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With so many of the British hosted ISDT’s being based in Wales, it’s no coincidence the landscape of Wales offers perfect terrain for the event. Associated to this little Principality of the United Kingdom with only 2.5 million is the sport is popular with its residents and often punches above it’s weight in national standing for its sports men. With great Trophy Team riders like Dai Jeremiah in the 70’s was the introduction of ‘national’ club teams in the ISDT by the MCC of Wales. Three of the great managers in this period were Arthur Brick, Elwyn Price and Kenny Williams. For more details check out the web site dedicated to recovering the details of the Welsh national team by former manager in the ISDE era Jeff Edwards
MCC of Wales rider and Welsh Two Day Clerk of Course with his Suzuki PE (courtesy http://www.welshsixdayteams.com)
MCC of Wales rider and popular Enduro Clerk of Course Kenny Williams with his Bultaco (image courtesy of http://www.welshsixdayteams.com)
Jeff who has for a number for years held the role of ISDE team manager for the MCC of Wales found that when looking for details on the performance and awards of an ex team rider that the Auto Cycle Union, the UK Governing body, does not retain such details for the smaller non national teams and so set out to create a website to record this information and is setting out to gather the details of the teams membership and performance. check it out here:
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Hi Folks !
wonderful Job !
but… where is the link if someone wants to wriyte you ?
I found this :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GLASS-TROPHY-VASE-1953-International-Six-Days-Trial-FIM-ISDT-Vintage-Motorcycle-/320964458008?pt=UK_Sports_Memorabilia_ET&hash=item4abaf8f618#ht_500wt_1288
Thanks Enrico. I had spotted this Vase and am watching it but dont intend to buy, I did bid on a programme for the 1961 ISDT from the smae guy but was outbid whilst I was away for the weekend. I had hoped to scan for the site then deposit the program in our local public archives. If you need ot contact us this is a good way or you can post on the guest book, at present I do not have a dedicated email.
I have a photocopy of the 61 programme if it helps. I am using it to trace the route on to 50 thou OS maps as a retirement project. I am building a Royal Enfield Bullet ISDT replica and intend to ride as much of it as I can.
Rob thank you very much for that generous offer. If you are able to scan the pages all you need is to send me the jpg’s I can then assemble a pdf. As far as your mapping project goes I am planning to produce the routes as Google Earth assets however what is stopping that is that in Wales many of the routes in Powys which were once open to vehicles have been closed by the council. I would like to organise a commemorative mild competitive event for ISDT eligible machines ie pre 1980, possibly a gentleman’s enduro format with tulip and arrow maps and a couple of special tests. I dont think I have the time to do it next year but we may be able to modify the trail class into the Powys Enduro as the Centenary ISDT class and only allow pre 1980 enduro or ISDT style bikes.
I can either scan the pages myself or send you a photocopy. If we need higher quality, I may be able to borrow the original and scan it. Either way, I am sure we can sort something out.
Regarding my route, what I done so far is hi-light the original route onto the maps and where there is a question over right of way, have put in a bypass route as close as possible.
I have now found an alloy RE front wheel on my dump in the garden so the Bullet moves a step closer! Rob
Ah I take it your copy is a duplicate not the original. I would like to get as clean a copy as I can. If you think your copy is good a scan would be fine if however you think it could be better and can still get the original scanned I would be grateful for that but any copy would be better than nothing. Thanks.
I rarely see the owner of the original as he does not live near me. However, I might know of another copy and try and borrow that. In the meantime, I’ll see how my photocopy scans and send you a couple of pages to see what you think. How do I send attachments? Cheers, Rob
I see you have dropbox you could load them to dropbox and forward me the url .. is that ok?
Errr? Have I? Someone sends me info on this. I’ll work out how to send on it. I used to work in IT too! Old bikes and history are much more fun! I’ll give it a try. Cheers, Rob
you just load the images to your public folder and then through the website view of the directory you send me an url the site supplies.. fairly simple
I’ve got the original programme now. Just need to get scanning!