I'd like to see Toni Bou on a 197 Villiers, Captain.
We would let him remove the mudguards and fit a larger rear sprocket of course.
Always good to see the Observed Trials, Pros.
Ballance and confidence.
They must have very strong fingers to hold the Bars and Clutch as they do.
There can't possibly be anything better in this world than 2 wheels and a motor.
AC.

Carbon I'm sorry to upset you so much you can't even keep up with my facts. Oh well will have wait till I do get some video then critique the results. I know what I like and newbies just ain't up to it in my real world.

Hobot, can I come? I am neither brave nor competent, but what you need is a foolish demented optimist with translation and first aid skills who lives far enough away to avoid the inevitable extradition warrants issued by Billy Bob McCluskie, the Arkansas D.A. I'm your man!

Dave M. Be careful what ya want you just might get it! Wes and I often discuss a local get together for adventure riders. About half my past Peel events and adventures were off the pavement. There are some pastures I've been in that you cant see any fences and d/t the rolling land scape its like riding a sea of huge green swells with islands of woods in the ravines, mile or more runs w/o having to turn around and easy to get lost. I feel like Speed McQueen in Great Escape w/o the fence jump of course but do catch air time. Wes wanted to take an extra long path last time out that involved miles and miles of THE Gravel, but I'm rather weary of it. I said next time and insisted we take the easy flowing swoopy highway circuit this time. He and I both ended refreshed and grinning ear to ear and back in time before sun set made the air too chilled to enjoy the wind. I live on the dam slutty stuff so its routine to have to constantly catch bike skips and trips but its always only an instant over sight or one hazard coming around a blind or over crest to ruin a whole month of weekends.

After so much time and events on THE G, a sense of how much a bike can take and automatically self correct builds up for skip outs, wobbles and tank slapping.
On road work this shows up in how much you can fight with the bike trying to hold it down or pick back up in time and just ignore the seeming almost crash sense. I gave up totally to press any further on bikes that do that be it a Commando or elite new racers.

Carbonfibre wrote:

hobot wrote:Your messages are now sounding un-balanced to me. I failed in Trixie's burn out because I chickened out to dump the clutch with poor front tire grip in crowed square yet by golly sure did it on Peel with them other dragsters w/o wet pavement before X-mass tree line up. That was a scary hoot to learn to do but part of cycling fun and dare to me now. Its Peel rod links that make her easy for a novice to have safe fun flings on.

Too bad you can't conceive what I've already done on Ms Peel and SuVee, doughnut turn w/o a foot down off road as well as pavement. Plain Trixie is going to be tougher to try that on but intend find out if she & I can. I know she'll be able to do the lift off direction reversals on a parking lot for fun figure 8's w/o a foot down or spinning rear like a dirt bike on the good stuff - real dirt or sand, ahhhh. Had to go to Texas to find that but was it after dark and no camera man. Did chase up a moccasin snake since I had left the mowed public area for exposed weedy sandy lake bottom d/t Texas drought. Scariest deal there was I chased snake into the water so sat there a moment to feel the tires sinking so had to sorta spin an upright doughnut with feet down to get back to more terra firma. I don't think I'll ever be any good on mud. Soft sand is like making love to a fat girl, soft and forgiving.

Come on out I need a competent brave bike/biker as chase camera.

gobbledegook?

great descriptor !

Hehe thanx but I am scared to work up to regular Commando limits again but I know the control and stability I felt in parking lot circles, so much so after the half dozen or so creep downs to exht clamp & peg drag I knew I could cause Trixie to hi side out of the turn at 90's to travel at those slow speeds. Working up nerve to see if I can do it w/o breaking or crashing. I was sent straight out of kindegarden into 2nd and 3rd grade classes at private school because I'd learn to read so early on but brain injured enough not to stay put in class so had to repeat 2nd grade which put me back in my own age group. Reading comprehension is not same thing as spelling and written/spoken grammar, ugh.

What my not be apparent to real racers and seasoned riders like Carbon is recovering a race like crash d/t road or wind upsets or just plain going in too harshly is exactly like parking lot and Gravel recovery but with rather more time and ballistic carry though to make it possible - which at slow speed its too fast a slap down to do anything about it or even know you crashed until picking pieces up. SPLAT. About half the zipper tang on jacket torn off, buckle on chaps too.