Classic Enduro – Valle Bergamasche

07 Saturday Jan 2017

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Thanks to Brian Catt for spotting and sharing a classic video of a major Italian Enduro that was held in Bergamo in 1964, the same year as the ISDT in E Germany that many still relate to the participation of a US team with Steve McQueen

The event was held by the Moto Club Bergamo a well known and respected motor cycle club. The following article was created by a direct translation by Google Translate and we thank the Moto Club Bergamo and hope you enjoy the videos.

“Generations of fans, not only from Bergamo, have lived VALLI as an epic, generations of public administrators have applied for, desired, cajoled as a guarantee flower for tourism development to be celebrated in the municipal councils, parishes, in the newspapers.

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ISDT 1964: newly discovered event photos.

13 Sunday Nov 2016

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BSA, East Germany, Erfurt, Greeves, ISDT 1964, Steve McQueen

I am grateful as always to our Euro reporter SB who has provided these amazing snaps for our 200th blog post taken at the ISDT 1964 including some of the British team machines. I do not know the origin of these images and as soon as I know I will arrange a full credit.

Photo – GB Trophy Team #222 J Sandiford’s BSA 350cc ISDT 1964 (Speedtracktales Archive)

Check below for the rest of the images which are going to produce a bit of a bountiful harvest for the fans of Greeves bikes with plenty of action from this event possibly made most famous by the presence on the US Trophy Team of one Steve McQueen, whose team mate Dave Ekins can be found here. Continue reading →

ISDT 1964: Painting of Steve McQueen at Erfurt by Jürgen Valdeig

18 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by Highwayman in Art, Enduro, Europe, Gelände Sport, Germany, International Six Day Trial, Internationale Sechs Tagefahrt, ISDT, Media, Mezinárodní Šestidenní Soutěž, Regolarità, Sei Giorni Motociclistica Internazionale, Six Jours Internationaux

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Erfurt, ISDT 1964, Steve McQueen

Sorry its been a while time waits for no-one and I’ve been struggling to keep up with a lot of things. Just checking through some old emails and I think I missed this one from our German contact SB who shares this image with us featuring the king of cool Steve McQueen.

image – painting of McQueen on start in Erfurt ISDT1964

Jürgen Valdeig is an artist (art painter). He lives in Erfurt. Mr. Valdeig had contact with Dave Ekins, a team member of USA-Silvervase in ISDT 1964. Ekins helped the artist Jürgen Valdeig in the scientific research.

Dave wrote:

“Dear Juergen,
Beautiful work! How kind of you to give me credit on the International Six Days Trial 1964- September page in Calendar 2014….. Wouldn`t it be great if we could meet in person someday.
Your friend,

Dave Ekins Los Angeles, Januar 2014″.

The website of Jürgen Valdeig was partly written in English.

http://www.valdeig-fineart.de/

ISDT 1953 – video of promotional movie discovered

19 Friday Feb 2016

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Bratislava, Gottwaldov, ISDT 1953, ISDT video

1953 was a great year for Great Britain in the ISDT, with one of its dream team line ups in the Trophy team who gave us our last win of the premier event award. A movie of the event was recently spotted on Youtube and is now added to our ISDT Tube feature of all known ISDT movie footage.

At an early stage of the ISDT 1953 we catch Rider #1 FH Whittle with his Panther 598cc sidecar [HYG 477] going through scrutineering. A nice view of British Trophy team member #237 Jack Stocker riding his 496cc Royal Enfield into Scrutineering #37 Olga Kevelos on the start line with her 150cc CZ. #71 PVK Baldwin with his 348 Matchless CC riding for the Sunbeam MCC comes in for fuel then later on again passing through a woodland swamp. #231 David S Tye of the Silver Vase team with his 497cc BSA [NON 496] The course includes checkpoints in Bratislava, open countryside and woodland with the usual ISDT throng of fans and curious local spectating at this festival of motorcycle action. The video finishes with coverage of the night stages and hopefully this is only part 1 and I can find the second part to add to this one.

ISDT 1953: Hugh Viney’s works 498cc AJS

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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AJS, Hugh Viney, ISDT 1953

I’ve been lagging with a number of articles needing posting but here I’ve now put up a short article on the ISDT 1953 winning 498cc AJS ridden by Hugh Viney which turned up in auction in 2015 after its long term owner passed away.

Photo – Works AJS 498 of Hugh Viney ISDT 1953 (Courtesy Bonhams)

read the article here in our Folk’s and Motors section

Speedtracktales XMAS Present Bonanza 3 ISDT Programmes to check out.

25 Friday Dec 2015

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ISDT 1967, ISDT 1968, ISDT 1969

Thanks to the generosity earlier this year of Brian Catt who started scanning his collection of ISDT programmes, here are the first that have been uploaded to our online library at issue.com

Image – scanned cover Official Programme of ISDT 1969 (Greenwood Family Collection)

Link to browse 1969 programme at Speedtracktales ISDT programme library at issue.com.

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Merry Xmas 2015 – snowy trials scene, Loggerheads Inn, Denbighshire 1938

24 Thursday Dec 2015

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Christmas, Loggerheads, Loggerheads Inn

Photo – South Liverpool Cup Trial start at Loggerheads Inn 1938 (courtesy SLMCC)

In the distance are the famous cliffs at Loggerheads, at that time a Tea Garden owned by Crosville Coaches who ran regular trips from Liverpool. The Tea Gardens featured in pre war ISDT event in Wales where they were the most northerly point and served as the venue for lunch stops. The petrol pumps have long gone and there is still a petrol garage in Loggerheads despite their demise in many areas of rural Wales.

Thanks to al those who made the trip to these web pages in 2015 and also contributed material and comments to the work so far. Although the stats show a lot of readers across the world out there, it is very nice when we get comment, feedback and corrections to show our audience is active.

ISDT 1968: Event daily check times and schedule sheets

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

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ISDT 1968, San Pellegrino

I am often greatly indebted to Brian Catt who not only feeds me first hand memories of the great ISDT events in the 60’s and 70’s because…. ‘he was there’. His personal ISDT and Enduro knowledge is almost as vast as his library of photos and books. I was therefore very grateful when he passed me copies of the road time sheets for each day of this event along with the schedule options. I am sure these will prove to be very helpful to some readers.

Image – Page 1 Day 1 Road times and Schedule ISDT 1968

These sheets set out the distances times and type of checks and where the feeling stops would be. The two columns on the extreme right gave optional schedules for the time for riders which would be set in the morning in accordance with prevailing weather and ground conditions.

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FIM: 2016 FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy

21 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by Highwayman in Enduro, Gelände Sport, ISDT, Motorcycling, Regolarità, restoration

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FIM, vintage trophy

The thrill of classic six day machines is catching and so the FIM have for 2016 decided to hold an inaugural vintage trophy event for Enduro.

Photo of classic ‘Welsh’ going as motorcyclists #145 Sid Moran of Ireland’s ‘B’ Vase team on a Matchless 498cc [DYF 83] & #149 Ludwig Patina of Germany on BMW 494cc cross the fords on Wednesday on the Abergwesyn to Tregaron road in ISDT 1937

More details will be available here

http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/sport/fim-enduro-vintage-trophee/

ISDT 1952: Artur Fenzlau Part 1 – pix of the Brits!

29 Thursday Oct 2015

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These images are part of a 1000 image library of ISDT images from the 1952 ISDT held in Austria taken by Artur Fenzlau and were the photos featuring the British entrants both Factory, Military and privateer teams. Please enjoy….

#57 Olga V Kevelos, Birmingham. Parilla 150 (entered as Italian) abandoned day 2