January 30, 200917 yr Here is the Honda 2009 Motorcycle Racing Plan for Trials, no mention of Laia being the team; http://world.honda.com/news/2009/c090127Mo...e-Racing-Plans/ ♦ FIM World Trials Championship Series For the FIM World Trials Championship Series (WCT), Honda will run two Montesa COTA 4RTs equipped with highly competitive 4-stroke engines. With riders Toni Bou, champion for the last two years, and Takahisa Fujinami, the only Japanese rider competing in the WCT, Honda aims to capture the rider
January 30, 200917 yr Takahisa Fujinami, the only Japanese rider competing in the WCT, Japan had a few good riders in the mix not long back, jobs getting worse not better. I think top placed domestic national champions qualifying for a three day world championship week would make for a more sensible situation. Trials is an amateur sport with a few professional players retained by a large company the others can't compete with, what point is there banking yourself trying to keep up. In thirty three years of world trials championship's it hasn't been able to win Joe public over enough to make a go of it, in fact it's receding, wouldn't it make more sense to cater for the true follower of the sport rather than ego.
January 31, 200917 yr I think they changed the rules again so laia can ride junior again. That's a sensible enough decision. She isn't capable at riding the WTC and the women's is to easy and not much of a challenge to her. I would be extremely surprised if she had parted company with Montesa HRC, I read somewhere she attracts more publicity than male Spanish trials riders. Edited January 31, 200917 yr by Cota Kid
January 31, 200917 yr That's a sensible enough decision. She isn't capable at riding the WTC and the women's is to easy and not much of a challenge to her. I would be extremely surprised if she had parted company with Montesa HRC, I read somewhere she attracts more publicity than male Spanish trials riders. I wonder why that is
January 31, 200917 yr Here is the Honda 2009 Motorcycle Racing Plan for Trials, no mention of Laia being the team;http://world.honda.com/news/2009/c090127Mo...e-Racing-Plans/ ♦ FIM World Trials Championship Series For the FIM World Trials Championship Series (WCT), Honda will run two Montesa COTA 4RTs equipped with highly competitive 4-stroke engines. With riders Toni Bou, champion for the last two years, and Takahisa Fujinami, the only Japanese rider competing in the WCT, Honda aims to capture the rider Edited January 31, 200917 yr by Martin Belair
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