Calendar is fairly similar to last year. Should be fun! Note the date of the Columbia Cup...should be a great event. Nothing officially planned for Funny Rocks area, and only one event officially planned for Walker Valley...but wait for further notices on these locations.
JANUARY 2009
(Watch football)
FEBRUARY 2009
1 Ice Trial - Bill Thompson & Dan Lemon
MARCH 2009
1 Spring Trial - Mike Berg & Curtis Mann Gold Bar
28-29 PNTA - INTA
APRIL 2009
5 Fool's Trial - Ted Green & Robert Schwenke Gold Bar
25-26 PNTA - COTA
MAY 2009
3 May Trial - Mark Palmer & Jim Shive Deer Flat
16-17 Columbia Cup - Mark Lawson, Don Petrick & Nick Jones (Fundraiser)
23-24 PNTA VMC
30-31 NATC Nebraska National
JUNE 2009
6-7 PNTA - CPTA Ioco
14 Summer Trial - Chris Seitz & Ron Ringuette
27-28 NATC Tennessee National
JULY 2009
18-19 NATC Vermont National
25-26 NATC New York National
AUGUST 2009
1-2 PNTA PST - Larry Drawhorn, Chris Seitz & Tom McIntosh Gold Bar
15-16 Ute Cup
SEPTEMBER 2009
13 Autumn Trial - Bob Larsen, Kyle Larsen & Ed Reus Gold Bar
OCTOBER 2009
4 Halloween 1 - Gary Lawver, Tom McIntosh & Steve Kraski Walker Valley
25 Halloween 2 - Jon Payne Gold Bar
NOVEMBER 2009
8 PST Annual Banquet
DECEMBER 2009
(Watch football)
Event dates can change, so be sure to confirm any non-PST events
shown below with the clubs that host them.
Dale D.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
PST trial 9/21/08...wet but fun!
"Liquid sunshine" was the order of the day when a band of hearty trialers turned out at Goldbar (Sherwood forest, actually) on 9/21/08.
Scores were high, and smiles were wide. Plenty of variety in the sections, which is always nice. I witnessed great camaraderie amongst the riders all day long.
Luke Matlack was the overall winner. The #2 overall rider, when I asked how he did that day, said "I stunk up the place". But I saw him have a number of good rides.
Trials riders are a hearty bunch...on section 8 Mark and I saw one Advanced rider fall maybe 12 feet (his head was maybe 12 FEET off the ground before he landed lying on the ground.) He seemed to just get up and shake it off. Well done. We also saw a wheel dangling off that same ledge, from another rider, as we waited in line to ride that section.
Thanks to Ed Reus & Bob/Kyle Larsen for putting on a fine event! I know personally that Ed (and I'm sure Bob/Kyle) put in a lot of effort on this event.
Next PST event is 10/12/08 at Walker Valley (see PST web site for exact location, however.)
Don't forget the PST annual banquet, Nov. 9th at Shawn O'Donnell's in South Everett. $20 per person, RSVP only. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes. Contact Gary at whlsofyr@hotmail.com
Dale D.
Scores were high, and smiles were wide. Plenty of variety in the sections, which is always nice. I witnessed great camaraderie amongst the riders all day long.
Luke Matlack was the overall winner. The #2 overall rider, when I asked how he did that day, said "I stunk up the place". But I saw him have a number of good rides.
Trials riders are a hearty bunch...on section 8 Mark and I saw one Advanced rider fall maybe 12 feet (his head was maybe 12 FEET off the ground before he landed lying on the ground.) He seemed to just get up and shake it off. Well done. We also saw a wheel dangling off that same ledge, from another rider, as we waited in line to ride that section.
Thanks to Ed Reus & Bob/Kyle Larsen for putting on a fine event! I know personally that Ed (and I'm sure Bob/Kyle) put in a lot of effort on this event.
Next PST event is 10/12/08 at Walker Valley (see PST web site for exact location, however.)
