I buy more rum..........and beer. gotta continue the good time well into the night.
I hardly practice, don't have the time for it. Wife, kids, job, insert 100 other lame excuses here.
I definitely notice a difference when I do have time to practice.
But I would suggest not overdoing it. You don't want to be exhausted and sore when you arrive to set up camp. You're weekend will be miserable if you are already physically wiped out before starting the national.
Good article! I tried the shorts for home practice and to stop exhaust burn potential on my golf ball knees I removed the header pipe!!! NO knee/leg burn but the neighbours were looking at me with scowls of distain!!!
Dylan,
Love your all leather option! A set of those and I'm up for 1 or 2 sections of bedroom trials. You could market then under the brand "TarzanLUVJane".
Mags
Mags,
The neighbors giving you looks of disdain only matters if you like your neighbors............
Dylan,
The leather riding apparel option has two other potential markets as well. Just make 2 more brand names.
"TarzanLUVJohn" &
"TarzanLUVCheetah"
And you could even have a spin-off for the more humorous bunch:
Ride it, got really muddy, put it away, wash next day with power washer, put it away.
You get the idea, I don't spend a huge amount of time on cleaning my bike. (2003 so it is not exactly Show room condition), but if something breaks I fix it. Wash air filter a few times a season (3 or so). Lube chain just before every ride (Bel-Rey Super Clean)
I did 2 notches on my centre tube, opposite each other but on the same end of the spacer tube. You only need notches on one side, once that sides bearing is out, other side is straight forward.
But I would never remember which side has the notches!
Oh ok! So there are club thats actually do that… thats very cool! Not many people would enjoy coaching a beginner around… maybe a stunning 25 yr old blonde babe would get a line a helpers! Hehehehehe Especially with "no visible panty line" in her trials pants!
One thing that I will always remember wherever my trials journey takes me in the future… I will never lose sight of beginners love encouragement and a little guidance.
Now where is that babe! Excuse me Ma'am… you really should have a spotter for your first 40 sections!
Mags
Not only would she need a spotter, but I am unfamiliar with the trail so could she please ride ahead of me and guide me through the trail to the next section??
At MOTA riders meetings (well at least 95% of them) We ask "Are there any new riders?" No hands raised, we all go off and act like our goofy selves. If a hand is raised, then it is asked if they have someone to go around with them or if they need someone or if someone would ride around with them,..... etc...
I would like to see a system with keeping what stop allowed already is with the following change.
Stop and balance feet up, no other assistance = 0 (takes skill)
Stop with foot down or other assistance = 5 (you are a kickstand, your bike can do that by itself)
This would stop the "all day dab" and would not stop anyone from riding no stop if they so choose. (just choose an appropriate class for your abilities)
When I set up sections for our club events I actually ride the "lower class" (we have 7 classes) sections no stop to keep them tame and doable.
The upper 3 classes I set up more to stop allowed. The biggest difference is not just obstacle severity but the super tight turns that we give the upper classes prior to the obstacle in order to be able to take points. And this also allows us mere mortals to use a bit more of the abilities of these wonderful machines that have evolved into usable works of art.
No stop does a great job of keeping riders from moving up into higher classes. There was a video posted (I think in this thread) that showed two riders going through a section with many rocks, big and small. First rider rode excellent and cleaned it, second rider had difficulties and stopped with foot down. It was billed as showing how horrible stop allowed was. But what I saw was a good rider followed by a rider that has just moved up a class and was trying his best to finish the section. From what I saw he made all his markers, did not back up and basically finished the section with just putting his feet down and the occaisonal stop. for a score of 3. Now imagine if that event was run no-stop. Second rider would not try the harder class because they would already know that out of 40 section attempts they would have 40 fives for a maximun score of 200. If the rider can get through some of the sections with 3's they will be inclined to come back, keep trying and keep pushing themselves to ride higher class sections.
Just my opinion
but for what it is worth if we combine the two scoring systems like the ITSA does, it would be a decent compromise.
Stop balance (feet up, No other assistance) = 0
Stop foot down (you are a kickstand, bike can do this without you) = 5
A gent at one of our trials had his Sherco running great the day before and he washed it. Then the day of event it would not run. We unbolted the bracket that holds the "magic box" up by the steering head and cleaned the part of the bracket that contacted the frame and the frame where the two met and it ran fine after that.
to the next MOTA event! June 8th
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I buy more rum..........and beer. gotta continue the good time well into the night.
I hardly practice, don't have the time for it. Wife, kids, job, insert 100 other lame excuses here.
I definitely notice a difference when I do have time to practice.
But I would suggest not overdoing it. You don't want to be exhausted and sore when you arrive to set up camp. You're weekend will be miserable if you are already physically wiped out before starting the national.