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Trials

“#WHATSONWEDNESDAY!” THE ACTION FOR THIS WEEKEND; JAN 10-12

January 8, 2020 Filed Under: News, Speedway, Trials

This weekend sees 2020 kick into gear after a rare weekend off last weekend to start the year!

Here’s what you can find all the action this weekend;

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH

The Roy Bitmead Cup @ Sidewinders U16 Junior Speedway, 8th Street Wingfield.

5.30pm gates open, 7.30pm racing starts – $5.00 adult entry, full canteen and disabled viewing areas!

SATURDAY JANUARY 11TH

Round 2, Trialsport Dynamic Trials Series @ MSA Junior Development Park trials arena, North Terrace, Wingfield

2.00pm sign on and start, finish time, 7.30pm – entries through www.trialsport.com.au and still open 

SATURDAY JANUARY 11TH

2020 Australian Solo Speedway Championship @ Gillman Speedway Stadium, Wilkins Road, Gillman

The FINAL round of the 2020 Championship will see gates open at 5.00pm, action from 7.30pm

Admission: Adults $30.00, Age Pension & Student Concession $25.00, Children aged 12-15 $10.00, Under 12 free, Family $70.00, Programme $5.00

Parking free & Grandstand seating free.

Concession is limited to holders of the Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card and Student Concession card holders only.

Eftpos is only available at the eastern gate. The western (main) gate is cash only.

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TRIALS SA FIRST OUT OF THE BLOCKS TO LAUNCH 2020 SEASON!

December 6, 2019 Filed Under: News, State Championship, Trials

TRIALS SA FIRST OUT OF THE BLOCKS TO LAUNCH 2020 SEASON!

TROY Series SA 2020 LAUNCHED!

The TROY Series SA 2020 poster has now broken cover, thanks to Motorcycling SA starting to upload all of the events to its events calendar on their website, head to www.motorcyclingsa.org.au/riders/calendar for the whole calendar.

Some of the first dates to go up online have been the Trials SA dates for 2020 – so now the official TROY Series SA 2020 poster can also be released and the 2020 Series officially launched.

Featuring Chris & Stuey on the poster this year, TROY 2020 will feature 5 rounds, with at least 1 new venue (Robertstown), which will also feature a Saturday Trials SA Coaching & Practise Day and will be a great venue for a camp out as well!

The other big change is that to start the year it’s time to head to Mungeree, complete with a Saturday coaching & practise day and no trip to Mungeree would be complete without a famous woolshed dinner – an awesome way to start the year!

In between Mungeree and Robertstown, the Series will also visit Victor Harbor & Tungkillo for the Frank Tuck & Max Graetz Trials, before heading to the Barossa for the Series Finale’, the 47th Mountain Man Trial.

The full Series is;

Round 1        March 29       The Woolshed Trial                         Mungeree                  Team H & AJS

Round 2        April 19          The Frank Tuck Trial                       Victor Harbor             AJS

Round 3        July 26           The Max Graetz Trial                       Tungkillo                   Gawler

Round 4        August 16      The ‘Black Mud’ Trial                      Robertstown             Velocette

Round 5        Sept 13          The 47th Mountain Man Trial         Barossa                     Keyneton

Rounds 1 & 4 will also feature a Saturday Trials SA Coaching & Practise Day, while round 2 will feature a Come & Try Day on the Saturday, with all events also likely to have camping available on the Saturday night.

2020 ‘ROCKHOPPING SA’ SA WOMEN’S CUP & THE DIENER / HOLMES SIDECAR TROPHY ALSO LAUNCHED!

Also breaking cover and being launched is the 2020 ‘Rockhopping SA’ South Australian Women’s Cup for trial, which is run alongside The Diener / Holmes Sidecar Trophy, and will be held in 2020 on the weekend of June 27th & 28th in the Barossa Valley.

2020 will see this event run for the 12th time since its inception in 2009, and whilst no venue has, as yet, been locked in, you can count on the Keyneton MCC to come up with a beauty, new or old, with a number to choose from, including venues that have hosted an Australian Championship in previous years!

