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Bring your trophies to the Club Grounds clean-up/fun day/picnic next Saturday, Oct. 28. Vicky Boggie will collect them all and store them over the winter. On Sunday, October 22, the UMTA will hold its final event of the season at the Faribault Club Grounds. (A reminder: County 29 is still closed from Highway 3. See this blog post for an alternate route.) And it will be the last event held there as we will not be given the option to renew our lease for next season, as Mike explained a few weeks ago. So be there for this final ride in our 37th season at the Club Grounds. And take some photos for the scrapbook.
Ed Hofstrand continually updates the Used Bikes page, which is for UMTA and WOTA club members only. Trials Bikes are considered from non-members. Use the Submit A New Listing page to add to Ed’s work load or to have a listing removed. Please re-submit listings as most may have been out of date and I want to start fresh. – Ed
Andy, head honcho at Trials Central, has graciously given us permission to display this video of Marc Freixa, Adam Raga and Toni Bou in an informal back wheel hopping competition. He took the video at the TTC campsite practice area back in May at the World Round. Click play to watch. See the original article, all his reports from the 2006 Outdoor events, and his multimedia page.
“Created by Fred Belair, the ETdE event has helped promote trials in the United States and has even managed to draw international recognition. Belair’s dream was to ‘provide the basis for an American to become World Trials Champion,’ and that hope was realized at the hands of American Bernie Schreiber in 1979. To this day, Schreiber remains the only American to have ever reached the sport’s pinnacle. But the El Trial de Espana event continues to live on.” I spoke to Martin this afternoon. People can contact him via email. Here’s the info sent out by the Belair family.
Faribault Club Grounds 9/17&18/06 (big thanks to Willy Gruette for his recent photo work!) (posted by TravisJ) On September 14, the UMTA received a letter from Evelyn Piper, who is the landowner of the Faribault club ground, in which she informed us of her decision not to renew our lease at the end of the 2006 season. We will be able to hold our final event of the season (Oct. 22) and we will have access to the property for recreational use through December 31, 2006. The UMTA was established in 1969 and has operated continuously from the same location we enjoy today. Though we may feel sorrow in leaving this wonderful property, we must also express out heart-felt gratitude to the Piper family for allowing us to call their land our home. In the interest of leaving the land as we found it, we will announce a date for a club ground clean up to remove the tires and logs from the pit area and ride the land to remove any debris we may have overlooked in the past. This will be an opportunity to have a final club fun day, camp out and tell stories about the generations of great times we have enjoyed through the goodwill of the Piper family. |
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