Wessex Centre ACU Chattering

Kevin Miller — See you around & about soon we hope!

Frank Sweeting — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:03:41 +0000

We’ve had a mail from Adam Colburn about Kevin.

Hello everyone

Quick update to my previous note on the condition of dear old Kev (Windy) Miller. I had a phone call this afternoon from Liz, his lovely wife, to let me know the old sod has been in the high dependency unit of Swindon Hospital for the last nine days, four of them on life support!

Not wishing to alarm anyone, Kev should be on a normal ward in the next few days. In short, Kev suffers from Graves Disease which affects the thyroid and this started to play up again a few weeks ago. As I’ve always said to him, you don’t get his chiseled good looks without pretty parents or a justifiable cause and this seems to be it. Unknown to Kev or Liz he has become diabetic and this episode has seen a blood sugar level of 54 which means nothing to me but apparently means you call a vicar.

If you get the chance to drop him a note to wish him well, please do so. I’m off on Holiday to Cornwall this weekend for a week but have asked Liz to let me know if anything should change in the old grey beards condition and I will let you know.

In the meantime. lets all keep everything crossed.

Best Regards – Adam

Obviously everyone will want Kevin to ‘Get well soon’ & I’m sure any messages, cards etc will help get the smile back on Kevin’s face.

Frank

BSSA’s Glenis Sinclair 2hr TT Results, 4th Alan Brown TT Regs available. Now here’s a funny thing – read on ….

Frank Sweeting — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:58:27 +0000

Hi all. Apologies to BSSA I’ve somehow missed getting these two things posted for you.

You can find the Glenis Sinclair 2hr TT Results on the 2012 Events: Results for Trials, Time Trials, Hare & Hounds, & Enduro Page

& the 4th Alan Brown Regs on the 2012 Wessex Centre Events: Regs. & Entry Forms Page

Here’s the funny thing, you will have read here how I’ve managed to confuse things in the past two or three months by putting the links to Regs & Results in the Post [ie in this bit] rather than the Page listed in the sidebar?

So this time I’ve got it worked out, there’s a link in this Post to the Page the Regs & the Page the Results are on.

NOW you can click in this Page throught to the Regs Page or the Results Page. Then you can click on the Regs or Results you want to see

OR you can go to the sidebar, open the Page & choose the download you want from there.

The choice is yours – for whichever you find quickest for you

Frank

SSDT update – Jerry Cross has problems on last day, Adam Norris 18th overall & Best O40

Frank Sweeting — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:07:33 +0000

Very very brief update, off to observe at the Tuck/Cross Sidecar British Championship Trial.

Just looked at the SSDT Results, Dougie pips James Dabill on furthest clean! Ross Danby [Jotagas] & Jerry Cross both riding for no award yesterday – didn’t ride any sections – so bike troubles for both I assume. Adam was 18th overall – as usual a great ride for someone who rides 2 or maybe 3 times in a year these days. Ricky Wiggins did well too with 16th & James Fry is fulfilling his potential being 1 mark & 1 place better than Ricky.

More comment later

Oh I see Keelan Hancock was riding – with a 41st place finish.

See ou later on today? Frank

Goodness, ‘we wuz hacked’, Colin Stenner TT Results posted in Results Page, SSDT,

Frank Sweeting — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:48 +0000

Hello all: yes its true, had a call this morning from our ‘hosting provider’ to say the site was hacked over the weekend some time. We were redirected to something by ’PakCyberPyrates’. All was backup & running by 12:00hrs – excellent proactive service from Clive.

Had anyone noticed? You would have known if you had visited, & I hadn’t posted anything since Thursday – so I hadn’t seen it either.

Still several things I have to bring you up to date with.

First, as they say, it has been brought to my attention that some of you have not been finding where Regs available & Results can be downloaded from easily since I began putting the links IN THE POST whose heading alerted you to them. I am as from now reverting to putting them on the appropriate PAGE. I hope that helps you all.

