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To be perfectly honest I think that was a good thing, he really shouldn't have been included at all. Martyn , Martin I also still prefer Revolution though... got that on VHS but have no way of uploading it. emule? Dave

Heheh, some little bugger back home borrowed my Chainspotting and never gave it back. I picked up a VHS copy on evilbay signed by the squad! It's got Ashton, Will Longden, Steve Peat, Rob Warner and Tom Edwards (?) scrawls inside. Think it cost me about £2.99!! Still a total classic Evolve's good but I still prefer Revolution. The JJ Gregorowicz section was the reason I got my very first Monty Mod way back when! Dave

To be honest I hope it doesn't get big, and kinda doubt it ever will. Look at motorcycle trials. It's been going for a lot longer than biketrials and is still a seriously minority sport. One thing that makes a sport explode is that it's good for spectators to watch... Trials really isn't that spectator friendly. Anyone who doesn't ride has no idea how difficult it is and so tend to be fairly unimpressed by what we do. Motocross is more likely to draw a crowd because of the huge airs and speed involved but I'd still call it a minority sport. Do you really want trials to be a mainstream sport like football?!! Dave

Good luck with that Fred, Oxford Brookes has a very good track record. M-sport take on a student for a placement every year and the placement scheme sounds really worthwhile. Dave

Reading these I guess I'm quite unusual (surprise!) as I've known what I wanted to do since I was about 12. Always been into motorsport and specifically the aerodynamics of cars. When I was twelve I finally found out that the word for it is an aerodynamicist. All my subject choices in school were then effectively chosen for me, with the help of some advice from McLaren and Williams F1 teams who I got in touch with to ask them! Always aimed to do Aerospace Engineering at uni and was accepted to do that at Southampton (again, advised by Adrian Newey, current RBR aero guru earning something silly like £6M a year). In my final year of my undergrad I was offered the chance to do an Engineering Doctorate (like a PhD but better paid) sponsored by a successful World Rally Team to develop the aerodynamics of their car... So I'm now doing what I've wanted to do for the past 12 years! Meh, I guess I'm the exception but I do think that things tend to work out for the best and if you want something bad enough it can happen. Dave

I'm in an unusual position for this thread. On Sunday my university supervisor, who I've known and been close to for the past three years, was killed in a kite surfing accident. He was only 30 and had only got married about 4 months ago. It was a major shock and I guess cos I haven't been so close to a death before it really hit me hard. It hurt so much when I first found out and for at least 24 hours afterwards and it's only slowly starting to sink in now. The funeral's tomorrow and I still can't believe he's gone. I guess it will take a long time to fully come to terms with it and fully mourn. He was the only reason I got a first in my degree and the only reason I've been given the opportunity to do my postgrad and now he's gone. In answer to the question though... I really don't think it would be good or healthy not to feel bad after the loss of a loved one. If you didn't feel bad you wouldn't be able to value life and think about how things might affect others. Having lost Charlie, it's made me think a lot about things and I think in the long run will make me value life more and become a better person. It's also given me new drive to finish my EngD to the best of my abilities so I can accredit him and dedicate my Thesis to his memory (I, along with one of my friends, were the first postgrad students he ever supervised). I think that without feeling the pain of this tragedy I would be in a far worse situation... Odd question though... Ben you really ought to sign up to some psychology/theology forums... Dave

You crazy little trials monkey!! Very nice ridin' in there. I really ought to get up to Laaannndaaaannn again at some point for a ride, it's been ages since I was oop your way. Dave

It sounds like you're trying to look at it logically... there's no chance any woman will ever understand that!! Strange creatures...

