AdamR28

Yep.

Haha - nice one. That will have been on Chris in the orange car I reckon... We are a growing series and I think there were at least 3 or 4 drivers who had never raced before, and one or two who'd never even driven a car on track before (other than doing their test) - so some of the guys may have been a bit slow / off line etc. They all had a great time though and learned a lot

Sounds about right... oh well. Maybe have to have a moan then, as it increased everyone's entry fee by £40 to have the TV coverage. We should get a DVD with it on in 2-3 weeks but was curious to find out - cheers man!

Fun day at Donington on Saturday... Here's my vid from Race 2. Started 4th in a bunch of 6 similarly-paced cars, again cocked up the start, then messed up in the race quite a lot and finished 7th. I was chuffed with my pace (qualified on pole, and fastest lap in both races) but I was too inconsistent and made too many mistakes in the races, which was pretty diasppointing. Video 'highlights' are as follows: 0:30 - Messing up the start by being too far back from the car ahead when the lights went out, then being too cautious throughout the first half of the lap. 1:05 - 3 abreast through Craner 2:33 - Tom closing the gap fairly forcefully 3:25 - Good run on James, passing into the chicane with Rodders up my inside - left him room but didn't come through 3:58 - Let Rodders through the inside and expected him to disappear into the distance... 4:17 - But nearly ran into the back of him at Old Hairpin! (He was in a borrowed car) 5:49 - Good speed through Old Hairpin, carrying the speed to pass Tom up the inside at the next right hander 8:10 - Good run on Josh out of the chicane, easy pass 8:55 - Getting cosy with Chris 9.38 - Good exit from chicane again... 9.56 - But screwed up again and lost both the places, dammit! 10:20 - Pass Josh up the inside again 11:42 - Oversteer down Craner, then Sam getting twitchy through Old Hairpin 12:27 - Good run on Sam... But overcooked it in quite a big way 14:50 - One handed drift through Old Hairpin, allowing Tom to pass me 15:30 - Slipstreamed him to make the pass... but screwed up again 16:23 - Too hot into Old Hairpin, gave it up and went grass-tracking 17:15 - Alan outbraked himself into the last corner, sat in the run off before the chicane After the race I realised one of my front pads was down to the metal - that may have had something to do with the lack of retardation towards the end of the race! (Racing Driver Excuse #457) Did anyone see the TV footage? How was it?

That does sound like bullshit, and the 'ohh your muscles look painful' bit reminded me of the Mr Kennedy from The Inbetweeners. Thanks for putting my insurance premiums up (Nah, seriously, you are NOT one of the people I blame for that!)

It's live coverage from Donington this weekend

If the front end doesn't feel like it wants to pull up, you need higher bars or a shorter cockpit - roll the bars back IMO. This will also help with taps.

Looks sweet that! Dunno if it's the pics but the wheels look a bit 'blue' for my tastes.

It would, but not possible unfortunately - the Echo one from back then was 6 pawls too.

Sorry, I'm talking about the old Echo freewheels, the ones that were effectively copies of the ENO (this is like... 5 years ago or more). The new Echo freewheels aren't compatible with any ENO parts.

Random off topic... If anyone with Sky wants to watch me racing on TV this Saturday, tune into Motors TV at 1:30 and 4:20pm http://www.motorstv.com/tv-guide-uk?d=2013-04-06&h=3

It's making the pawl seats and the associated part of the pawl nice and shiny so they run smoothly, and also the tips where they rub against the ratchet. The pawls all being in time is pretty rare, you can tinker with them with a grinder to get them in time if you wish (take the blue seal out of the 'back' of the freewheel and you can see the pawls, then mark them up, reduce their length by a tiny amount, re-fit, and try again, repeat. I did similar with half an Echo and half an ENO a few years back to give 108 EPs, takes a bit of time / effort though!

We can get it, but choose not to stock it because availability and consistency of stock is very sketchy - in fact it's likely half the stuff you see on the site is no longer available (Or only left in XL and XS, or only one colour, etc) If you want us to check though, just fire an email with exact (size, colour, style, etc) details of what you're after and we'll check for you.

Yeah, that will help. The 'engaging' action is what beds the pawls in, if that make sense.

It'll be grease from the bearing as Mark said on facebook, get that cleaned out and let it bed in some more, should do the trick. You need to get the ends of the pawls and their seats nice and shiny, so some really thin oil will help too. The ENOs are nice but they do require pretty regular maintenance (which is why we tend to recommend the Echo SL, I know you just broke one though).

I do

Yeah, but it's non solvent based as far as I know, which is the difference. Did you use it? Mine didn't 'repel' anywhere strangely, went on really evenly! It's definitely not 7.5t, you need another test for that. Haha, that's what I thought Check the carrying capacity of the vans too - for example the huge Crafter is 2.2t by itself so you can only carry 1.3...

Hmm. I think that's right, the hatching is to retain some grease? Just sounds like the centre sleeve is too short...

As above - biggest thing I know of with a 3.5t gross is an XLWB extra high roof VW Crafter or Mercedes Sprinter. They are huge, probably big enough to move house in one load

Yeah I managed to get some on my head, took a week to come off. Get the 'starter pack' with the other two jobbers in it (marine clean and something prep, I think), and if you need more paint get the tiny pots - once opened they go off pretty quick and the lids have a habit of sticking themselves down (even if you use plastic as a 'seal' like they recommend). It's tough stuff though - I painted a coat on my trailer straight onto some rust, no preparation or anything (other than a quick wire brush), then attacked it with a screwdriver and it stayed put!

Aluminium.

Some prototype ones. Stan should have had a pair too but he cut the steerer too short

Cheers Ross. Still on my 20" Fans! No video, sorry.

Cheers man! Here's one of me. First move of the day. Fail.

Hello all, Here's a few pics from yesterday's ride... Not had the camera out for a couple of years! Slinger large tap from uphill run up: Another tap with horrible run up Large gap to front Matt forward sidehop thingy over snow Fail Sidehop to rear Gap up to front from rock in bottom left Sidehop from rock in bottom left of pic Sidehop to horrible green rock Tap Stan drop off Stan setting up for a gap Muddy run up Tap Cheers, Ads