ISDT 100: Centennial Celebration of the first ISDT 1913 Carlisle, Cumbria – update

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

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Carlisle, Centenary, centennial Ride, ISDT

Just in a news release from Dot Jones with Centennial Ride news.

The original emblem of the FICM International Six Days Trial

April update.

On Monday August 18th 1913 one hundred and sixty riders set off from Carlisle to follow the route of the first day of the International Six Days Trial. The ISDT has grown in strength through the years to become the International Six Days Enduro with teams from all around the world competing for the World Trophy. In that very first ISDT there were fifty nine motorcycle manufacturers represented, one of which was a Campion ridden by a Mr George who won a Silver Medal. Continue reading →

Sidecars: A man with a chair – the age of the ISDT Motorcycle Combination

22 Monday Apr 2013

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One of the great features of the ISDT for most of it’s history was the participation of the motorcycle sidecar. Our site’s visitors logs show riders like P Bradley with his Sunbeam outfit or Stuart Weycott and his Velocette remain a popular search engine query that brings a lot of visitors

Photo shows WS Waycott (596cc Velocette sc) making his brilliant, unassisted climb of Fron Bache ISDT 1938 (Speedtracktales Collection)

I was therefore very pleased when German reader Rainer Laidig sent me a copy of the guide he made to Sidecars in the ISDT 1951 – 1956. Although in German it contains many images, especially of British riders, that are wholly new to me as well as some of our own and its good to see our photos helping add to the knowledge of the world of this fantastic event and the amazing men and bikes and passengers too. Continue reading →

ISDT 1936: official FICM Steward’s Final Report

07 Sunday Apr 2013

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final report, results

We were excited when the FIM copied its archive collection of Stewards Reports and results still available in it’s archive. These have been very popular with site visitors looking at the download logs.

Our collection is not complete and today I am again endebted to ‘STB’ and Marc at the FIM for scanning this copy of the 1936 ISDT final report to add to our collection.

: Image – Scanned cover of FICM Final Report with full results 18th ISDT 1936 (Speedtracktales Collection)

Download Steward’s Final Report for the 1936 ISDT here

Speedtracktales V2.0: 1 year old April 2013

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Map of Speedtracktales V2.0 readership for first year

It was over a year ago whilst searching for some ISDT specific archive photo’s I was given a number of photos I had no need for. Such things are not items you can simply fling and I looked for a home to donate them to. I was pointed to Speedtracktales but on arriving found the site had gone, unknown to me the originator had come to the end of his ability to sustain the costs with maintaining the url and servers for a labour of love. Luckily some persons had sidled it away onto a free site where the contents could be seen. Eventually finding Taff Issacs who was the originator he had no way to edit further and my photos were not of much use. After a bit of correspondence I agreed to set up a new website and rehouse the collection so that it could be easily accessed by persons wishing to research the historic years of the International Six Says Trial before it changed its name to International Six Days Enduro in 1981.

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