Trials Canada Online Magazine

02/14/2022

The TrialsCanada.com website has now been closed down. We've heard that the Motorcyclist Confederation of Canada (MCC) has intentions of starting a new Moto Trials website for Canada. Keep an eye open for that. In the meantime, it's goodbye from us...

09/17/2021

An Announcement from the Editor

I first started TrialsCanada.com as an effort to put all the news and information about our sport into one place, hoping that it would have a beneficial effect on this sport of moto-trials. I've competed in trials at various stages of my life, for a total of close to thirty years. I got a lot of pleasure from the sport, and this website was my effort to put something back into it.

As editor of this online trials magazine since February, 2003, I've been noticing that many of the ideas we've been advocating seem to be coming to fruition. I'm thinking of the CMA's willingness to accept the MCC as a partner in the organization of our sport, and for the MCC to go ahead and take their part in this effort. Now that the MCC has taken on a considerable part of the funding for this year's Trials Des Nations team, it seems that these goals have been largely achieved.

My next birthday will mark the nineteenth anniversary of TrialsCanada.com, and I'll be celebrating my eightieth - all in all a good time pull the plug. It's my understanding that the MCC has plans to create and administer a new Canadian trials website, so the need for TrialsCanada.com will cease to exist.

It has been an enjoyable nineteen years; I've really enjoyed being in touch with so many trials folks across the country.
With the onset of the COVID pandemic last year, and the resulting reduction in trials acvtivities, I stopped billing for the advertising on TrialsCanada.com. It's been about two-and-a-half years since I did any invoicing - another indication that it might be time for me to retire from the website business!

I do believe that this website has a unique record of Canadian trials events over the past nineteen years - the results of just about every trial in Canada over that period of time are included on the site. So I plan to leave it online for a while, just in case anyone wants to refer to the information there. But I won't be adding any more news.

It's been fun - all the very best to everyone who has followed our little trials website over the years.

Bob Johns

06/10/2021

We have some trials news on www.trialscanada.com! The D-Day trial was held (appropriately) on June 6, 2021 at Ioco, BC, organized by the Canada Pacific Trials Association. You can read all about it in our online magazine. The picture shows Junior winner, Sebastian Wandler,

06/15/2020

Take a look Trialscanada.com (http://www.trialscanada.com) for the latest rials news from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the "two-province" trial that was organized there on June 14.

04/09/2020

Ron Walsh tells me that the picture I grabbed for the header of this page was one that he took. So, Ron gets the credit for the pic. Thanks, Ron, it's a very nice picture...

03/31/2020

Here are some more old trials photo's in the Edmonton area. There's one of Graham Manning at Ellerslie in 1984 - that's Blackmud Creek at the bottom of the valley, I believe. There's me and my old friend, the late Phil Gordon. Then there's a picture of Neil Ward, and one of my brother John Johns at Stony Plain in 1980.

03/31/2020

During this stay-at-home time, I've been busy sorting out some old photo albums. And here are some pictures that I found. The first one is of me (Bob Johns - Bultaco) competing in the Jam Tart Trial, organized by the Edmonton Trials Association, and which took place north of Stony Plain, Alberta; I think this was in 1980. The next three pictures are of a trial in about 1984, at Ellerslie, Alberta. There is Pete Bustin - Yamaha (watched by Graham Manning, Phil Gordon, Doug Harrish, me and Steve Day, among others.) Then there's a picture of Steve Day leaping the top of the hill on his Fantic, and one of me making my way up the slope on my SWM.

03/30/2020

Trials news is at www.trialscanada.com

10/03/2018

The final round of the WTC National Championship (West) was completed at Malakwa, BC on Sept 30. The event was won by Sean Bird, with the overall series won by Stan Bakgaard. The full story and results are at www.trialscanada.com

09/14/2018

The results are on the www.trialscanada.com website for the CMA nationals and the FIM North Americans at Ioco, BC, last weekend. Also, details about the upcoming Eastern and Western WTC nationals are on the site, along with more trials announcements and results

09/08/2018

Ce weekend, une partie de la famille Bélanger se retrouve dans une compétition au Mexique (dans la ville de Oaxaca). Michel et Félix y rouleront, suivi par el padre Paul-Yvan! On leur souhaite bonne chance et bien du plaisir!

08/10/2018