The Keyneton MCC are also excitied to welcome on board once again as the major partner for the event, Greg Knight and his amazing crew at Rockhopping SA, who have now supported this event for half of its life, after first signing on in 2015.

The Saturday before the event will feature a Trials SA Coaching & Practise Day, and at this stage the current Australian Champion, Kyle Middleton, has been booked to attend this day and the event on the Sunday – and perhaps stay tuned for more announcements on this as it gets closer!

More info to come early in the New Year from the Trials SA crew regarding the other 2020 special events,

National Trials Day,

The Peter Sparkes Trophy,

The Vanitone Classic Trial,

and, of course,

The 2020 South Australian Trial Championships,

which in 2020 are being run by the Juventus MCC, who will likely lean on the expertise of their most famous trials member, former Australian representative, Adrian Harry, along with a handy crew of section setters – so stay tuned!

Here is the full 2020 Trials SA calendar – to put on the fridge, the one in the house, or the one in the shed – your choice;

TRIALS SA RELEASE DATES FOR 2020 SEASON

November 20, 2019 Filed Under: News, State Championship, Trials

Motorcycling SA is pleased to announce the the dates for the 2020 Trial season in SA have now been released.

The 2020 season will again feature a stand alone SA Championship, this year to end the season on September, along with a 5 round TROY Series SA series and 3 special events, along with the regular Saturday coaching & practice days and camp overs.

Here is the calendar – print it off and stick it on the fridge now! 

DIENER & HOLMES – ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST SIDECAR TEAMS TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE MOTORCYCLING SA HALL OF FAME

November 6, 2019 Filed Under: News, Trials

DIENER & HOLMES – ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST SIDECAR TEAMS TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE MOTORCYCLING SA HALL OF FAME

Trevor Diener and Philip Holmes are South Australia’s most successful Champions in the discipline of Trial, and also rank =2nd all-time in Australian Sidecar Championship wins – as a team!

With no World Championship for sidecars in trial – it was generally accepted that during their time as a team, they were among, if not, the best team riding sidecar trials in the world.

Also during their career they were undefeated in the South Australian Championship and the Peter Sparkes Sidecar Trophy, and were only headed in their whole career together a total of 9 times, and in each event they placed 2nd!

It is because of this amazing career as a team, which only spanned some 11 ½ years, that it is felt that if they are to be inducted into the Motorcycling SA Hall Of Fame, it should be done, also, as a team, so therefore this is a double induction, for both Trevor & Philip.

TREVOR & PHIL, THE TEAM; Teaming up in 1978, Trevor & Phil started to re-write the record books virtually straight away, winning all 3 major titles, the SA Championships, the Peter Sparkes Sidecar Trophy and their first Australian Championship, on home soil at Eden Valley, with Roger & Chris Holmes finishing 2nd.

All up, Trevor & Phil won all 3 major titles in the same year a total of 7 times together!

In the South Australian Championship, Trevor & Phil were undefeated, winning 11 straight Championships from 1978 through to 1988 inclusive.

In the Peter Sparkes Sidecar Trophy, the most prestigious trophy for trials sidecars after the Australian championship, their record is the same – 11 starts for 11 wins between 1978 & 1988!

In the Australian Championship, their record, has only been beaten by one team, and equaled by another, meaning they still sit =2nd all time, and is 7 wins from 10 starts, with 3 runner-up placings (there was no sidecar Championship run in 1985), meaning they never finished worse than 2nd which is in itself a record in Australian trials history, for anyone with 5 or more starts at an Australian Championship.

Their 6 wins in a row from 1981 – 1987 (as stated, no championship in ’85) still stands as the best performance by a South Australian team, and 2nd overall all time!

Their 70% win ratio (7 from 10) ranks them at number 2 all time as well, behind the 75% win ration of the Gough/Blanchard team (15 from 20) and well in front of the Kuerschner/Sparkes team who won 7 times from 17 starts for a 41% ratio, for all teams with 5 or more wins at National level.

In a little over 11 years as a team, they were only defeated 9 times, and each time, they finished 2nd!

