trialsnutterman

I think it is RAL 5002

I'd look on Ebay you might just find someone breaking a bike up with a good hub or if your feeling flush you could get a new one here

They've got a bit more of a budget than the Greeves then.

The thermostat is not like a car one which diverts flow from the radiator, it is just a temperature switch to turn the fan on at a set temperature. I suggest you buy a new stat as you say your 06 bike one is broken so you need one anyway, swap the cap off your other bike, if that doesn't do it replace the head orings. Oh and check the impeller as ishy said, it is only 3 bolts to check, it is easier to check than the head orings

I wasn't there but was the time tight due to the stop and hop rules and setting 2 off per minute? riders quite often take well over a minute in a section so you can soon end up with a big queue.

Don't know if it was different where your from but the first Rev3 definitely came with the upside down forks. I'm not sure were the thermo is but it will be on the rad somewhere can you not drop it out of the fram a little to see.

Ok try thinking of it this way, your favourite club of choice goes to the dates meeting and doesn't get the dates they wanted but instead get dates that clash with nationals or Champ rounds that you and your mates usually ride. This always seams to happen, I've not rode the full east midland centre champs for years, not because I don't want to but usually because they clash with more important events.

One club is running 4 events in one month, good on them for running them but I can kind of see that it is a little to much.

I think your right about not letting anybody know the results till they are completed, I think they were even thinking of scraping punch cards at world rounds for this very reason. Sorting the results out at the end of the day could take quite a while, I guess at world rounds it wouldn't be to much of a problem as they could probably do it electronicly due to there bigger budget and not so many sections but at a local national you going to have to wait.

3kg according to the manufactures specs (66.5kg vs 69.5kg in 2009)

True it was hardly observed correctly down south after the first year but it did stop riders spending 10 / 20 seconds stood in front of a step deciding can I/can't I which is so boring to watch especially when your sat in a 15min que waiting to ride the section. I personally liked the one for a stop the best when it was observed correctly but now it doesn't exist in this country I prefer the next best solution the full no stop. I can see what you are saying about the arguing but there is still arguments going off at the British Champs, people going backwards for example that's still a five but riders will argue they didn't go back (even though there minder was shouting just bring it back a bit more), I guess the ACU's answer for that will be oh well they don't mark you a five for going backwards down south so we will get rid of that rule and let everyone go back. The sport needs rules and the riders need to be to show a bit more sportsmanship, can you imagine if a snooker player fouled then had a massive argument with the ref, it would be shocking but it happens at every British champs I've ever been to (that's most of them for the last 6 or 7 years), so the observing rules aren't ever going to change that, the ACU, Clark of the course, the spectators, the minders and most importantly the riders are the only ones who can stop the arguing, it needs to happen at the top of the sport so the younger riders watching there hero's don't think the only way you can win is by arguing every single mark. It would be nice to see someone like Dougie been given a clean say well actually I had a sneaky prod round the back of that tree.

Yeah but it has still got a drum on the back, it should be a disk if it was what he says it is.

Fair enough you've got flat fields, I still think you would make a better hard route with the no stop rule, you can even make it tight if needed, it is possible to hop and maintain forward motion. I would have said no stop bring riders of differing abilities to a more level playing field, I think that is a good thing though, I think the stop allowed gives the rider who can hop the best the advantage so they will take a more convincing win, I think this is bad as the riders at the bottom of the results don't stand a chance.

What, your saying I need a Geography lesson the addict has his home town marked as Oxford you as Milton Keynes as far as I know both these places are west of the M1 no wear near east of the the A1? Answer this please with a yes or a no: is the same section easy or harder to ride with stopping and hopping allowed compared with doing it non stop? Now explain how allowing hopping can ever make it easier to put a hard section in. I just don't see it personally.

I have rode down near you, well I've rode the Wallace a few times or is that the cream of the crop. If you're having to make the hard route hard by putting tight turns in then it has got to be easier to take marks with the full no stop rules. Let say you had got some hard route rider who can hop really well, it wouldn't matter now tight a corner was under the current stopping rules he/she would get around it with out putting a foot down, you might end up making it that tight that they would five it due to the wheels going over the top of a flag but it is just going to upset the riders. Now get them to do it without stopping they will probably not get around it unless the turn is made a little wider, now watch a rider who has just started riding the hard route, ride the same section which would he prefer to ride the stupidly tight one or the one with a bit more room?

I don't get that at all, I've heard a few of you saying you can't do no stop down there but why? I'm guessing you'll say you haven't got the land but if so surely it is easier to find a section that will take marks if the riders can't stop?

Yeah as Stork said try a new plug first, I once laid my bike over to fill it with gear oil but I forgot to turn the fuel off, it flooded the engine but it started ok then shortly after I noticed it wasn't revving out, it was fine up to 1/4 throttle then it would do exactly as your bike is doing in the video, I put a new plug in and it ran fine. I think the spark plug fouled due to the excess fuel then when the revs rise the compression also rises making it harder for the spark plug to spark so the electric finds the easier way home through the oily gunk covering your spark plug. I'd also be suspect of your stator as they said it was faulty but you say it didn't change the symptoms when you changed it.

I'm not sure it's not gold coloured so it might be a aluminium one

I'd of thought by looking at the pictures the rake/trail/offset of the forks would be near enough the same as most modern bikes, it just that the forks are upside down and they have all there offset at the top on the yokes rather than splitting the offset, half on the yokes half down at the axle.

I think most of the fat bars are actually stiffer than the older cross bar type, there are a few decent riders around here who have gone back to the cross bar handlebars because they feel they give a little more flex.

If you look they have moved the fork trail up to the yokes to allow for improved steering lock.

Slightly contradictory or is it that Dabster prefers a softer bottom end.

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Not properly no, it might with a lot of messing around.

The Ducati coil that millerme mentioned will only fit the early bikes upto sometime in 2002 I think, if yours is blue it will fit, if it's black you will need the Lenonelli one. It's more likely to be the stator plate that has gone, I'd check that first using the diode check mode on a multi meter, you should get reading something like this, don't worry about exact numbers if it is somewhere in the same region. using the red lead to the plug terminals and black to earth. Blue no reading (sometimes shown as 1 or error) brown 1000 to 1600 black 1050 to 1650 using the leads the other way around i.e. black lead to the coloured wires, red to earth. Blue 600 to 730 brown 650 to 770 black 650 to 770