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2011 AMA/NATC MotoTrial National Championship series: Texas, Pennsylvania, & then Tennessee here at the TTC

NATC MotoTrial 2011The 2011 AMA/NATC MotoTrial National Championship series (poster PDF) kicks off this week with Rounds 1 and 2 in Blackwell, Texas on April 30 and May 1 at the Texana Ranch Off Road.

NATC’s Brian Behling has been posting updates on the new NATC MotoTrials blog, including a post reporting that they’ve received 122 entries for Rounds 1&2, including these 8 pro riders:

  • Karl Davis Jr
  • Andrew Oldar
  • Shad Petersen
  • Bryan Roper
  • Pat Smage
  • Eric Storz
  • Cody Webb
  • Keith Wineland

Rounds 3 & 4 of the series will be held on June 11-12 at Rausch Creek Motosports in Valley View, PA, with  Rounds 5, 6 & 7 hosted here at the TTC on June 25, 26, & 27.

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NATC: new MotoTrial website and blog; also on Facebook and Twitter

The North American Trials Council (NATC), home of the NATC/AMA US National MotoTrial Championship Series and the US Trial des Nations Team, has a new site with a new name:

MotoTrial.us

The old domain names for the NATC and US TdN will be redirected and eventually discontinued.

NATC MotoTrials

Head honcho Brian Behling is now blogging and is ramping up with both NATC MotoTrials on Facebook and NATC MotoTrials on Twitter. 

NATC MotoTrials on Facebook NATC MotoTrials on Twitter

So we’ll be hearing directly from him (and maybe other NATC board members) about the Nationals and the US TdN Team using these social media channels.  He’ll be trying to use the words ‘mototrial’ and ‘mototrials’ as much as possible instead of ‘observed trials.’  Or will he use two words for each, ie, ‘moto trial’ and ‘moto trials’ and really confuse us?

We’ll be watching, Brian. Winking smile

Full disclosure: the NATC contracted with my firm, Wigley and Associates, to help them with this.

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A new name for the oldest sport in off-road motorcycling: MotoTrial

The North American Trials Council (NATC) held their annual meeting over the weekend. Among the highlights at the meeting was a decision (PDF press release) to use the term ‘MotoTrial’ instead of the phrase ‘Observed Trials’ for the sport.

NATCThe annual meeting of the North American Trials Council (NATC) concluded on Sunday October 24, 2010 with a new, updated name for the sport of Observed Trials – MotoTrial – will now be the term used to define this unique and oldest form of off-road motorcycling in the USA.

NATC MotoTrial Press Release“We have been watching and listening closely to our national riders across the country and around the world, noting the movement towards this type of short name that’s easy to say, helps define our sport as one involving a motorcycle, while updating it to fit with 21st century trends”, said Brian Behling, C.E.O., NATC.

“With the increase of motorsports now incorporating this abbreviated type name (MotoGP, Moto2, Moto-X, etc.) it just seemed to be the right thing to do at this time to help move recognition of this incredible sport a little more into the mainstream,” noted Behling.

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Cody Webb, 2010 AMA/NATC National Trials champion

Kip and Cody Webb; photo by Lewisport USANATC Rounds 9 & 10 were held in California this weekend. See the NATC Results page for the scores of all the classes and the year-end results. With a 1st place finish on Saturday, Cody Webb (Gas Gas) secured his first-ever national title.

He’s pictured on the right with his father and minder, Kip Webb.  See the full-sized photo at the bottom of the Lewisport USA home page.

Shan Moore at Trials and Enduro News has the details on his blog:

After finishing runner-up in the series standings for four straight years, Webb picked up his game in 2010, winning eight of the 10 rounds to easily capture the championship. At Donner, Webb handled the huge granite walls and drops with precision, topping three-time and defending Champ Patrick Smage by 26 points on Saturday and 38 on Sunday.

See Cody Webb’s Facebook profile wall and this message thread on Trials Central for all the congratulatory messages.

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Results: NATC Rounds 7 & 8

NATC Rounds 7 & 8 were held in Colorado this weekend.

See the NATC Results page for the scores of all the classes.

Cody Webb airborn By taking first place both days in Colorado over the weekend, Cody Webb (GasGas) has all but clinched first place in the 2010 AMA/NATC National Championship Trials Series. With 6 wins (including one in Oklahoma, one in Rhode Island, and two in New York), Webb will likely have his first-ever National Championship next week in California, beating out four-time AMA/NATC National Trials Champion Pat Smage (Sherco).

Dan Williams wrote in the Trials Central forum: "I calculate Cody only needs a fifth place (16 points) finish either day in California to clinch."

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NATC results: Rhode Island, Rounds 3 & 4

NATC Rounds 3 & 4 were held in Rhode Island last weekend. See the NATC Results page for the scores of all the classes.

And see Shan Moore’s post to the Trials and Enduro News blog: Webb and Smage Trade Wins in Rhode Island

Cody Webb and Patrick Smage remain tied atop the championship points standings in the AMA National Trials Series after trading wins at rounds three and four of the series in Exeter, Rhode Island.

Just as he had done at the opener in Oklahoma, Webb struck first, taking a decisive win over Smage on the slippery rock outcroppings of Stepping Stone Ranch during Saturday’s round. The two riders riders – Webb on the Gas Gas Race model and Smage on a modified 300cc Sherco…

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

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.