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Phenominal absolutley superb......shows you...No limitations

the "book" is maybe a menace but it is the rules that govern our sport...whether we like it or not. It's also great for balancing that uneven table...

You're in love with a tree??? that must be something to do with gettin wood.......

I'm just concerned that you are actually exploring the site........

Dear Abby, I've never written to you before, but I really need your advice on what could be a crucial decision. I've suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me. The usual signs . phone rings, but if I answer, the caller hangs up. My wife has been going out with the girls a lot recently although when I ask their names she always says, "Just some friends from work, you don't know them." I always stay awake to look out for her taxi coming home, but she always walks down the drive. Although I can hear a car driving off, as if she has got out of the car round the corner. Why? Maybe she wasn't in a taxi? I once picked her mobile phone up just to see what time it was. She went berserk and screamed that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her. Anyway, I have never approached the subject with my wife. I think deep down I just didn't want to know the truth, but last night she went out again and I decided to really check on her. I decided I was going to park my 2006 Yamaha R1 motorcycle next to the garage and then hide behind it so I could get a good view of the whole street when she came home. It was at that moment, crouching behind my Yamaha R1, that I noticed that the valve covers on my engine seemed to be leaking a little oil. Is this something I can fix myself or should I take it back to the dealer?

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you must admit though with each and every post the lad posts he gets everyone going including myself! maybe he does just post too wind us up? I'm saying nowt else but you remember the "billy goats gruff" story from your childhood, who guarded the bridge????????

Have to agree with most of the sentiments......WELL DONE TONI.. Whatever you do though don't go and borrow Adam's cape and crown, it'll endear you to nobody. What I don't agree with, like others, is EL's BS about Doug and the Lampkin family not being great ambassadors for the sport, perhaps EL needs a reality check. If you look at our sport there are a few names synonymous with the sport and the UK, Miller, Andrews and most of all Lampkin and not just Doug but Martin, John, Arthur, Alan, the whole lot. To borrow a word from cycling, the Family's "palmares" is vast, how many titles, how many championships: you all know the numbers. I don't know what EL defines as an ambassador but if someone who represents the UK at the highest levels in their chosen field well I guess Dougie fits the bill rather well.

That's a superb pic Mark.

Absoutely - 1.3MB Clicky Linky (Firefox shrinks this. Click on image to expand to full size - and don't forget to scroll right!) mmmmm Know what you mean...Moidart looking towards Ballahuilish from Ruba Ruadh

Pffft - you can't even get a weather forecast right. My money is safe suit yourself....

Are you trying to tempt me Mr Grieg......

Yeh right.........Really straight forward sections Lagnaha, good for 7 cleans at the end of the day Knew you'd come back with that Okay what do I mean by that really. I took a mate to Lagnaha he could follow what was going on, he saw a brit round somewhere down south and left after an hour because he couldn't follow the sections. The topic is about spectators, I looked from that perspective, As a rider (allegedly), I have the utmost respect for you guys because you tackle them...I don't!!!!

That's us diehards hoping to get some kit dry on the Ben on Sunny Saturday..... Lagnaha, Easy to walk to from the Ample parking, cracking straigtforward sections, probably the best group of the week, brilliant for photography and easy to get home from... The rest of the week.....same principal, good sections, easy walking (unless you're mad like me). Question is what spectators do you want, nutters like me who'll walk for miles to see 270 riders go over two chuckies or new people who will spread the word...ultimately, both.

1. Grimbo 2. Dibs 3. Wiggy

after three hours kip in three days that has cheered me up no end. Agree, lets get Barry a shottie of one of them, purely to verify the story. Mind you if any of you watched Shameless the other week...........

Well done HL Can have a longer snooze on Monday Longer snooze....longer in the pub on sunday night you mean...... That's some work today HL and you managed to keep most of the hooligans together near the back

I suppose it depends how many marks you want to take off the top boys to get a winner, but as a national championship trial it has to be a reasonable test for the top boys as well. In the Champ class in the last round last year Grimbo lost 31 is that too many or not enough, compare with Mika Vesterinen in last place on 189, too much? not enough rideable stuff for everyone?? I don't know, I agree that the spectacular stuff brings the punters in but as OTF suggests should it all be about the biggest step, and the biggest slab you can get up, getting like the indoor circus stuff. Again as has been said we have such a variance of terrain in the UK, the British Championship should reflect this as well as prove a test for the big guys in each class.

funny funny Tell you what though it's a hell of thought, imagine taking that to your local GP

Hi Brian, No offence meant when I put that comment in, just trying to emphasise a point about the show that despite all the stupdity there is always a serious undertone there if folks want to look for it. Taking that whole show as it was, effectivley a bit of a mickey take of certain stereotypes, Alabama rednecks etc etc, the line seemed very poignant. I understand where you are coming from it's the same in every country, most people are willing to get off their butts to do a job and contribute to society while a sad narrow-minded minority would rather sponge off the government expecting everything for nothing!! As a tax payer it sickens me. You're not alone. Donald

Paul, The P 65 Trial does not have a site, unless something has changed. D

...plus last two seasons worth of development from Dougie and Fujigas would have helped a wee bit !!!!!

Can Strongly recommend a look at these Marseille pics, the one marked Groupies especially. The trials pics are okay but the girlies......

Thinking about this while lying awake last night....again.... Whatever stupidity the three of them get up to there's always some kind of poignancy about the show. Take last night as an example: they drove from Florida to New Orleans, nearly got roasted in Alabama then into the devastated city of New Orleans...can't remember exactly what Clarkson said but something along the lines of how can the wealthiest country in the world allow this devastation still to be here a year after Hurricane Catriona hit....some line. Anyway, why do we love the idea of three allegedly grown ups pratting around with cars, driving all over the world in the kind of motoring exotica we'd love a shot at, while chucking the dreaded PC book out of the latest sporty cabriolet....simple. We'd all love to do it! In whatever guise, the programme represents a fantasy that MOST of us would love to act out, thrashing a DB9 all the way to Monaco, A Ferrari Scagliatti to Verbier...need I go on. Even 20 years ago, the cars they had on then were superb, we all wanted to be whichever presenter was there at the time just to get our hands on those steering wheels. It is superb TV. Anyway, hands up, all us middle aged blokes of any age who wouldn't want to get paid to do exactly the same thing???? ...and on that bombshell.....