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Trials riders try to go nowhere on
one wheel-and that's hard.
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NEXT TRiALS WILL BE HELD: Canyon Crest
Area near Riverside at 11:00 AM, Oct. 17.
Limed from Riverside Freeway and Central Ave .
Turn off.
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PHOTOS BY CARL BARTLETT AND CHUCK CLAYTON
Bill Landefeld (4) looks for new
trials to conquer. Bob Lersch tries the
sandy trap.
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What better place to demonstrate
body English learned in England
tha n during an English trials beh ind
Ascot Park? That's what Britisher Stu
Marshall is do ing, anyway.
If you need proof the trials riders
don 't go fast, how about this checker Suzy Waylett, is moving
faster than the competitor she's
checking.
Master
class
rider
Jim Fraser grins and wins .
TRIALS RETURNS
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This r id e r wheels around and
through in the closest thing to speed
competition maneuver you'll encounter riding a trials .
TRIALS AND TRAILS are easy to
confuse. And no wonder-the skills
de veloped in either branch of the
motorcycle sport are transposable. A
good trials rider should be a good
trail rider and vice versa .
The course laid out last Sunday
by the Southern California Trials
Assn., a non-profit group with off ices
at 4707 W. l64th Street, Lawndale,
combined just about every low-speed
obstacle one would encounter on a
hardy trail-all within a couple of
acres of California real estate behind Ascot Park.
Besides just plain challenge, the
point of trials riding is to "clean" a
tough obstacle by balancing through
without t ouchin g a foot to the ground
or-horror of horrors and five points
lost-stalling the engine.
Any lightweight two wheeler can
compete successfully if it has torque
and traction. Most of the cycles also
serve as daily transportation, since
there is little wear and tear on the