And add to their list of accomplishments, the following;

  • In 1987 the Australian Observed Trials Championships were held in Western Australia, and were a 1 day Championship for all classes, meaning Trevor was able to unbolt the sidecar and win the Greybeards Championship and the Sidecar Championship, and in doing so became the only person to win 2 Championships in 1 year (A record that still stands – and will likely stand for all time)
  • In 1976, before teaming up with Trevor, Philip won the Australian Championship with brother, Roger, making both Trevor & Philip 8 time Australian Champions in total.
  • Both played a major part in the first 2 Australian Championship meetings ran by the Keyneton MCC in 1990 and 1994, both in the planning and on the ground, and they have always made themselves available at the other Australian Championships held in SA, 1998 (Committee run), 2002, 2007, 2011 & 2017 (all KMCC run)
  • In 2009 both were awarded Life Membership to Motorcycling SA for their contributions to motorcycle sport, both as competitors and valued members of the Keyneton MCC, and they were also awarded these as a team!

In 2009 the Club also re-vamped their 2 Day Trial, and launched The Diener/Holmes Sidecar Trophy for the first time, to celebrate and remember each year the careers of the Club’s 2 greatest Champions. This was significant as it was the event that was Trevor & Phil’s last ride together in 1988 – they won, just like their first ride together, but on this occasion they beat the team from Western Australia who had just beaten them for the Australian Championship.

7 years on and the Diener/Holmes Sidecar trophy is regarded by most as a great addition to the calendar and it now means there are 4 great trophies to win in Australia for sidecars, which in itself is a great thing, especially when Trevor & Phil themselves are on hand to present the awards.

TREVOR; Born in 1947, Trevor joined the Keyneton MCC in the dark days of the mid 1960’s when the Club was struggling to just survive, with Trevor playing his part in, first, the Club’s revival, and then the prosperity of the 1970’s onwards, and only stopped being a central figure in the Club well into the 1990’s! Through the years Trevor has sat on the Executive Committee for a number of terms, usually in lower profile roles, as it was as a hard working Club member that he earned his Life Membership, which was awarded in 1982, the 7th to be awarded by the Club.

On a bike through the 1960’s and into the first half of the 1970’s Trevor was no slouch , winning the 24 Hour Trial for the first time as a 17 or 18 year old (dependant on when the event was run) in 1965, and then backing that up 2 years later to win for a second time in 1967. He then turned to 3 wheels in the 1970’s to record another win in 1973, with Barry Arthur as passenger, making him a 3 time winner and a winner on both solo and sidecar, something that has been rare since the MCC of SA stopped running the event in 1956.

In observed trials Trevor had become one of the few Keyneton members to reach A Grade status as a solo rider, winning multiple South Australian Championships along the way.

PHILIP; Born in 1953, Phil first joined the Keyneton MCC in the early 1970’s, along with brothers, Roger, Chris & Mark and sister Barbara, and all bar Mark would go on to have great careers in motorcycling, although Mark was the only one to ride a motorcycle professionally, being a postman! Phil would also spend a good number of years on the Executive Committee, including years as President and Assistant Secretary, but like Trevor, it was his expertise as a plumber and his hard working nature that really benefited the Club, which saw him awarded the 9th Life Membership to the Club in 1983.

During his early years in the Club, Phil, along with his brother, Roger, formed one of the first great sidecar teams in the Club, with Phil riding in reliability trials and Roger riding in observed, or Trial.  The duo had some success in reliability trials, including podium finishes in the 24 Hour Trial, but it was in 1976, at Mount Kembla in New South Wales that they became a huge part of Keyneton MCC history, when they won the Australian Observed Trials Sidecar Championship. This was the first time that any Keyneton MCC members had won an Australian Championship, after podium finishes in the past by Ken & Jim Warnest (road racing) and Geoff Barratt & Laurie Williams (observed trials sidecar)

1977 saw them head to Elaine in Victoria to defend their Championship, but had to settle for 2nd, which also saw the brothers part company as Philip was to take up an offer to passenger for Trevor, while Roger decided to put younger brother, Chris on the sidecar for 1978!