It’s SSDT week already, apparently nice weather in Fort William yesterday according to Mairie Jenkins. Five clean sheets yesterday, Adam Norris is well up on the Leader Board [14th] having only dropped two. Jerry Cross is 89th O40 & Walter Luft is 77th in the same class. We hope all our ‘lads’ have a good week, I guess perhaps its only Fred Adams who can reasonably still be called a ‘lad’ as he’s still a teenager, He’ll be in that class next year as well. Fred is currently 137th on 42 m/l, Woody Hole is 33rd on 7,[good effort eh] Scott Cameron is 44th on 13, Mark Cameron 139th on 43, Craig Talbot 146th on 44, Tony Moulder 170th on 55, Jerry Cross 258 on 117 & Andy Frost 260th on 120 I’ll pick up on other placings for you later on in the week, I don’t see Joe Baker or Keelan Hancock, Keelans older brother Ross is 64th on 20 & Ricky Wiggins is 10th on just a dab. In the Ladies Becky is trailing Emma Bristow by 4 marks 25 to 21 with Katy 3rd on 46. The fourth Lady is Italian? judging by her name S Trentini on 89.

TBC: Frank

Beware – Bike Thieves Are Around Again. Let me know what’s the easiest way for you to find Regs & Results. June’s Board Meeting postponed for a week

Frank Sweeting — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:27:42 +0000

Hello all, bad news from Martin Strang, who sent me this mail today

“Frank, just a quick email to ask if you could notify the off road community that the low life bike thieves are still around.

A friend of mine who lives in the Frome area of Somerset had his KTM EXC 530cc 2010 machine stolen during the night just past.

He had the bike for sale & gave his port code to a prospective buyer. The post code was for several houses, & his neighbours garage was also broken into before they found the bike. Martin.”

Here’s a lesson in Latin for you all – read on – So its not caveat emptor anymore, it’s caveat venditor [Caveat venditor is Latin for "let the seller beware."]

Be on your guard in letting anyone know where & what you have in your garage. And make your garage as secure as possible. Better still alarm it & install CCTV – you can get gadgets that will record when any movement is detected [they will illuminate the camera view area as well if it's dark.

A number of people have been in touch about the way I've been listing Regs & Results {within Posts} rather than in Pages listed in the sidebar.

I've just sent Jerry Walters an email that about finding Results [it's the same for Regs]‘ it said –

Jerry – can you try this for me please

1 go to the home page

2 at the top right is an empty box called SEARCH

3 enter the word regs in the box & click

4 You should see an index of posts which have the word Regs in date order , newest first!

5 You can scroll down the list & click on the one you think you need — ie

And Another! Regs & Entry Form for North Somersets’ Jack Ball Trophy Timed Trial

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

6 click on that one & you should go to that post

7 click on the link on that page

8 you should get the Jack Ball Regs?

It’s pure laziness that I didn’t keep putting the Regs on the page listed in the sidebar – I thought it would be more immediate for guys to get where they wanted to from the Post rather than the Page.

If you have a look & tell me which you think is the ‘best’ way I’ll either go back to putting them on the Page or leave it as it is at the moment.

I’m guessing that I ought to g back to putting Regs & Results on their own pages.

But let me know your thoughts &/or what your guys want me to do

Thanks for letting me know – hadn’t realized I’d made a problem – I thought I was making it simpler/quicker

Please also note the next Wessex Centre Board Meeting will be put back for a week to Tuesday 12th June [blame the Queen – she’s having a Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday, bless her, on the 5th!

I’m not sure but I think I’m developing webbed feet – how about you? Keep smiling, Frank

Here’s a lot of stuff – North Somerset: Results for the Jack Ball Trophy held 22nd April, Change of Venue – Colin Stenner Time Trial on May 5th, Regs for the Fowlers & the Weymouth Timed Trials,

Frank Sweeting — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:39:49 +0000

North Somerset is a busy Club in May!

Firstly, Jerry Walters has mailed to say: With no end in sight to the current drought busting spell of wet weather, North Somerset Club have decided to move next weekend’s Time Trial from Mannings, Pensford to Malthouse Farm, Chelwood.

