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Billy, you riding the Gasser or have you got hold of one of these Ossa things??
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Good post 2/4, can I expand it a little.
I wonder how many Pre 65 trials have a similar format as the SSDT Pre 65?? How many are 10 sections up a burn with little or no moor work involved, How many pre65 riders have the ability to ride the sections which in some places ARE tough? How many can handle the sections but really struggle over the moor crossings?
I know last year, I had a couple of complaints that the sections were a bit tough but more regularly was riders coming off Meall Na Chruadie across to the sections at the wee dam and having a ten minute break to get their breath back. Now I don't claim to be much of a rider but one thing my old man taught me was how to ride moors and ride them without killing myself. A few years back myself and another guy helped shepherd a bloke on a Dot off Meall na Chruadie down to Loch Eild Mhor, the run was in poor condition and this guy, no disrepect meant, hadn't a clue, if there was a hole or a bog to get stuck in he did.
Now if the complainants are doing so because the can't handle the moors then don't enter, they are a major part of what maks the Pre65 and the Scottish itself.
If the complainants are doing so because they can't handle the sections, well to be honest that's the same as any other trial you get some tough sections you get straightforward ones.......riders will ALWAYS complain about sections!
I don't believe people should not enter but I do think that some of the riders need to have a wee think as to whether they can handle it or not, I know I couldn't.
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....target them for piccys throuh the week???
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While it's maybe a bt disappointing not to have the run across Meall na Chruadie but as my learned friend Mr Big John says, it does need time to repair itself, last time I was across it was a bit of a mess.
It is a tough trial, any trial around there is but as responsible trials people we have to respect the land and if it doesn't get a break it will end up in a horrific state.
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.....and that's a bad thing???
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Come on stick to the rules man!!! THREE words...
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Don't know and I don't think anyone can put a realistic cost on some of the works machines especially the Montesa/Hondas.
Eddy Lejeune and Steve Saunders Honda's of the mid 80's were reputed to be worth
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Just to back up what Perce has said look at the following:
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These are mainstream bikes, custom specials can easily run to 5 figures easily. If you fancy the Team Sky Brad Wiggins replica bike you can have it for £16,500, you can pay £4000 for a pair of carbon wheels!!!Mental!!
Bigfoot's kid does a lot of MTB downhill races I bet he could tell you about some really expensive stuff.
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My dad was a pretty good rider through his riding days he had to stop riding from about 68 to 76 for money reasons but when he bought a bulto again in 76 you'd think he'd never been away....old git!!
Anyway, been around trials my whole life first Scottish, I wasn't born but the old man was riding (1966), apparently my mum complained all week about being pregnant and chasing round the Scottish all week - SACRILEGE!! Even when he wasn't riding we'd be at a trial or a scramble every weekend so it's in the blood. I bought a bike as soon as I could afford it, i've had Ossas, an Armstrong a lovely TLR 250 Honda and now my Beta. I don't get to ride much but that's due to work not the lack of desire to ride, mind you I'm garbage at this trials nonsense, better with a good Canon camera
There's nothing beats a good clean or a good blast across some nice open moorland!!
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Click the go button......you'll love this
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Linda visited a psychic of some local repute. In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news:
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See Trials Central almost like the twilight zone sometimes
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Poker isn't a computer game it's a maths simulator,
She's never complained so far Ishy
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Thought you didn't look at twatbook ...anyway....only thing you'll see on there that I use is poker, cityville and all the rest of the **** would be Mrs Slapshot building bigger treasure islands farms and cities
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Personally, I hate feckin computer games.....main bulk of the threads from twinshocks done..
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