During their time together, Roger and Philip also won 3 straight South Australian Observed Trials Championships and were victorious in winning the first 3 Peter Sparkes Sidecar Trophies to be held, from 1975-77, making their 3 year record together very complete indeed!

 

The Keyneton Motorcycle Club is very proud to have Trevor & Philip as members, due to both, their career achievements, and what they have done for our Club over many years, they have been, and are great ambassadors for the Club and SA, and great role models as well, and are still willing to help out whenever time and circumstance allow.

2019 NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS TICKET SALES!

October 3, 2019 Filed Under: All disciplines, Coaches, Dirt Track, Enduro, Minikhana, Motocross, News, Reliability, Road Racing, SAMX Championship, SAORC, Speedway, State Championship, Supermoto, Trials

2019 NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS TICKET SALES!

Just a quick update on tickets sales for the 2019 MSA Night of Champions, taking place at Titanium Security Arena on Saturday, November 23rd.

Due to 2 legends of our sport passing away recently and the staff in the office wanting to attend the funerals, along with AJMX running at Gillman, plus only just finalsing the menu, ticket sales will only go on sale from Wednesday October 9th at 5.00pm through Ridernet, with the link under the ‘Night of Champions’ icon on the Motorcycling SA website.

Apologies to those who expected them to open on the 1st of October as originally planned!

Prices for tickets will be as follows;

ADULTS; $60.00 per head (3 course meal)

CHILDREN; $12.00 per head (2 course meal – main & dessert) 

CLUB DISCOUNT; Clubs will again be able to book a table of 10 – through their current Club Secretary – and receive a 10% discount off the price.

 

NOMINATIONS:

Nominations are also open until October 25th for the following awards – with the nominations on the Motorcycling SA website under the Night of Champions icon;

THE 2019 FRANK FRANKLIN TROPHY

THE 2019 MSA RISING STAR AWARD

2019 MSA REGIONAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS

SOUTH AUSSIES ROCK THE TRIALS des NATIONS, IBIZA 2019

October 1, 2019 Filed Under: News, Trials

SOUTH AUSSIES ROCK THE TRIALS des NATIONS, IBIZA 2019

South Australia was once again well represented at the 2019 Trials des Nations, held this year in Ibiza Spain, with the AJS MTC’s Connor Hogan & Keyneton MCC’s Lillie Yiatrou representing Australia at the Teams World Championship event, along with Lillie’s dad, Andrew, who was a team minder for the girls team.

 

Here’s the round up – from the Australian Trials Community Facebook page, and then from the rider’s themselves! No rest for the wicked though, as they return home today (Tuesday) and then leave Friday for tasmania and the 2019 Australian Championships, where they will both be a part of Team SA!

Australian Trials Community

Great results for Team Australia over in Ibiza Spain for this years Trial des Nation, with the men’s team going one better this year with a hard earned 5th 🏁 and the women’s team also going one better than last year with some fantastic rides to finish in 7th. 🏁

Riders: 

Kyle Middleton Fan Page

Chris Bayles

Connor Hogan

Kristie Mckinnon

Lillie Yiatrou Trials

Jenna Lupo Trials


Minders: Tom Scott, Daniel Fenton, Andrew Yiatrou, Jacob Whittle


Team Manager: Philip Whittle

FIM – Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme
TrialGP – FIM Trial World Championship

   

FROM CONNOR:

A fun weekend at the TdN in Ibiza. Had a great time riding with Kyle Middleton and Chris Bayles, we worked really well as a team and although we perhaps didn’t get the results we were after we all rode really well. Ended the day in 5th place on 18 points. Also a congratulations to the girls for their 7th position. Thanks to the minders and our manager Phil Whittle as well as all the Aussie supporters throughout the week.
#thehellteam 

#GRO 

#globalracingoilaustralia 

#rockhoppingsa

 

FROM LILLIE:

Mint weekend in Ibiza for the TdN coming away with 7th overall. Happy with my riding over the weekend & proud of the other team members in the Aussie team. Time to head home & prep for the Aussie championship. 
Rockhopping SA
The Hell Team
Global Racing Oil Australia
Jitsie

 

 

 
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