Ben Swales

Awesome video Guille! Glad to see you managed to find everywhere and had a good time! (I still think you should have given us a call to go riding though )

Cheers mate Glad you enjoyed it!

A few new translations online now, as well as photos, results and a full report from the British Trials Championship and Round 3 of the British Trials Cup at Fort William.

It's an Atomz Quark.

It's not Sam Oliver (his arms are waaaay too skinny ). It's a rider at the French nationals - don't know his name though I'm afraid.

The first rider is Thomas Triboulat and the second is his brother Johan Triboulat. They're both riding the soon-to-be-released (and questionably named) Ozonys King&Dunce 24" fames, if anyone's interested

You could try these guys: Deutschmarks. It's my mate's unsigned Sheffield band. I won't see him til next week to ask him, but if you send them a message/email they may let you have one of their tracks.

Just ordered one of these - off with my ratty old Armourdillo! It's served me well (on three of four different frames) and I consider it a very sound investment, but it looks f*cked now!

No probs mate

As CDs go, the Rosetta Stone ones are supposed to be really good, but I've had no experience of them. The Michel Tomas ones are also excellent - a mate of mine taught himself Spanish while he had a data entry job and is pretty good at it now! He can translate written stuff very accurately and speaks/understands it pretty well. He was raving about the method that he uses - it's done as though he's teaching to a class of three (two people on the CD and you) and you only have to listen and repeat. I'm thinking of getting the Portuguese one and using it to get me started as I want to add another language to my repertoire to improve my translation CV. I wouldn't bother with Google stuff (not yet at least). While it's handy for getting the jist of stuff, it's often wildly inaccurate and far too literal. For example - JT!, did you use that Google translator to get that French? While it's understandable and would allow you to get the jist of the sentence, it's not quite correct. We regularly get jobs where someone's used Google translator to translate a website or a flyer and it's been so bad that their business in that country hasn't improved (and in some cases has gone into a decline!). That said - it is improving and the products that they are talking about bringing out look pretty good - which is pretty worrying for people in my profession!

Hi Matt, I may have some on my computer at home from last year's comp - I'll have a look later. In future though, could you PM me stuff like this or post it in a Tyke Trial thread please? This thread is for Tribal Zine news and discussions about that really - sorry Ben

That's all I know I'm afraid... I'm not involved in the production of the video and I haven't heard anything about it since you last posted. I know that everyone's really busy still, and it's a big project that takes time. I'll ask Jé if he knows when it's expected to be ready, but for now - be patient and hang on, it'll come out eventually

A few new articles and galleries from the first round of the French Cup at the Cerny Trials Club are now available in English (click below) We'll also be posting more 'in brief' news on the left hand side of the page, be sure to check them regularly for little gems such as this video from the first round of the French Cup by Adrien Pontier.

SO much talent! Really nice video guys - great work! I liked the clips from Shipley and Blackpool the best, maybe because they're the spots I know most from the video. I actually felt a bit sick watching that manual across the high wall at the end - mental!

Haha - I never know how old he is!! Too young to be that good anyway! Updated

Jack Carthy at Addigham Moorside - A video of British prodigy Jack Carthy riding in the second round of the British National Trials Cup at a very windy Addingham Moorside in Yorkshire.

That was ace! It was interesting to see a comp video edited in a TGS-y style - although I usually prefer comp videos that show the riders all the way through the sections, I really liked this video - it was nice and dramatic! Benito finishing that section with a puncture was incredible - we were talking at Fort Bill about how a front puncture wasn't too bad but if we got a rear puncture we didn't think we'd be able to finish a section and then Benito does just that!

Yeah, it's a beaut! I'm off straight after work I'm afraid, getting the train to Cas to stay at Neil's tonight and then we're driving up in convoy with some of the other Tykes members. Ride next week then?

Speed Race Solo 26" 2011 - A preview of the 2011 Speed Race Solo 26", which has been updated extensively over the 2010 model and has some excellent features. K-124 Days by Nico Bahro (5) - The fifth an final instalment of Nico Bahro’s series of excellent galleries form K-124 days 2010! Action photos are the order of the day, and there are some cracking shots! British National Trials Cup - Round 2 - Addingham Moorside - A (slightly delayed) report, results and photos from the second round of the British Cup.

Sounds good - I'll keep an eye out for you (put a red carnation in your lapel or something) and may see you at the Ben Nevis Inn on Saturday!

Well done Barbara! Sterling work Just finished packing - setting off after work tomorrow!

Blimey! Lucky he didn't find out half way up! That looks bonkers! I think I'm going to start going to more moto comps to watch - always plenty of mad stuff going on!

I'm headin up in convoy with Neil Robinson, Ross Clayton, Ryan Crisp and the Carthys. Can't wait!

Sorry mate, other than the link I posted a few posts back, I haven't got any..