The CTTA hosted the 6th and Final Round of the 2014 “Summer” Series on December 13th with the Annual Toy Drive Trial; a special thanks to Ben Dalgeish for organizing this charity event. About 33 riders enjoyed an event set by TrialsMaster Neil King and you can check out the section-by-section results here, results courtesy of Mitch Ely.

The Summer series enjoyed a great turnout tis year, with more than 80 riders participating in an event! Thanks to everyone that participated. So many people helped make this series a success – to the landowners that graciously hosted an event, to the trialsmasters and organizers of an event, to the volunteers that helped clear or build sections and to those that ran sign up and scoring – THANK YOU! This series wouldn’t happen without your support. The overall series results can be found here.

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the event. We couldn’t have asked for better weather. Two inches of rain earlier in the week helped a lot with the traction.

Section-by-section results.

Video of the event.

Hi All,

It was a great event at Joe Miller’s last weekend! We had a great turnout. Even the weather cooperated with cooler temps – coolest event in the Texas summer that I can remember…

I want to give a BIG shout out of THANKS to Joe Miller for hosting us at his place – it’s a beautiful spot for a trials event! And to BJ Miller for setting a very FUN event; in my group we had riders on the Amateur and Intermediate lines and the difficulty was about perfect.

And a very big Thanks to John Armour and Mitch Ely for running the signup and scoring table – here are the section-by-section results!

What a great start to the 2014 State Series!!!  The event was held in Austin at the Emma Long Motorcycle Park.

A big thank you to everyone that braved the wacky bipolar Texas weather!  Those that arrived on Friday to help set up and camp endured below freezing temperatures all day.

A special thanks to Mitch Ely and Jon Penner for signing every body in, doing AMA, and keeping score, Tomas Pantin for setting tarps to block wind, and supplying the heater, and to all the trials masters listed below

John Armour and Neil King put on a great Round 1 on Saturday.  The morning riders had to endure the cold temperatures, but by the afternoon it was hot.  Some even got sunburned.  The “Jack Hammer Loop” was long and very challenging.  So much so that the morning riders had to have time extended.  Thanks to Tomas Pantin and Nora de la Fuente for marking and taping the loops.  No one could get lost with all that tape.

Sunday’s Round 2 was just as exciting.  Thank you, Mitch Ely and Bobby Reece.  The loop was much shorter and followed the creek bed.  It was rocky, but not nearly as abusive.  Everyone was pretty sore and worn out from Saturday so Sunday was tough.  It also got warm very quickly.  The morning sections were fun.  The Master riders were really put to the test and they all fought hard.

It was nice to see some new people show up and always great to see the regular Trials families.  A wonderful time was had by all.  We were glad to see that the “threat” of bad weather didn’t keep anyone from showing up.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the next event in Bridgeport on March 8th & 9th.

Happy riding and keep your feet up.

– BJ MIller

Results Round 1
Results Round 2

What an event! Perfect weather, a great turnout and we raised big money for a worthy cause! We raised over $3,000 for the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation!!! A special THANKS to Jay Glasscock – you rock! It has been great to have a club t-shirt, the first that I can remember since I started riding with the CTTA in ’99 and it was an incredibly wonderful contribution to the Charity Challenge! Thanks to everyone that participated in the 2013 Charity Challenge – your contribution will make a difference!

We had a really wonderful turnout with 43 riders in the morning’s Modern event and 21 in the afternoon on Vintage iron. Tristan Harris, Eric Smith, Steve Elms, Charles Coville, Ben Dalgleish, Daniel Hunt, Andrew Trousdale and BJ Miller were the big winners in the morning event and Michael Glasscock, Ben Dalgleish and Adam Hall took top honors in the afternoon. Congratulations all of you!

For all of the results, for all of the section-by-section, loop-by-loop action – courtesy of Mitch Ely – check ’em out here:

• Morning: Round #5 of the 2013 CTTA Summer Series at the Harvest Classic Rally
• Afternoon: The Vintage Challenge at the 2013 Harvest Classic Rally 

A very SPECIAL THANKS! to EVERYONE that helped set up or tear down this event!!! It’s a bit of a construction project to host a trials at Luckenbach. The natural terrain is a bit easy, but with your efforts (sore muscles and sore backs…) we pulled it off again. If you were there to both set up and tear down – you really do rock – THANKS!

Lastly, I really want to call out John Armour for going above and beyond with his really, really cool demo trailer! I think everyone enjoyed riding it and the crowd really enjoyed the show that the top riders – David Mizell, Glen Roblin, BJ Miller & Lance Miller – put on.

Again, thanks to each and everyone one of you that helped make the 2013 Charity Challenge such a success. Hope to see you next year!

Don

It was a little slippery at the start of Round 4 at the McMahan’s Ranch in Smithville due to overnight rains, but we dodged any additional rain and traction was just got better and better after the first loop.

Results CTTA #4
Results SWVTA #3

A special THANKS to George and Wayne McMahan for having everyone out to ride at the ranch – THANK YOU! Thanks also to our trialsmasters Wayne McMahan and Stephen Hetzel and to Mitch Ely for signup and scoring!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Charity Challenge at the Harvest Classic Rally – mark your calendars for October 19th!.