USA Trials

Just A reminder for riders in the north east.Dist 4 and 3-D are hosting a ride sunday the 27 of june in Locke,N.Y.Allproceeds to go to the TDN fund. See you there.Jim R.

Well, are you ready for the Youth Nationals?

I tried emailing Shan about this, but it bounced. Hopefully he reads this! For those who are not aware, I supplied a few photos of Dennis Sweeten and Jarvis in the SSDT for Trials Competition. Shan said he'd send me a copy so I could see my work in print. Well, it arrived yesterday. I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't something as well put together and professional as turned up. Good and lengthy write-up's of events and plenty photos. Similar in layout to our Trials and Motocross News, but obviously without the MX part! You guys are lucky to have a dedicated, quality publication for the sport. Thanks Shan!

Hey all, wonderful time at the world round in Duluth. If you missed it, too bad on you, but there will be opportunities to see highlights. I spent the weekend with the Speed crew helping them get good footage for the 2-wheel Tuesday show on Speed Channel. It will air on Tuesday, June 15 (week from today), 8PM EDT and reair at midnight and again the following morning. They got a lot of great footage and interviews, and I think we'll get extensive coverage of trials on that show. But also note there will be trials coverage on TONIGHT (June 8), not from Duluth but from a demo we (TTC) did for a bunch of kids at an elementary school. It was lots of fun, so check it out…

Havent been able to keep up with the going ons but have not heard anything about the new Monty in Duluth. Anyone know whats happening??? Aaron

Quoting Jake Miller "Dougie was also looking to show his wallet daylight, but with no great savings to be had, he will wait until he returns to the UK to buy a new Apple Mac computer" Jake's a bloomin' Apple MAC nut.....and I couldn't begin to list the number of trials folks he's sold the Apple MAC brand. All the Lampkin's, Eric Kitchen for instance........ Jake, yer a bleedin' pest!....................I wish I'd never configured yer MAC TCP/IP settings for ya at that US World Round.......might be a different story now! Win2K foreve.......dzzzttt, pop, bang.......ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? Ian.

My Team Full Monty [idaho sydicate] member, MikeOD, made an excellent point in another post and I want to expand on it. We have a number of American riders entering the World round this weekend and they deserve much more respect and encouragement than I think a lot of you realize. I'm a freaking club level rider and not a very good one at that but the encouragement and support I got from the crowd at El Trial was absolutely one of the most inspiring things I've ever felt. It was so incredible that I chose to take a line on the second loop that a couple of the other riders who are light years ahead of me wouldn't [of course my own lack of fear plays a detrimental part i…

Don't remember if I posted this, but I've re-started the mctrials e-group. Eric lost all his data during a virus storm and passed the duty on. I hope I can keep it going half as well as he did. this e-group is dedicated to North America trials riders for correspondence on issues of national and local trials eventsa/bikes/politics etc. To subscribe go to. http://www.micapeak.com/lists/mctrials Lots of folks on already and there are no archives. Les

First day results here http://www.natctrials.org/results.php

If I get NATC approval, I'll wear these in the world round.

Sorry about not posting in the classifieds, but I can't get it to work. When I get the 7's, I'll have some size 6 Gearnes for sale or trade. Anybody try "offroad" boots. O'Neal has some with grippy soles that run about $120 new. Contact me off list: cffrey@mindspring.com

In case there is a street enthusiast out there that knows someone that has one.... I want it. The 03 Tuono is hard to find and I need one [doctor's orders]

Are any of you guys going?

Anybody know a good source for Ipone in the States? I've ordered twice now from Iponeusa.com and had terrible luck.

I will be hosting a demo for some special children here in the local area (Clarksville, TN) on Thursday, 17 June 04 at 9 Am. More information about Camp Rainbow can be found here. http://www.bikerswhocare.org/camp2003/index.htm I am looking for Other riders or workers willing to help and make this a success. Suggestions for obstacles, challenges, props. Ways of bringing the children "INTO" the show while in no way placing them in any danger, even if things go wrong. Trials Training Center has stepped up to the plate and at least one of their current champ riders will be there to support this effort! (Thank You!) I have an offer of a 16' trailer that will be donat…

I hereby dedicate my El Trial de Espana ride to Christy. You can only imagine the motivation you get from having that woman on top of a huge step spotting you. With a crowd of thousands cheering me on I was able to block it all out except for her voice telling me I could do it. Of course I also have to credit Kip Webb as well. Also instilling confidence to attempt the huge stuff knowing that gorilla was there to catch my bike if I failed, which he had to do a couple of times.

First of all a huge thanks to MONTESA and GAS GAS for delivering riders for El Trial de Espana. Congratulations for putting on a great show for the all the people that made the trip! Of course we all understand the logistics and costs for sending a rider to El Trial this year was less than desirable and that's why were sure that the teams that did not send a rider and intend to compete in the TDN will more than happy to use the money they saved to support their riders themselves. After two days of El Trial competition: 1st place Chris Florin on Montesa 2nd place Geoff Aaron on Gas Gas 3rd place Cody Webb on Gas Gas

Hi all, here's the latest items to watch for on TV, specifically 2-wheel Tuesday on Speed Channel. Hope you get it. Last Wednesday, May 19, Speed filmed a neat segment on trials riding by a group of roadracers including 1993 world motogp champ Kevin Schwantz and Formula USA and WERA champs Trey Batey and Michael Martin. After 2 days of instruction in roadracing at the Barber racetrack, the roadrace instructors came to the Trials Training Center to become students of trials riding. Those guys are good! Speed channel will have a really nice segment on an upcoming episode, probably on Tuesday, May 25. That segment will be a nice lead-in to their coverage of the World …

If anybody's interested in checking out some absolutely SIIIICK trials riding, come on out to MotoVentures this Sunday (05/23) for "El Trial De Espa

A few pictures from this weekends trip to Vancouver Island.