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Can anyone suggest/recommend someone to knock out some dents and repaint a Sherpa aluminium tank, 199 type. In the UK.

Am I missing something here?. As far as I know there is no living accomodation at the Rural Complex, so Fort William hotels and B&Bs would still get the usual SSDT trade, the cafes and restaurants will still feed the masses and the pubs still be dispensing fine ales to competitors. SSDT fans can still walk down the high street and find that everyone there is from the world of trials ( since the High Street is full of tartan tat, charity shops and takeaways the locals will all be off shopping as usual in Oban, Inverness or Glasgow). The only difference would be the location of the start and finish of the trial and since everyone has had to get to Fort William in the first place it stands to reason that everyone must have access to some form of transport. Can't see any real reason to move the location of the HQ either, bet Mairi would resist a move away from the sauna and sunlamps. From the local councils point of view a move might be the best of both worlds - having the SSDT cash spent as usual and freeing up the West End car park for ordinary tourists and coaches, and with recession biting there are noticeably more ordinary punters around this year. Understandably, a few posters are looking through their rose-tinted specs but the fact is that the days of huge local connections to "The Trials" are long gone.

Congratulations to Chips and Gavin. Pillars of the scottish trials scene for donkeys years and still able to mix it at the top level.

Another 199B.

Sorry, my mistake. There will NOT be a Lochaber trial in July this year.

And here's the entry form, couldn't get both on one post. gdentry.pdf

Yep. gdregs.pdf

Regs have been on the front page of Trials Central since 07/07/05.

Just got the paper copies from Lorna, it'll take a couple of nights to sort them out. Here's the C route. Jordy Hayes 22 Euan Allan 36 Lewis Corbett 52 Grant Coward 69 Duncan Macdonald 71 Tom Howie 83 John Ferguson 86 Jay Douglas 104 Daniel Young 106

A few photos from Invaders in the Gallery.

This event is a round of the Scottish Trials Championship for schoolpersons, over-40s and pre-65/twinshocks and takes place this year on the 22nd of May in Glen Nevis. (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE FROM USUAL). C & D classes will have their own course laid out and supervised by Peter Carmichael, all others will cross the river for 3 laps on the lower slopes of Ben Nevis, laid out by Mike Thouless and Donald Macsween. Regs should be available shortly (Andy willing) for download on TC or from the event secretary :- Lorna Dougan, 7 Rob Roy Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll, PH50 4RA. tel 07778581629 or email lochabertrials@msn.com Cheers, Mags.

Correction - the administration girls had the wine to excess as usual and caused mayhem with the worlds emails, also as usual.

Maybe I'm thick but I can't figure out how a perfectly sensible thread on public access issues and how they will increasingly affect trials has turned into a pretty bitter personal attack. Our club usually states that a competitor riding in the reverse direction of the course will be excluded, and very rightly so. The point I think trialscot is making is that do we or anyone else have any real authority to stop anyone else from riding their bikes on or near where we are running our trial. An obvious example that springs to mind is that if you go to almost any Inverness trial at Cannich you'll be dodging bikers and quad riders who have nothing to do with the event but are just there for a day out riding. I've seen a few near misses there but presumably it's a public bit of land and they can't be stopped?. BJ/idmcc sec ???.

Any idea of the year of the Mont wheel Ishy?. There's a 2003 Mont and a 2003 Sherco sitting in the shed and I've been measuring again. The sprocket to disc width is different and I'm certain these ones aren't interchangeable. A Mont type rim would be the answer to the leaky Sherco problems. Pity I can't fit one to the old Sherpa but the number of holes is different.

Ishy, I think you must have a 2001 Sherco?. Up to 2001 the Mont & Sherco and Beta & Talon replacements were interchangeable (with different spacers) but after that they all got wise. I've just been checking and the 2003 Mont rear will not go into a 2003 Sherco s/arm, more's the pity.!

Thanks OTF, Better Metals is the place. We're very much out in the sticks and everything is much easier by mail order.

Thanks, I checked it out but they don't seem to do plate.

Does anyone know where I can get some bits of Dural plate - 6mm to 8mm thick, for brake stays and the like. Years ago a chap in Yorkshire had an aladdins' cave of odd bits of non-ferrous metals of all shapes and sizes, a godsend for the specials builders of the time. In the UK, I mean !.

Problem solved. After sussing out another Mont. it's clear that the previous owner has had the delta link apart at some time and refitted the plates upside down and on the wrong sides, which accounted for the bikes drooping rear and bottoming suspension. All working like it should now with new needle roller bearings as well (at

I'm beginning to wonder if the delta plates on my 03 Mont might have been wrongly fitted at some time!. The handbook pics aren't very clear, can somebody put up a drawing or something showing the right fitting?. This scan shows the right hand side of the right hand Delta plate, ie the eye on the right fits the suspension unit. I wonder if it's been upside down?. I reckon that if they were turned up the other way it would raise the back end quite a bit?. I saw a pair of Jitsie deltas in a plastic bag but can't see a great deal of difference and in fact if they were fitted like the present ones it looks like they would actually drop the back end, which is where I started on this thread!.

Also curious to know if anyone knows any remaining source of pit boots. When Maggie beat the miners and closed the mines, these were sold off in thousands as "trials wellies".

Any cheaper sources than Moto Merlins

Try the Dunfermline club secretary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the info lads. At my age I don't think "competitive" is very much in my vocabulary. I haven't competed for ages but I do do a heck of a lot of "Scottish" type moorland riding in the course of organising events. I really fancy a Faber framed bike, preferably a Triumph twin really just for sentiment, the same reason I keep my old 340 Bult. I was in touch with Andy Johnstone on the SSDT pre-65 specs a while ago which ruled out the Faber plan , but with what Vinnied says it looks like it will pay not to rush things until we hear whats really what for next year. With five bikes lying around already I can barely justify another so I'll have to get it right first time and hope to be lucky in the pre-65 ballot next year. Thanks again. P.S. Who's Alan Whitton and what's PVL.

Where can I buy a battery operated horn to get an old twin-shock through an MOT. I'm told that the rubber bulb type isn't acceptable.