highland lassie Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year.....has everyone lost interest, or are you all too busy sorting your protein intakes to chat/gurn about it these days?! I miss the old banter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 It's going to rain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Not in the Arizona Desert it ain't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldilocks Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Its the big test for the Vertigo , must be this years biggest talking point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsteve Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 it better be sunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyrothers Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) We'll be there. Smell of bacon cooking at leanachan? That'll be us. Edited March 23, 2015 by andyrothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi gizza, Just you wait - climate change is heading directly towards Low North and it will drop rain in Death Valley, California and Arizona... It'll be warm rain though !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyboxer Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 It'll be warm rain though !!! It's beautiful rain, watching the world's best Trial 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Agreed Johnny.........miss it like crazy, but cannot be in two places at once, the years it snowed on the way up to Chairlift and it still has its appeal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulltaco340 Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 "There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year." Interesting to hear that, I thought SSDT and pre-65 chat on TC was absolutely dead last year and didn't seem to be much on the SSDT site either. I rather assumed it was all taking place on one of them new-fangled Twitter things or something?. Funny, but I also thought the events themselves seemed pretty low-key and lacking much of the old atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsteve Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 looking for rear number plates for the ssdt.i can only find the ones with the plastic brackets( some last some dont) is anyone selling lightweight metal ones ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_t Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) Hi, To help generate some SSDT chat - how about a puzzle picture to solve. Photographed by Jack Knoops in 2010 at the Pre-65 Scottish is rider number 56, which the entry list clearly identifies as Colin Bailey from Whitby on a Trifield 500. The bike is clearly an HT5 or HT3 Ariel, so is it a swop of bike, or a swop of rider and bike? We want to use the photograph (without the watermark) in a major feature on the Pre-65 Scottish in forthcoming ORRe digital magazines - but we only use accurate images (that is complete with correct captions), so please can anyone solve the problem, 'cos if we are not sure of the correct identification - we don't use it.............. Thanks in advance for your help, Deryk Wylde Always enjoy a puzzle... a quick google search finds that Colin does ride an Ariel at times. Not definitive proof but another piece for your puzzle . Colin Bailey muscled his Ariel round to beat the little maestro of the 1970s and ’80s, Brian Johnson, by three marks. Jack Peace cleaned up in the youth intermediate category while siblings Zac and Claire Collinson took the youth B and D class wins. The event was used to raise funds for Comic Relief. Expert: Andy Chilton (Beta uk.com) 9, Ollie Kendra (Gas Gas) 22, Josh Sprintall (Gas Gas) 63. Intermediate: Isaac Gale (Beta) 33. Clubman A: Shane Monkman (Gas Gas) 9, Ben Myers (Sherco) 17, Mark Cameron ( Sherco) 19. Clubman B: Colin Bailey (Ariel) 14, Brian Johnson (Sherco) 17, James Wainwright (Beta) 19. From this article: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/speedway/whitby-trials-ace-andy-chilton-3665460 Edited April 3, 2015 by michael_t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_t Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 Another piece fro you puzzle from the Arial owners forum... Competitors are buzzing all over the place on their bikes as, with 181 starters, it can take a couple of hours to get everyone away. Here No 84 – Colin Bailey from Whitby heads to the start on his ‘HT’. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie prescott Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hi Guy's. Hi Deryk. The fork yokes look like modified, TY 250 Yamaha to me? the complete forks may be fitted inside the Norton? sliders. Did you know that 38mm fork stansions will fit directly into Norton sliders without the need for the expense of say £500 to have 35 mm fitted? But that would not be right would it? But I do know of one that had 38mm under the gaiters. and it makes a lot more sense now that every thing else is covered up? Regards Charlie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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