2019 Launceston Trial
Pop Asylum may be responsible for the Beetle's muddy face (Photo : Graham Beddoe) Regular listeners will remember that in last month’s episode I almost circumnavigated the course of the Exeter Trial but broke a half shaft on Tipley with my recently acquired Arkley-MG. Look at my shafts After an involved rescue mission back to the secret lair of its developer, a cunning plan evolved requiring £600 worth of uprated Quaife shafts with detachable output flanges. The inner remains of the tortured shaft came out in several increasingly smaller instalments and the good shaft – considered to be good only by comparison to the broken one – revealed not just an ominous twist in its splines but also a wobble on its output shaft so it was bent as well. It's a twister! Adrian – Professor Booth of Doublebois – had broken a shaft on the other side of the axle on Crackington in last years’ LET. This was the same occasion and hill that Binky and I snapped a perch bolt on the A...