As many of you will know, the course at Mannings is very soft and boggy around the stream area even in dry weather, and could become impassable if we get much more rain. In addition, much of the very steep hillside may also become unrideable.

As the weather forcast is for more wet weather in the week ahead we have decided there is little point in leaving it to the last minute before arranging a different venue.

Hopefully we will be able to use Mannings for our 7th July Time Trial.

Cheers: Jerry’

Tony Colman has sent across the Regs & Entry Form for the Fowlers Time Trial which you can find here NSMSC Fowlers Restricted to Club Timed Trial Regs & Entry Form for 16th May 2012, & the Weymouth Time Trial which are here NSMSC Weymouth Restricted to Club Timed Trial Regs & Entry Form for 26th May 2012.

And Jerry sent the Jack Ball Trophy TT Results which are NSMSC Jack Ball TT Results 22/04/12 here

That’s it! You’re as up to date as can be! Frank

The View – from Ba House

Frank Sweeting — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:29:40 +0000

The “stop:non-stop debate” is warming up nicely. Already in the Centre there’s been a pre-emptive strike which has produced a return of the stopping rules to one club’s Championship, it seems likely that those who stand to lose the most from this change to non-stop will be the ones who will continue to fight the hardest against it, and will seek to get it reversed at their first opportunity. That’s only human, if you’re used to being allowed to ride virtually free-style, having most of your cunning ploys rendered useless, is bound to make you just a bit unhappy.
But this change was not introduced to punish the rule-stretchers, rather we hoped that by forcing everyone to ride properly, our game could start to return to a more civilised situation.The theory was that observing could become virtually risk free,and maybe then more people might be tempted into helping us out. Already there are signs that it might be working. Observing is now much simpler. All you have to do is count up the footing marks and watch for the stop, its boy’s work in comparison to the old way, which was so awful that none of us really knew how to observe it fairly.
Sadly though at the end of the year this happy situation is going to be reviewed, which means that we’ve only got a few more months of sanity left before we return to the full glory of the jumping up and down game. Still it was a brave try.
It’s good to hear that Freddie Adams has got into the Scottish, ( Evidently it took the threat of a visit with fire and sword by his relatives to finally tip the balance ), so all he needs now is to choose the right riding companion. The choice is between someone who gets lost on a regular basis, and head-butts trees, or one who trickles round at a gentler pace and finishes OK every time. I think he’ll go for the headbanger.
Best wishes to young Victoria Payne,who suffered that dreadful injury at the Traders recently. I hope that you recover quickly and that you”ll be out again with us soon. — Ba

I’ll echo some of that, Stop:NoStop – the Kingswood 2 Day event will be NoStop, Delighted Freds’ got an entry to the SSDT & ‘headbanger’ who on earth could that be? We all echo Ba’s get better quickly – it’s not the sort of preparation you need for the British Championship Campaign Victoria has. – Frank

Results – BSSA 3rd Alan Brown TT, Regs – BSSA 2hr Glenis Sinclair TT, NSMSC’s Colin Stenner TT Regs, Kingswood Open 2day Trial.

Frank Sweeting — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:12:29 +0000

Where shall we start? We’ve several things to update you on.

First up Kingswood have an Open 2day Classic/Twin Shock/non Expert/Youth B & C Trial at Lambs Lair on 23rd & 24th June. Classes for pretty well anything except for unsprung machines. You can find the Regs & Entry Form here Kingswood Open Classic/TS etc Regs & Entry Form 23rd & 24th June 2012

Second up BSSA have the Glenis Sinclair 2hour Time Trial at the same venue on Sunday week 29th April. It’s Restricted to the Club & you can find the Regs & Entry Fom here BSSA Restricted to Club 2 hr ‘Glenis Sinclair ‘ Two hour Timed Trial Regs & Entry Form 29th April 2012

We have more input from Ba with some more tongue in cheek [??] observation on the Trials Scene, that’ll be on a separate page [The View from BaHouse] directly.

