Exeter Trial - bike class B - tyres

First MCC event for me so please excuse my naivety! 

 

I should have read the regs before today - I had mistakenly believed that road legal trials tyres like my MT43s were OK but am now not sure because of the distance between the blocks being more than 6mm. What tyres do other folks use on bikes please?

 

Regards and Happy New Year

 

Brian Sussex

Exeter

TTR250

 

 

Welcome to Brindles and Climber

Hi,

 

You are very welcome to the community. Looking forward to meeting you here.

 

 A reminder that this is a "real names " community (see the rules!). Pleae ammend your "nickname" in your user profile so it displays your real name and/or make sure you sign your posts with your real name.

 

Much obliged.

 

Michael - Community Manager

Have you signed in?

If, like I was doing, you view the message board without bothering to sign in to the community be aware of the following :-

" ....if you do not sign in to your Hotmail account for 30 days (or within the first 10 days after you set up your account), Hotmail marks your account as "Inactive". Your stored e-mail messages are deleted, and inbound mail messages are returned to the sender. Your Passport still works, and your Hotmail sign-in name is reserved. You will need to reactivate your account by going to : http://www.hotmail.com/ and typing in your sign-in name and password. If your account remains "Inactive" for 90 days, Hotmail permanently deletes it and any stored messages. "  so says Mr Microsoft, however there is no warning and your membership to the community remains in a state of limbo so when you re-join can't use your original 'nickname' or email address.

Looking foward to the Exeter - all I have to do now is put the engine and gearbox back in and get an MOT......

Merry Christmas all! 

Stuart Cairney

Virus Warnin from Mike Furse

Hi Gassers,

 

Mike Furse has sent out an e-mail warning of a virus circulating amongst triallers. I looked it up on the Symantec Site and they say this could be a "hoax virus" (Whatever that means.). Anyway this is the link to what Symantec (Norton) have to say.

 

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html

 

Michael

Christmas and New Year

Just a little note to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and safe New Year.

Hopefully met of you on the Exeter.

Sorry to hear of your postal mix up Michael. Hope to see you anyway.

Mark

Typo in Exeter Route Card

Being extremely organised with Christmas things this year gave me the opportunity to go through the Exeter Route Card the other night.  Either I had got completely befuddled (it was quite late) adding 186 minutes (plus 15) to all the standard times or there is a minor typo towards the end of the route card.  It appears that we need to travel back through time after the final section - whilst we all know that Dudley could do this it might prove difficult for us mere mortals!

Ian Davis  

New Members

A reminder to our new members that this is a "real names " community (see the rules!). Pleae ammend your "nickname" in your user profile so it displays your real name and/or make sure you sign your posts with your real name.

 

Much obliged.

 

Michael - Comminity Manager

Asleep At The Wheel

I have been thinking about the Selby Rail Crash, where it is said that Gary Hart went to sleep at the wheel. It looks as if he will be sent to prison. I can't help wondering if we triallers sail close to the wind on this one sometimes. On the Exeter I always struggle to stay awake on the way from breakfast to the first hill and on the long grind down the A30 to Bluehills on The Lands End. Personally I always take the day off before an MCC event and put my head down before setting off for the start. I know some people take wakey, wakey pills. Has anyone tried Red Bull? The endurance element is a key part of MCC trials and without it they would be loose all their  character but we must be careful, especially with the speed of modern traffic.

I used to drive home after the Edinburgh until the day I went to sleep on the Motorway. I remember I was dreaming about somebody knocking on my bedroom door trying to wake me up. I did and it was the sound of my wheels on the Cats Eyes. After that I stay in Buxton overnight!

Michael