rob214

i'm interested also, so far it seems a bit beyond my $$$ reach. if i save and don't get a new bike in the future maybe. but i would love to give up glasses. rob

doesn't make sense to me really hydro planeing would mean losing traction and sliding so what difference would it make if the drive tires went faster they don't have any traction to contribute to anything once the thing starts going?

you really think the top mx'ers don't do ex is because there afraid to be beat? i'm sorry but a 40 year old EX motocrosser won the event. how about the fact that they make a living riding mx and sx and a one off ex race does what for them?

enduro cross = boring, supercross one man show? what about the mcgrath era? for me as an ex racer supercross was about jumping and show and not racing. people (fans) like big air, crashes and rock concert atmosphere. i respect the guys who ride enduro it's a tough race but like trials not very spectator friendly. the big draw to enduro cross from my view of crowd reaction was the crashing. also the guy who one john dowd a 40 year old washed up mx'er. i used to really like that guy when he raced mx and sx, a real down to earth guy. rob

check out the video of will thats his backyard rob

sorry not much trials stuff in mobile, i think there are only 2 guys that live in mobile that ride trials. hooters not much for food but lots of eye candy. rob

it usually helps to be smarter than the piece that your working on. rob

that was me, how have you been? i did a few events this year and hope to do more in 07. hope to see you rob

6.5 to the cloeset one and about 9 or 10 hours is the farthest i'll drive for a weekend event. talk about burtal i've actually gotten home just in time to shower and go to work monday. but down here in the swamps we don't have rocks or hills so i really love the chance to ride so many great places

one thing i try and tell the planners is to look at the dates of other sporting events. fisrt it helps travelers, it's hard to find a hotel if a big game is going on. 2nd i got stuck in traffic for over 6 hours while traveling back to LA when we came up to the nascar talladega traffic. that was horrible. also i like some others try to go to other sporting events. putting a big trials event in close to other stuff makes me decide between the 2. i plan on going to the f1 gp in indy every year and would love to go to ttc for the world round or even the national but i can only do so many things. and the f1 race is only once a year. just some things to consider, may help may not.

nope, lower, new orleans. also i can understand the time thing from both sides how many of us travel that far to ride an event. it was funny when we did the first hattisburg event everyone was talking about how far that was to travel and i was like hey 2 more hours farther south from here and you would be at my house. i can also see that if i was only 2 hours from every trials i wouldn't care what time it was over because i know i would still get home at a decent time. so should the time and events be geared to a few of us that make the journey? i guess the votes show it. i hope at this point to make many more events in 07 than i have in the last 2 or 3. i hope my knees hold up because i'm really looking forward to riding.

alan i do ride the stra events also, i know most of the land and trails very well. i even helped tony layout some of the original ttc trails up to the big waterfall. i also love riding long trails, but i am capable of cutting off trail when i need to get home and not missing a section. the average drive time to and event for me is 7.5 hours so on sunday i'm usually going home before most people finish their last loop. i hardly ever make it to the awards give away on sunday even if i'm lucky enough to get one. if i can't cut trail i just ride faster and i love that part. i wish the stra would tighten up the finish times for sunday events but i understand and do love the laid back casual way in which the stra is run. i feel we have the best culb in the nation and our time line for events lend themselves very well with the freindly casual atmosphere in the club. most everyone is laid back happy go lucky having a good time attitude.

please forgive my sarcasm, if you eally read my response you see i like to ride long loops. that whole 4 or 5 hours of riding thing?

all very funny stuff, but clover leaf do you think i would really ride the loop instead of just cutting across? also no offense to anyone but other than the top level riders, trials is really boring. other than an occasional crash or the rare really cool move trials is not fun to watch for the average person. it doesn't even make sense to them when you try to explain the rules. i don't really like watching guys in my own class because i see how we really look. the average trials rider (in the us) is probably middle aged and used to be a good athelete but now just likes to ride and have a good time. trails is more about what the rider experiances in the day than what makes good spectating motorsports. it's slow, one rider at a time, no big air. fancy moves and hard to figure out why they got the points they did. i even have trouble with the last one. i love riding trials it puts me and my bike against the toughest terran i can attempt and it challenges my limited skills, i love riding in the woods for 4 or 5 hours it's my stress relief from life. but fun to watch me ride i doubt. i wouldn't go walk the woods to watch me ride. watching the top dogs? sure thats cool but only 30 guys in the world ride like that. how about one section that we ride all day long right next to where we park our trucks we could bbq and have lunch waiting for our turn and the wife and kids wouldn't have to walk through the woods. we could all ride and watch every rider and learn and challenge ourselves with a little peer pressure, we could have a live band, stadium trials without the stadium. even a PA to let us know who the rider is and what score he got.

http://www.dnainternet.fi/pelit/english/ this is the one i found rob

you don't need to hear the bike you need to feel it. sure sound helps but if you think sound is the only way to know what your bike is doing your missing out on extra clues to what's acutually happening, especially for mx. trials is a quite sport by comparison and racing mx sometimes you can't even hear your own bike anyway. rob

if you can't wheelie then how can you acuralty place the front wheel for steps zaps and so on? no matter what the advanced move may be it's only throught the perfection of basic riding skills that they can be accomplished. rob

high got married low hurt my knee and can't ride micheal schumacher retired and now i have to listen to kimi mumble very low alonso won the title

this happens a lot with trials, i have to watch the nascar season because i can't go north in alabama if there is a talladaga race it just shuts down access and worse i can't get home. also the supercross season the alms and formula one, i've had to choose which one to do because of the conflics. i sometimes feel i'm the only trials rider that has other interest. i've been dying to go to the barber museum, i've been to 3 races there and havn't been able to get in to see it yet. rob

knock on wood i havn't forgot the anneversary thing yet, but my question to any and who may need this in their defense but when did it become only her anniversary? it's both people's and shouldn't be a secret and a weapon to go ha ha got you you forgetfull slime ball. anyway i hope i never forget. plus her bday is on valetines day so i get plenty of warning with all the stores on the planet advertising. rob

if you get it sorted please fill us in so we can be on the lookout for similar problems rob

make sure air fliter is clean and oiled properly to much filter oil and it will muck up the plug. and check your silencer packing, make sure no air leaks in exhaust or intake from begining to end. things i would try - put new plug each time, start and let idle for a few minutes then check plug, run low throttle then kill check plug, then run high speed pass then kill and check plug. also see if you can get the wiring info and test all componets to make sure or if you have a friend with the same bike swap out one piece at a time and try and locate the problem child that way. just trying to offer up some things to check before you throw down money. hope you get it sorted rob

sounds like a carb problem, i only changes plug becasue i think it's time to. unless you have a problem that really leads you to believe that it's the ignition, but if a plug change makes it work awhile then it's probably not the ignition. what color is the electrode when you take out the plug?

put bike in garage after ride next saturday fill with fuel check tire pressure spray chain wax load bike drive to riding area ride 4 hours return home repeat process once a month i do check over bike and do whatever needs to be done. tranny, filter, check nut's bolt's etc. i may actually wash it from time to time. my climate and riding area doesn't really mess up my bike or get it dirty really. mostly just dusty. rob

if they are so worried about that problem then why don't they all ride bicycles or walk or come up with something else. but if those lawers drove in their own cars or in any fossil fuel buring vechicle ever then it should be thrown out and i mean them out the window of the highest building in la. but i have to go and sue HP because their key board makes me type badly and i'm unable to structure sentences properly.