Cedar Creek Club Trial

Glad to hear you are so enthusiastic (and most of us are by the way) about Trials! It sure would be great if you would offer up some ideas or suggestions on how things can be improved for both the Club and Trials in general. Even better, volunteer your time to help with the workload.

The website is a challenge to keep updated and managed at times, we could use help with it. If you don’t like something about it I would encourage you to make suggestions to how we can improve it or let someone know what you specifically don’t like - Just calling it Lame does nothing to make it better and frankly is offensive to those who donated their time to work setting it up. Is it perfect, well no it’s not. However, there was a lot of work done to get a website set-up in the first place to create a tool to for you to communicate to other riders. Keeping track of points and championship for the year is a very big task as well. Are you willing to volunteer with your time to complete one of these tasks?

It would be fantastic if you would help do something for the club. There are lots of chores: Creating New Flyers or even just Printing the Event Flyers and posting them at motorcycle clubs in your area, sending them to fellow riders, offering to keep track of points for the year, organizing the trials box and making sure it get’s to the trials marshals so they can prepare for their event, making sure Marshal’s have the legal forms needed so you can sign-up to ride, ensure bathroom facilities are available, make sure the liability insurance for the different locations we ride is up to date and paid so we limit our exposure to a lawsuit, organize the annual banquet and most of all create the schedule for the year and encourage more riders to step up and be a trials marshall - I’m sure there are other things as well. We could use your help - What would you like to do?

At the Annual Banquette for the past THREE years we asked for new officers to step forward to help run the club.
Not ONE person stepped forward to say hey, I’ve ridden lots of events and benefited from everyone else's hard work - I’d like to help out and be an officer and participate in running the day to day needs to make sure we can keep having and enjoying Trials Events in the future.

We love having all the riders participate and it’s great that many of you can make it to all the events. We all do this because we love the sport and we do it during what little spare time we have available between work and family and current and new jobs and other responsibilities. Each of us also sets up at least one trial per year or helps other trails marshals with the task. All the current officers have full time jobs like you but are are making sure you can enjoy going to about 10 well organized trials during the year in their spare time.

There are many riders - not currently officers - that have also put in a great deal of their own time for the Club in the past years and we should all recognize that and thank them for their past efforts.

There are others that have yet to offer their time and or at least step-up and ask what can I do to help?
So ask yourself, what can you do to help the club grow and make it run better?

Maybe:
- Volunteer to do something to promote our club.
Since you have a long lasting relationship with all the vintage riders, help us to know what they like to ride for sections.
Educate us to include them in our events so we don’t make the sections too difficult. Maybe they will come ride with us.

- Report on events you go too. It's not the officers responsibility to do this, we often don't make every event.
- Plan vintage appropriate sections at your event this fall to include the vintage guys - we would love to have them.

- Help out a trials marshal. There is only a handful of us lately. EVERYONE could offer to clean a few sections after an event to help them out, ride the loop for them to make sure it’s marked well and mark areas where you might think someone could get lost.

One final note to all Club riders. This is your club. It will only improve with your ideas and your participation to implement your ideas.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the next event!
Keep your feet up!

COTA Officers
Brian, Kirk, David, Max