Andy

I don't have the answer, I'm afraid. At one point it was the factories who didn't want two day competitions, but I don't know if that's still the case. I don't think the qualification part is going away so two days of competition would mean having to move qualification to the Friday with few spectators.

With regard to the parking, this was mentioned a few times and the price was down to the farmer, not the organisers. Not a lot of choice except to accept what he wanted to charge as there was nowhere else. I noticed the rip-off food fluctuating prices too. £4.00 for a roll and sausage on Saturday morning which jumped to £5.00 at lunchtime. Sunday I spotted the legend Mick Wren with a sausage and bacon roll and thought "ooh, I fancy one of them" till they tried to charge me £8.00 for it. Told them they could do one at that price and it suddenly came down to £5.00. I was skeptical (though not vocal about it) about the ability of Addingham to host a large event like that, but it worked. Enjoyed the weekend though I've been there before when it's been pissing down and blowing a gale and it would have been a different story had we not been lucky with the weather.

There you go. Full details and pics here

It's guaranteed. Seen it myself too many times and the Italians (and the French) are the worst for cheating Observers. However, if Matteo wins he'll finish on 147 so as long as Toby comes second he'll be on 149.

Providing nobody breaks the embargo, the full details with pics will be announced tomorrow.

Apparently ran out of fuel.

There will no doubt be the usual wagons selling food and drink so only the Yorkshire mob will bring their own Addingham is tiny compared to most venues. You could walk all the sections in under 15 minutes.

Other countries get a lot of support from their national federations, local government, tourism offices etc. The nature of many of the events abroad makes it impossible to charge people - can you imagine trying to police what could be a 10-15km loop making sure everyone had passes? (Some of them do charge for passes to take a bike round, but that's another story). All UK events - Hawkstone, Fort William, Nord Vue, Tong and now Addingham have been closed circuit, compact venues. Easy for spectators to move around, but also make charging for the privilege possible. They don't have all the red tape/bureaucracy/health and safety bollocks hoops that have to be jumped through in the UK. All that said, the World round at Tong last year was free to ACU Members and it was hardly bursting at the seams. In fact spectator numbers were surprisingly low given how much Trials folk like free stuff.

One of the better newspaper corrections

I've had a bit of a clearout so you may find other topics like that.

Charly retired when Kim Jong Jake took over. He was supposed to have a new role as archivist, but I don't know what happened with that.

Vertigo have released the following: Vertigo Motors regrets to announce that, exclusively for industrial reasons, it has decided to end its contract with trials young prospect Arnau Farré. From the Factory, we want to state clearly that Vertigo has no doubt about Farré’s talent and projection to become one of the best trials rider worldwide, and so, this isn’t the reason for such a decision. The deal with Farré was specifically linked to the development of the Vandal model, which because of promotional goals, was meant to compete in several international Championships during the season. However, following product development issues, Vertigo has decided to stop temporally its launch, and with that, also all the activity and presence of the bike in competition, what means the Vandal won’t be competing neither in the Spanish Championship or in the TrialGP Series from now on. We want to state as well, the fact that the rider has received the entire economic compensation of the contract in force, giving him the chance to find new opportunities and challenges in other brands or structures as soon as possible. We wish Arnau Farré all the best, as well as good luck on continuing with his meteoric progression as a professional trials rider.

Until I get fed up of your blatant trolling...

Don't know if things have changed in the last couple of years, but when I was going it was done at random post-competition. I recall podiums and press conferences being delayed because riders were off peeing in cups.

Doping control already happens. http://www.trialgp-noticeboard.com/images/pdfs/2018-Anti-Doping-Code.pdf

Ahh, thought it was this weekend. Maybe. Motohome hasn't had it's post-winter clean yet. That's on the cards for this weekend. If I get it cleaned up, take it out for a run and all is okay then I might appear.

Not this year. Ed sheeran this weekend the young hipster that I am

If I did a username of the month award...

Popped up on the TC instagram feed. Some amazing scenery (and thanks for not having the usual banging techno music)

Now up on the SSDT Website

I should have the routes later this week and they'll be published on the SSDT site straight away (well after I've dicked about for ages getting the various pages put together). The whole week will be published at once and a week in advance of the Trial.

BTW, I've put a story on this on the SSDT site.

There are two relay teams competing, both in aid of charities.