Could someone tell me what " Road Events" consist of ? Iv'e read/heard of this, and have no idea if it's a different thing to the sections that you usually find at meetings ! I also hope that it's not something obvious and i'm going to look stupid .............................. Again !

These Trials are usually harder than club trials and often classed as National events. The road bit only means you have to ride on public roads at some stage during the trial to get to various groups or single sections. Road trials are usually longer events often 6 - 7 hour time limits.

Edited December 2, 200817 yr by The Addict

Way back when, in the halcyon days of trialing most if not all trials, certainly in our centre, were on the road. Single or a double lap and they were great..... The trials took more work and time to organise and in general the willing bands of helpers started to diminish, people then started to complain about the expense of registering and insuring bikes, passing motorcycle tests and little by little this type of trial was replaced by the closed circuit, multi lap we know today. Many great pieces of land now do not get used because of this and trials have suffered in quality due to lack of road work.

Is an interesting debate focused on the cost issue ,discussed in the trials press many times over the years, I for one experienced several great years moving up from schoolboy trials into adults, riding road based trials nearly every weekend..

They say you should never look back .... they were great trials and great times.

Salut

Frenchie.

P.s Im sure I invented supermoto on my 240 Fantic, nice soft tyre on the year .....

Our Centre Championship, here on the Isle of Man, is still road based, moving from group to group via roads (occassionally) with alot of fun track work too. I really enjoy the national events, the Manx 2 day (of course), have ridden the Reeth 3 Day the past 2 years and thoroughly enjoyed it along with the lakes. It is a shame that in the UK alot of trials have gone to closed circuit laps. I for one am definately all for road based, national type trials.

i rode the solo route on this years mel harrison sidecar national. it was my first road trial and an absolututly brilliant event.

one lap, four groups of sections.

if i only enter one event next year it will be this one.

The road trial wins hands down for me every time.

If you want a value for money day out then this is the way to go imho, generally 5-7 hours on the bike for a few quid more than the muti lap event, and the challenge is greater as you only get one crack at the sections on a single lap trial.

Our club ran a single lap 35 section event in september just gone covering 32 miles with 14 groups with a good deal of success, so far i have heard only good words to say about the event, mainly are you running it next year? Answer is yes.

And all the work is worth the effort.