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Portland's on the South Coast of Dorset, next to Weymouth, about 90 miles West of Portsmouth. Has some of the best natural riding in the South. See y'all there!! Dave

What did I say Si? What did I say?!!! Another maybe from me, see what the weather's doin' etc. Laters peeps Dave

Awesome Johnny, I can only imagine how much time and effort's been put into that! A job very well done- now go give yourself a mahusive pat on the back! Dave

Same as most the guys here- works up til the first 10mins or so then Quicktime encounters a problem and has to close Quicktime 7 and 1 gig of RAM... Worth re-uploading as mentioned before? Seems to be corrupt or summink after that 10.28 barrier? Looking awesome so far though! All the best Dave

I still don't believe this is a human playing... here You'll have to delete the .wmv extension for it to work. Dave

The Echo site appears to be down too so I guess it's a server problem or something. Dave

Oh you!

I'm sure you're right, I was just pointing out that it's possible to do it, not necessarily advisable!! Anyhoo, here's a pic of a Super City going on Bike Trader for about £1500 at the mo. Fast for a 125 and proper bike sized so it won't disappear up your arse!! Look quite swish too. If money's no object have a look at the Yamaha DT125X

Took the words right out of my mouth... One frickin mouse button?!! WTF?!! Dave

I was tempted to do a direct access course, I'm 23 and have had a full driving license for 6 years...but thought better of it. I know if I went out and bought a nice 600 or something I would be bound to drop it, crash it, kill myself or whatever. If you get a good fun 125 that'll do you until you pass your full test I think it's the better, safer option. Have a look at something like a Cagiva Super City- a proper sized 125 supermoto style beast. Also don't forget that once you do your full test and can ride a 33bhp machine for two years that ANY bike (pretty much) can be properly restricted to 33bhp for about £100. Dave

Once you've done your CBT you'll be able to ride a bike not exceeding 125cc and producing 11kW (14.6bhp). Do it- motorbikes are awesome Mine's almost there now, just need mirrors to pass the SVA and should be in the road in Jan... Dave edit: but what Pinky's getting at I think is that once you're 21 you can take the direct access course which allows you to ride any size bike on completion of the course. FYO CBT is about £100 including bike hire and direct access is usually about £500 and is done over about 4 days.

Aerodynamic changes are limited to certain areas of the car, decided by the FIA. The body is also modified for strength and weight saving. Dave

Fraid not! All panels are repressed to the designs put forward by the rally team, based on the external dimensions of the road car, with a 1% tolerance. That doesn't happen on the standard car production line though. They definately do not start with the road car. Dave

The Ford World Rally Team don't choose what car to run, Ford tell them what they want to promote via rallying. Also, even the shell is not a standard car stripped. I think there's less than 1% of the road car components in a world rally car (if that!). There's no composites used in the engine itself, only non structural inlets etc. I think the sound is down to a highly strung, turbo charged engine with very little silencing. The drivers seem to be on the rev limiter half the time too! Dave

:P My bad, sorry Dan!

Usual suspects: Photo by Tessa Lunn Photo by Dan Campbell Photo by Chris Killops Another by Chris Killops And a final one by Dan Campbell for good luck Dave Edit: Sorry for the size and quality but they're all either scanned in real pics or compressed.

Oh Danny boy...will you never listen to me? Rowan's finally gone the Maxxis route... their slow reezay's are awesome. For the record El Gato's would be fine if they had a touch more pinch protection and were about 0.2" fatter at the rear. I reckon you'd get up that first time on the HiFi (in the same conditions) though. Nice harsh grind too. Your brake looks like it's slipping like a biatch on the Pure! Still lovin the 'yeah, first time...' quote! Take it easy fella Dave

The frames look like rebranded/repainted DDG's, Planet-X's etc... rather than custom, 'own designs'. Just an observation to be aware of. Interesting choice of names by the way!! Cock=penis in English if you didn't already know... Dave

In which case the colour enhancement is crap in places. Only a few balls, which the eye is drawn to which simply look wrong. Dave

There's no way all of those are real! I've watched the ad on TV a few times and there are quite a few that simply look wrong. The majority clearly are real and were filmed as described but methinks a lot were added electronically afterwards. Dave

Awesome riding as usual TRA. That ramp to wall is just huge! Glad to see your riding again, and hopefully still consuming mint chocolates as part of the rehabilitation process! Also that screw looks like a cross head jobbie from Halfords!! Although I guess it's titanium?! Dave

I'm reasonably local and concur (!) that Bournemouth's a bit pants but Poole's quite good. Locals are all very friendly too. Apart from that Dan Jones...he's just downright unsociable :lol: Dave

You can't extrude carbon fibre. It would have to be laid up from pre-preg sheet form onto a mould to make a tube. But of course it can be done. Here for example Dave

Lol, lovin the front page of the site! Did you get a fine or anything?! Dave