Don't forget the PST annual banquet, Nov. 9th at Shawn O'Donnell's in South Everett. $20 per person, RSVP only. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes. Contact Gary at whlsofyr@hotmail.com
Dale D.
Will Duggan is 2008 PNTA champ
Will Duggan is the (unofficial) 2008 champion of the Pacific Northwest Trials Association. Good job, Will!
Those Canucks are showing us Yanks a thing or two about keeping our feet on the pegs.
Photo from www.PugetSoundTrialers.com
Dale D.
Got building skills?....then we need you!
If you know ANYTHING about building, then we need you to help us build homes for those less fortunate than us. See www.Habitat.org for more info on how you can help.
If you don't have the time to help in building, then any donation of new materials or money would be appreciated as well!
Habitat has built more than 250,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. HFHI was founded in 1976.
Dale D.
Bou wins 2008 world title
Congratulations to Montesa's Toni Bou on his second straight outdoor championship!
Will 2009 be Dougie Lampkin's last year?
The real story of 2008 was the recent success of young Jeroni Fajardo. He ended the year beating Raga and Fuji to place 2nd at the Portuguese round, and finished 3rd at the next (and final) round in Spain (beat former champ Fuji there too.) In 2009, look out senor Bou!
Loris Gubian won the Junior class, and then in his first Championship class ride he finished in the top 11....wow.
USA #1 rider Patrick Smage finished 7th in the Youth class despite missing a ton of rounds due to an injury. He was on pace to finish around 2nd place or so. Next year, Patrick! He's our best hope for some sort of world title since Bernie Schreiber.
CHAMPIONSHIP - Final Results
1. Toni Bou - 225
2. Adam Raga - 208
3. Takahisa Fujinami - 183
4. Jeroni Fajardo - 142
5. Albert Cabestany - 133
6. Dougie Lampkin - 130
7. Marc Freixa - 104
8. James Dabill - 98
9. Michael Brown - 72
10. Daniel Oliveras - 65
JUNIOR - Final Results
1. Loris Gubian - 183
2. Alexz Wigg - 171
3. Alfredo Gomez - 150
4. Matteo Grattarola - 137
5. Sam Haslam - 125
6. Ross Danby - 118
7. Guillaume Laniel - 111
8. Fredrik Johansson - 51
9. David Millan - 50
10. Laia Sanz - 50
YOUTH - Final Results
1. Jack Challoner - 171
2. Francesc Moret - 159
3. Alexandre Ferrer - 152
4. Adrian Pastoriza - 128
5. Benoit Dagnicourt - 114
6. Pau Botella - 107
7. Patrick Smage - 99
8. Pere Borrellas - 83
9. Jonathan Richardson - 75
10. Jake Whitaker - 64
Will 2009 be Dougie Lampkin's last year?
The real story of 2008 was the recent success of young Jeroni Fajardo. He ended the year beating Raga and Fuji to place 2nd at the Portuguese round, and finished 3rd at the next (and final) round in Spain (beat former champ Fuji there too.) In 2009, look out senor Bou!
Loris Gubian won the Junior class, and then in his first Championship class ride he finished in the top 11....wow.
USA #1 rider Patrick Smage finished 7th in the Youth class despite missing a ton of rounds due to an injury. He was on pace to finish around 2nd place or so. Next year, Patrick! He's our best hope for some sort of world title since Bernie Schreiber.
