March 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of the Trials Guru website, created by our contributor, Heath Brindley on Trials Guru’s behalf in March 2014!

Over the past ten years Trials Guru has accumulated many articles, photos and information on the sport of motorcycle trials, and made it available to our readers absolutely free of charge!

There are no subscriptions to pay, no adverts forming part of the trials experience – and there never will be!

Much easier to find information online with indexes of the website and photos, unlike magazines and periodicals, where you can search for stuff for days and still not find what you were looking for!

So have a look either in our indexes, or the search facility for what you crave!

Trials Guru – Dedicated To The Sport – Independent and Free!

Ten years ago, Trials Guru was launched and to celebrate, the website has been updated to become the ‘go to’ facility to look back over the history of motorcycle trials, both solo and sidecar – world-wide.

We can boast an extensive readership, far greater than magazines, because Trials Guru is only available online. And it’s all here at your fingertips, where you want it, when you want it!

Over the past month or so, articles have been tidied up and new ones added. We have ceased reporting on current events and event promotions except if they are significant.

We have added more photographs, thanks to the ongoing co-operation of the photographers, both amateur and professional, who have supported Trials Guru over the past 10 years.

So have a look at the following pages and postings that come together to bring you a vast encyclopaedia of motorcycle trials, covering the world of trials.

Trials Guru is free, no charges, no subscriptions. Click on the ‘green links’ to open up the world of Trials Guru!

Use the two Indexes, ‘Rider Index‘ and general Index to find what you are looking for, or the ‘Search’ facility at the top of this page – Go on, try it!

Have a look at these:

Don Smith Story

Rob Edwards Story

Walther Luft

Joe Wallman

Candid Camera

Comerfords

Gloves Off – with Bernie Schreiber (1979 FIM World Trials Champion)

We have made things a bit more easy to find on Trials Guru – Trials Academy. For starters we have added a ‘Riders Index‘ so you can quickly scan for people alphabetically listed in the sport of trials.

We have the more wider ‘Index‘ which is alphabetical to include collections of photographs by the photographers who allow their photos to be exhibited. It covers any articles past and present, so that you can find them.

We have also the ‘Search’ facility, just put in some words and a choice of reading will appear.

We want Trials Guru to be your encyclopedia of the sport, here at your fingertips, just where you need and want it – and it’s absolutely FREE! No adverts paying for it’s existence, no FEES, no CHARGES, absolutely free!

It’s your TRIALS GURU, use it when and where YOU want!

Apart from ‘Fair Dealing’ for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, no part of any article may be copied, reproduced, stored in any form of retrieval system, electronic or otherwise or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, mechanical, optical, chemical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the author as stated above. All articles are not published for any monetary reward or monetisation, be that online or in print.

Copyright: John Moffat/Trials Guru 2024

Photographic Copyright: Held by all photographers named in articles or in captions.

Main Photograph: – Courtesy of Das Motorrad, Germany (Motor Presse Stuttgart).

(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!”

Exclusively on TRIALS GURU, Winter 2023!

The DON SMITH Story

The STEVE WILSON Story

Only on TRIALS GURU – Winter 2023

Trials Guru links directly with Bultaco.Cat to bring you amazing imagies from the Bultaco marque when it was growing and at its peak!

Follow the link to the new page:

Just launched, the Trials Guru Archive, all the photographers accessible in one place on this website!

To make life easier and so that you can all enjoy the many photographs with this online facility, we have put all the various pages together in one section so you can browse or find photos easier than before!

All copyright is attributable to the photographer in every case. Have a look and see what is available on Trials Guru.

Link: TRIALS PHOTO ARCHIVE

Just launched, the Ken Haydon Collection of photographs is now on Trials Guru.

Click on the link to jump straight to the collection:

Ken Haydon Collection

We have come a long way since March 2014 when Trials Guru was launched on the internet as a website and also facebook.

There are many pages of features, articles and information which records the history of motorcycle trials, the riders and the events.

It is almost impossible to record everything, but we hope that people the world over like what we do.

New features will continue to be released as they become available.

Remember to use the index and search panel to find what you are looking for!

A new feature under ‘Major Events’ has been opened on Trials Guru.

Entitled ‘SSDT Archive’, it has just been opened by showcasing the front covers of the Scottish Six Days Trial programmes from 1947 until now.

There are still a few to be displayed as their images are currently being worked on, but the full set will be online for all to see shortly.

Some of the programmes appear for sale on internet auction sites from time to time and the older editions command high prices for a piece of trials history.

Have a look, there may be one that quite interests you.

https://trialsguru.net/ssdt-archive/