What Route Do You Ride?

[atomant]

I have been watching the US thread on standardisation of routes etc and ours in this country are a complete mess as far as I can see. Even at our local trials we go to, the route markings are all different etc

And what is a clubman route? The 'clubman' riders I see riding the Novogar for instance are all rider experts at our trials whereas I ride clubman at local trials level and the sections are nowhere near as hard

Its hard to know if you are travelling out of the local scene, what the severity of the sections will be like for the 'local' level you are riding at

[rabie]

south east is typically 3 routes (red, blue white) and 3 *main* classes

red - novice, youth c, pre 67 A through D, twinshock, sidecar (modern and pre 67)

blue - inter, youth B

white - expert, youth A

we sometimes have a yellow route (easier than red) for wobblers, youth d and / or pre 67 (esp rigids and sidecars)

some trials are just for novices and wobblers, others are for just modern bike s(so the red route can change from a pre65 chair do'able to hard for a modern novice depending upon the event)

i know some clubs run classes such as "clubman" and "over 40" or "50" but i fail to recall what route they are on

we currently have the problem of several red route rider who are older gents who are on modern bikes but have enough wins/points/whatever to go inter but the are old enough not to want to, so a currently riding on a no award basis, which is in a way unfair on themselves and others

[rabie]

Don't bite perce Lennie is one of a band of "riders" who get nosebleeds if they venture north of watford gap or west of oxford. They also have the strange delusion that riding in and out of a ditch or up a muddy bank is called Trials. Sad but true.

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but that place is miles away and rocks don't exist down souf ......

we have to improvise (with chalk, mud, logs and roots)

rocks are a positively foreign concept

[rabie]