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  1. laird387's post in Old Trials Rules was marked as the answer   
    Hi greeves,
     
    The 'original' rules for the classes in the championship series formulated in 1972 included the following paragraph:
     
    "4. FAILURE:
    In this series all trials operate as non-stop trials, riders are deemed to have entered a section when the front axle crosses the
    'Begins' line and leave the section when the front axle crosses the 'Ends' line. All sections are to be ridden in a natural forward direction, forming a loop to gain a better line of approach within the hazard will be deemed a failure when either wheel crosses the track already ridden.
    It is a further requirement that riders attempt to ride the hazards as defined by the Organisers and therefore will be deemed to have failed any section where they cross an imaginary natural line drawn between the side markers of the section, looping out of the section to gain a better line is not allowed."
     
    There was occasionally some light-hearted discussion of the location of the 'imaginary natural line' but this was dealt with quite simply by the rule that said the observers ruling was final and any query could only be resolved with a written protest after publication of the results.
     
    There never was a protest in the thirteen plus years I was the series coordinator, nor was there ever a tie.
     
     
  2. laird387's post in Changes At Peak Classic For 2016 was marked as the answer   
    Hi 2stroke4stroke,
     
    "A side issue of which is something that always puzzled me; why, after selling a trials bike in those days, did they never seem to be seen again - who bought a trials bike not to use it?"
     
    The answer, I suspect, is possibly that they fancy being a competitor in the 'pretty bike arena' of shows.  You see there is much concentration on compliance to sales leaflet looks in the show arena, and many road machines have awkward plastic panels, etc., etc.
     
    But trials models have, very often, alloy mudguards, chainguards, no awkward to find toolboxes, definitely a far less demanding restoration task.  Moreover not many marque 'experts' remember the competition models, so as long as everything is nicely buffed and polished..........
     
    just a thought..........
  3. laird387's post in Show Us Your Greeves was marked as the answer   
    Hi,
    Another image to waken the memory banks, from the offroadarchive, shows Bill Wilkinson on his Greeves with Peter Gaunt walking up the section behind him and Don Smith (spectator on far left of image) carefully checking his choice of lines. Without checking further I reckon it's on the lower approach to 'Hollinsclough'.
    Enjoy

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