Upper Midwest Trials Association

Pit and podium photos of today’s event at Storm’s Ranch are up.

El Presidente Mike Hendrickson and son Tyler

And click the photo below to see a little video clip of Heath “wheelie” Holste (windows AVI format) doing his thing after the event today.

The annual banquet is once again at Joseph’s Grill in St. Paul… Nov. 20.

Details to follow.

From Brad Villand (trials_bul at yahoo dot com)

Phone: 608-769-3952
Make: Sherco
Model: 290
Year: 2004
Price/offer: $3650.00
Details: This bike has only event hours on it, so it hasn’t been ridden all that much. (practice is over-rated) New tire… and many David Chaves secret mods Want to get rid of this one so i can [...]

From Jack Chermak (jack at shercorider dot com):

Phone: 763-878-2173
Make: Sherco
Model: 2.9

Year: 2004
Price/offer: $4,500
Details: “This is my 2004 Dealer Demo bike. It has a wiring harness eliminator kit plus a new white number plate. Other used accessories on the bike are available at 1/2 price. It will be fully serviced and ready to ride. It is [...]

Al Gohlike is the trialsmaster for the last event of the season, to be held next Sunday, Oct. 24 at Storm’s Ranch, a mile or so east from the club grounds.

We added this event to the schedule after one of the WOTA/UMTA/Hixton events had to be cancelled.

I’ve added albums to the UMTA photo gallery: podium/rider’s meeting photos for the Sep. Theilman and Oct. Faribault events.

I could use some help labeling photos with the names of the people in the pictures, especially the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers. Contact me if you can help and I’ll teach you how to do [...]

It’s gotten to be too time consuming to update the Used Bike page everytime someone submits a bike or then notifies me that it’s been sold. I then get way behind on it.

So I’d like to try a new method… listing a bike here in the weblog where it’s way easier to post something.

Keeping [...]

I finally have the results/standings PDF posted on the Results page. I’m waiting for the info from the last event in Faribault.

Here’s the latest UMTA season standings (PDF) as of the last event at Theilman.

My apologies for not updating the Results page. I’ve been in computer hell for the past month and I’m not quite out of it yet.

Trialsmaster Steve Ahlers says the starting times for the two events in Gilbert this weekend are the same as any other Sat/Sun UMTA event: Noon on Sat and 11 am on Sun. So get there early, as licensing is likely to take a while. See my earlier weblog posts on Gilbert for maps, etc.