Welcome to r2wtrials... Motorcycle and Cycle Trials from the West Country, East South Wales & the South West.

Latest Trials Related News.... 

... Brilliant ride by Wiggy gives him the European Championship, Challoner just loses out.
... I Observed at the SVMC trial today & took a few images. See SVMC Website for results
... Results and superb Video of Cahors, by Sergio.
... Bou, Raga, Caby and Fuji go for a new World record.
... Team Kaos Beta rider Jake Whittaker wins the Oz titles, more soon.
... Pontypool Dave Sargent Trial in Wales, see story below... now with a few images.
... Fancy a Beta Rev3, GasGas Pro or a 4rt? For sale
... S3 Titanium front pipe, Wheel graphics, clutch cover saver, white sxs number board, "Beta Racing" oil filler plug and v-mar red valve caps all now fitted. Big Image here. S3 pipe is 1kg lighter than standard item..!! All available at SXS
... Long Term Test on the GasGas 450 FSE

Local News & Results.....

... Cheltenham Home Guard Are running a non expert trial next Sunday 5th Sept at Formicate Nr. Winchcombe. Any rider on any bike. Easy route will be very easy for beginners, Trailbike etc. Detail in back of TMX news or acuwesterncentre.org.uk or phone Steve Venn 01242 697494.
... Merthyr Motor Club will be holding club trials on Sunday 19 September 2010 and also Sunday 3rd October 2010, details Here
... Next Pontypool dmmc event 5th September, details Here
... Pontypool dmmc Dave Sargent trial results at the Club Blog
... Zona 1 John Workman Trial, 25th July. Full results, images and video on the club Blog
... Merthyr club trial, 27th June.. info and results Here
... Hot day at the Zona 1 Andy Bubb trial.... Becky Cook rode, and won! More Here

National & International News....

james dabill
  Although we have had some crap weather in the last month, my visit to Dartmoor for the latest British Championship round proved to be somewhat warmer and drier than last year..!! Click image of James Dabill for a short report and photo gallery link.
... 10 part video series from the Japanese World round weekend on Youtube.
... Youth A & B British Championship on Sunday 4th July... see story below & TrialMag!
... Image gallery from the St.Davids Trial... Quick report plus results links HERE
mitchell 2010
 A nice sunny day out in Wales at the Mitchell trial, round 4 of the British Championship. Report and images to come... I took 220 images and have now placed 70 odd in a gallery, visit via the link on my report page Here...
A large image of Dibsta launching up the "wall" .. HERE

dabill
 I had a day down in Devon at the West Of England trial, round 3 of the British Championship, with the camera. Some thoughts and a link to a 76 image gallery of the top riders.. HERE.

 

 

 

 

Trials Snippets... (click on the orange links for more)
  ...Nice SWM 125 tf3 Enduro for sale ...Lovely biketrial video, Hegedus.  ...Jitsie now have BRAKE pads and discs ...More items from XPA, Official factory merchandise ...Chris Smith's latest Video ...Typicaly nasty Japanese champ sections ...Ossa, new look web site ...Jitsie Blog now online  ...One steep section! Japan  ... Sandbay biketrial play ...New Zona 1 MCC web blog ...Lovely photos of Raga, by Sergio ...Works TTT Beta Evo image ...Jeroni Fajardo video  ...Mitani Beta Evo, with showa forks ...Entertainment Raga style, new Sergio video 

Other news items...

SVMC
Trial..		 Nigel Tompkins kindly offered to let me ride the trial at short notice, even though technically I am a clubman expert and this event was a novice/clubman trial. But when I arrived it became obvious that they were going to struggle getting 12 observers so I decided to observe and have a little play on the bike before and after. As I had section 12 and the entry were split between 1 and 6 at the start I had a chance to grab some images of 4 or 5 riders trying the sections just before mine... sorry to all that I didn't get but they quickly arrived at my section and I had to do observing duty for the rest of the trial... Gallery Here
Pontypool
dmmc trial.		 I travelled over the bridge into Wales again for the Pontypool DMMC Dave Sargent trial. What a hell of a venue, lovely rocky stream bed with some big climbs and steps and I reckon you could easily hold a national event there.
I rode the masters route, or clubman experts, or 50/50 as it can be called in various areas. One of the expert sections I had to ride caused me a few problems and I 5'd it on the first two laps and then suffered really bad arm pump and couldn't hold onto the bars through this long section so asked for 5's for the last two laps.. That accounted for 20 of my 43 score! Even so I managed to grab 2nd place in class, missing out by 6 marks for the win. Visit the club Blog  for full results. I was after a shot for a possible T&MX report so I took just a handful and put them in a Small Photo Gallery 
xpamotor 300 For more information and some very nice images of the new XPA Motor 300 click any the pictures here to visit the XPAMotor web site... looks much better with David Cobos' input.

british youth a and b championship

pontypool a and b

 .Local Lad Jake Evans-Luter took the A class honours in the latest British Youth A and B class Championships. The club had kindly asked me along to take photos and perhaps a report for the printed Trials media. So i had a ring side seat to see the youngsters at work, and my god can they ride!! Obviously I get to see Jake's riding in local trials but when you see him and the other top A riders tackle what, to me, looked like some dodgy parts of sections it makes you realise that the next generation that move into the adult ranks are not going to be found wanting! It was sorted for me to ride my Bike around the event so I could get to as many sections as possible so after the trial I had a quick ride of a B class route and am pleased to say I cleaned it... just! Sadly I then rode out of the stream and hit a rock hard and snapped my rear brake pedal.. doh!!! I will leave a trial report as someone may print my utterings later but must say what a great Job the people at the Pontypool DMMC did with the event, especially in testing weather conditions. The heavy rain made it hard to get good photos but i tried...
  For a 75 image gallery of the event click Here. Also now available are the full results in .xls format..
Full A class results .xls ... Full B class results .xls
Local Event..
Yeo Vale		 Must say a big thanks to the Yeo Vale club for not only a very nice welcome but a great trial on 13th June. The sun shone all day and the whole event was perfectly set up and run. I convinced myself, after looking at the first section near the car park, that I would ride the Expert route in the clubman/expert class. Turned out that this section was by far the easiest of the day and I struggled on a few of the expert sections. Not really from lack of riding skill but mainly that I got knackered about 3/4 of the way around the first lap and then had to do 3 more!! After very little riding in the last 2 months I now realise I need to get my rider fitness back up again.. and stop eating Macdonalds and chocolate :)
The sections were spot on and it was nice to see a full set of classes marked out including a green course for complete beginners and some of the very young kids on small wheel bikes. It was also nice for me to have so many people come up to me during the day and say how much they enjoy this site... it turns out it isn't just me who reads it!! I would highly recommend anyone to pop down, or up or across, to the next Yeo Vale event and have a bloody good day out. Results from this trial and further club info can be found on the Yeo Vale MCC web site.
bvm team riders at test day

Becky Cook, Alexz Wigg and Ross Danby were at the BVM test day and gave us all a lesson in riding....
click the image of Alexz on the left to see a gallery of images I took of them during the day... then click on any thumbnail to view larger versions. Report on the day Here.