CHAMPIONSHIP - Final Results
1. Toni Bou - 225
2. Adam Raga - 208
3. Takahisa Fujinami - 183
4. Jeroni Fajardo - 142
5. Albert Cabestany - 133
6. Dougie Lampkin - 130
7. Marc Freixa - 104
8. James Dabill - 98
9. Michael Brown - 72
10. Daniel Oliveras - 65
JUNIOR - Final Results
1. Loris Gubian - 183
2. Alexz Wigg - 171
3. Alfredo Gomez - 150
4. Matteo Grattarola - 137
5. Sam Haslam - 125
6. Ross Danby - 118
7. Guillaume Laniel - 111
8. Fredrik Johansson - 51
9. David Millan - 50
10. Laia Sanz - 50
YOUTH - Final Results
1. Jack Challoner - 171
2. Francesc Moret - 159
3. Alexandre Ferrer - 152
4. Adrian Pastoriza - 128
5. Benoit Dagnicourt - 114
6. Pau Botella - 107
7. Patrick Smage - 99
8. Pere Borrellas - 83
9. Jonathan Richardson - 75
10. Jake Whitaker - 64
Christy Williams T-Shirts for Sale
From TrialsCanada.com:
Christy Williams tells me that she has T-shirts for sale to help with the costs associated with this year's Trial des Nations in Andorra. The writing on the T-shirt reads: Trials des Nations. Team Canada
Christy has sold shirts for the last eight years, and the money is very useful; each rider selected for the Canadian team has to go to considerable personal expense to participate in the trial.
Christy says that she's having some trouble selling the T-shirts, as the U.S. national rounds consisted of only two rounds this year and she's unable to compete in all of the PNTA rounds. So there hasn't been a lot of marketing opportunity.
The T-shirts are just twenty bucks each if they can be picked up at the next Ioco (BC) trial, or dropped off locally. Otherwise they're twenty-five bucks including shipping and handling. This is a good deal for a good cause, as I'm told that these T-shirts are the "coolest ever..."
Here's Christy's email address: christy@survivorbootcamp.com
Christy Williams tells me that she has T-shirts for sale to help with the costs associated with this year's Trial des Nations in Andorra. The writing on the T-shirt reads: Trials des Nations. Team Canada
Christy has sold shirts for the last eight years, and the money is very useful; each rider selected for the Canadian team has to go to considerable personal expense to participate in the trial.
Christy says that she's having some trouble selling the T-shirts, as the U.S. national rounds consisted of only two rounds this year and she's unable to compete in all of the PNTA rounds. So there hasn't been a lot of marketing opportunity.
The T-shirts are just twenty bucks each if they can be picked up at the next Ioco (BC) trial, or dropped off locally. Otherwise they're twenty-five bucks including shipping and handling. This is a good deal for a good cause, as I'm told that these T-shirts are the "coolest ever..."
Here's Christy's email address: christy@survivorbootcamp.com
The best ride ever!?
2007 and 2008 World Champion Toni Bou shows us that you don't need a front wheel to ride a world-class section! Unreal, really. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5seTdHgyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5seTdHgyQ
The 2009 Beta is now out
The new 2009 Beta trials bike is out, and it looks pretty good. Only time will tell how good.
See photos at:
http://www.trialscentral.com/user_photos/andy/2008/2009_beta_trials_bike/index.htm
See photos at:
http://www.trialscentral.com/user_photos/andy/2008/2009_beta_trials_bike/index.htm
Swedish world round: it's Raga, Bou, and Fuji
Bou and Fujinami second and third in Sweden
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 - Honda Motorcycle Press Release - Total Motorcycle - http://www.totalmotorcycle.com
Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami – both Repsol Montesa HRC took second and third place respectively at this weekend’s Grand Prix of Sweden, the eighth round of the 2008 FIM SPEA Trial World Championship. The win went to Bou’s arch-rival Adam Raga – Gas Gas as the championship returned to Sweden for the first time in fifteen years.
Located at the Uddevalla motocross circuit, which has featured in the World MX championship recently, the setting for round eight was impressive, to say the least. The first group of sections wound their way up and down a rocky outcrop opposite the MX track while the remainder of the sections were located in the woods surrounding the circuit. This gave the lap two very different characteristics, with plenty of grip on the open rocks, but more slippery conditions under the trees.
