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This thread is doing a great injustice for camp sounding Scotsmen...

It was made for Channel 5 and then repeated many times on Challenge TV. Filmed back in 2001. Never found any pictures or videos online though. Have my one and the one with Tibeaux Moreaux (Sorry for the spelling Tibo!) but don't think I ever saw the one with Martyn Ashton in it. I have a few pics of the course at home (Scotland) where I happen to be going today so could scan them in and post them up if anyone's interested. The organiser was keen to run the program as trials only the following year but the UK people in charge weren't up for it so he was going to take it to the Germans or something if I remember correctly. Fraz Milloy was also on it (OldSkoolKool on here in NMC) being very cheesy. Crazy day. I was up against Rich Johnson, Eddie Tongue, Chris Ackrigg, Ian Cooper etc etc and never expected to do any good though. I do kinda wish I'd done something with the win though- with the publicity and stuff I could probably have got a good sponsor deal out of it but I was about to go to uni and just kinda rested on my laurels!!

That's gotta be 'shopped?! Must be unstable as hell... like ridin a bloody penny farthing downhill!

Damn those forks are fugly... Looks nice other than that. Dave

Plus name of account holder and branch location. Think that's it...

Yeah, I just found that in the angry thread... damn him!!

Don't you love Uni connections? Mwahaha

Do you mean that everything was easier on the A1? I remember a few things being easier, some things just being 'different'. I went from an Onza T-Rex (woodstock spec) to the A1 and did like it but didn't really notice a massive difference. Dave

I really liked mine. Didn't mind grinding the Tensiles and it happily took my 2.5" with a few mm either side to spare. Wayne just doesn't like anything that isn't French

So how come I ran a Maxxis High Roller 2.5" in my A1 without any problems?

Agreed. Also pretty sure it wasn't really a crap back brake stopping you keeping it edit: Also agree that tapping, when you do it, really isn't the way to go on mod. You can pedal up to back wheel over 50" quite easliy on a mod and bunnyhop even higher with a good run in.

^ exactly what I did with my Tensiles when I got my A1. My cranks weren't new though.

It is quite cool... Transformers rock. I wonder if the film will mean a new cartoon series will be on it's way... Also wonder if that's quite a worrying question for a 25 year old to ask himself... Dave

Ah, don't worry about that, I'd have my bestest friends in the whole world at TartyBikes to do that for me Andy- might be tempted but because of not having any stock/24 bits to put on a 24UK frame I think I'd have to get a Zoot as a base anyway... still not sure yet. Dave

I didn't think the 24UK's were available in the UK at the moment?

Heheh, I was just kinda confused by the statement... still am to be honest!! Yeah, Anthony PM'ed me to let me know they will be accepting entries on the day also (as he says in his topic) so if you're free head on down. The venue is really good, although I've never ridden it in the wet! Dave

But think of what? It's just another alternative to MySpace, Bebo etc but a bit more uniform and tidy. Main reason I got on Facebook was because it's really easy to upload pictures to... but that's hardly innovative! I also don't understand how something like facebook can be worth $8bn... there's only one advert per page... meh.

Link to story?

Ooh, nick, what have you got? On a 24" related note, has anyone ridden a Zoot and can you compare it to a Ciguena or other 24? I'm kinda tempted to get a 24 to be a bike for all things, from BMXey stuff at the skatepark to a trials bike etc and quite like the idea of getting a Zoot and swapping a few bits over to dial it in (cranks, BB, rear hub, single speed kit, front disc etc). Good idea/bad idea? Dave

Thanks for sharing, Rich.

Well you lot need to sort something out because as Ben said, the whole thing's just pathetic and a complete joke.

Am I the only one to find a video of the same gap about 100 times, mainly not making it, occasionally making it, incredibly boring? Obviously so!!

Hey Fred, I don't see why anyone should be defending any situations though. From what I've heard the comps you've put on have been very well received with good turnouts etc. I guess if they had been official Brit rounds (please note, that's in no way a dig, just a statement for want of a better phrasing), they may have lost a bit of their carefree fun character because of the weight and seriousness with which a lot of riders (not me...) take such comps when Worlds rankings are involved. I'm also happy to admit that all things considered, the people running the official series certainly haven't exactly helped things with this recent episode... I couldn't make the first Kelly Farm date due to doing the Beaulieu demo's but if I'd known when it was going to be held I would've liked to enter as I'm free this weekend. Ah well. What I'm saying, and I'd like to think that there isn't a single person (rider/organiser) who wouldn't agree, is that trials is far too small to have all this in-fighting. Things have always been run very well and professionally in the past, by all those involved, with each club putting on one or two Nationals per year and I just wish things would get back to how they used to be. I thought when the UK held it's first World round a couple of years back that things could only go up but it seems I was wrong. Surely the differences between the two 'factions' are not too big to overcome and something really needs to be done before next year before the whole National comp scene implodes... Dave

Somebody close this topic please before the shit gets stirred some more. Why should we have to 'take sides' at all? Why the f**k can't everyone just get over this shitstorm and try resolving whatever issues are braking the UK comp trials scene apart? The Euro/World organisers must be pissing themselves hearing all the crap that's going on in our national comps. Quack.

There's seriously something not right with this Danny Mac chap... absolutely insane! Very cool vid, cheers guys! Dave