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Carlos Casas – SSDT Ambassador

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Carlos Casas (Montesa 4RT) – Photo: Trial Magazine UK

Short video presented by TRIALS GURU on Carlos Casas, the ‘SSDT Ambassador’.

For many years Carlos has enthused about the Scottish Six Days Trial to Spanish and Catalan competitors that this has ensured a healthy interest in the event.

With acknowledgement to Trial Magazine UK

Also an article on Carlos HERE

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500 entries for 2018 SSDT

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Dougie Lampkin (Vertigo 300) seen here on ‘Leanachen’ in 2016, will no doubt be back to try and add another SSDT to his tally – Photo Credit: Kimages/Kim Ferguson

 

With entries now closed for the annual Scottish Six Days Trial in May 2018, reports indicate that the event is almost 100% oversubscribed with Secretary, Ms. Mieke De Vos looking at a pile of over 500 entries.

This happened as far back as 1972 when the event was massively oversubscribed to a similar magnitude and saw the commencement of the now famous ‘ballot of entries’.

At that time, the then Secretary, the late Jim McColm and the SSDT Committee of the day pondered what to do and a ballot system was put in place.

The 2018 ballot will take place between now and the festive season, with all successful and non-successful entrants being informed between 25th December and January 1st.

The Dutch born SSDT Secretary, Mieke De Vos urges entrants not to make contact with the SSDT administration before 1st January, if you have not heard any news.

No doubt there will be a flurry of social media activity between now and the new year with successful entrants gleefully declaring their acceptance and unsuccessful entrants drowning their sorrows.

However remember that with all large events there is an attrition rate of around 10% who have to withdraw their entry prior to the event for a variety of reasons. So don’t be overly despondent.

Full details of this most famous of all trials can be found on the SSDT website, www.ssdt.org

As for Trials Guru? Yes we will be there!  –  May 7-12, 2018  – WATCH THIS SPACE!

 

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Thank You for being part of TG in 2017

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Takahisa Fujinami parts company with the factory Montesa at the Belgian world championship round in July 2016 – Photo: Rene Opstals

Thank you for viewing Trials Guru in 2017, it is much appreciated and we are always appreciative of our contributors, whether that be photographic or the written word!

Here is a short video compilation which looks back on the Trials Guru’s season, 2017.

It’s called ‘2017 – Rewound’ – sorry if anyone is missed out, it certainly wasn’t intentional.

Looking forward to 2018 already!

Yours in Sport,

The Trials Guru

… ‘2017 – Rewound’

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With special thanks to:

Eric Kitchen; Jon Stoodley; Kim Ferguson/Kimages; Rene Opstals; Chris Sharp; Linda Ashford; Gillian Lawson; Iain Lawrie; John Hulme/CJ Publishing.

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Iain Lawrie on YouTube

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Iain Lawrie from Kinlochleven, an enthusiast of trials since the early 1970s.

To publicise the work of our esteemed contributor, Iain Lawrie, Trials Guru has made a short photo montage clip for You Tube social media.

Entitled: ‘Trials Guru – Iain Lawrie Collection 2017’

The quiet man of trials photography, Iain is originally from Kinlochleven and has been taking SSDT and other trial photographs for 40 years and we are delighted to share his handiwork to the world.

What better way than to do a little promo video, after all it’s the modern way!

We hope you enjoy…

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Trials Guru on YouTube

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Trials Guru has released some video montages on the social media ‘YouTube’ to publicise our work and promote the sport of trials worldwide.

This could only be done with the co-operation and assistance of the photographers who have contributed to the website since 2014.

We hope that you enjoy the videos, grouped below for your access:

… Carlos Casas – SSDT Ambassador (Running Time 3:29)

… Trials Guru – Scottish Six Days History (Running Time: 3:03)

… Trials Guru – Dedicated to the Sport (Running Time: 3:03)

… Trials Guru – SSDT – Lost But Won (Running Time: 5:26)

… Trials Guru – SSDT – Lost But Won – Extended Version (Running Time: 6:24)

… Trials Guru – SSDT 2017 – Faster (Running Time: 3:22)

… Trials Guru – ‘The Iain Lawrie Collection’ (Running Time: 4:24)

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… Trials Guru – Dedicated to the sport

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