Our company, www.coastinternet.ca, has acquired a new server for our websites. It's exciting to be able to offer this new level of very fast, highly reliable computing power, but it means that I have about 100 websites to gradually move to the new server.

It is now the turn of the TrialsCanada website to move, and hopefully most of the others will involve less work than this one did. We decided to clean up the entire site while we were working on it, so you'll see much less information on this home page. All of the trials results have been moved to our Trials Results page, as none of them can be considered to be breaking news.

Going through this site made it clear just how much information we have here. There are results and final standings for many of the championships around the country, going back to 2007. I have left all of this information on the newly-revamped site -- in fact I improved the appearance of a lot of those old web-pages. It's been a rather intense, but interesting, experience.

World Trials Canada has announced that the first two rounds of the 2012 national championships will take place at Ski Morin Heights, Quebec, on July 14 & 15. ATAQ will be the organizing club.

The western rounds will likely take place on Vancouver Island in September. A further announcement regarding rounds three and four will be coming shortly.

There has been quite a discussion recently regarding possible changes to the "stop or no-stop" rules in trials. Currently, both the WTC and CMA use the rules which permit riders to cease forward motion in a section. The discussion has been brought into focus by the decision of the ACU in the United Kingdom, which has decided to switch to no-stop rules. With these rules, a cessation of forward motion constitutes a failure, resulting in a penalty of five points...

Click here for the full editorial. And feel free to express your opinion on our forum.

The WTC has announced a streamlined method to apply for a sanction for a trials event. The WTC website (www.worldtrialscanada.com) now has a "Forms" section with the new online sanction apllication. The insurance application and the waiver forms are also provided on the website.

The WTC points out the following:

• The Host club does not need to be formally affiliated with WTC. Although WTC would like some history on the host organizer to ensure that it is an experienced group being endorsed.
• There is no "sanction fee"
• There is no "rider levy"
• There is no charge to the organizer for the cost of the insurance.

Jonathan English has provided a report of the Canadian team at the recent Trial Des Nations in Italy.

You can see this report in our Forum, please click here to go straight to Jon's post.

There is a great collection of photo's from the trial on Oultaw Dave's gallery, which you can access directly by clicking HERE.

The pictures were supplied by Ian D'Argis (Devon's dad).

Thanks to all the people who've passed along trials results. To let me know the results of your trials, please contact me at

Thanks,

Bob Johns, Editor