Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1954 Llandrindod Wells Britain ISDT Czech Jawa 3-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article Original, vintage magazine article. Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good internationai Six Days Tria!Jawa MountedCzech TeamTops TrialStory and PhotosBy Ray BiddleTHE 29th International Six DaysTrial got under way at LlandrindodWells in Britain with the weigh-in ofthe first competitors on Saturday, 18thSeptember. The checking and handingover of machines continued thruoutthat day and the next and tho somecompetitors worked up to the last min-uate, the majority had arrived severaldays before and had prepared theirmachines well. The Czech riders wereimpressively supported by a large andwell equipped mobile workshop andwere obviously making a serious at-tempt to win back the Trophy. Nodoubt with memories of the very wetconditions that prevailed in the WelshI. S. D. T. in 1950 most riders weretaking great care to waterproof theirignitions and lighting. Sheets of rub-ber protected carburetors and specialplastic materials enveloped magnetosand generators.This year found a record entry of375 of whom only 300 could be accept-ed and even this latter figure was 50more than is normally accepted andhad to be agreed upon by consulta-tions with the F. I. M.The International is a test of ma-chine and rider. Starting in pairs atSwearing in 15 languages, riders block the hill on the first day's route. On extreme left Britishcaptain Hugh Viney shouts for others to get out of the blankety-blank way! No rider is allowedto have assistance unless he constitutes a danger or is injured.Winning Czech Trophy Team pose for cameras before start of Trial. A Trophy Team has to haveat least two different capacity machines, and altho all of these are Jawas, numbers 72 and 26 are150 cc and the other three are of 250 cc capacity. From left to right—V. Sedina, J. Kubes, S.Klimt, J. Pudil and B. Roucka. Their machines were clean and neat and-stood out from othercompetitors of all nations because they had no spanners and spare tubes, etc., fastened on allover with rubber bands. Their riding was of the same high calibre.one minute intervals from 7 a.m. on-ward on Monday, Thursday and Fridaywith an 8 a.m. start on Wednesdayand 9 a.m. start on Tuesday, the riderscover an average of 230 miles everyday. The whole idea of the Interna-tional is the team riding and no onerider can win the trial. Each Trophyteam must consist of 5 of that coun-try's national champs, mounted on atleast two different capacities of ma-chine manufactured in that country.This year there were six Trophy teams,Austria, Italy, Czechoslavakia, Sweden,Germany and Britain. In addition toTrophy teams each country may alsonominate one or more Vase teamscomprising 3 nationals mounted on anymake or capacity of machine. The aimof the organizers is to provide a diffi-cult route with all classes of surfacefrom main road to bog and rocks andin Wales they certainly have no short-age of the latter. Every rider has aspeed schedule depending on the ca-pacity of his machine and to give someidea of this it is sufficient to state that125 cc’s have to average 25 mph thru-out the week, the 250’s 27 mph and the500’s 30 mph. All members of theTrophy and Vase Teams have to ave-rage 10 per cent more than these fig-ures and starting this year any non-team rider can elect beforehand toride on the faster ‘Team’ schedule andif he loses no marks during the weekhe will win a “Special” Gold Medal.Actually 293 Starters got away fromthe grid on Monday 20th September.Of the first 50 riders S. Maspes. Italianrider of a 172 cc M. V. Augusta andan English rider, W. H. Martin on a175 cc James had difficulty in startingand both lost marks because they couldnot kickstart their machines in the 3minutes that is allowed for this. Forthe first few miles the road was goodbut soon came the typical Welsh water-soaked tracks over the mountains. Ex-cept for the quantity of water lying inpools on the tracks, no great difficultywas experienced until the riders hadcovered some 50 miles. Then came thefirst of the bad hills, a rough trackwith rock slabs at angles. The earlyriders had only minor difficulties butthe sidecars found it very hard to keep... 15430
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