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[bulto]

Back in the day, many trials where held on Army Estates in and around both Aldershot and Bordon. These venues and the trials, attracting hundreds of riders, yet finding any information/history on them (Talmag excluded), even in this information age is proving difficult to do. Has anybody got a potted history or can point me to a reference source to any of the trials, clubs, riders or photo’s of that era?

Or even better still, post them on this site, with reminisces, photo’s etc.

[laird387]

Sorry Bulto,

 

This is not a sales pitch - but if you have a real interest in the events held on Army estates, not only around Aldershot and Bordon, but also above Builth Wells on Eppynt, etc., then there are plenty of details in our digital magazine ORRe which is exclusively available as an additional resource of trialscentral.

 

I would happily try to post them all directly, as you suggest, but sadly there are only so many hours in a day - so since ORRe is, if you like, our classic arm - it has to be restricted.  

 

There is another aspect, whereas trialscentral would naturally concentrate on the trials, there were many other events such as scrambles, racing on Eppynt and also the ISDT over the years, which are all included in the magazine.

 

Try it and see...........

[charlie prescott]

Hi Guy's.

 

Bulto.

 

There are also the stories from Pat Slinn testing the WD BSA B40's at Bordon on my "Otter" site.

 

Take a look.

 

Regards Charlie ~Oo>.

[rabie]

Back in the day, many trials where held on Army Estates in and around both Aldershot and Bordon. These venues and the trials, attracting hundreds of riders, yet finding any information/history on them (Talmag excluded), even in this information age is proving difficult to do. Has anybody got a potted history or can point me to a reference source to any of the trials, clubs, riders or photo’s of that era?

Or even better still, post them on this site, with reminisces, photo’s etc.

 

Lots of army (MOD, now Defence Estates / Landmark) land about, they also want to charge a lot of money to use it!

 

Historically because the sites were big, available, had parking, etc it was "easy" for a club to use. Obviously now various bits of land have been withdraw from hire due to various reasons (environmental), increased MOD use (the return of troops from the Germany and the middle east), vastly increased cost and red tape to jump through (risk assessments, liability, warning signs, controlled access, etc)

 

You see the odd bit on websites/facebook but we as a sport aren't very good at recording much (i can't say much we've not gone back and even tried to pull our old event data online)

 

try some local trials websites for that area (might have missed some)

 

http://www.kdmcc.com/

http://www.normandymcc.co.uk/

http://stargrouptrials.co.uk/

http://sunbeam-mcc.co.uk/

http://scmcc.moonfruit.com/

http://www.surreysb.co.uk/

http://www.talmag.co.uk/

http://thamesmcc.org/

http://www.tonghamtigers.co.uk/

http://www.thamesvalleytrials.co.uk/

http://www.witleymcc.org/

https://nhmctrials.wordpress.com/

[bulto]

Thank you all.

 

Just seems so strange that the entry list for these trials in the 60's often ran into the 100's, yet even getting down to something like issue 30 of ORRe not that much coverage or I've missed it? 

rabie, most of those clubs you list, where in the "thick of it" I seem to remember back in the day and thank you for taking time to list and link them.

FVRDE, not been near the test track for years, I suspect long gone by now, if I'm in the area will take a look anyway.