World Championship Chat

In two weeks there is a GP in Belgium again. Anyone going, i am.

Can't help noticing that the FIM has introduced a new E bike class in there WTC. Normally the introduction of a new class even at club level grinds my gears and take it from a man with massive respect for delicate trials transmissions it's the proverbial red flag. However I feel I must embrace it as the championships are now so fragmented I could be in with as shout if I can just hang on in there. I really see an over 55 clapped out Scorpa living within the East Neuk "World championship" could have my name written all over the Trophy.

I was watching the TrialGP video on Casales' bike and noticed a Dunlop sticker. It would appear the factory team are riding on Dunlops this year, which is a turn up for the books. Michelin must have had a monopoly in the world championships for a decade or more.

Are we seeing of the beginning of the end of Bou's domination at top level?

If the rumours are true Gas Gas will be boosting their Trial GP ranks with both Busto and Fajardo for 2018 not confirmed officially yet, but that's what being mentioned

X Trial is promoting this weekend's event with both Bou and Raga competing. I expected Raga to be there, as he competed last weekend for the first time since his surgery. Bou has been very quiet on social media, no practice riding posts, rightfully so, if he is, I suppose. I'm just surprised that he'll be back this soon. OR will the almighty X Trial announce that Bou will not be there on Saturday morning, so that ticket holders still show up to see Adam, at least? (so they don't eat crow like they did when they outright canceled the last event, which still sucks for all of the other competitors who WERE ABLE to COMPETE)

Speedy recovery wishes to Toni Bou!! His X trial fall this past weekend was a wicked one... Sounds like a minimum of 3 weeks out of competition. When was the last time both the #1 & #2 riders were out from injury? Hopefully, both are completely healed up and stay healthy for the outdoor TrialGP season. Trials Life!!

So whatever Jotagas are doing this season it looks like they have some funds somewhere with Oriol Noguera signing to ride Trial GP with them. Interesting choice of rider for them. Seems to hot and cold and not exactly high profile. Be good to see what he / the bike does.

This was streamed live all afternoon by jitsie,what a fantastic effort , good sections and a a good selection of riders ,in my opinion it makes a mockery of the world indoors , has anyone noticed that they’ve used the same sections for the last 3 events now! The same but jumbled up abit and correct me if I’m wrong but you can’t even get live scoring for the x trial now?well done the organisers and well done jitsie for broadcasting it , top job ?

Whole pile of video from Sheffield tonight over on the Trials Central Facebook page. Quality isn't bad considering it was done live on a phone.

Didn't see that coming

I am pretty disappointed with the Job that FIM does to promote trials. The Xtrials happened almost 1 month ago in France and still nop where to be found online! On top of that they took off the youtube video that was circulating. For Fans around the world is hard enough having to know who won it first hand before you even watch. at least they should let us watch after. How hard is it to broadcast a trials event on line??? p*** poor job if you ask me

Silsden!

Cabestany just unveiled himself in Beta gear on instagram

With mr casalas up the road to vertigo what are beta going to do for a top line gp rider? Surely a brand that probably sells more bikes than any other must need a rider to be knocking on the door of top 5?

Various Facebook posts tend to indicate that Cabastaney has parted ways with Sherco.

Has anyone been to the Trial GP at Camprodon ?? How close is it to the town ? What are the costs of entry ? Is there stalls at Parc ferme ? How far apart are the sections ??

Does anyone know how often if at all the provisional dates for the 2018 WTC are changed from what is already down ???

Jeroni fajardo rumoured to be off to gasgas next year , so vertigo need a new number one rider , if he does go il take a punt on miquel gelabert , anyone else likely to move around??

So either X trials official sponsor is France or Thierry is getting too old to travel... 5 out of the 8 events are in France???? insane.. --Biff