Daryn, thank you for the kind words. I went lurking on your face book and saw that you will be forwarding the patience and knowledge you have learned to that goodlooking minnie me, Mason. and your picture looked just like you, only all grown up. Congratulations on your success in the Navy.
mike

Well the year end awards are all ordered and will be done this week. I’ve been doing all the awards, except when marshals that have wanted to make special ones for their event, since 1996. I’m sure some people like the little tags I have made up and some don’t really care but the main reason I went to just them, rather than one being attached to a generic bike trophy, was that it saved the club at least eight dollars per award. I tried to make them sometimes whimsical reflecting either on the event or the good natured trials marshal making sure the place and date were always on them.
Not everyone in the club knows but due to some medical issues, not mental as some may suggest, I will not be able to ride competitively any more and therefore will not be attending most of the events during the year. This does weigh heavily on me since I have been riding trials for 46 years, never being that good but enjoying it immensely.
So……. With the many new faces at the events I have been to and our old stalwarts someone may want to take over the job either using the old formula or with a new eye on it, something different and better.
Just wanted to put this out there before the banquet so everyone could think about it, and it doesn’t have to be just one person doing it, some good friends could team up and make it really easy.
See you at the banquet.

Sincerely
mike wirth 

Thank you Daniel.

This event is what Trials and friendly competition is all about, I didn't  compete but had a great time watching everyone do their best and help their friends, new and old, overcome some well thought out sections that keep getting better every year. Paul and his wife are a great asset to this club.

This might be of help to all who are going to be involved in observing at the national. Also I haven't found a recent video they sometimes put together showing the many different scoring variations in riding and scoring a section, maybe someone has an older one that is still applicable.
http://www.mototrials.com/8-competitor-info/2016-rules

mike

Give a big shout out to Daniel and Kylee for being on the USA TDN team to take place in France in September. Good luck and have a great time.

Dennis is doing quite well thru Wednesday, there are daily videos here that are very good and show just how hard this event is, just being on a Trials bike for 80, 90, 100 miles is tough enough.
http://www.ssdt.org/2016-ssdt-scottish-six-days-trial/2016-ssdt-daily-video

Here is the list of riders in this years event, also the official website.

http://www.ssdt.org/2016-ssdt-news-mobile/171-2016-ssdt-riding-numbers-announced

This is going to be a perfect weekend according to the weather service, I hope there will be a good work party turnout. Ride, build sections and enjoy this sport while you can. Some day when you wake up you may never be able to do it again, I know.

mike

Also on Trials central check out todays scores and follow up for the finish tomorrow, Brian Roper and Daniel the only Americans there. http://www.trialscentral.com/

Front page Trials Central,http://www.trialscentral.com/, a couple stories and video of one of the best Trials riders in the sport who just passed away several days ago, scary I'm just 1 month older than he was. I met him several times, once when he and Dougie were staying with Ishy. He had a lot to do with influencing the riders of our generation.

mike

If you click on the green paper clip under the pic you will be able to open it in a different window and enlarge it more, I had to reduce quality to be able to upload to the site.

There are more oldies under Jay Lael epic story, of which I should have put the pics here but we all started talking about the old times and so they are there, Dave Pyle should have had enough time to figure out how to use a scanner by now, I'm sure his mom and dad had plenty of pics from these times.
Now if we just had the picture of Tanner Krahel skinny dipping in the mud puddle.

and here is Eggar and Leavitt,

Here are some more oldies but goodies, I'm sure some other club members have some pics stashed away too.
I'm sure these are from 1974 national in Gold Bar judging by the number plates and Lane's triple clamp, the first 2 are of Marland Whaley, then Mark Eggar and Lane Leavitt.


NATC C’SHIP TRIALS SERIES
1974
1. Lane Leavitt CA
2. Marland Whaley CA
3. Don Sweet NY
4. Mark Eggar CA
5. Steve Darrow CA
6. Joe Guglielmelli WA
7. Bob Hopkins MI
8. Marvin Heath WA
9. Martin Belair CA
10. Bernie Schreiber CA