(Photo: Bob Hosie showing Felix Krahnstöver on the prototype KTM 325 Trial in 1978)

(Photo: Philippe Damiens of World Trials Champion 1979 at Bilstain in 1983 on the factory SWM)

(Photo: Mike Watts of Don Smith’s STAG MK1)

Trials Guru’s creator John Moffat said: “It has been a plan to expand Trials Guru and also pull away from reporting of events and news items for some time. What better time to effect change but on the tenth anniversary of the creation of the website.

I am indebted to the help I had received from Trials rider and enthusiast Heath Brindley, who is still hovering around in the background as a ‘consultant’ on IT issues and I cannot thank him enough for setting up the original platform in 2014.

We want enthusiasts to have a good place to come, look at photos, read our articles, learn things they didn’t know and just quietly enjoy our sport and to learn about its past and history. It has always been about that and of course there is no subscription to pay, as long as you have a portable device or PC or laptop you can enjoy the experience absolutely free anywhere in the world.

There has never been, nor will there ever be, any plans to monetise this facility, there are no charges and the website is privately funded, no income is derived from it at all. So surf TRIALS GURU TRIALS ACADEMY for absolutely nothing!”