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Any way as for trials become that popular and prices going up (ohh you know your talking about trials when every ones worry is the price - ROFLOL!!!) Trials - IMHO is very popular- conceivable it could still become popular still Fundamentally it is a very cheap form of motor sport that many people can do, it requires little capital expenditure (the bikes are cheap), little maintenance, little outlay per events (trials cost peanuts). Also on the organisers side, very few people are required to organise a trial, land is available, and you don't upset anybody I help organise Trials, MXs and Enduros (and know a little about grass track in the centre too) - trials has very little of the problems any of the other 3 sports have..... enjoy cheap trials! rabie

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Bloody hell mate! Are you mad? This is why people moan about the ACU The idea is cobblers, unenforceable and would upset loads of people - who would all go "we don't have to do that in the AMCA" Come on do you know / remember the fallout over wearing helmets!!! - and that was a sensible suggestion People who sit there revving their bikes, leaving them running have just got more money than sense that

i don't think the horn has to be eletric - some of the lads round our way use old fashioned rubber horns (as a joke) for our L i think you just need a horn fitted rabie

no sign of it down souf either - shame i was in the office on friday, i should have asked rabie

i do belive its standard policy to penalise late entries like this - ie to encourage you to entre before hand we normally show the late entry / riding for no award rider in the results but don't give them the place/award, etc really depends upon the club rabie

SEC trials championship looking good nice one Spud rabie

currently with the co-op for the team Clarke pikey waggon. in the end they offered us an "any driver" for about

you can access sports council money but its hard because you've got to be very involved in the relevant sports politics to get it - football, rugby, cricket, tennis and athletics steal most of the money (I'm told) and then you have to present a very car fully filled in plan (that is very PC, satisfy hippy this and tree hugging that) to get it we've done it twice i think for MX in our part of the world (out of London sports council) but its very hard and the avenue we took has since been closed (i think) rabie

r2wtrials : "Of course the ACU is a large company with loads of your money !!" and is it the right way to spend the ACU member's money on hiring this guy (proable want a few K or more) to permenatly be training kids ??? and even if you did every sport would want the same - no matter how small, etc. the cost would be in

While I have to admit I like such stickers, etc on the van (makes you look less of a white van man, etc) it does at time seam like your driving round with a sign going "I have motorcycles, please steal them". Many people (MX, enduro, trials) complain of people following them home to find where they live and then steal their bikes Just a word of warning - other than that it looks cool rabie

Cheers As for the manufactures, well its up to us (clubs, rides, ACU, etc) to put pressure on them (manufactures, importers, industry) to produce a bikes that are quiet enough that we can ride with out upsetting anyone rabie

The problem is from a rule book / and legal point of view you have say this is the line in the sand - i.e. 92 db Now if we conclude that some bikes (be they not maintained two strokes, old British bikes or new four strokes) are too loud then the rule should be changed In Denmark if i understand it correctly they've moved to a ride by test The RPM's that are in the chart in the handbook are universally acknowledged to be out of date and thus too low Maybe it is possible to write four strokes tested this and that way and two strokes another way but it would have to be done in such a way that the industry didn't get upset Maybe a trials person will do what Derek Elwell did all those years ago and make a quieter pipe for bikes and sell it (and hence DEP pipes) re residents complaints - you have to show the council that your conducting noise tests, enforcing that and take readings from around the area - every centre *should* have a noise meter operator (or more) - get on to your centre or even Rugby if you are having problems rabie

the "saga" of funding inter centre is an old chestnut trials has 3 teams to send (youth, adult and sidecar) plus the separate pre65 inter centre trial (with solo and sidecar teams). now we (SEC) normally subsidise (IIRC) the riders and team manager, but it is still expensive ..... most modern people aren't up for all getting together in one transit and camping in a tent in afraid ........ anyway MX and Enduro haven't had an inter centre for some time (don't if grass track still does) so some *may* argue why should the centre spend money on them (personally any attempt to beat Yorkshire is worth the money) also the southern centre was *involved* in the very costly (circa

seams like a good idea because i don't drive my car at night normally and thus would lower my expensive premium but when I'm going from home to uni, especially after an event back home i could be driving lots of miles that late at night (home is 200miles from uni) - so dunno if it would really work that well for me rabie

Sam was watching at the Sidcup Sixty on sunday with his whole clan all in Sherco gear .... we all had a long chat nothing was mentioned ..... rabie

there is normally more than one trials on every weekend of the year with out travelling for vast distances hence most people (it seams to me) ride events or practise unofficially in places they shouldn't be..... rabie

As being the winner of the Pinhard last year I might put my awe in ....... As it has been said people nominate various people and put together "a campaign" for want of a better phrase to "promote" the case to the panel of judges (who i don't know who they are) All I can say is the trophy is a *proper* trophy and its the only big trophy I

Not actually having seen one in the flesh yet I can

we (Siducp) brought a similar thing for one our long distnace trials - pretty sur ethey were from york survey rabie

John has hit the nail on the head (as usual) Down souf where I (normally) live we don't have road trials - just 3 "long distance" trials - so everyone specifically gets this one day insurance (one club even made everyone buy it which is perhaps OTT) Up north in the land of real beer, and big "proper" trials you haven't been aware of it as such as us southern fairies Unfortunately its another cost ........... rabie

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you can get insurance for the road but it will exclude taking part in competitions - ie between groups of sections (via the public highway) - the acu sell 1 day (and 2 day and on request under 21) insurance to top up your existing insurance for that hope that makes sense rabie

you want Geoff Brooker, he is the main 96 Trials man contac tdetails on ACU website http://www.acu.org.uk/clubs/ShowSite.asp?R...UserId=96TRIALS rabie

Legally you need planning permission to ride on