lowbrow Posted May 26, 2010 Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 It seems most of the riders down here have to be back home by 3 pm at the latest and thus they prefer half hour drive, half hour to enter, half hour in the sections, 2 hours queing and half hour to get home. Chewy, perhaps you don't realise how fortunate you are to have a partner who enjoys and participates in the sport? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_scorpa3 Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 The Stratford Club hold three road based single lap trials per year and would love to run more, it would be great to have a single lap club trial 'IF' we could get anough riders and 'IF' we could get enough observers. Our Group trial used to follow the same route as the Colmore but with easier sections, but the year only 22 people entered we decided to go 'off road' to keep the event viable. The following year 80 entered, so we kept it off road. The sport has adapted to suit the needs of the riders, the clubs and the machines. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikespace Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 Mike, Gaz, care to comment? If you do make it down, I would look forward to seeing you on the day, I can vouch for the quality on the venue, rocky streams in abundance. Fred. Doh - been too busy to far* recently so missed all this. I have to admit we didn't publicise too well, and was mostly my fault/decision. This year we had about 40 - 50 calls after the entries closed at the 200 entry limit, so I don't like to invite too many more phone calls. The regs were out for 6 weeks, it was on our web site and on our facebook updates. Word of mouth probably got a few more out there. My wife would throw a wobbly if she thought I was trying to round up more evening phone calls, they were non stop, driving everyone mad. Only the kids use our phone normally Would be great to get 40 observers so we don't have to plan to move them around and we could let the entries go to whatever we like. In the old days the dads used to observe when they got to the age of 28 (past it) These days they ride on to the grave. Don't suppose many events can get 40 observers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Mike You need to move with the times. People don't want to fanny about on roads with no seat to sit on. Bikes are for riding sections now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Don't know where you get that idea from, unless you're just winding him up of course - 100 plus entires for the road trials I compete in suggest they do, classic or modern. Lakes 2 day nearly 200 entries, Manx even more, etc. Trials 20 years ago offered far more variety than they do now and were all the better for it. Moving with the times gives you closed circuit stop and hop events - poorly supported - BTC, WTC. The road based traditional events have far more support. True, modern bikes aren't ideal on the road but they aren't totally impractical either and surprisingly aren't that uncomfortable to ride on the road. What will kill off road trials in the end is lack of support for clubs in terms of organisers, observers, course plotters etc. In some areas, there don't apear to be enough people coming through to take over where the 'old guard' (and some of them were old when I started back in 70s...) will leave off. That and legislation/land issues most likely. But whilst there are still people around who are willing to put in the huge amount of effort to organise the road events, they will always be preferable to a pocket handkerchief, multi-lap stop and hop affair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyl Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Born and bred on pocket C to C and then WYG and Yorks centre road trials but having moved to south wales in late 80s got lazy and rode what was available locally - made the effort now and again with SSDT, Victory, Wallace etc. However rode all Normadales so far this year and re-ignited my appreciation for proper trials. Can't fault a big lap (with or without roadwork) Likes of Lyn traders and the forest trophy give best of both worlds - my appreciation for all those that make the effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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