Category Archives: event reports

April first, not nec­es­sar­i­ly the best day for a Tri­als event, but here I am, in the truck at 6:40 am, head­ed for our near­by rid­ing area in Wash­ing­ton state. It’s cold this morn­ing, and driz­zling just a bit as I make my way out of town. 50 min­utes lat­er, I pull into our rid­ing area; hmmm, … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “April Fools Tri­al, Deer Flats”

Due to the usu­al com­bi­na­tion of work, chores, oth­er motor­cy­cles, etc. I had­n’t been on my tri­als bike until the evening before this event. To make the grim even grim­mer, I sprained my back on wednes­day, bal­let danc­ing with a weed­whack­er. So the evening before, I go out into the pas­ture for 30 min­utes, work up … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Inde­pen­dance Tri­al, July 8, 2007, Deer Flats”

After spend­ing most of the sum­mer rid­ing my street bikes and Dual-Sport machine, I got back to the Tri­als thing on Sat­ur­day, Sept. 9^th. We had fan­tas­tic weath­er, around 75 degrees and clear skies, which prob­a­bly con­tributed to the good turnout. I think there were 25 – 35 rid­ers, includ­ing at least a cou­ple of folks who … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Big­Foot Tri­al, Sept 9, Deer Flats, WA”

Whew! arrive at the park­ing area about 8:30am sun­day, got out of the truck, Holy Stiff Breeze, Bat­man! We’re at about 1900 ft. alti­tude, and up on an exposed hill­top where they’re run­ning a grav­el pit, and the wind is blow­ing pret­ty good. Get over to sign up, Sean (one of the Mar­shalls) allows as how … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Event Report: Hal­loween One, Walk­er Val­ley, 7 Octo­ber 2007”

A won­der­ful day greet­ed a fair­ly large turnout of rid­ers for our last event of the year. Not too cold and we had nice sun­shine all day. A bit of warm­ing up and pok­ing around, inter­est­ing sec­tions, looks pret­ty tech­ni­cal, with lots of turns with obsta­cles in them. Lit­tle did I know. Got signed up, and … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Event Report: Hal­loween II, Gold Bar, WA, 28 Octo­ber 2007”

Anoth­er sea­son has begun. We should have got­ten start­ed in Feb­ru­ary, but too much snow kept us from hold­ing our tra­di­tion­al “Ice Tri­al”. A tad iron­ic, that. Be that as it may, rough­ly 35 of us showed up at Gold Bar, under cloudy skies and with mid-40s tem­per­a­tures. Got unloaded, geared up and went off for … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “The Spring Tri­al, Gold Bar, WA. 2 March 2008”

To start, I want to say thanks to all of the folks who worked their butts off to put this event on. It was orig­i­nal­ly planned for Deer Flats, about 5 miles up the road and, more crit­i­cal­ly, abouit 1500 feet high­er in ele­va­tion. We’re hav­ing a late, kin­da crazy spring here in west­ern Wash­ing­ton, and we … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “The Fool’s Tri­al, Gold Bar, WA April 6, 2008”

Well, it’s been a long time since my last blog entry. Too much excit­ment on both the job and the fam­i­ly front has left lit­tle time and ener­gy for think­ing about tri­als. Nonethe­less, I did try my hand at the Deer Flats event in July. I had­n’t been on a tri­als bike for about 2 … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Hal­loween II, Gold Bar, WA Octo­ber 26, 2008”

Ride report for the April 5^th tri­als event at Gold Bar. Author took 3^rd place Advanced.