mattylad Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 The trial has been cancelled yesterday due to legal problems with rights of way. Bl**dy beauracrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 (edited) Not just the trial that was cancelled either. I've ridden in this event for the last 7 years or so and it's a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. Take a non trials riding mate with me and our road bikes as well and make a long weekend of it, belting up and down the mountain twisties on Friday and Monday, trial for me Sat/Sun. This year a second mate was coming also who was looking forward to seeing a trial for the first time as well as thrashing his Blade (ooer missus) As everything was already booked before the cancellation, ferry, hotel, insurance etc. etc. we decided to go anyway for a holiday. We always see lots of historic rally cars pass through the area as there is a classic hill climb or rally in the area on the same weekend so thought we would take a look at the rally whilst there. Sadly not. This had also been cancelled by the same officialdom, as had a local enduro. What really p*ssed Joel off was that after last year's cancellation, he had sought assurances that this year's event could run and had therefore put a lot of hard work into setting out the course. A week before the event and everything was still ok, then 3 days before the event they withdraw permission leaving Joel to try and contact all competitors with the joyous news it was off. Some people had already turned up. No consideration whatsoever that people travel from Italy, Switzerland, Germany and UK every year for this event. All locals we spoke to whilst there thought it was a crazy decision to cancel but there is obviously someone with some influence in the area who doesn't like motorsport of a 2 or 4 wheeled nature. I hope they live the rest of their life happy with the dissapointment they brought to a lot of people. There seem to be more and more of this ilk these days whose sole and selfish intentions are to stop others from pursuing activities, of any nature, that they enjoy. Given that this is 2 years in a row he has had to cancel it I guess it is doubtful it will be run again, so another longstanding event will probably dissapear from the calendar Edited July 20, 2006 by Woody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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