Canada Trials Reviews & Previews

The first round of the 2009 Outlaw Series takes place this weekend, April 4th/5th -on Vancouver Island. The Vintage bikes will ride on Saturday, and the modern on Sunday. - Clerk of the Course Steve Fracy has added a "C" class on the Saturday to cater for novice or Pre-65 type bikes.

Recap - Round 1 Ohsweken in June - Expert Class - Jordan Szoke ON 1st, Jonathan English ON 2nd, Andrew Young ON 3rd Round 2 - Tweed - Excellent event, 48 riders, sections excellent for all classes, riders from BC, Quebec, Ontario. Big thanks to Dave Cordy and family. Expert Class - Will Duggan BC 1st, Jonathan English ON 2nd, Jordan Szoke ON 3rd. Round 3 - Arden - Another great event, 41 riders, sections were challenging, especially at the lower lines, rain held off for most of the day luckily, three loops of 10 sections. Thanks to Dave Southam and family. Will Duggan and Jordan Szoke were very close heading into the third loop. Will carded an excellent third loop for …

August 14-15th From the Organisers: Just to let you know that the entry form and information flyer - French and English - for The 2010 Ormstown Vintage Off Road Festival are available on the net. Go to: http://www.rocler.qc.ca/ariane/cycact2.htm The documents are in MS-Word and will take some time to download if you don't have high speed. Please let me know if you have any problems. Would appreciate it if you could spread the word around and hope to see you in August. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See the link for details. Ormstown is southwest of Montreal near the New York State border. A …

Wilson Craig is the new Canadian National Trials Champion and secures 1st seed on the 2012 Tdn Team. click here for results

The WEC Canadian Trials Championship locations have been finalized for 2011, with Rounds One & Two being held in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia in May, and Rounds Three & Four at a Ski Resort near Montreal(Quebec)in July. Further details will be posted in the New Year.

The Canada Pacific Trials Association (CPTA) is in the process of applying for a western Canadian Motorcycle Association (CMA) National trials championship two round weekend event. The planned dates are May 14 and 15th, with the planned location being Squamish, British Columbia. The CPTA has a working policy to support trials development in Canada, and the CMA, through its affiliation with the FIM, provides the link for riders whose goal is international competition. The CMA expert champion is automatically seeded to the Canadian Trials of Nations team, an event that brings together the best riders from all around the planet, to compete for their country. If succe…

This weekend, july 14-15th, Rounds 1 & 2 of the 2012 WTC Canadian National Championship, in Morin Heights, Québec. Also on Friday a free trials school will be given at the same location, under the instructions of Paul Yvan Bélanger. If you need more info, check out the ataq website or let me know here. Hugo

The Canadian Trials season has already started in Western Canada, with events on the West Coast, although most of the Country is still snow-bound. - This weekend will see the Reg Shanks Trial in Victoria on Vancouver Island, while the CPTA will hold their March Trial at Ioco.

Its now been finalized, that the 2014 CMA National Trials Championships will be held in Victoria BC Sept 27-28 at the private club grounds of the Victoria Motorycycle club. The VMC is one of the oldest clubs in Canada with records dating back to 1912. The clubs property has 162 acres of some of the most pristine trials riding in North America! Much more info will be available shortly, including Pre-entry. VMC is proud to hold these Nationals, sanctioned by the CMA which is the only National sanctioning body recognized by the FIM. It has been almost 20yrs now since the club held its first National in this same location, back in 1985. Stay tuned for more info!

