International
The Trials Australia Podcast has ended
What a stellar run — 105 episodes of Australian and International Trials guests. Do yourself a favour and give another episode a listen today. The article link above contains the entire back catalogue in a widget at the bottom of the post.
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GoFundMe to help get Team Australia to the Trial des Nations 2022 in Monza Italy
Team Australia are almost 2/3 of the way towards their GoFundMe goal, let's help get them across their goal line. If you haven't donated already, would you shout the team a coffee worth $5, a small jerry can of fuel $20 or maybe dig a bit deeper?
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NSW & ACT
NRMTC OPEN TRIAL - Report/Photos
A short writeup and plenty of pictures on Facebook from the open event Northern Rivers Mototrials Club held just over a week ago on 17th July.
trials.com.au
[Cancelled] WMCC 31st July Club Trial Cancelled
The NSW rainfall has been unrelenting this year. The property, including the carpark, is absolutely soaked and is showing no signs of improving by the end of the week.
trials.com.au
NSW TdN Fundraiser Coaching and Trial | 13th-14th August @ Pacific Park
Pacific Park Trials Club are running a two day event on the 13th-14th August at Pacific Park — Saturday training and Sunday is a TdN style event. Online Entries will be up soon.
trials.com.au
Victoria
AMA VIC Winter Series: Round 3 | Entries close Friday | 31st July @ Winchelsea
Entries close this Friday for Round 3 of the AMA Victorian Winter Series at Winchelsea, Sunday 31st July. Entries via Entry Place.
trials.com.au
VTS Round 4 Results | 24th July @ Mt Bolton
My 3 and 4 year old boys and I attended this event as spectators on Sunday. It was the boys first ever Trials event and they had a blast riding around the mountain and over the rocks on their balance bikes and watching the riders. For me, it was great to see familiar faces and everyone I chatted to made us feel very welcome.
Thanks to the organisers who put it together, it was a great event run by Ballarat Rovers Club with help from the Whittles (and I’m sure others).
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Comment
The big bombshell of the week is the Trials Australia podcast ending, but there's also plenty of other news including TdN fundraising events.
I remember the very first voicemail/phone call I got from David Grice when he wanted to start the podcast and asked to use the TA name/website to initially launch it. It was Christmas Eve 2019 and he just wanted to "chat about a few things and some ideas I've got", nothing specific. The podcast launched in January 2020 and after 2 years of rounding up guests, doing interviews, bringing sponsors onboard, culminating with the 105th episode in April this year, I think the consensus is that it's been a resounding success and a positive force in the International Trials community. I spoke very briefly with David on Sunday at Mt Bolton and he told me the news before he put up his post. All I can say is I'm looking forward to the next ideas that you've got — thank you mate!
If you have ideas for positively boosting the impact of Trials and I can help out in some way, reach out to me matt@trials.com.au and let me know how I can help.
There's a lot of TdN fundraisers on right now that the TdN team (including the minders/manager) and their respective clubs are running.
Chris Bayles and Jenna Lupo are running training at Mt Joy this weekend in Tassie. Online Entries through the TasTrials website.
Pacific Park Trials Club are running training and and event on 13th-14th August respectively. Entries will be up soon.
Trials Club of Victoria are running an event on August 21.
-Matt Langtree