Canada Trials Reviews & Previews

This weekend June 12/13 will see the second round of the Outlaw Series take place at Stony Plain Alberta. - This venue has some of the best terrain for Trials, including creek and mud sections. Vintage goes Saturday at 11am, Modern on Sunday at 10am There is camping available at the site, further details can be seen on the ATRA website.

It's now only two weeks until rounds one and two of the Canadian Championship Trial on Vancouver Island in Beautiful British Columbia. - The weather in BC is quite mild, and most riders have already got in lots of practice, except for the Eastern riders, and this includes current Champ Steve Foord who emigrated from the UK last year. Steve lives in Calgary. Alberta, and at the moment they are suffering with a spring snow storm. - The Shawnigan Lake area, where the Trial will be held, is a Trials rider's paradise , with tight trails, and lots of big moss covered rocks. The Clerk of the course for the event, is multi- time Canadian Champ, Steve Fracy, whose son Matt …

Great day in the woods and Shale Pit last Sunday: I am heading to (old) Scotland next week to catch a bit of the SSDT - Really looking forward to cheering on the lone Canadian rider Jonathan English

I just wanted to be the first one to post here sinse you did the other, did you get the PM I sent you last week?

Early reports in from the club trial today at the Victoria Motorcycle Clubs Rick Wells memorial trial are that local legend Ryon Bell came out of retirement officially today, and once again put a stamp on the fact that he is the best trials rider Canada has ever produced. Demolishing the competition in what was a pretty easy event. Full results and scores to come. Congrats to Ryon, so great to see him back riding.

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…

Coming up next weekend, Sunday July 25th. Hills of Pelham Trial in Fonthill Check the flyer here http://www.trialsontario.ca/Pelham%202010.pdf Come out on Saturday July 24th and give Dan a hand to set up the sections. Then go for a ride on some of the other hills in the area. Overnight camping available at the trials site. Hope to see you there, Bob

The 29th running of the Outlaw Trial, takes place this weekend at Scotch Creek. BC - hosted by the Shuswap riders, and sanctioned by the WTC ( World Trials Canada) - There are classes for Vintage and Kids on Saturday, followed by the Modern bikes on Sunday. - Free camping on site.

The final event of the Series took place in Stony Plain Alberta on the June 13.14 weekend Ex Graham Jarvis minder - Stephen Foord ( Sherco) continued his winning form, and took the Expert Class ahead of another new UK Import Jake Cook, who has only been in Canada for a few weeks. - Third went to local ace Chris Tronnes. - Craig (Taff) Parfitt - took the Advanced class on his Evo, - Jim Corkle won the Senior, while David Tronnes took the Inter class, and Robert Lutastik the Novice.

Hi guys, Just a note that the 2011 season kicking off at Dave's place at Sparrow lake. Saturday April 23. Note this is Saturday, so you can still be back in time for the Easter bunny... flyer here: http://www.canmocycle.ca/flyers/sparrowlake.pdf Dave had hoped to lay out sections at a new spot near Huntsville but weather hasn't cooperated for him to be able to get in and cut trails and sections. The Huntsville spot is planned for the fall. ...Bob

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.

The WTC Canadian Trials Championship resumes this coming weekend in Vancouver BC, at the Ioco venue, on Saturday and Sunday July 20/21. To see the poster for the event and get more info:: click onto www.trialscanada.com

Built a short notice spring trial to help feed the black fly population this weekend, details can be found here: https://www.ataont.ca/ata-arden-trial-may-5th-2024-pre-entry-required/ ... and yes it's an Arden trial and they are forecasting rain so it is going to be a very hard event.

Haven't posted for a while but given these interesting times figured I would share our event from this past weekend. Given that the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is closed (because of the Covid virus) we ended up holding an event in each Province and combining the scores. Not ideal but hopefully the border will open soon and the rest of our events can be held with riders from both provinces in one location. The weather was fantastic in both locations and the sections were really amazing - you know you can clean them but end up dropping a points but feeling you will clear it next time. We had 6 sections but rode them in both directions so counted them as 12.…

The March trial at the Ioco riding area is to be held this weekend, the 28th. Bobby T has put together two loops, one for the beginner/juniors, and one for the Intermediate/advanced/experts; if the past is any indication, look for some very traditional trials sections, well laid out. Spencer

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

Just a quick note to let all those interested know that there is a classic trial at IOCO on Sunday April 3rd. There will be 2 lines. A line for the more experienced riders and b line for the less experienced. So bring out your classic iron and enjoy a great day of trialing and trail riding. Hope to see you there. Please note modern bikes are welcome to ride the event also Steve Coates

This Sunday, August 17th, the Saskatchewan Flatland Trials Association will be crossing the border into Manitoba, to bring Trials back, to a once great Trials community in Canada. In 1992 one of Canada's last FIM, World Championship Trials was held in the province of Manitoba. It was hosted by the Take 5, Trials Club, an enthusiastic group of riders and organizers. Shortly after hosting there biggest event ever, the club would be exhausted and disappear from the Canadian landscape. In 2009, the CMA, would recognize the request of a small core group of Trials riders in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan, Canada. This was a milestone move, as Trials events had nev…

I figure it is good to post here once a year or so to let people know Canada is still riding trials. I didn't see much coverage on here for the TdN so this should get 2 birds with one stone. Tossed together a clip from most of the sections ... the guys thought it was a great learning experience and Canada will be sure to be back next year!

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 …