Jan has also sent over the BSSA 3rd Alan Brown TT Results 14/04/12 [click to view]

And Tony Colman has done the same for the North Somerset Timed Trial on 5th May NSMSC Colin Stenner Timed Trial, Club Restricted, Regs and Entry Form for 5th May 2012 [click to view]

Updated Trials Champ Tables, Where shall I find the Regs, Regs available for WWMC H&H 17th June, etc etc

Frank Sweeting — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:13:17 +0000

Good morning, er sorry, Good afternoon: I hope you all had a good sporting Easter weekend.

Pete Dury has updated the Trials Champ Tables, & comments:

“2012 Wessex Centre Championship Update

With 4 rounds gone and nothing now until the Hawkesbury in September the leader in the Championship is the current title holder Gary Marshman by 3 points from Colin Crease. Ben Skinner is in 3rd place and being pushed by Lee Hassall, who is only 1 point behind.

Jason Atwell is clear leader in the Clubman Expert class from Rob Scott with Mark Holmes in 3rd.

The Clubmen class is led Andy Frost by just 1 point from Roy Strong and Ben Squance 3rd.

Leader in the Novice group is Ian Graham from Jonny Janaway and Mike Griffin.

Tim Wheeler is the current Over 40 leader having taken the win in the Traders via a tie break with Colin Bennett. Both had the same number of cleans but Tim had one more 1 mark loss section than Colin. Richard Elliott is currently in the runner up berth with Shelley Redworth in 3rd place.

The Most Senior group is being led by Dave Fry with Martin Strang close behind and Dai Clothier in 3rd.

If you spot any points errors or wrong name spellings etc then please let me know – Pete”

Find the Table here 2012 Centre Trials Champ Tables after 4th Round on08:04:12

Gary Scrivs has mailed to say

Frank,

When I looked in the Regs Available section on the Wessex web site for the Regs for the Traders the last entry was for the Presidents.Rob Pike said there was link from your script, but it wasn’t the obvious place to look to me !.

Regards: Gary

to which I replied

Gary,

You’re right.

I started to put a link in the post that had the particular Regs in the heading.

Lazily, – its takes a bit longer to do it as well – I haven’t been putting the Regs in the List of Regs available as well

You’re the first to mention it

I’ll try to do better.

My thinking was that you guys could find the Regs straight from the page & save yourselves a little time & make the site more friendly to the user.

Both is best!

Best wishes: Frank

I did tell you all around New Year time that I was intending to do both & asked for comments/criticism but Gary is the first [?] of you to notice, or more likely the first f you to tell me! Obviously both is best.

I was pleased that I’d got the Traders Results up on Sunday, well before they were on the Valers site though! You win some, you lose some.

West Wilts MC have now got their 17th June H&H Regs available so just click here WWMC Regs & Entry Form, Restricted to Centre Hare & Hounds, Naish Hill 17/06/12

More to follow, its lunch time – Frank

Waiting for todays Traders Results? Here’s current Champ, Gary Marshman in Marys’ Section to keep you amused for the moment. Results now added!!

Frank Sweeting — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:35:09 +0000

Here’s the best news of the day, Victoria Payne, as I understand it, has only had a dressing put on her foot. What an accident, she was jumping into Chris Adams Section to inspect & walk it, & jumped onto some buried wire/reinforcing rod? which was part buried & went straight through the sole of her boot & into her foot so that she was impaled onto it. Many thanks to all that helped -especially Theresa Talbot – & I’m mightily relieved that it doesn’t seem as bad as I feared. Unfortunately the land has been tipped & when there is spring growth in the woods you can’t see things like that.

Anyway here’s Gary with one of his ‘clean’ rides for you to see

Results will be up as soon as I get them Frank

Here they are! Colin lost 16, Gary 21 & Ben Skinner 46 in the Experts. Click Mendip Vale Traders Trophy Centre Championship Round Results from 8th April 2012 here. For speed I’ve put up the spreadsheet sorted by Grading.

Got home in time to see Tom Booned pedal away with the Paris -Roubaix Spring Classic & Jorge Lorenzo take the Moto GP – a good days two wheeled sport: Frank