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The final day coverage of the 2020 SSDT (Virtual) with presenters: John Weller & Simon Abberley with commentators: John Moffat (Trials Guru) and John Hulme (Trial magazine UK).
Today’s guests were: Yrjo Vesterinen; Steve Saunders and Steve Colley with Andy James of Michelin
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Playback of the Nevis Radio broadcast from the fourth day of the virtual SSDT 2020.
Featuring 5 times winner of the SSDT, ‘Magical’ Mick Andrews and 3 times winner of the SSDT, James Dabill. With John Hulme of Trial Magazine UK.
Presenters: John Weller and Simon Abberley of Nevis Radio.
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Recording of the Wednesday broadcast of Nevis Radio 2020 SSDT Virtual.
Featuring 1979 World Trials Champion and 1982 SSDT winner, BERNIE SCHREIBER; 11 times Scottish Champion Gary Macdonald; Vince Macintosh and John Hulme of Trial Magazine, plus usual Nevis Radio presenters, John Weller and Simon Abberley.
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Here is the playback of Tuesday’s SSDT 2020 (virtual) broadcast on Nevis Radio, Fort William. It features: Carlos Casas, the SSDT ambassador for Spain; Emma Bristow, six times Female FIM World Trials Champion, Jeff Horne (SSDT Clerk of Course) and John Hulme of Trial Magazine UK.
Recorded live at Fort William, Scotland. 5th May 2020 – Image courtesy: Nigel Peirson/Trials Media UK
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Margaret Muirhead, a stalwart of the Edinburgh Melville MCC, Scottish Six Days Trial official and Scottish International Six Days Trial supporter has died aged 82. Margaret worked for the Bank of Scotland’s Treasury Department in Scotland’s capital, arranging the carnets for the ISDT teams to allow machines to be taken overseas. She also was a support crew member at several ISDT events for the Scottish ACU teams.
She was also Trials Secretary of the Melville MCC for many years as well as being a member of the RAC/ACU Rider Training Scheme held in Edinburgh in the 1960s and 70s.
Featuring Gary Macdonald, 11 times Scottish Trials champion and the most successful Scottish rider of all time; John Hulme of Trial magazine UK; Trials Guru’s John Moffat and presenters John Weller and Simon Abberley of Nevis Radio. (57:58 running time)
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With the 2020 SSDT cancelled, Nevis Radio have decided to host a live, star-studded SSDT feature each morning beginning at 10:00 GMT – hosted by Simon Abberley and featuring regular SSDT commentators, John Moffat of Trials Guru and John Weller of Nevis Radio. Starting Monday 4th May, 2020!
It will be broadcast live and will be all SSDT talk, remembering trials of yesteryear and a few special SSDT guests joining in the fun. Two world champions and three SSDT former winners!
Monday 4th May – The guest will be local man, 11 times Scottish Trials Champion, GARY MACDONALD, the highest placed Scottish rider in the SSDT for 75 years!
Tuesday 5th May, the guest will be CARLOS CASAS from Olot in Spain! The Catalunian SSDT super-fan who has ridden the SSDT as far back as 1979. He will be joined during the hour long feature by Ladies World Trials Champion, EMMA BRISTOW.
The Wednesday 6th May broadcast will be a little longer in duration and we hope to include BERNIE SCHREIBER, the 1979 World Trials Champion and SSDT winner in 1982 and John Hulme of sponsors, Trial Magazine UK to discuss the ‘Scottish’ in more depth.
Thursday 7th May: former multiple SSDT winner ‘Magical’ MICK ANDREWS will be guesting! He will be joined by the 2019 SSDT winner, JAMES DABILL.
Friday 8th May: YRJO VESTERINEN, SSDT winner in 1980 and three times World Trials Champion will be on air live at 10:00 GMT.
Also on Friday 8th May, ‘Vesty’ will be joined by 1990 SSDT winner and former British Trials Champion, STEVE SAUNDERS.
To listen to these broadcasts, if you live in the Fort William area, then it’s on your radio, by tuning into Nevis Radio on the usual frequencies: 96.6; 102.3 or 102.4 FM.
If you wish to listen in live anywhere else then this can be done via the Nevis Radio website:
Go to : www.nevisradio.co.uk
Then: Click on ‘LISTEN NOW‘
This will bring up a device player as shown here:
Then click on the start triangle symbol, to start listening to the station live!
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It’s as simple as that!
In the first full week in May, we are usually camped up at Fort William in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. However 2020 was to be the year when the actual Scottish Six Days Trial event could not take place because of the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
Trials Guru decided to have a virtual SSDT instead, using some photographs from previous events just to remind readers what a unique and special event the SSDT really is.
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The Finish Interview:
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We are always on the lookout for something different on Trials Guru and French Bultaco enthusiast Gilles Escuyer never fails to produce something special.
This time it is a monoshock 125 ‘Bultaco’ as he has a brand affinity that goes back to his father Pierre’s age.
It is in effect a rare Gas Gas model with a 125cc Cagiva motor from a Merlin DG7 model that was produced in very low numbers around 1985. The fuel tank/seat unit is custom made. Front suspension are the well tested Marzocchi M1 items including yokes.
Carburation is taken care of by an Italian Dellorto unit. Swinging arm is in aluminium alloy.
Gilles told Trials Guru: “It is a bike that the Bultaco factory could have and should have made if it had not suffered financial ruin in the 1980s. I think most will find it an interesting air-cooled monoshock trials machine, with the Bultaco spirit.
We have called it the 197E because the 250 Sherpa was 198 and this is a smaller capacity. The Sherpa range ceased production with 198/199B and it would have been acceptable to continue with 198/199C then D and so on.”
Photo call for the Bultaco 197E:
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With the cancellation and postponement of the majority of events due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused much disruption to the sport of trials since February, the committee of the annual Scottish Six Days Trial has made an unusual but fair decision to deal with the cancellation of their 2020 event which was to be held on May 4-9th.
in a statement which was released on social media platform, ‘facebook’ on Thursday 16th April, just over two weeks prior to when the event was to be run, it read:
“So many of you have been waiting to see what will happen with regards to entries for 2021. Here is the news you have been waiting for… Everyone who had a confirmed and paid for entry for this year’s event is in the process of getting a full refund.
We will open online entries for the 2021 event as normal in October. We felt it is only fair that all 2020 entrants* who put in an application for the 2021 event will be offered a place before the remaining places are chosen by ballot from the remainder applicants.
*2020 entrants are those who had paid up entries as of the 16th March 2020.”
What this means is that bona fide 2020 entrants will be granted preference to secure an entry for the 2021 event planned for May 3-8, 2021.
The only previous time the event had been cancelled, other than because of global warfare, was in 2001, this was caused by the UK ‘foot and mouth’ outbreak. At that time all entry fees were returned to entrants by the then SSDT Secretary, the late Ali Finlay. Entrants had subsequently to reapply the following year with no concession and a fresh ballot undertaken due to oversubscription.
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