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Results and reports: Texas Nationals, Rounds 1 and 2

By Griff Wigley, on May 8th, 2011

The 2011 AMA/NATC MotoTrial National Championship series got underway last weekend with Rounds 1 and 2 in Blackwell, Texas.

See the NATC’s MotoTrial Results page for standings and scores.

Here are links to reports:

Brian Behling on the NATC MotoTrial blog:

Day 1: C-Dub Does It Texas Style
Day 2: Texas Deep Freeze

Shan Moore on the Trials and Enduro News blog:

Day 1 and 2: Shan’s Texas Trials Notes
Day 2 photos: Texas Nat’l Trials Sunday Images

Louise Forsley signs with Sherco USA

By Griff Wigley, on November 4th, 2010

The Nov. issue of Trials and Enduro News reports that Louise Forsley has signed with Sherco USA for 2011 and will compete in the AMA/NATC championship series. Louise was the Women’s National Trials Champion from 2006-09. She took the year off in 2010.

Louise also made the announcement on her Facebook Wall.

NATC news via the trials RSS feed on Shan's blog

By Griff Wigley, on May 7th, 2010

On the lower right sidebar of the TTC’s website, we’re aggregating the trials-related headlines from Shan Moore’s blog on Trials and Enduro News. (If you use an RSS/news reader, eg, Google Reader, you can do that yourself using this RSS feed.)

A glance at those blog post headlines this week tells you that Shan has three posts from Rounds 1 and 2 of the AMA/NATC National Trials Series held last weekend in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. The results may surprise you, as might some of the details.

Shan Moore joins the blogosphere

By Griff Wigley, on April 20th, 2010

Back in December, I blogged the print and online developments with Trials and Enduro News (formerly Trials Comp). Since then, webmaster Darrell Shannon (right photo below) converted their site over to WordPress and two weeks ago, Publisher & Editor Shan Moore launched his ShanBlog.

(Photos of Shan are from my April, 2008 blog post during the Wagner Cup, USGP at the TTC. I’m sure he’s aged considerably since then.)

An excerpt from ShanBlog post #1:

Because of my background with CN, I have always been reluctant to do a blog because that kind of writing was what I would call off the cuff… something that I’m not good at. I was worried I was too "up-tight" to do a blog, and too worried about making mistakes or saying the wrong thing. Well, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs lately, and I’ve decided no one else worries about those things so why should I.

Also, I have been so tied up with all the events I’ve been covering lately (I’m on the road every weekend covering something… as a freelancer, if you’re not on the road covering something, then your not making money) that I have been hard pressed to find the time. However, I am starting to get a handle on the workload, in addition to getting the hang of putting together 40-something pages of T&E News, so I plan of giving you "off the cuff" updates from all the events I go from here on out.

Welcome to the blogosphere, Shan.

Trials Comp is now Trials and Enduro News with a new website and a social network

By Griff Wigley, on December 2nd, 2009

Trials Competition Newspaper (Trials Comp) has morphed into Trials and Enduro News with the November 2009 issue. Editor Shan Moore gives the rationale with a full page letter in the new issue.

The paper has doubled in size (to 52 pages) and the trials-related news and features that we’ve come to expect are all there. And in addition to a revamped web site, they’ve also launched a Trials and Enduro News social network on the Ning platform. It’s like Facebook but for the trials and enduro crowd only.

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