Just thought i ask the trials public out there whether trials should be capped in a centre. I ask this because a club my centre has approx 26 events next year. This may not be a problem to those that just ride but to us organisers it is as we cannot find an alterative date if need be. My own thought on the matter is that they should and that a club should only be given permits for 12 events.

If a club are will to put that much work & effort in don't knock it.

hah thats nothing

attached is the South Eastern, Southern and South Midland joint trials calender (here sc_sec_smc_trials_dates_2005.pdf pdf)--> and this doesn't include most closed to clubs, and we don't have many nationals down south

at the end of the day people want to put events on, and if there are riders your going to have to clash

some answers to the clashing problem

geographic --> "combines" --> we split our centre into 5 (NKTC, EKTC, SCG, Star, TVTC) and the 2nd Sunday of the month there are 5 trials on which are between centre and club trials

more simply you have one trial at one end and another at the other

classes --> its good to have an expert/inter trial somewhere while a pre65/novice trial is somewhere else

as you can see from the PDF we have centre rounds on vs wobbler trials, club trials, etc

worst case if you try and cap what clubs are doing they'll just sod off and go AMCA or ORPA - no pint in trying to limit but just work out the dates better (which is hard)

rabie :hat: