Andy

Not this year. Ed sheeran this weekend the young hipster that I am

If I did a username of the month award...

Popped up on the TC instagram feed. Some amazing scenery (and thanks for not having the usual banging techno music)

Now up on the SSDT Website

I should have the routes later this week and they'll be published on the SSDT site straight away (well after I've dicked about for ages getting the various pages put together). The whole week will be published at once and a week in advance of the Trial.

BTW, I've put a story on this on the SSDT site.

There are two relay teams competing, both in aid of charities.

After a few queries as to how to edit/delete a Classified Advert, it's apparent it's not obvious how to do this. Towards the bottom left of the advert page you will see an "Advert Actions" dropdown menu. In there you can edit/delete etc. It's on my to-do list to make this more prominent.

It's hard to say until the routes are out, but you'll find at least one spot every day you can get to without too much hassle. Most of the popular sections are easy to get to, but you may have to park a bit away depending on when you get there. The programme is normally pretty good at telling you where to go. On the subject of routes, last year each day's route was published on the SSDT website on the morning of that day. It was a bad idea which I have to take the blame for as it made it hard for those heading up through the week in planning their trip and deciding where to go. It won't be repeated this year.

Just received from FIM... Despite the intention of the FIM and 2Play to add a new date to the FIM X-Trial World Championship calendar to replace the cancelled X-Trial Seville, this has not been found possible. As a result, the calendar is reduced to seven events, rather than the eight initially anticipated. With two rounds remaining, the gap of points regarding the second rider in the standings and the fact that the regulations discard the worst result of the season, this therefore means Toni Bou has achieved his twelfth consecutive FIM X-Trial world title. The Championship continues tonight with X-Trial Paris and concludes with X-Trial Budapest on the 29 March.

Literally just fixed that

T'is the season for me buggering about with things. I've been doing some more work, but deep under the hood this time and site-wide, not just forums. If there's anything you spot that's not working, or if you get a white screen trying to access any part of the site, please reply here and let me know.

Confirmed he will ride here

You can pay people to shut up on social media? I can think of a few who could benefit from that

One of the best ways to read the TC Forums is via the Activity feed. Using this allows you to pick out the bits that interest you and quickly skip over or exclude those that don't. If you're a user of "social media" then you can liken this to your news feed, but with one big difference - There aren't any robots or fancy algorithms deciding what you see and you don't get presented with a load of irrelevant bollocks that's of zero interest. YOU control what appears and it's easily customised. To access the activity feed, head for the Unread Content link towards the upper right of the main forum index: The first screen is pretty straightforward, but the white selection bar at the top is important. By default the activity feed will show you all activity, but using this menu bar you can select exactly what you want (or don't want) to appear in your feed. Don't want to see Ads from the Classifieds? Simple - just select "Content Types" then tick all the boxes apart from the one for Adverts. Once customised, you need to save the feed settings so it remembers them for future visits: It's all dead simple and can be changed at any time.

I'm starting to think there's far too much pish being posted recently...

Pat came over and rode in the Youth Championship in 2007.He did very well, but didn't take to life in Europe. A shame as he could have gone far, but no point in doing it if you're not happy.

Toni Bou in 2020

TC Supporters bit now fixed.

FIM make Back Protectors mandatory - but not till next year

Which you can now do without even leaving the forums. Just head for classifieds in the top menu bar ?

I've taken the TC Supporter options offline until I get to the bottom of some issues with it.

Okay, I think I'm about ready for the new bits to be tried New method for managing TC Supporter account available from top menu bar. As far as I'm aware all TC Supporters have been recreated under the new system with the correct expiry dates, but the old one was in a bit of a mess. Anyone who thinks they should be a TC Supporter, but are not showing as such, use the Support link in the menu to let me know and I'll check it out. New Classifieds System in and again accessible from the menu bar. I still have to tidy it a bit cosmetically, but it's hard to do that with no Ads in it. I'll leave both Classified systems running for a week or so before switching the old one off. Note that Ads on the old system will NOT be migrated across. No automatic way of doing it and far too much work to do it manually. Oh, and the Classifieds can only handle British Pounds currency at the moment. I'm still scratching my head over fixing that one. Part of the functionality now includes a method for dealing with and tracking Support requests so I'll give that a try. Issues with the new features or anything else forum related, use the Support link in the menu bar. Please do not use it for "Where can I get xxxx for my bike?", "Where can I ride?" etc etc. I get enough of that by email.