Andy

You're like me - Clearly spend FAR to much time on the Interweb

Of course Dabster's going to deny it. He doesn't want anyone to know how he REALLY arrived on this planet

I've not seen him about for a while, but Martin has been known to post on these forums

And she calls ME grumpy!

He's bought a Beta that's "been in the wars and has the scars to prove it". That's GOT to be an ex-Kinell bike

Fancy doing a wee diary for Trials Central? Might get rid of that grumpy old man image

For those in Scotland who know him, Iain Shankie was to be riding this. Gutted for him as he was really looking forward to it

Blimey. Even I didn't hear of that one coming! Good luck to the lad. TTT are a great Team and Michael Brown has a bit of experience I'm sure he'll be happy to share. Hope the lad likes Pasta

There was a guy there from a local TV station, but I think that was just for local news. I really don't think Sheffield will appear on SKY. The paying for video has raised a few questions. Let me explain why it's in place as it's not about making loads of dosh. I picked the wrong sport to ever do that! Trials Central on an average day uses roughly 3GB of bandwidth. In the three days since putting the Sheffield 2007 videos online Trials Central has used over 40GB of bandwidth - and that's just from registered Supporters. If I was to open all photo and video content to the masses, that 40GB would multiply at least 100-fold. Firstly, that would cause the server to grind to a halt making it unavailable to anybody and secondly the bandwidth costs (I have a monthly allowance then have to pay per GB over that) could never be met - not even by the very valuable contribution made by TC Supporters. I would have to close the site - and I'm not kidding on that. The penalties for exceeding bandwidth limits are costly. Whilst not as important, on top of that, I know that if it was all public and free it would be leeched by sites all over the world, the credit screens stripped out and all videos posted on YouTube etc with no links or credits to Trials Central and photos appearing everywhere, again uncredited. That's not really fair when it's myself and Trials Central users who do all the work and we all do it for the good of this site and the sport. So, the Supporters thing is deliberately a small amount, but is mostly there to seperate the real enthusiasts from the file leechers whilst protecting the efforts made by both myself and those who help contribute and every penny is added to the fund for the cost of getting to and covering events, TC beer fund at Hawkstone etc. On another note, I've just done a quick check as it's not just about Sheffield 2007. Supporters have access to the full archive of Supporters content, not just the stuff from the day they join. There's 3.8GB of Supporters content currently online, both photos and video from 2006 onwards covering SSDT, Pre-65, World Championship, European Championship, British Championship at Kinlochleven and TdN. The site is a hobby and not a business, but the Supporters scheme helps keep things going whilst keeping the bandwidth usage restricted to those who really want the additional content and keeping the bandwidth costs under control. Hope that explains why things are the way they are

One of the major criticisms of Trials Central when I ran the user satisfaction survey last year was the amount of off-topic stuff that appeared in the bike-specific Forums. Whilst it is blatantly clear that you two are in love and I have absolutely no objection to homosexuality as long as you don't touch each other's bottoms in my presence, I would prefer if you kept your courtship to personal message...

Thanks for the compliment, but you should leave my name out. Kinell did the videoing and AtomAnt did the editing (it all got a bit complex with new video camera and windows problems resulting in loads of emails flying about!) All I did was create the links and publish them. The real work was done by Brian and Ian.

When is it this year? Might take another jaunt down.

Dougie was contracted to Montesa until 31/12/2007. As of today, 01/01/2008 he is now contracted to Beta. However anyone with any common sense will know that neither him, nor Beta will be taking the time out to do a photoshoot on New Years Day, let alone have his press machine do releases. This is a ridiculous topic.

Video coverage has now been added to the front page article

He knew nothing about it till I emailed him Friday night - then he told me I was "nuts" However, he has no choice as Sandifords have been paid so, nuts or not he either spends it or Caroline keeps it!

Since not everybody reads the front page, it is all explained here - and yes. A very worthy winner. The question now remains as to who will take up the challenge for 2008...

We have a cunning masterplan for Jake. It's roughly based on the old trick of dangling a carrot in front of a donkey. We are to attach a fishing rod to his helmet and dangle a pie in front of him. We are convinced this will make him faster across the moors than any man in SSDT history

Engine mappings. They can change them on the fly.

what makes you so certain Dougie is going to win when the name JAKE MILLER is on the list?

I will have photos online shortly. They're uploading now, but video takes a lot more time to edit down. I wouldn't expect that till tomorrow at the absolute earliest.

I'll try, but nobody will ever beat the Belfast Indoor for quality of scorecard girls

Once again, Trials Central will be there so expect extensive coverage of this event with shedloads of photos on Sunday and with no restrictions on videoing as it is not a World Championship event, we will once more be bringing tons of video coverage (TC Supporters only) Last year we published over an hour of video coverage from this event

Not going to happen for the same reason we don't have areas of the forums dedicated to practice areas. Those sorts of things are best kept quiet or they fast become abused.

And your point is?