Continuing our coverage of trials in the south west area of the UK, we have created West Country Trials – Take 2. It’s launched now with regular additions.
View it: HERE
West Country Take 2 is here!
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Coming soon – West Country Trials – Take 2
To expand the coverage of the South West of the UK, we are setting up a new section’ on Trials Guru called ‘West Country Trials – Take 2’.
We will start this by featuring the photographic skills of Linda Ashford from Somerset.
Coming soon on Trials Guru …
Trials Guru? Who is in it?
We have been upgrading Trials Guru recently so that you can search for riders easier.
The names of riders featured in photographs have been put into index at the start of special sections. More will follow over the next couple of weeks.
Who knows, try putting your own name in and see if you are on here, many have.
All you need to do is go to the ‘Search … ‘ box above, type the name in and hit you enter button!
Scott Trial gears up!
We are delighted to confirm that this years event will again be sponsored by Trevor Willans and his company, NDL based in Darlington.
The Scott Trial is one of those trials that appears to be over and done in a matter of hours, but in reality it takes the organising committee around 10 months to prepare, run and complete all the paperwork, planning and marking out needed to run the toughest one-day trial in the world!
So as you can imagine there has already been a lot of preparation work already completed for this year’s event, with the distribution of the 2015 Charity monies completed in February, the Regs, permit and permissions gained, the Clerk of the Course has already been out and about with his assistants to try and give the course a few new dimensions. Last year the new sections and partly new route were said by some riders to be a new challenge and enjoyable!
One thing is for certain, it will be another great traditional event with a worthy winner at the end of the day.
Entries are coming in fast now and of the first 68 entries, a fantastic 25 are from first timers so those of you who have ridden before, you better get a move on and get your entries in as soon as possible. We are also having quite a bit of interest from riders wanting to enter charity teams, so please get those entries in quick, as we can only take 3 teams.
Our friends from overseas are hoping to join us again this year and we already have two teams entered from Rhondda MC so don’t forget to make sure that you enter for all of the individual and team awards that you are eligible for.
As ever the entry is first come first served with a 200 rider limit, you can download your entries from RMC website www.richmondmotorclub.com .
For all other information please get in touch with the event secretary Diane Horner at scottsecretary@richmondmotorclub.com
PAUL ROBINSON – CLERK OF THE COURSE, SCOTT TRIAL 2016
LOOK! Trials Legends – Volume 2
Latest release from Trials Guru is Trials Legends – Volume 2, which will be extended over the next few weeks.
We kick-start Volume 2 with the Legend known as ROB SHEPHERD.
In collaboration with Trial Magazine UK
Trials Legends – Volume 2 is HERE
More SSDT on Trials Guru
We do things differently on Trials Guru – The Scottish Six Days Trial ‘special section’ has recently been updated with more information and photographs, don’t miss it!
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Read about this letter from 1958:
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Go to the Trials Guru SSDT page: HERE
Trials Weekend on the Continent.
Words: Michael Ernst
If you want to go overseas to ride a Classic Trial, it is always nice to have two in one week. This is so you can spent a few days to relax, visit friends etc. A good week is always the last in July. This year it was 23rd/24th and 30st/31st of July. The first weekend was a round for the German classic-trial championship for pre‘65 and twin-shock in Hergenroth.
Hergenroth is located in the ‘Westerwald’ close to Montabauer and less the one hundred kilometers from Cologne (Koln).This is not a bad area to ride with your classic trials bike.
The Hergenroth weekend is very sociable with always a big entery of foriegn competitors. Every year, one-hundred and fifty or more riders compete here. The village is very small and mostly everyone is involved in the trial and the local firebrigade as well. The course is about five kilometers with ten sections and three or four laps every day, this depends on the weather.
Start on the Saturday is always at 13.00 hours and Sunday at 10.00 hours and it is a very laid back type of organisation.
You can turn up on the day and sign on then. You do not need any licence. However it is adviseable to have personal insurance to repatriate you back home. The ground has a bit of everything, nice climbs, nice wood sections, rocky sections in a quarry and some stream sections.
