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Guess you're more of a Sarah Palin man Copey........

I can't say I was ever enamoured of the woman but at least you knew where the country was with her, not like the snivelling, quibbelling idiots we've had since.....either way she did make life interesting.

Nice try... Carlos....nice try

Hope he proves you wrong

You need a seperate registration mate, register on the classified Site and you should be okay.

Go on Copey.....I dare ya to try that one at home...

Chaps, moved this in here from the Mechanical Talk general forum. Can anyone give Kwakerzack any more advice on solving his problems? cheers forum mod

think you missed someone from that list Carlos...

East coast of Scotland education ...... shocking ... so i understand it only 54 slots left

Gents, no more my bike is better than yours or Gas Gas is better than Beta etc etc etc Each type of bike has their merits and the best advice you'll get is to try as many different makes as you can before you decide. While a Beta might suit me, my advice might be pointless to you if you don't like it. Only you can decide what's right for you. When you've decided the look for the best value bike you can get, which has been well looked after and maintained. You'll see if you read through the bike specific forums which little foibles each brand of bike has. ta Forum Mod

Beardsall, that's almost as old as you are........almost......

Carr & Day & Martin, Brass and metal polish, it's brilliant stuff but a bugger to get hold of. I bought a couple of them a few years back in a proper ironmongers in Stonehaven

red Kola mate...all them e numbers... Not directly Andy T, it's a general thing really, I've said it at home in the last few weeks as well. Spot on Bilco Every five years or so the do something called a quinquennial review, looking at the way the relative agencies within the government conduct their business, whether they are profitable or not and whether they are enough of a cost burden that a return can be made on then when selling. Simply we're not in that category but as a visible agency in the UK our name always comes up. The Defence Met Board, our bosses, are very keen that something so critical to the whole infrastructure of the country remains a public body, they continually defend our position and that's been successful now for at least the length of my career, 25years. Contrary to the belief and malicious nonsense spread on here we do actually do a lot of good work around the country, you just never hear about the good stuff.

Working for the government I guess I'm lucky in many respects, safe guards over employment, good redundancy package if it came to that but I'd much rather be working. For all the complaints around the country about well off civil servants, don't believe that for a minute, if i didn't work shifts/weekends/shed loads of overtime my basic salary is crap, probably a hell of a lot less than many think. I haven't had a consolidated pay rise in 8 years now and ultimately demoted twice in the same period, management call it a regrading exercise but it's just a simple way of reducing the overall paybill. In my case, I'm fairly happy with my lot, I live somewhere I adore, we have just about enough to get by and I'll view the fairly good job security as a bonus for now, can't complain too much. Some people are in industries and occupations that make things difficult no matter how hard they try and I have every sympathy for them but that doesn't cover everyone. The way things stand we should be happy if we still have a job to go to. If you have a job bite the bullet, stop whining and stick it out because things will get better eventually. If you don't like your boss then work harder, get a new boss or become the boss yourself, you can't change things to your benefit if you sit on your a*** whining about it all the time.

Can't remember mate I was lost as well... Moffat, Cruz, Delaney in that order.... ...sorry boys couldn't resist...(though that's probably the order they'll get to my hipflask). I think Tony Calvert will take the win again closely followed by Carlos and Neil. As to the Scottish riders (it's important for some of us..) Alan Crayk, Les Winthrop and Murray Whittaker in the mix there. Both Murray and Les have been in the top ten in the last couple of years

Mod Hat off I'll admit I saw the funny side of what davieboy said as well. His additional comments are also spot on, you cant get it perfect but you need to have a damned good try. In general, NOT ALL CASES, the whingers are usually the ones who expect it all to be done for them, won't lend a hand in any way, cynical maybe, true, probably yes. Take Sunday as a case in point, Gary dropped 4. Was it enough, yeah I think it was, and for the man in second place to come on here and comment the way he did speaks volumes. The Blue route, A school boys and Non experts was maybe a bit tough for the Non experts but 58 for the best A class rider sems about right, remember we are always told these are the kind of sections these kids want to ride. Greens, as has been pointed out is probably the most difficult to get right looking at the huge diversity of abilities in there but each of the class winners won on around 15 to 20 marks, maybe a bit high for the TS/P65 boys but otherwise seems okay and I'd love to know how many of those marks were dropped as stupid marks and how many because of a daft section, the number of times on 3 and 4 the phrase "didn't need that" came out. The Yellows, no adverse comments there either, everyone seemed happy with it. The comments made about the trial have been really encouraging and as other have said maybe it should be the benchmark to the rest of the year, that's up to other clubs.

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I suspect you could be stuffed Jamie, unless you can get the bleed nipple out it sounds like a new caliper job to me.

Come on then, who's it to be this year: Will Neil Gaunt get the top stop back? Will Tony Calvert maintain his domination? Can Carlos Casas finally get the win he richly deserves? Who are this year's dark horses? Will one hipflask make it through the weekend or will I need two? Will Big John get lost on Blackwater again? Come on then .... thoughts

Moderator hat on.... Before this gets out of hand can we please stick to the topic. I'll leave what's there but anymore posts that could be construed as derogatory to any party will be deleted. Westie if you want to challenge either Big John or Davieboy on what they have said then I suggest you take it to a PM, likewise if you don't agree with what I've said then feel free to PM me.

There's been a few around but unfortunately people keep throwing reports, stories, reviews etc on here as a basic way of advertising, these are deleted on sight. Somebody needs to get a crack on one and give us some feedback on it but FFS don't be connected to haven/border bikes etc etc etc,

Thanks for the positive feedback guys I'll mention it at tomorrow nights committee meeting, glad everyone had a good day. Cheers Donald PS Craig, Spread the word mate....

Yeah, we've now got 4 colours that's really typical of us isn't.... Shaped arrows, pointing inwards, ride between your colours....really simple

Immaculate timing Bill..Ta. Twin Shocks definately not new but they seem to be getting more popular. Glad you enjoyed the day EDIT: Nice Pics Bill, ta

Get in touch with Bill McGregor mate, I was observing.