World Championship Chat

Whilst it may seem like ages away, I'm making the most of what is a "quiet time" for me in the calendar to plan 2007 and that includes the British world round at Hawkstone and, in particular, the Trials Central get-together. 2005 was the first get-together. It was totally informal and not restricted to Trials Central folk. Unfortunately things got slightly out of control due to a very small minority of non-Trials Central people who couldn't handle their drink. 2006 was, I believe, a total success. Lessons were learned from 2005, access was controlled to ensure it was actually Trials Central readers and members who were allowed in and feedback afterwards indicated all wh…

Has anyone been here before to spectate?? If so how was it and would you recommend going? I'm thinking of driving down with Adam at end of August but not sure on accessibility of venue etc etc. I've been to a French WTC round before and it was amazing - practically took over the whole village for the week. I missed Penrith as I was away this weekend but luckily my wife and dad took Adam so he still went and loved it... Now I'm wanting to go again and Isola 2000 is last round this year so needs to be there. Anyone else going this year? Thanks

Does anyone know if there is a website for Septembers World Round in Andorra.

The start Dougie has made on the Beta is disappointing to say the least, I just watched a clip of Doug from around a year and a half ago when he was questioned about Dabbil beating him and he replied 'Is that a pig I see flying over' ! ... How things can change in a very short period of time It's not looking to good for Doug and certainly cant be good for Beta.. Any views on how this will all end ? .. will he get over it and sort his riding on the Beta ... or is this one just too much of a mountain to climb this time. Really disappointing ... perhaps he might be better off on the Beta 4 banger ? On the bright side, it shows what an awesome machine the 4rt really is .…

Well unfortunately we are still on the stop / no stop debate and as others have said there is more to fixing the current decline in participants in the sport generally than the rules to be run at a world championship event. SO can we first of all limit this topic to ideas to increase sales of bikes or participation excluding changing the rules to your preference in terms of stop / no stop. There are plenty of other threads running for that debate. Just had a thought today about quality of the bikes we buy. The current bikes are very very good at what they do but the quality issues continue, although this does vary manufacturer to manufacturer year to year. Trials bikes…

Just noticed Wiggy isn't in the top 10 as it stands........... Why do you think he is struggling this year? Bike? I thought he might be 7/8th sort of place

So does anyone know when the 2011 indoor trials is going to be on TV??

Sorry to say but.... this Belgium GB 2019 everybody top 10 takes two times a section double 5. why this ****t happens ??? only good thinks was 3 minutes ride time for sections. i hope this **** end for this season. and 2020 was time 3 minutes, for each sections.

are we going to get a report on the action on day two at duluth, like we have had with all the other rounds? how was it, was it pretty much one sided? or was it a close battle between the top 5 or 6? where does that leave the series standings?

Come on Doug give em hell, go out and win it! Stand 0n it

Congrats to Toni Bou for tying Doug's streak of 7 consecutive World Titles. Congrats to Adam Raga for pushing him right to the end. The Montesa boys all agree it has been a very tough year. It was closer than most realize. After Saturday's result Raga 1st Bou 3rd the lead had been cut in half (5pts). On Sunday by lap 2 section 3: Bou 5th Cabes 4th Raga & Fajardo tied for 2nd and Dabil winning! At this point Raga had the WTC in his grasp. Only a stong finish by Bou and a few errors by Raga on the last lap changed the outcome.

Current Standings after Round 1 - Link - Trial Online WORLD 1 BOU TONI MONTESA 5 SPA 4 2 RAGA ADAM GAS GAS 1 SPA 6 3 LAMPKIN DOUGIE MONTESA 4 GBR 8 4 FUJINAMI TAKAHISA MONTESA 2 JPN 11 5 CABESTANY ALBERT SHERCO 3 SPA 17 JUNIOR 1 BROWN MICHAEL BETA 41 GBR 5 2 WIGG ALEXZ GAS GAS 49 GBR 10 3 GUBIAN LORIS SHERCO 50 FRA 13 4 GONTARD NICOLAS GAS GAS 42 FRA 15 5 GRATTAROLA MATTEO SHERCO 51 ITA 18 YOUTH 1 GOMEZ ALFREDO GAS GAS 71 SPA 8 2 DANBY ROSS GAS GAS 72 GBR 14 3 SMAGE PATRICK SHERCO 75 USA 16 4 CERVANTES ALEXIS SHERCO 73 FRA 21 5 MILLAN DAVID SHERCO 77 SPA 24

Homologation of the venue took place last Tuesday in preparation for this years British Trial GP when Josep Punti of the FIM met the organising team on site . this years event is a 3 day event , qualifying and practice on Friday 10 July , with 2 full days of trial competition on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July . There will be a host of other activities running along side the Trial GP Friday evening there will be a Twinshock trial , Saturday evening the largest gathering of Oset competitors as the youngster get there chance to compete in a special round of the Oset cup, commitment from the trade has been fantastic , with Wulfsport and Oset sharing the e…

wiggy and raga out in last chance gubian and fajardo out in semis dibs in final, with bou cabes and fuji

I'm a litle confused about the new minder rule and what is it supposed to achieve. This ruling was brought in at the request of the factories to cut costs, yet at Mancha Real the factories still appeared to have the same number of minders, albeit only one would actually be in the section the rest would be shouting out the time, looking after bikes etc. The severity of the sections has not been reduced to account for the fact the riders only had one minder and there were certainly plenty of scary sections were more than one minder was needed. It just appears that if anyone has lost out from this ruling then it is the riders.

raga cabe fajardo

Just trawled the Eurosport TV schedule looking for the next rounds. At the moment this is what they're saying (not sure if the times are UK or European) Granada Round Eurosport Wed 1st Feb at 19:00 Eurosport 2 Thu 2nd Feb at 14:30 Milan Round Eurosport 2 Tues 7th Feb at 16:00

not long to wait now. lets get some predictions going WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - 1)lampkin 2)bou 3)raga JUNIOR 1) sanz YOUTH 1) olliveras

No doubt a few out there will be purchasing the 2007 WTC review so I thought I would share this. The cheapest price I have seen it for is

Unless I am mistaken Shaun Morris and Taddy Blasusiek are no longer taking part in the WTC, as raised in another thread.