The Garage is a great place for somebody with graphics ADHD like me. I change the way it looks so often, even members of my own club don't know if I got a new bike or not. But changing graphics is cheaper than a new bike.
Just thinking from the environmentalist standpoint.......................................Didja hurt the tree???
Sounds like a HUGE ouch dude, heal quickly.
Don't give up trials: here is my logic.
You were injured on the trail, not in a section.
You were traveling fast and wheelying. That points to this being a Moto X or FMX injury. So stop the MX and FMX and just ride trials, you will be fine.
Oh and with your bike now being a foot and a half shorter you won't need to hop the bike in those tight corners. GENIUS!!!!
If it is the thermo that has gone, it is possible to take a jumper wire and connect the thermo wires together. Thus making the fan run constant. This is a quick fix, I did it to my 2000 2.9 left it that way for about half a season. Of course constantly running the fan will make it more prone to burning out the fan, but it would at least get the bike through the Rose City event this weekend...................of course if it is just the Thermo that is causing the problem.
OK sherco have managed to stop water getting in the air box by moving it to where the tank used to be , but how will they now stop water getting in the fuel tank ???
phil
What do you think the pump is for? ohmy.gif
Copie, It Depends on the suction provided by the pump..................I got some ideas.
Not sure how it is done in other areas of the country, but I think at the club level events there needs to be a loop specifically just for the bikes and a separate loop specifically for spectators.
The "Bike Loop" could be nice and long and winding to help reduce line backups at sections and to "test" the longevity of the riders.
The "Spectator Loop" needs to be the shortest distance between the sections, also as smooth and easily navigated as possible.
This will make it safer for the spectators and easier for them to get to the sections. I have personally experienced when having my family come to an event to see me ride that when walking down the edge of the trail and this A**hole come flying down the trail and yelled for my boys to Move It and rode directly between them without slowing a fraction. He also came within an inch of his handlebars hitting my bars. The most aggravating thing about it was the "trail" was actually a wide Moto X track and he had about 15 feet or so to the side of us to go around. This is not the only "Speeding past walkers on the Loop" that I have witnessed it is just the most personal.
If we provide a better Spectator Loop It will make it easier on the riders so they don't have to worry as much about encountering walkers on the trail. Also we may get more attendance, better exposure, and we will look like real nice people for giving an easy walk in the woods for the spectator.
We can't grow if we don't have anybody to see what we do.
Trials has gone through peaks and valleys before. Manufacturers have come and gone, Trials has grown and shrunk. Its all part of the cycle.
This also applies to Global Warming.......................
Yep it goes up, it goes down.....But it would be nice to walk into a moto shop and say hey I need a Kickstart for (insert bike here), and Part Guru goes in back and brings said Kickstart. TADA no shipping charge and you riding later that day.
The US has historically enjoyed motor sports that are high speed or huge air or both (supercross). Trials for the most part is slow and precise. The youngsters that ride bikes like the speed and adrenaline of moto X, Enduro, etc....As the riders age (I have heard this next statement from many trials riders older than 25) they say "I am tired of big crashes, getting hurt, and rebuilding my bike every 6mos to a year. So they enter trials. When they do start riding trials these riders are having such a good time and enjoying the camaraderie of the trials community that they wish they had done it sooner.
I don't know how many riders the previous statement actually applies to but it does apply to some, maybe that is why we don't have as many youngsters as other motor sports.
As for attendance at Nationals..........I don't know, I only attended 2 rounds (same weekend) so far (had a great time, I can still hear the guy behind me waiting for our names to be called to start on Sat. He said "That guy is wearing SHORTS! HAHAHA" And watching the PROs hit HUGE splatters was definitely a treat.)
Doesn't really show the actual routing of the air filter and carb. A fuel pump could just be one more thing to go bad in the middle of a section. HMMMM only time, and riding will show how it performs.
if ya look real close at the rider in that screen shot...........He has exactly the same traction inducing weight hanging over his belt that I've got!!
Yep Biff they got your crash style down perfectly!!!
I like it and hopefully they have a trials bike as one of the "unlockable" bikes.
I would like to see a trials game for the Wii. Could be awesome, hold the controls like holding handlebars, twist the Wii remote like the throttle and the B button on remote could be front brake and the Z button on chuck could be clutch.
Some of the things them PRO class riders go up and down, all I gotta say is they got a mighty amount of Testicular Fortitude.
I wish Will a speedy recovery, (well as speedy as this injury will allow).
All I hope is that he allows himself to heal COMPLETELY before resuming riding at that level. Don't rush yourself Will. I think it is pretty common for trials riders to get about 90% healed up and then we start to think "I feel pretty good....and geez it has been soooo long since I rode my bike".........But we as a group just ain't quite right in the head anyways.
Sometimes the easiest fixes drives one the craziest...............My riding lawnmower was having all kinds of weird problems, stalling, would stall if brake was released, stall if tried to use the blades........after 3 days of fiddling and swearing, it turned out all it needed was a new battery!!
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The Garage is a great place for somebody with graphics ADHD like me. I change the way it looks so often, even members of my own club don't know if I got a new bike or not.
But changing graphics is cheaper than a new bike.