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Introduction 51st ISDT 1976
The 51st edition of the ISDT is held on the 20th – 25th September 1976 at the Österrechring in Styria, Austria
Image of cover of Official Program of the 51st ISDT
PDF document start sheet – StartSheet_ISDT1976
Leo Keller again has helped with great pics of ISDT events. Black & white pics by courtesy of Zweirad Union Archiv Trophy this year went to West Germany, Vase to CSSR. (thank goodness Leo kept an eye on the text!)
On the map!
Image of scanned route map for Day 1 and Day 2 ISDT 1976
Image of scanned route map for Day 3 and Day 4 ISDT 1976
Image of scanned route map for Day 5 and Day 6 ISDT 1976
Photo of #195 Billy Uhl USA Trophy Team Rider on a Hercules 125 7 Speeder!
Photo of #141 Helmut Clasen on Hercules 175 Canadian Trophy Team ISDT 1976
Helmut Clasen always known as “Speedy”!, great guy then of Ontario Canada going to Silver Medal on a 175 Hercules in the Canadian Trophy Team, this pic. gladly received from Clasen Private Collection, via Leo Keller, Many Thanks to all
Photo of #381 Kurt Fischer, Wankel the only rider to finish an ISDT (Hercules Wankel GS) Gold Medal, a very highly capable man. ISDT 1976
Photo of #132Gerhard Bayer, West German Silver Vase Rider, 125 Works Hercules.
Photo of Trophy winning West German team
back row from left Hardy Weber, Rolf Witthoeft, Peter Neumann, Jugen Grisse, Josef Wolfgruber, ZUNDAPP OWNER Mrs. Dr. Elisabeth Mann, Middle drinking from bottle is Eddy Hau.(picture by permission of Schroeder.)
There is a comprehensive photo gallery of the event on the web site of the Technical Museum Vienna which can be found here
Photo – undated ISDT image of #199 KTM followed by a USA rider
This undated image found its way here without any details I’m going to guess this is an ISDT 1976 image judging by the KTN tank decals, with the rider #199 being a vase or trophy team rider.. any ideas until i get a named entry list or results sheet?
I found these pictures set in a piece on the blogged history of an Police Cheney ridden in the ISDT in Austria by David Randall.
Photo of #377 David Randall on a Met Police Cheney Triumph 650 [PJD 18L] at ISDT 1976
Photo of #377 David Randall on Cheney Triumph 650 [PJD 18L] in MX test at ISDT 1976
Photo of #377 David Randall on Cheney Triumph 650 [PJD 18L] in Speed Test in ISDT 1976
Photo of #377 David Randall on Cheney Triumph 650 [PJD 18L] in ISDT 1976
Photo of Australian team leading West Germany in the opening ceremony. Ted Goddard holds the flag while Colin Tregonning marches behind with supporters (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of #299 Ted Goddard’s Can Am being examined in the area normally used for racing cars (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of French machine BPS ridden by #91 Jean Pierre Lloret (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of Rokon the first Automatic to be entered in the ISDT but now joined by Husqvarna (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of modified 501 Maico entered by #379 Herbert Bechtold of West Germany (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of #77 Bernd Lammel (100cc Simpson) East Germany Vase team (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo – the daily acceleration tests saw many unusual sights. French 175cc KTM rider Joel Queirel does some hand changing (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of #105 Colin Tregonning of Australia 250c KTM on the 1st day (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of Eduard (Eddy) Hau west German Trophy rider on a Zundapp on an uphill section of the Special Test on the 1st day (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of Swedish rider #205 Olle Ekmann gets a smile automatically on his Auto Husky (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo Toshi Nishiyama 250cc KTM took Japan’s first medal (A silver). He does not like the Japanese machines and used to ride a Bultaco in Japanese MX (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo the Austrian Army provided medical support and also came in handy at the checks #238 Willy Steurer (W German KTM) #239 Ted Goddard (Aus Can Am)#240 Jeff Gerber (USA Penton) (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of badly bent forks on a Yamaha IT 400. #371 Edward Dirstein (canada) hit a bridge on Monday and continued to a Bronze Medal(Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo – this rider , Ulrich Fabke, from East Germany on an MZ actualy went over this vertical mountain edge taking the marshal wit him. Fabke was able to continue but the marshal was seriously injured when his head hit a rock. (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of a steep rocky path that on Monday had a lot of riders in trouble. Here a Puch rider fights to not go over the edge. (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo of #287 Reinhard Knoll who broke his left hand on Friday but continued to ride to try and keep the Austrian Trophy team ahead of the British. Canadian Ken Rice tries to pass during the Sunday Motocross (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Photo – the Austrian Army provided communication links from checks to base with radio teletype. (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
What the Papers said!
Australia’s Track and Trail magazine had a report by Alan Dark of the event in its Dec 1976 issue
Image scanned magazine article (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Image scanned magazine article (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
Image scanned magazine article (Track and Trail Magazine Dec 1976) ISDT 1976
The Belgian Classic Enduro site has a gallery of images they have collated relating to Belgian riders and teams here
The Final Score: Results
Speedtracktales wishes to thank Marc Pétrier of FIM Information Resources who has facilitated the scanning of the FIM archive of ISDT results material and is allowing us to make it available here as a public service. Read a copy of the original Results and Stewards Report at the link below.
View the Stewards Report for the 1976 ISDT here
Artifacts and Collectibles
Photo – Poster 51st International Six Days Trial Austria ISDT 1976
Photo US Team supporters sticker ISDT 1976 (Courtesy eBay)
Where are they now?
The ex Met Police Cheney Triumph ridden by David Randall and featured in images above is now being restored and their is a blog dedicated to the restoration available here
Speed Track Tales 
KTM #199 is British Army rider Bob Belton in Camerina 1974. Bob was my friend and guide during my Army days at Bordon. I spectated at that event and first met him there.
He rode a 125 Rickman Zundapp purchased from Ken Heans shop in the 1976 ISDT. I rode as a Army individual on a 360 Bultaco Frontera in ’76 and gained a Silver.
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Hello, i got following error when loading report:
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would like to download “stewarts reports” from 1974 – 1976 please
many thanks,
Kurt from Graz, collector of PUCH MX bikes
I’ve had a problem with Microsoft cloud corrupting the pdf files so they cannot be opened I am going to have to rescan them all. I thought they were saver there than here
As mentioned in
KTM’s shifting drum failure also jeopardized Italy’s World Trophy effort (the Italian team was al all-KTM one, and 2 or 3 out of 6 broke)