Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 5:56PM I am. NEXT weekend at Corral Canyon. Do NOT forget to bring a National Forest Adventure Pass! Available at most Big 5 stores, or check out options here.
Who's with me?!
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 9:53PM Join the few, the proud, the Master Trial Builders of the San Diego Trials Riders, this Sunday 1/30 at 8:00 am to noon-ish, as they build the Corral Canyon Trial. SDTR will be meeting here.
Build it, and they will ride. If you'd like to help, contact Rick Jenkins at jenkinsri@saic.com
If you rode this event last year, then you will agree: it was so past epic. Rain, hail, mud and later, glorious skies graced a fully challenging and twisty singletrack loop, with fast-flowing creek sections, mud bog sections, mossy slab sections and just fun and mud overload. This year: help build, help check, or just plan to ride. You know you gotta go.
Read more about the upcoming event on the event flyer, which can be found on the SCTA Events page.
Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 4:32PM 
As a treat for all who checked or worked the Volder Classic last week, VOTE and trials master Tim Holm kept the entire catalog of 12 sections up, taped, split and carded for training this weekend. We had a dozen riders of all stripes working out the kinks and having fun. Their were Intermediates riding the Clubman lines, Advanced guys goofing up the Expert traps, and Clubman riders sharpening the tools in their bag of tricks. Tim Holm, Andrew Oldar, and Paul Oswald provided instruction and advice to those who had a spot of bother in the sections last week and wanted to work on the trouble spots. The format is low key and pressure free which allows everyone to concentrate on improvement or just the pure joy of a good ride in a good section, or both!
The weather was perfect and the company even better. A truly magic Sunday! We hope to make this a Romoland/ Volder Classic tradition. See you there next year!(if you check or work).
Captain O
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 10:22AM 
Funny, but I need to ride, and like right now. See, after a frankly awesome MotoTrial at Romoland this weekend, I'm kind of missing the bike. I mean, it's been two and a half days now. Sometimes, ten minutes at lunch is all you can sneak into a day, so hey: Might as well.
May you and your bike also be together, before the weekend.
Cheers.
And- Should you need to read up on some more Moto-trials, here's what's happening in France this weekend.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:20PM 
Just added a few more. Click on Photos above. Time for bed.
Monday, January 17, 2011 at 10:32PM 
Oh my, but this was an amazing trial. Perfect weather, awesomely fun and twisty loop, all all freshly crafted sections. I took some pictures.
Trialsmaster Tim Holm: Well done, sir!
Enjoyed by over 50 riders, and maybe 100 spectators, this was just a wonderful day to be out on a bike. Spread the word, MotoTrial is here for 2011.
Additional very fantastic photos of the day can be viewed at Motovationsports.com. Extreme Sports Photography, courtesy of Steve Emter.
Monday, January 17, 2011 at 5:58PM 
Oh man. January in California. Definitely good trials weather. I'm so jacked up from yesterday's event I don't know where to start. More later. Just had to post this picture. If you like it, you MUST check out Steve Emter's work at Motovation Sports. Steve was checking out his first trials. I think he left pretty impressed, and he probably got a great picture of YOU.
Like I said, more later.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 11:14PM
There are a thousand little moments and details that are part of putting a trials event together. Permits, set up, insurance, supplies and the like all contribute to the mental workload that is being a trials master. This year is the 15th Romoland trial I have been involved with. A unique feature and a constant cause of concern is the "Motorhome Hill Climb" in the middle segment of the road we use to access the trials venue. Chris, Tim and I have always had a nerve rattling relationship with the road and its hilly part. Rain ruts, and rain are going to spell trouble for our riders and their rigs. Even if there is no rain sometimes the ruts are can be truly bothersome for any vehicle. Rain ruts in the staging area make us nuts too. You have seen them. The giant one foot deep ruts that run from North to South through the pits. Anyway, this is just one thing we worry about when doing a Romoland Trial.
Well forget about all that! I was driving out to set up this weekend, when I turned my Race Van around the corner expecting to beat and pick my way up the 'Motorhome Hill Climb" only to be greeted by a veritable dirt Highway of truly Interstate quality. I spontaneously broke into tears, weeping happily as I flew up the hill with nary a spin of the wheel or a splash of my Starbucks Venti Coffee of the Day (a bold Carracas roast). The hill was a thing of beauty, no ruts, no rocks, nice and wide. Pulling into the staging area with my Big A** Van is usually a surgical process to keep from tipping over or tossing the microwave out of it's mooring due to the ruttiness that we always find, but NO! Smooth as Peter Crofts rear tire! Unbelievable!
Let me talk for a moment about volunteerism. The SCTA is held together by acts of kindness and quiet effort that are largely unheralded. This is one of those acts but I will not let this one slip by without a little notice. Mark Oldar and I have known each other just about all of our adult lives. Mark was the "Andrew Oldar" of our young days (and I just a younger Captain O). Mark owns a tractor. Mark brought his tractor to set up and proceeded to drag, cut, clean and basically pave the road from the hill climb to the staging area. A massive amount of work. Then it rained like mad for two more days and Mark came out and did it all again.He did not have to do that, or any of it, he just did it. The road in to the trials area looks the best I have ever seen it. Thank you Mark, it's one less thing that Tim, Chris, and I have to worry about. It is also one less excuse. You can drive your Mom's 1970 Pinto up to the pits on flat tires, WITH your bike in the trunk! The road is that good!
Please make every effort to attend this weekend's trial at Romoland. Even if its just to see this awesome grading that Mark has done to our road, please come out and enjoy a great ride at one of the most interesting trials venues, and ride the most killer loop and cleanest sections in So Cal.
You must be there! You must Romo!
Captain O
