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A tyre-ing time

I'm just reading your editorial piece in the summer edition and your thoughts on tyres which I consider to be wholly accurate. We in the trials world in general currently appear to have dug ourselves into something of a hole in this respect (no pun intended) and I'm not sure that it's healthy for the sport as a whole because it obviously also impacts on the classic scene.

As I see it, we've allowed our market to effectively become dominated by one manufacturer with anything else considered to be

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