Trials on public roads?

[wink]

Do many/any motorcycle clubs still run trials where competitors still use/cross the public road?
I presume the Scottish six days and the Scott trial do but most of the trials I hear of are held on private land. It must be much easier to organize and the bikes donīt need tax, insurance or MOT. Do you need a helmet? Iīve not been in Britain for a long time so I canīt just go and see.

[cardan]

Zoom in and look at the head light! Those were the days...

Road trials were very popular out here (in South Australia) into the 1960s or thereabouts. Not so now.

I have a 1956 Maico ISDT Replica in the shed - needs a bit of work but your photo makes me want to start on it today.

Leon

[R]

The ISDT (International 6 Day Trial) etc was held on public roads, first run just prewar WW1, until 1981.
When it was renamed ISD Enduro, and held off road.

Many of the 'Trials' pre 1981 were road events for road bikes, and could cover 200 or 300 miles a day, usually on what were termed B roads or less, and kept to a strict time timetable, and tests for changing a tyre or a plug etc in very strict time limits. Also on what could be changed on the machine without being disqualified.

Not to be mixed up with pukka trials events where creeks and hills and tight turns and cliffs and rocks came into it, and putting a foot down cost a point.

No idea how you distinguish these 2 types of events from each other...

[wetdog]

Levis . very easy timed road trial