Every Day is a seperate trial. There are five routes, so that everybody can find the right one for himself or the machine. There is a clubhouse and a barbeque where you can get good food and drinks for the weekend.
A weekend later there is always the ‘Bilstain Two-day Classic Trial’ in Bilstain/Belgium what is a good drive of one hundred and sixty kilometers from Hergenroth. Bilstain is a round of the Classictrial Eurocup.The Trial is held on the ex-world championship ground from the 1970s and 1980s. It is a Off-roadpark with all his facilities such as: bar, resturant, showers, jet-wash, chalets (for 6 people) and basic rooms. The paddock is on the tarmac of the Supermoto track. As in Hergenroth, the entry can go up to two-hndred riders.
As in Germany, it is all laid back, no licence, sign on the day. Within the entry which is about 30-40 Euros for both days, mostly a drink, a snack, a Tee-Shirt or umbrella is included. The ground is in a valley with a stream and woods on the left and right side. So a bit of everything.
This year the sections were very old-fashioned. Classes are pre’65; pre‘78 and Twin-shock with four routes. Every day there are three laps about five kilometers long with ten to twelve sections and a time limit between five and six hours.
Both days count together.
If you like to ride in one (or both) of these events, here are a few links with information, details and pictures as well.
Website for Info’s for the Trial in Hergenroth
This is the website of Michael Ernst, who can help you with the regulations or any other questions. You can email Michael in english no problem:
Michael Ernst link
This is the website from the Classictrial in Bilstain (Regulations, pictures, video’s and results) – Bilstain
Website of the Offroad park when you want to book accomodation: RDMC-Bilstain
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SSDT – Where are they now?
Where are they now?
The Scottish Six Days Trial is one of those events that every trials rider not only wants to take part in at least once in their lifetime, but to win it, well that is something really special.
Motorcycle manufacturers have entered works machines to the event with the sole aim of achieving victory, pure and simple.
Tommy Sandham, who has written four books on the subject, has asked me to undertake a tricky task – to find out how many SSDT winning machines still exist!
We know of a few that are still around, these are as follows:
1946/47/48 – HughViney’s 350 AJS (HXF641)
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1957 – Johnny Brittain’s 500 Royal Enfield Bullet (HNP331) – National Motorcycle Museum.
1962/64 – Sammy Miller’s 500 Ariel (GOV132) – Sammy Miller Trust.
1961 – Gordon Jackson’s 350 AJS (187BLF) – Sammy Miller Trust.
1963 – Arthur J. Lampkin’s 249 BSA C15 (XON688) – Owned by A.J. Lampkin.
1965 – Sammy Miller’s Bultaco Sherpa (669 NHO) – Owned by Sammy Miller Trust.
1966 – Alan R.C. Lampkin’s 249 BSA C15 (748MOE) – Owned by A.R.C. Lampkin.
1967/1968 – Sammy Miller’s Bultaco Sherpa (EAA60D) – Owned by Yrjo Vesterinen.
1969 – Bill Wilkinson’s 250 Greeves – (WWC 169F) – Owned by Bill Wilkinson.
1981 – Yrjo Vesterinen’s 349 Montesa Cota – Owned by Yrjo Vesterinen.
2005 – Sam Conner’s 290 Sherco – Owned by Paul Rays
So where are the rest?
Some SSDT winning machines – but where are they?
1954: Artie Ratcliffe’s 350 Matchless (OLH721)
1959: Roy Peplow’s Triumph Cub (RUE923)
1970-1971 : Mick Andrews’ Ossa (B775073 – Barcelona registration)
1972 : Mick Andrews’ Ossa (B-1681-C – Barcelona registration)
1973: Malcolm Rathmell’s 250 Bultaco (XWW34L)
1974: Mick Andrews’ 250 Yamaha (CRA33L)
1975: Mick Andrews’ Yamaha (JGF729N)
Use the Trials Guru CONTACT page to let us known – HERE
Jimmy Young – Take 2
Now on Trials Guru, the second volume of Jimmy Young trials action in Jimmy Young – Take 2…
Featuring black and white images from the late 1970 and early 1980 era of Scottish trials.
Go straight to Jimmy Young – Take 2 : HERE
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