Bou, Fujinami and Raga once again set the early running, the three evenly matched over the opening sections. Fujinami cleaned the first eight sections while Bou dropped three marks and Raga just one. However it was the second half of the first lap where the marks began to mount, on the slippery sections under tree cover. Fujinami picked up the only five of the day for the leading three on section eleven, a combination of a muddy bank and moss-covered rocks. However, despite this, he was in second place by the end of the first lap, behind Raga and ahead of his team-mate Bou.
With just six marks covering the top three, the pressure was on for the second lap. The scores were markedly lower the second time around, with Raga adding just two to his first-lap tally. But the competition between Bou and Fujinami was intense, the pair neck and neck throughout the lap. However, it was on section thirteen where it would go wrong for the Japanese rider. Fujinami lost two marks to Bou’s clean and this moved him from one mark ahead to a single mark behind his team-mate by the end of the event, once again claiming third spot behind Raga in first and Bou second.
Bou - 2nd :
“I’m happy with second today. Both Adam [Raga] and Fuji were very strong, but finishing second to Adam is very good for the championship, even though he closed the gap a little. I made some small mistakes on the first lap today – nothing too bad, but some that I should not have made. But my second lap was incredible – two marks – I was very pleased with that. I think maybe the pressure of maintaining the championship positions was on my mind this morning, for the first lap. It would be nice to be able to ride without thinking about the championship and just focus on the race, but it’s not always that easy, especially with only three rounds left. It was easier to do on the second lap, as you can see in the scores, but not so easy to start with. I think this has been a very good trial; some of the sections were a little easy and overall, it could be made harder for the future, but a good trial anyway.”
Fujinami – 3rd :
“Third place again! I’m not so happy with the result, as I was second after the first lap and wanted to remain there, but I am pleased with my riding today. I made some small mistakes, but the biggest problem was two marks I picked up in section thirteen on the second lap, when Toni cleaned it. By that point, I was one mark ahead and that put me behind with only two sections to go. Both Toni and I cleaned the last two, so he stayed ahead. I like this trial; the first part of each lap was quite easy – the rocks were dry and had lots of grip and you can see from the scores that almost no marks were lost there. But the second part, in the trees, was more difficult. It was damp and while it was possible to clean the sections, it was also easy to make mistakes and pick up a three or even a five.”
Laia Sanz –
Repsol Montesa HRC had another difficult weekend on the Scandinavian sections. After finishing the European Championship round on Saturday in fifteenth, she finished eleventh in today’s Junior class. She admitted she had a poor first lap and while her second was better, it was not enough to improve on her position by the end of the event. “Today was a disaster for me. The second lap was better, with thirty marks against forty eight for the first, but still not good enough. I was making stupid mistakes on the first lap and that was where the problems were. The first part of the lap was OK, but the second was very difficult. It felt almost like two separate trials, the sections were so different. I was also running out of time on the second part, which meant I had to rush some of the sections, which also did not help.”
FIM World Trial Championship Series 2008
Round 08 Uddevalla, Sweden
1 Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas)
2 Toni Bou (SPA-Montesa)
3 Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa)
4 Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Beta)
5 Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta)
6 Marc Freixa (SPA-Gas Gas)
7 Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco)
8 Michael Brown (GBR-Beta)
9 James Dabill (GBR-Montesa)
10 Daniel Oliveras (SPA-Sherco)
11 Henri Himmanen (FIN-Beta)
12 Martin Kroustek (CZE-Beta)
From the good folks at:
http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/viewtopic.php?t=30153&sid=2896e1d04eb186dad6d8e12877b3b820
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 - Honda Motorcycle Press Release - Total Motorcycle - http://www.totalmotorcycle.com
Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami – both Repsol Montesa HRC took second and third place respectively at this weekend’s Grand Prix of Sweden, the eighth round of the 2008 FIM SPEA Trial World Championship. The win went to Bou’s arch-rival Adam Raga – Gas Gas as the championship returned to Sweden for the first time in fifteen years.
