Cool, i'm gonna get up to aston hil on saturday and see how I feel on the bike then might bust to the gate practice the following saturday...never used a gate before so that coud be interesting.

Rootes

touchez(sp..), meaning I'm gonna go and improve my dirt jumping this weekend 

That’s a bloody good idea actually. Either after a couple of podiums, a win, or getting into the semi-finals a three or four times they could give away race licenses. Scrap Novice prizes (an incentive to move up a category) and you’d solve the sand bagging problem (if there is a problem – there may not be?).

It could be a restricted license too – just for 4x – to stop experienced people entering Novice 4x and using it as a cheap way of gaining a licence for 4x and downhill.

I think all this could be an incentive for them to supply licenses bespoke to 4x, only 6months of racing and a view to keep the novice category fresh means there should be different licenses!

Another race at chicky on the same day as a pearce race....  gutted!

Well if it was like the last one at chicky
10am open practise
11am gate practise (i think novices were 11-11.30)
12pm motos
then it sort of just gets played by ear from there I think, as last time there were so many motos it all started getting behind, i think they aim to finish the motos by about 2 or so!

Going to be running spd's for the first time at this one as my 5050's fell apart on me yesterday, could be interesting!! 

Still worth doing, spend your 30 mins of gate practice doing the gate and first straight over and over then spend the rest of practice doing the rest of the track.

any tips for trackstands on the gate, i almost got the hang of it at chicky last time but then at bridgnorth i was pants!!! cant seem to get to grips with it!