic moved AGAIN. Please post bike-specific topics in the relevant bike forum as per the bold, red text on the General forum ONLY START A TOPIC IN GENERAL TRIALS TALK IF THERE IS NOT A MORE SUITABLE FORUM. FOR BIKE-SPECIFIC QUERIES POST IN THE RELEVANT BIKE FORUM. FOR UK TOPICS, POST IN THE DEDICATED UK FORUMS

Why not? In all the years I've been shooting, from Club Trials to World Championship, not one rider has ever complained about the use of flash. It's somewhat of a necessary evil due to peaked helmets. Nothing worse than getting a nice shot and then finding the rider's face is in shadow.

Nowhere online. There will probably be a couple with a follow-up press story. Rest will be kept by G2F for future promo use. Might be able to get hold of what you want via them

It's really very easy. Click on More Reply Options. At the bottom of the text box there is Attach Files. Browse to the file you want, click Attach This File. Once it's uploaded there is a link appears to insert it in your post. That will put a little bit of code in the text box. Don't change or delete that. Add your Reply and photo added.

Use Full Reply rather than quick reply. Click on More Reply Options, bottom right. Attach file at bottom and simple. There are file size and dimension restrictions though I can't remember what they are.

We're about to launch our own TC range: The Kinell - Comes with Map Pocket and "If found, please return to..." label The Perce - Made of natual sheepskin The Dabster - Comes with assortment of water bottle-sized pockets The Moffat - Has extra deep pockets The Miller - Has "Ask me about my Weight loss" printed on the back

They already are. Came into force this year: "Motorcycles must be equipped with an operational cut-out switch and be connected through a lanyard to the rider (max. length - 1metre). Once the rider steps of (sic) the motorcycle, the lanyard must stop the engine from running."

Beat me to it. It was probably Picasa I mentioned in the past. Clicky

It's supposedly on Motors at 10:30am this Saturday (though it might be cancelled in favour of the Bolivian Tiddlywinks Championship). Hopefully they'll include the footage of the cameraman getting clobbered by Raga's bike. Seen it and scary stuff...

It's Raga's bike

More photos on front page now

First pic. More on front page soon, but currently working off a 3G connection

I see Ross is on the pre-entry list to ride Junior route this weekend. That list isn't always 100% correct, but it would be good to see him ride (and even better if he beat Pol)

Try it now. Have disabled the footer banner till I sort the zindexes out.

trialsads.com Even a paid-for Ad is only a quid!

No shortage of Trials to choose from in your area, all of which are listed on the events calendar on the front page of TC thanks to Gordon Imrie, Ask around for Ray Crinson and Hillary Little. Both are keen Trials photographers in that neck of the woods and will help keep you right.

Basically turn up and shoot. No permission required, though if you're a stranger and it's an event with children riding it would be best to approach the organisers first, such is modern society. Don't impede the riders and, probably more importantly, don't impede the observers line of sight (though they're not usually shy in telling you to move your bloody head!)