Today we had our second event for the year (of 3). It was a fantastic day, sunny and about 23 degrees ©. I had spent 3 days earlier in the week setting out, building the sections and just had the start and end gates and any last minute changes left to do. Fellow riders had helped me out but even with 2 or 3 people it is hard to gage if things are going to be too tough or not tough enough (leaves you thinking about it in the middle of the night). I had a pretty good idea who was coming so we decided on 3 difficulty levels (we had typically been just using 2 levels). I got up in the morning and printed the score cards, a waiver for people to sign, and a score sheet (that I…

The 25th running of the popular Outlaw Trial, will take place in Summerland,BC, on May 19/20 As usual, the vintage twin-shock bikes will go on Saturday, with the Modern on Sunday. The long distance (For Canada) event, will also feature a special Yamaha class on the Sunday, which will cater to all air-cooled TY models, plus a Saturday night kids Trial at the Campsite, with a class for the little electric machines.

The 3rd annual Ady Brown Memorial Trial will take place at Summerland BC next weekend November 10/11th - Although the date is late in the year because of other calendar changes due to Forest Fire Hazards, The long term foecast looks good, with no big snow storms predicted. - Adrian Brown, was a transplanted Cockney - who made friends with everybody he met in Western Canada, he was always full of fun, and enjoyed his Trials riding in the Okanagan Valley, Sadly he was diagnosed with cancer while on a visit to England back in 2001, and although he survived another nine years, living in the UK, and riding Trials with his buddies for some time, he finally passed away at the …

We will be holding this Trial on Easter Saturday April 3rd near Vernon BC Canada to remember our old friend Adrian who passed away on January 2nd in London England after a long battle with cancer. Ady lived in Canada for a number of years, and was very well liked as a man with a big sense of humour.

The Trial to remember our old buddy Adrian who died in London England last January, will go this Saturday at Vernon BC - We expect many of Ady's friends to be riding from both Vancouver, Kelowna, Vernon and Alberta. We will post pics (if possible as I'm a bit of an old fart at the computer stuff) One of the more spectacular sections, we have named "Adrian's Wall"

There was a good turn out of riders from both Alberta and BC for the Trial on April 3rd, to remember Adrian Brown, who died in England last January. The full results can be seen on www.trialscanada.com and pictures on the gallery at www.outlawtrials.com

Press Release September 8th 2011 We are pleased to announce that we will be running the Adrian Brown Memorial Trial, on Sunday October 9th (Thanksgiving) at Summerland BC The event will start from the usual location at 10am, and will feature a brand new loop, with interesting sections for all classes.

The Ady trial will be held this year at Scotch Creek BC ( Shuswap area) - email Outlaw Dave at - daverhodes@shaw.ca for details. - All proceeds go to the Cancer fund.

The annual Adrian Brown memorial Trial, was held in OK Falls BC on October 18th - Adrian was a popular member of the Trials group in the Okanagan Valley, and had a wonderful sense of humor. - Unfortunately we lost him way to soon to Cancer at age 50 when this was discovered on a visit to his London UK home in 2001. - His local club in the UK was the Bognor Regis and this year, his parents sent out a special plaque to display at this yearly event which is all about raising money for Cancer research. We are happy to report that we collected $890.00 for this worthy cause, but more importantly we shared a lot of good memories of Adrian around the camp fire.

Really exciting news for trials riders in Canada and north eastern US. The CMA has secured the services of the amazing Alexandre Ferrer and his minder, Mederic Delannoy. Ferrer will be in eastern Canada, sharing his knowledge of solid basic, modern techniques, as well as the skills that have made him one the best riders in the sport today. More information on the CMA website. If you wish to participate in this fantastic opportunity contact the CMA head office, before March 10, 2015. www.canmocycle.ca

St George - Oct 3 - CMA Ont. Provincial Round 10 OK folks, many classes still up for grabs going into round 10, the final event of the year for the Ontario CMA series. You can get your flyer in the trialsontario.ca Schedule tab, (no mailings will be sent out). First annual end of season free barbecue compliments of the ATA ! First time CMA members for this event ($40 reduced fee) will not be charged and entry fee. 50/50 draw sponsoring the 2011 Canadian TDN Team!!! Observers provided but unfortunately no band. No matter what skill level you are we have a riding line for you to enjoy. For the new comers give the E line a try. Remember to get your CMA membership wh…