26 Sunday Nov 2017
As part of the preparation to trying to create a digital map of the original route in the modern times we are publishing a print of the event route for the event should any Polish readers or speakers be able to help us in locating a number of the places and tracks. More information can be found in the program for the ISDT 1967 event on the event page.
Image – route map Day 1 Zakopane Poland ISDT 1967
17 Friday Feb 2017
Thank you to our Euro correspondent SB for digging up a route map for the 6th day of the ISDT 1956. We have now loaded it into Google Earth to protect it’s history and provide a copy of the scanned map here for those studying the 1956 event held at Garmisch Partenkirchen.
Image – The route of the 6th and final day of the ISDT 1956 to the east of Garmisch PartenKirchen
If any readers have any experiences or photos of this route please drop a line so we can add them to the events route profile.
14 Saturday Mar 2015
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Thanks to Brian Catt who has provided this course detail from the event programme.
image – Map of course days 3 and 6 ISDT 1966 (Courtesy Brian Catt)
01 Sunday Mar 2015
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Mapping for the event is limited and we have this map from the official programme. Any further maps that can be provided would be welcome.
image – map of the 6 days course ISDT 1955
01 Sunday Mar 2015
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Collecting mapping for the ISDT 1959.
So far located an official map for days 2 and 3. The Official Daily Route sheets and the programme maps for each day.
Any offers of route information for any ISDT always welcome.
Image – Colour map for routes of Day 2 and 3 ISDT 1959
27 Saturday Dec 2014
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The Bwlch y Groes (Pass of the Cross) and its side road Bwlch Eunant probably have a history as a road that lies back in the dark days long before things were ever thought of being recorded as existing. The road summit at 545m, (1788ft) is often claimed to be the highest public road in Wales, however, as far as surfaced roads go, that honour is held by the Bwlch yr Efengyl (Gospel Pass) 549m, (1801ft) in the Black Mountains of South East Wales also used by the ISDT in Wales although its approach is not as steep as the Bwlch y Groes. The unsurfaced Bwlch Llandrillo in the Berwyns, also used in the ISDT, crosses the 580m 2000ft contour at the summit of the pass. The ISDT, when on the Bwlch y Groes, never crossed the high summit as detoured to travel to Bala via the gnarly old tracks through the Euanant and Hirnant valleys. History paints a picture of the route being in use by religious travellers passing between the early Celtic Christian sites and the many Monasteries, Abbeys, Friaries and Priories the church of Rome had established at Welshpool, Llangollen, Llanrwst, Holywell, Flint, Denbigh, Llaneltyd before the reformation. But it was mostly motorsport rather than tourism that rediscovered the opportunities the then many unsurfaced road provided in the early development of motoring on public roads.
C Smiths map of England and Wales 1806 clearly shows the route of the Bwlch y Groes and the Bwlch Eunant long before the construction of the Reservoir on the Vyrnwy by the Liverpool Corporation.
22 Saturday Nov 2014
2014 sees the 50th anniversary of the holding of the ISDT 1964 in Erfurt, East Germany. The event is one which gets a lot of attention and is number one International when it comes to enquiries and hits on our web search.
image – route of day 1 ISDT 1964 (Google Earth)
Thanks to the help of our contributor STB who has sent the route maps for the event which we will add to the ‘mapping the ISDT project’ this winter. Keep watching this page to see how it progresses.
12 Sunday Oct 2014
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STT editor recently had a trip out to Valasian Alps on the Southern Swiss border with Italy. Arriving at Genéve was followed by a train ride along the northern shore of Lake Genéve through Lausanne, Montreaux, Aigle and at Martigny I realised this was more or less the reverse of the final closing stages of the ISDT 1929 which had begun in Munich and finished in Genéve.
image – scanned copy of route map ISDT 1929
15 Thursday May 2014
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Captain Allan Jeffries, Hugh Viney, ISDT, ISDT 1948, Jack Williams, Royal Enfield, San Remo, Vic Brittain
The ISDT restarted after the war and 1948 was the second year of the resurrection of the event with the British Trophy team victorious with Captain Allan Jeffries (600 Triumph), CN Rogers (350 Royal Enfield), Vic Brittain (350 Royal Enfield), Hugh Viney (500 AJS), and Jack Williams (500 Norton). I now have been lucky to set my hands on copies of both issues of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ covering the event which is featured in this blog on the event. However here is the course map for the ISDT 1948 which we hope to use to digitise a modern map for the original route.
image – route map for ISDT from ‘the Motor Cycle‘ ISDT 1948
23 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Bosco Valtravaglia, Como, ISDT 1951, Maggiore, Monza, Porta Valtravaglia, San Pellegrino, Sesto Calende, Varese
Image – scanned map of course ISDT 1951
Image – scanned course map of ISDT 1951
This list of places along the route was released in an article in ‘the Motor Cycle‘ 19 July 1951.
THE MOTORCYCLE, 19 JULY 1951
International Six Days’ Trial September 18 to 23
Routes for the International Six Days’ Trial have now been issued. The event is to be held in Italy from Tuesday, September 18, to Sunday, September 23, with Varese as the headquarters. On the fourth day, the Friday, there will be a night run, just over 100 miles in length. Total mileage of the route will be approximately 1,220 plus the high-speed test, which will be at Monza autodrome.
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