Trial

Trial specialty is prettamente one of motorcycling and of cycling sportsman who to times comes carried out also with other types of vehicles to 4 wheels.

The name of the specialty derives from the contraction of the term in English Try All that is it tries all and from endured the idea of the spirit base of the competition, trying to exceed all the obstacles, that they are natural they, it faces to you in the tests outdoor, or it crafts them, specific of the contests indoor.

The motorcycle Trial

An other definition that of specific better the spirit is:The Trial is the only motoristico sport in which the speed it is not one of the more important parameters.

This sport is diffused a po' all over the world but it has formations more folti gets passionate to you in Spain, Great Britain and Japan from which the more important come champions of the last years, let alone the more important have center houses manufacturers of this particular type of motion.

History

It is made to go back the history of the trial at the beginning of XX century with the first contests, in England, of series motion nearly, obliged to cover the roads of the time, already of for if same normally in conditions pessime, spaced out gone up steepest. The modern Trial has instead its origin to the end of second world war and it seems can be considered like one rib of the contests of enduro. In fact of the organizers of contests of this type they were found to having to fight with the fuel shortage of the time, that the effettuazione of contests of particular length did not concur and, in order to satisfy this handicap, they found the solution to shorten the competitions being rendered but the many more arduous distances. In this way nacque the new discipline that was always centralized more on the agility and the skill of the pilot, to scapito of the physical resistance of the pilot and the reliability of mechanical means on which always the contests had been centralized.

From the beginning of years ' 50 nacquero the first models of the famous English houses (like Norton and BSA as an example) purposely it plans you for this new sport.

Regulations

A Trial competition to the open (outdoor) is developed medium on a distance of approximately 15 km divided in several zones where the contenders, one after the other, they must try to exceed of the natural obstacles (rivers, cliffs, tree log, steepest climbs etc.), without never to support the feet to earth. To the end of the test they will come contabilizzate of the penalties based on the made errors, according to this table:

• 1 foot supported to terra=1 penalty point
• 2 feet (not contemporaneamente)=2 points
• 3 or more piedi=3 points
• regression of the motion on the persorso, support of the two feet to earth in contemporary, extinction of the motor or not completion of zona=5 the points

Naturally who will be winning of the competition, to the end of all the zones, it will have totaled minor the number of penalty.

The motorcycles from Trial

The characteristics of a classic motion from trial are:

• A reduced weight, usually inferior to the 70 kg.
• Of the reduced dimensions in order to guarantee one greater agility.
• A usually cilidrata motor of comprised between the 50 and the 300 cc with one large brace, much more important of power in this case.
• The absence of one comfortable saddleback, practically never used from the pilot in this type of contests.

The houses manufacturers of this motion are nowadays GasGas and Montesa (Spanish), Beta and Fantic Motor (Italian).

The Trial indoor

The advent of television it can be said that it has carried to the birth of this specialty where, in palazzetti of the sport it equips to you purposely, it can be assisted, also in case of maltempo and comfortably seated, to contests of Trial where the natural obstacles have been replaced from manufatti in concrete, pneumati from truck and quite constructions to us it crafts them that they simulate streams and cascades.

Curiosity

• The motorcycle Trial begins to interest also the world feminine in fact has been assigned toItaly before the test of Championship of the World of trial feminine, 23 september 2005 to Sestriere. For the championship, that for this first edition one articulates on two sun tests, the contest of Sestriere will cover therefore a primary importance for world-wide the conquest del tito it.

External connections

• The Italian Federation