We are always on the lookout for something out of the ordinary at Trials Guru, so here we have something for you!

Some artwork that was undertaken by designer Justyn Norek in Milan. The drawings never made it into metal, but they are at least some nice design exercises.

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All images copyright of Justyn Norek Design, Turin, Italy.

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Something a little out of the ordinary for Trials Guru’s John Moffat when he undertook some commentary work with former British ACU Motorcyle Racing champion, Rob Orme and British and European Truck racing and Motorcycle Racing champion, Steve ‘Stavros’ Parrish.

Moffat was attending the annual Grampian Motorcycle Convention at Alford, Aberdeenshire, organised jointly by the Bon Accord MCC and Grampian Transport Museum on 4th September.

Attended by around 6,000 members of the public, the Convention is a showcase of motorcycle sport in Scotland. The main attractions were the ‘Purple Helmets Motorcycle Display Team’ from the Isle of Man and three times British Champion and four times SSDT winner, Steve Colley with his Mr. Showtime motorcycle Display Show, both from the Isle of Man.

Moffat: “I really enjoyed catching up with my old mate Steve Colley as he is no longer a top flight trials rider, but our paths cross form time to time. Steve Parrish I actually interviewed many years ago at the Scottish Motorcycle Show, so we have met previously. Steve Parrish is a great practical joker and he put on a mini-edition of his MAD tour evening the night before the convention. He is a great entertainer with anecdotes of his racing career which ensure that he hasn’t had a ‘proper job’ for 43 years, having been a professional motorcycle racer from the age of 20 and moving into truck racing”.

He added: “The Purple Helmets I have seen before, but they always add something new to their act and they are hilarious, if you haven’t seen them, see them, they are really funny and it’s fantastic entertainment, they should get them up for the SSDT, that would really be something else!”.

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

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 …

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!

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

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

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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