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Speedtracktales V2.0: 1 year old April 2013
Map of Speedtracktales V2.0 readership for first year It was over a year ago whilst searching for some ISDT specific archive photo’s I was given a number of photos I had no need for. Such things are...
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ISDT 1936: official FICM Steward’s Final Report
We were excited when the FIM copied its archive collection of Stewards Reports and results still available in it’s archive. These have been very popular with site visitors looking at the download logs....
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Sidecars: A man with a chair – the age of the ISDT Motorcycle Combination
One of the great features of the ISDT for most of it’s history was the participation of the motorcycle sidecar. Our site’s visitors logs show riders like P Bradley with his Sunbeam outfit or Stuart...
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ISDT 100: Centennial Celebration of the first ISDT 1913 Carlisle, Cumbria –...
Just in a news release from Dot Jones with Centennial Ride news. The original emblem of the FICM International Six Days Trial April update. On Monday August 18th 1913 one hundred and sixty riders set...
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ISDT 1939 Re-ridden 2013
I was very pleased to find this email in my inbox recently and thought it would be good to share with those who may be interested or inspired to repeat a similar venture. “I just wanted to tell you...
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ISDT 1927: Report from Motor Cycling 24 August 1927
Thanks to our European man Friday ‘STB’ we have already had sight of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ report on the 1927 ISDT. Luckily a copy of ‘Motor Cycling‘ of the 24th August 1927 turned up on eBay recently...
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ISDT 1958 – daily route cards for 33rd ISDT Garmisch Parternkirchen
Again I remain indebted to my European Researcher and top ISDT consultant ‘STB’ who has allowed us to access these daily route sheets for each day of the ISDT 1958 from the archive collection of the...
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ISDT 1931: The first Italian Job
!931 was the first year that the ISDT visited Italy outright. Although other events had crossed into Italy before, by 1931 Italy had a good home Motorcycle Industry and the sport was popular and...
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ISDT 1938: Official Programme for the 20th ISDT Llandrindod Wells, Wales
I am really grateful to reader M Ryan who has been generous in taking the time to scan and send us his own copy of the ISDT 1938 Official Programme which can now be read on this post thanks to our...
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ISDT 1958: Official Programme of 33rd ISDT in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany
Image – scanned cover of Official Programme for the ISDT 1958 at Garmisch Parternkirchen (Courtesy of the collection of the late Mr Harro Esmarch) This copy of the event programme is from a collection...
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Auction News: 1955 ISDT Royal Enfield Meteor Trials Sidecar of Brian Nash...
Delighted by the regular email from Bonham’s announcing their next classic bike Auction in Oxford on 15 June 1913 in association with the VMCC Banbury Run. I was pleased to see Brian Nash’s almost...
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ISDT 1978: Official event programme now available
Thanks to our ever reliable Euro correspondent STB who has provided us with a copy of the Official programme for the ISDT 1978 held at the High Chapparal in Sweden. The programme is not complete and...
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ISDT 1959: by letter of appointment
We have been provided with a scanned copy of Colin Moran’s appointment letter to the ACU’s British Trophy Team for the ISDT 1959 held in Czechoslovakia. Image – scanned copy of Colin Moram’s...
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ISDT 1939: Day One report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ magazine
Our site logs show that a number of events receive substantially higher levels of hits (visits) than many events. Two of the most popular events appear to be the ISDT 1964 held in East Germany in which...
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ISDT 1939: Day two report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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ISDT 1939: Day three report as published in ‘das Motorrad’ magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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ISDT 1939: Day 4 report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ Magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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ISDT: Women and Motorcycling revisited
After picking up the task of restoring Taff’s old website Speedtracktales back in May 2012 from a cd of memories to its former glory, many areas of the story it told opened my eyes and dispelled a...
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Where did it go? mapping the ISDT
I can recall whilst out trail riding in the Clwydian Hills in my teens during the late 70′s when one of the old blokes pointed into a hedge (they said it was a track, but you could not get into it to...
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ISDT Research: Historic Newspapers
Whilst recovering the history of the ISDT, sometimes from oblivion, much of what happened prior to the war is no longer accessible via living memory. Most of the pre-war racers and the event supporters...
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