old trials fanatic Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 japes1275 feel free to offer your services to scrutineer at events i am sure the organisers will welcome you with open arms because nobody else has ever offered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie prescott Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Hi Guy's. Hi Deryk, Here Here. Changed full stop. All "Pre65" is about now is "Bling" and who can get away with what? Big and Small. You can count the number of trials that actualy cater for proper British Bikes, built before 1965 on one hand??? If you want to have fun riding without the one-upmanship, just buy, or make cheaper alternative. Regards Charlie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetom Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 "It's a different world, so making comparisons with 'the way that it was' is just not possible." So why keep on doing that then ? A sport involving a finite number of machines getting older and older each year is bound to naturally evolve over time, just because that evolution is not to your liking doesn't make it wrong. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japes1275 Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Oops, I seem to have started something here - apologies to the original poster about his C15 forks!! Deryk, I was only under that completely wrong impression because that's what I'd been told by someone that was there at the same time as yourself so it's obviously a matter of opinion!! (probably why you keep hearing it) I won't be put off by anything to be honest, at the end of the day it's whatever you enjoy that matters and as has already been pointed there is always the option of joining the 'specials' bikes. Who knows, after my first trial I might be hunting out some fancy forks myself!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie prescott Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Hi Guy's, Unfortunately, I also was there just after Deryk, And I also was only confirming what we did at the time, I did not have a growing family at the time, but also no cash, we all did our trials riding on a very tight shoestring, made do and mend, and enjoyed every bloody minute we could riding our basically road bike based trials machines. Yes we know the world has changed, that is why some manufacturers are still building trials bikes to a formula that they think is right, but surely if you are in the game you try and build something that people really want, then make a fortune? You can keep spending your hard earned to update a so called basic trials machine from the sixties, but we know that is not the case, the outline of the machine in some circumstance, may look like a machine from that era. but we all know that that is false. So why spend all that cash to build something that is not what it is pretending to be?? I love all aspects of the game ?Well Classic scene, And just can't get it into my head why people can't look for a cheaper way to get into the Classic sport ,for fun, without the headache of spending all of this cash. I will keep doing what I am, just to please myself, and I know others are doing the same, but then we get ridiculed for what we are trying to do for the sport, Why? We will stand up to be proved wrong, OK. Regards Charlie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aawil Posted February 17, 2015 Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 i am with deryk and charlie get an old trail bike sling a triumph 500 unit motor in then bolt a sidecar on you now have a cheap fun trials outfit capable of winning the sammy miller championship , all you have to do is ride it better than the rest ,you could put one together at todays prices go out and have fun and get change out of £1500. me i ride a 1958 197cc greeves scottish with a homemade chair .total cost on the road and its competetive £965, all we need now is to go back to one route for all classes ,you then get wide sensible sections that we can all enjoy without having to spend a fortune on trick fancy frames and bits or am i just getting to old ,.will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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