Hey guys, I was just about to post a new topic on virtually the same thing... good thing I searched! I'm in the market for a similar camera- basically as close to SLR without the $$. I'm off to Kenya over Easter so wanter a new camera with lots of optical zoom to take pictures of lions and shizzle. I'd narrowed it down to a Sony DSC-H2 or a Fuji S6500 . Any thoughts on these? Having read the posts, it looks like the Fuji S5600 might be an even better bet though. Cheers, Dave

Hmm... I've been thinking about this before posting and although at the moment it would seem a really good plan and everyone's going to say 'yeah! wicked! I'd come loads...' by the time spring comes around we have a country full of wicked natural riding and architecture which would mean that for most of the year it would be a total dead end (IMO of course). To work it would either need to be a) a permanent outdoor facility requiring no staffing and be all weather (like that one in Spain) b ) a (most likely small) annex to a permanent indoor skatepark or c) we would need to have winters that last 9 months making riding outdoors impossible! Reading that over seems very pessimistic but I don't want you to stick a load of money into something without sussing it out first... Dave

That's just stupid. I think it was 2 or 3 years ago that Martin Lampkin made a conscious effort to make the sections at the Sheffield Trial lower because of people getting injured the year before... And now Toulouse are making the riders do that?! I can't believe what they're managing to do but if anything went wrong on those high sections you're well and truly fooked. Mad.

Turbo'd.

Yes!! Heheheh. When are you guys going? I'm a member so I might pop by and say hi... dave

I managed not to have a MySpace or Bebo account for a long time then eventually gave in and signed up to Bebo. It has been good to get in touch with a load of school friends I hadn't heard from in like 6 years but I admit it is a waste of space and the novelty soon wears off! Anyway, mines at echo-trials.bebo.com without much exciting on there... Dave

Wouldn't have happened if he wasn't such a nonce wearing his little sisters jeans... I bet his face was a mess after that though. One of my mates once had his forks snap on his orange O2 jumping down like 4 steps. He didn't have time to put his hands out to break his fall and what a state he ended up! Got him into MBUK though!! Dave

It doesn't matter even if the alarm does go off...provided you don't have a knife or anything on you! Every time I go through the sensor the alarm goes off, whether it's my watch or belt or what I don't know but I've come to expect it. They just do a quick pat down and check your shoes. So short answer: No problem at all.

Right handed, right footed to kick a ball but also ride right foot forwards and Sidehop to the left... To throw something else in when I'm on the back wheel I prefer to turn to the left (anticlockwise from above). Dave

And he had the cheek to slag off all the riders these days who wear chav trousers and pixie boots in MBUK?!! Heheh. I'm proud to say I have never worn lycra for trials and never will...unless someone's willing to pay me silly amounts of money! Dave

I'm thinking what you're thinking... How feasable is it? Do the BMXer's use it already?... Very interesting... Dave

Mwahaha, proper old skool!! Aye, tis Ashton and Hawyes looking oh so cool. I think that video was the reason I got a Troy Lee Designs Edge helmet (the one Martyn's wearing)... I still have it if anyone fancies that old skool look!! Dave

Lol, ah thems were the days!! MBUK wound me up so bad when the issue with it in came out and I was mentioned once with no riding pics at all... It was all 'Chris Ackrigg this... Ed Tongue that...'! I also remember being a bit $hitty to Chris Ratcliff at a National the next year as well regarding MBUK not taking pictures of 20" trials... Sorry Chris!! Dave

Not 100% what you mean... whereabouts was I doing it? I think one of the important things with short run up moves is getting the timing right so you get the power from your good foot exactly when you need it to make the up. Also with short run up stuff, body movement becomes more important. Because you don't have the momentum from a roll in you tend to have to actually muscle the bike a bit more to get it where you want it. Not sure if that's helped much but ah well!! Dave

This topic scares me... I'm looking at most of these threads thinking 'that's not old skool'! As an example poeple are mentioning Mavic 517 rims and Echo ES4's- That's new skool baby! I'd already been riding 4 or 5 years when that stuff came out!! Old skool to me is a 16" GT backwoods frame with triple chainset, STX-RC V-brakes and club roost bars. Bash rings hadn't reached the mainstream (Nearly wet myself when I saw the 32T Blackspire Ring God in a magazine) and Magura's still cost over £250 for a set...

Lol, there are enough random pictures around with my arms, abs and boobs out in them!! Dave

A long way from Aberdeen, believe me!! Click me. Nearly 600 miles and about a 10 hour drive... Dave