MAKE HASTE, SLOWLY

In today’s world, ‘Trials’ is applied to a form of motorcycle acrobatics that defies many rules, gravity being one of them. The feats performed by a select breed on ultra-specialised machinery are simply awesome, as are the obstacle strewn courses set to separate the great from the merely good.

This form of the sport used to be known as ‘Sporting Trials’ or ‘Observed Trials’, and was immensely popular, especially in Britain, and in Australasia. The reason for its popularity is simple; speed, and thus performance-tuning of one’s machine is not an issue. Of course, careful preparation is still vital, as in any branch of motorcycle competition, but the deciding facts in Observed Trials were balance, throttle control, and an