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I thought it was a great metaphor! As for the E world champs, its a bit embarrassing. Kinda the same as the TT zero. That Yamaha is sickening. In a bad way. Surely there has to be some sort of homologation or production rules. Having cabestany there totally ruins it too IMO, how are smaller manufacturers supposed to compete against that. You have to gain interest at the start, make it a level playing field, keep budgets low, keep away riders that are capable of a top 5 in the WTC series. Kuroyama and Gubian are the maximum level of rider you want, not better, preferably lower. Realistically their entries will be coming from the lesser level rider, a total privateer on a standard EM or something similar. Putting them in the same class as that yamaha and albert is a joke. The TT zero went the same way, mugen killed the class! Biggest budget by a long way, and then they go and put mcguinness on it. Keep it simple, low level. Then when the numbers have grown, then you can make it ultra competitive. They are killing the class before it even has a chance to live. I could go on a whole other rant about Bous honda and production rules, but that's for another day

Depends if you want to wear knee protection. Out of the wrapper, trials trousers will have more padding than mx trousers, but if you're the kinda guy who wants to wear plastic or any form of knee pads as an extra then you will have to go mx, as there's no real room under trials trousers.

Once on a sherco I fitted bearings and actually knocked them in too hard with the spacer being marginally too long. This meant the spacer was pushing the inners races outwards. If I tried to turn one bearing both turned and they were both tight. This obviously wouldn't have helped their lifespan. I ended up taking a bit off the spacer and refitted. If the spacer isnt exactly the right length, whether it's too long or too short then axially loads are being introduced. Do you clean out the bearing seats to make sure there is no corrosion or dirt holding out the new bearings. Do you check the spacer is tight between the bearings but the bearings aren't pinched? I know a guy who installed bearings without the spacer and they didn't last a day so it has a large effect. When was hub design changed to accomodate bearing spacers?

100%. Most trials riders will go to the ends of the earth to dishonestly convince the observer that it was a clean. Once i rode a trial that they couldn't get enough observers so they left punches at the end cards for riders to mark themselves. There was so many riders on clean at the end it was ridiculous!

Don't worry, parliamentary diplomacy is something we understand this side of the water

This is a world championship! Theres 3 observers within 20 yards. I don't get away with as much in a full season of riding local summer trials!!

But he won't be able to say that he restored it! Too many guys around claiming they restored old bikes when all they did was bolt on things made or painted by other people. Do it yourself is what i say, much more satisfying, and sometimes because you take the extra care, can be better than what some so called professional does because he couldn't care less about your bike.

Its so obviously a 1 nevermind a 5 its painful! Where's the COC or officials or FIM delegate that follows all the good riders around?! Surely they should intervene here and overrule or perhaps tell the observer what he missed. Skip to 15.50 in the vid below to see another pretty obvious 5, but gets away with another clean. Yes its great riding, but he's goes back at least a foot

wow

Loris doesn't seem too happy at being dropped with no warning. Bit unfair seeing he is the reigning world champ and a lot more loyal to GG over the years than cabes ever was

Your logic is definitely flawed here. The factory wants to sell as many bikes as possible. There could be a few reasons the UK has them preferentially before the US. The fact any dealer whether they are in america or is is not able to obtain bikes is most likely due to production limits

They also pulled support from their factory enduro team. Ive thought for few years their enduro exploits must be very expensive, and possibly one of the main causes for their troubles. Development costs are probably higher than trials (with a bike largely unchanged since 2002 lol) yet their market share is a lot less in enduro as what they have in trials

Has anyone got anything more positive than what's floating around the rumour mill?

Sorry for the delay, here's the exact location on my 03 incase you decide to scrape the paint off and want to keep it to a minimum. I really wouldn't worry on the exact year however

Gasoline originated from Cazeline, a name generated by John Cassell an englishman who started selling it in London. The C was changed to a G to avoid violating the trademark by an irish competitor. So even the word gasoline originated in the UK. A company called Carless sold gasoline under the tradename 'petrol' in the mid 1800s but by the time petrol took off and they thought about registering it in the 30s the name had already permeated the public vocabulary, so were denied. Oh i hear ya, they sure do love butchering the english language ? As far as i know outside of the commonwealth and america its referred to as motor spirit.

You mean the british call gas petrol.... Americans call it gasoline, a name that was around before petrol and more correct, since "petrol" is actually a brand name That being said, gasoline is also a brand name ?

Im all for the qualifying, giving Bou consistently the final start position makes it even harder than it already is for the other riders

Maybe they need something to separate the fives, either the person who got the furthest point up to their five, or the fastest time to a five. Either may be rather hard to observe, or this type of situation may never arise again, it just seems a bit of a waste they end up resorting to the random start order.

My point wasn't in reference to the GP class at this event. I see that they all fived in both quali rounds. I was meaning in general, it seems the rules are changed for this year, where the best of two runs is taken, time and observation, and I don't think I agree with it. I watched the video of Toby in his second run and thought at the time he didn't look he was trying 100%, now I know why, he had already qualified

I kind of disagree the way Toby won the qualifying, trials is about riding to the conditions at the present, taking a time from a previous qualification sounds wrong to me. I don't know of any other sport that a time set in a previous round trump's the time set in the final qualification run, could you imagine F1 doing something like that? This makes the rules out to be it's the best of your 2 rides, however if you five in the final qualification you can't use the clean in your previous ride? Have the quali rules changed this year, I'm sure this wasn't like this last year

Either they are cheap bearings or youre power washing water in. I actually find the fronts need changing more often on my gg. Mine last 6 months minimum. Ive also seen dealers knock bearings in cold and by hitting the inner race... Is your bearing spacer installed correctly?

Thats because they are using youngs modulus. If you look at tensile strength good quality alloys can be up to 3 times stronger than steel for the same mass

Its most likely because the raga is no longer the top level trs bike

The original frame numbers where hard to see in the chrome so if there's any thickness of paint it will be impossible to see. If you want to wait i can send a picture tomorrow of where exactly it is on my 03 and you can scrape some of the paint off ?

It all points to an 02 but i wouldn't worry too much 01-05 they only changed colours and stickers, MRS will know exactly what's compatible between the years