Located at the Uddevalla motocross circuit, which has featured in the World MX championship recently, the setting for round eight was impressive, to say the least. The first group of sections wound their way up and down a rocky outcrop opposite the MX track while the remainder of the sections were located in the woods surrounding the circuit. This gave the lap two very different characteristics, with plenty of grip on the open rocks, but more slippery conditions under the trees.
Bou, Fujinami and Raga once again set the early running, the three evenly matched over the opening sections. Fujinami cleaned the first eight sections while Bou dropped three marks and Raga just one. However it was the second half of the first lap where the marks began to mount, on the slippery sections under tree cover. Fujinami picked up the only five of the day for the leading three on section eleven, a combination of a muddy bank and moss-covered rocks. However, despite this, he was in second place by the end of the first lap, behind Raga and ahead of his team-mate Bou.
With just six marks covering the top three, the pressure was on for the second lap. The scores were markedly lower the second time around, with Raga adding just two to his first-lap tally. But the competition between Bou and Fujinami was intense, the pair neck and neck throughout the lap. However, it was on section thirteen where it would go wrong for the Japanese rider. Fujinami lost two marks to Bou’s clean and this moved him from one mark ahead to a single mark behind his team-mate by the end of the event, once again claiming third spot behind Raga in first and Bou second.
Bou - 2nd :
“I’m happy with second today. Both Adam [Raga] and Fuji were very strong, but finishing second to Adam is very good for the championship, even though he closed the gap a little. I made some small mistakes on the first lap today – nothing too bad, but some that I should not have made. But my second lap was incredible – two marks – I was very pleased with that. I think maybe the pressure of maintaining the championship positions was on my mind this morning, for the first lap. It would be nice to be able to ride without thinking about the championship and just focus on the race, but it’s not always that easy, especially with only three rounds left. It was easier to do on the second lap, as you can see in the scores, but not so easy to start with. I think this has been a very good trial; some of the sections were a little easy and overall, it could be made harder for the future, but a good trial anyway.”
Fujinami – 3rd :
“Third place again! I’m not so happy with the result, as I was second after the first lap and wanted to remain there, but I am pleased with my riding today. I made some small mistakes, but the biggest problem was two marks I picked up in section thirteen on the second lap, when Toni cleaned it. By that point, I was one mark ahead and that put me behind with only two sections to go. Both Toni and I cleaned the last two, so he stayed ahead. I like this trial; the first part of each lap was quite easy – the rocks were dry and had lots of grip and you can see from the scores that almost no marks were lost there. But the second part, in the trees, was more difficult. It was damp and while it was possible to clean the sections, it was also easy to make mistakes and pick up a three or even a five.”
Laia Sanz –
Repsol Montesa HRC had another difficult weekend on the Scandinavian sections. After finishing the European Championship round on Saturday in fifteenth, she finished eleventh in today’s Junior class. She admitted she had a poor first lap and while her second was better, it was not enough to improve on her position by the end of the event. “Today was a disaster for me. The second lap was better, with thirty marks against forty eight for the first, but still not good enough. I was making stupid mistakes on the first lap and that was where the problems were. The first part of the lap was OK, but the second was very difficult. It felt almost like two separate trials, the sections were so different. I was also running out of time on the second part, which meant I had to rush some of the sections, which also did not help.”
FIM World Trial Championship Series 2008
Round 08 Uddevalla, Sweden
1 Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas)
2 Toni Bou (SPA-Montesa)
3 Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa)
4 Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Beta)
5 Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta)
6 Marc Freixa (SPA-Gas Gas)
7 Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco)
8 Michael Brown (GBR-Beta)
9 James Dabill (GBR-Montesa)
10 Daniel Oliveras (SPA-Sherco)
11 Henri Himmanen (FIN-Beta)
12 Martin Kroustek (CZE-Beta)
From the good folks at:
http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/viewtopic.php?t=30153&sid=2896e1d04eb186dad6d8e12877b3b820
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