Upper Midwest Trials Association

I’ve put up a Banquet page. We’ll post more details as soon as outgoing prez Tim Hunt and incoming Prez Mike Hendrickson get them to me.

The 2003 schedule, as emailed by Tim Hunt, is now up on the web site. And at the bottom of the schedule is a link to the Wisconsin/Minnesota/Illinois/NATC-FIM combined schedule, courtesy of Steve Kirschner.

Another Sunday in this wimpy winter, another sandlot/shinny/pick-up Team Trials competition at the Faribault grounds.

With a dozen riders, we formed four teams:

Spiritual Essence Mike Hendrickson Marty Hicks Cole Hendrickson

Sumbitches Jim Winterer Gordy Boggie

Jack Chermak

Los Hombres Grandes (The Big Men) Martin Belair

Jim Blount Jimmy [...]

Another Sunday in November, another sandlot/shinny/pick-up trials competition at the Faribault grounds.

Yesterday, we formed two teams: The Spaniards (Ben Winterer, Jimmy Blount, me) vs The Brits (Jim Winterer, Jim Blount, and Martin Belair — riding his Honda TL 250 for a combined 500 pounds of pure momentum).

Each group set up four sections, [...]

Seventeen people showed up at the trials grounds in Faribault yesterday to ride, just for the hell of it. Looking at the parking lot, you’d think it was an event. Riders grouped by ability (one group of experts, another group of advanced/supersport) rode the sections from the last event of the year. We used [...]

See the Results page for last weekend’s event in Faribault, along with the final end-of-year point standings. Podium photos are up, too.

The press release is now up on the World Round USA weblog.

See the Results page for last weekend’s events, along with year-to-date points.

Steve Kirschner reminds us that the year-end results are based on your best 10 finishes out of a total 14 events. The top three spots in many of the classes are still up for grabs so there’s a lot hanging on [...]

I’ve posted podium photos for both Saturday and Sunday events in Duluth.

WOTA’s Craig Gernhardt has submitted this article on the event to Trials Competition and Trials Action. Magic on Spirit Mountain for Belair & Villand

October 12-13 Duluth, MN USA by Craig Gernhardt

US Montesa Importer Martin Belair on his Montesa COTA [...]

Jim Winterer wrote:

“The pits for the two-day at Spirit Mountain will be in the parking lot at the bottom of the hill, not at the top. There’s going to be a ski swap meet or something going on that weekend at the top of the hill, so they’ve asked us not to ride [...]