Trials Guru embarkes on largest project yet! …

The world famous trials history website, ‘Trials Guru’ has undertaken it’s largest single project in its ten year history. The website’s owner, John Moffat had inherited the ‘Ed Stott Archive’ when Deryk Wylde passed away earlier this year.

Ed Stott from Pinner in Middlesex, was regarded as having the greatest knowledge on the Scottish Six Days Trial, and conducted slide-show presentations to sporting clubs on the SSDT throughout the land in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Moffat said: “I was totally blown away when I opened up the various lever-arch files that held copies of results and information on the Scottish Six Days Trial, dating back to the original event in 1909, when it was a five day trial and organised by the Edinburgh Motor Cycling Club. The information needs to be out there and within the spirit of both Ed Stott and Deryk Wylde, this would be done without people having to pay for the privilege of seeing the information. All too often people’s property fall into the hands of a commercial venture and the details are either hidden away or enthusiasts are forced to pay high prices to see the information. Deryk Wylde didn’t want that to happen and that is why he entrusted the Ed Stott data to my website.”

Work has already begun with 1909 until 1919 already written up with details of routes and results in draft form. It is a mammoth task, so it may be some time before this information is published.