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Hahah, I only joined 6 months after you, all the way back in 2003 apparently!! I'm sure that warrents Senior Memberness...!!! Dave

Many thanks to Sue and Charlie for an awesome day. Weather was crazy hot but everyone was on top form and great to see some old faces again. I'm just sorry this was the first one I've managed to get to!! Dave Marshall (red/white/black Monty 221Pr (yes, Chai a Pr!!) with orange rims.

That was definitely last years record... MCN are showing his fastest practice lap to be at 129.084mph... Reasonable possibility for a 130mph lap in the race though? Dave

That may be true for building muscle mass (bulking up), but I'd have thought that for the explosive power you need for trials, fast reps like that probably doesn't do any harm... Just a thought. Dave

Hahahahahahahahahaha...ha. Can't wait to see everyone, and also to finally meet Sue and Charlie. Gonna be gooooooood Dave

Dan Jones got his done at Ferndown Powdercoatings for £20 including sand blasting it first... I also got my rims done there for a tenner a piece. Pretty reasonable in my book. Dave

There used to be a site (anyone help me here?) in Japan run by an ex american guy (Pat Morrow?) who mentioned the possibility that in the future he could see suspension being used like that to create a kind of wheeled pogo stick to help with static moves but I don't think he ever got round to it... It works in mototrials so it's not an impossible idea. Dave

1) Why were you posting at 5:17am Dan?... 2) How's the disc? Looks pretty monsterous!! Dave

Yeah, that's definitely a mod frame- you can tell be the bashguard but also the brake mount positions. Can't remember Giant ever producing one though so it's either a proto one used just by someone on the team or some other random frame (which I can't identify although it looks a little like one of the old GT mods...) that has been sprayed up in Giant colours. Dave

Hahah, fair enough!! Yeah, should catch up with a lot of people I hardly ever see- really looking forward to it Take it easy dude, Dave

Seeing as this is trials forum that bike seriously needs some scratches on it! You need to ride more Chris!! Bike looks loverly as always, just a little underused?! Dave

I will definitely be attending come hell or high water. Will also be after a blue medium T . Thanks Sue, Dave.

Have posted in new member's forum . RIP Deej

Hi Sue, I'm getting an error when I try to vote so will do it by a post for now. Was going to get in touch with you about this as my original black one has seen better days. I'd like a Medium blue one please . All the best, Dave Marshall edit: not sure if the poll thing is expecting one answer for each of the categories? It doesn't want to accept just a medium blue as a response...

But will it be raced this year? Our Formula Student team seem to do the same thing every year- decide that last year did it wrong and start again! The car's been in the same state for the past 4 odd years that I've seen it. Also, was any aero work carried out on the car? CFD or experimental? I avoided FS during my undergrad because I wanted to do aero work and it tended to be a very mechanical project. Dave

Can I come up with one of those trolley's from the Jackass movie and go for it 'Supermarket Sweep' stylee?!!! Looks awesome guys but you seriously need a holiday!! I'm sure it's illegal the amount of hours you must work... Dave

Regardless of competition results, Vincent has to be the best rider in the world right now. Having watched that and some of the vids from Sergio at the Indoor Mototrials comps, the man is a complete monster!! Sick.

Why do you have 4 mototrials bikes? Can I have one please?!!

I should actually be able to make it this year (first time ). Will be good to catch up with some old faces. Dave

Hahah, I knew that was coming!! I saw him and thought 'that looks like Barry'... and they've just shown pics of him riding trials. I'm sitting going through some data on my laptop at home and it just happened to be on... honest!! Dave

Is Barry Deeks on BBC1 'Cash in the attic' right now? Looks a hell of a lot like him... Dave

Funnily enough I was thinking exactly the same... I ran the old style ones for a good 6+ years before getting one of the newer style ones. I Broke a lever body on the older style and also went through numerous TPA's. However function was always top notch and lever was comfortable. The newer style ones felt very similar powerwise and feel to me. I did however manage to break a TPA on one of them too... What I would say is that when you break a magura, the material looks similar to an Aero chocolate bar- full of bubbles and just seems very poor grade and badly cast. I haven't tried a Dengura but Sam Wheeler was raving about his on the DJ ride. Dave

Dan Jones got his Echo sandblasted and powdercoated yellow for £20 at Ferndown Powder Coating. I also got my rims done Repsol orange for £10 each. Might be worth getting in touch. You'd just have to send it to them and then apply some new decals afterwards. Dave

This is my plaything... Have removed those horrid mirrors and replaced them with Oberon bar end jobbies since that pic and got a Scorpion can coming this week. Dave

I'm not so convinced by Hope... ok so I run front and rear on my Monty but... I still prefer my old Hayes HFX 9 that I used to run. I've always found Hope quality to be rather shoddy, especially the levers- rattly with loads of play. Only down side of the Hayes was that bleeding was quite a hassle. Dave