| Cow Pile Flyer |  Craig McDonald cleaning a log at PITS Propety in Summer of '07 Photo: Dave Sibley |
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Last updated 5/6/08
News Updates... |
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May 6th |
The Cow Pile Trial is just around the corner, May 17th and 18th. There will be dinner Saturday night at the Gambonini Ranch, catered by CALIFORNIA GRILL & ROTTISERIE. Eats include rotisserie chicken, BBQ baby-back ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, baked beans, salad w/ Italian dressing & garlic bread. All for only $12 per dinner.
Hard Rock Trial news. We're working with Mike at the Shinnyboo Creek resort for additional parking for events at the PITS Property. The additional parking is in the large open area on the right side of the road, before the road starts looking like "a section" for those of you driving larger rigs. We'll keep ya posted. |
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April 10th |
"We've lost Bear Valley" it says in Adrian Lewis' email. He said the Feds got a couple of complaints at last year's event and it looks like they've decided to ban future trials there. Bummer! On the bright side, Adrian says they have another venue in mind. When he and Mandy get back from the World Round, the'll give us more details. |
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April 10th |
PITS Calendar Update: The '08 Calendar is perhaps now final. The Grippy Granite Granite Trial, is now scheduled for July 5th & 6th at the Property, but we need Sunday volunteers to organize the Class A event. If you are interested (or know of someone who's interested), please click Webmaster - Sacto PITS, and let us know. Don't be shy; if you have a friend who you know is just itching to put on a trial, volunteer them, too.
The Donner Trial dates are now final, they are August 2nd and 3rd. At least the place is still Donner Ski Ranch. Meanwhile at the PITS Property, the Work Party & Trials School weekend has made a final landing on the 26th and 27th of July. There's a chance of a late October trial, perhaps at Prairie City? (How 'bout an '08 "Trick or Treat Trial"?). As with the Grippy Granite, we need a Sunday organizer. (we have a Saturday volunteer). Or, it could be a Saturday only, VB trial? Once we know, we'll letcha know. Important! - For this event to happen, it needs to be settled soon, so don't spend too much time thinking about it. |
| There's now a Cow Pile Trial flyer for you to view and/or download. Also, the results for Mike Fenner Memorial Trial have been posted. | |
| Note - the new format at the top of the page, with current links on either side of the Pic o' the Month. The intent was to reduce your vertical scrolling. If you have an opinion, either positive or negative, please send us a note (the "Webmaster - Sacto PITS" link above and at the bottom should work just fine). | |
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March 17th |
To eliminate "clutter," a number of elderly PITSTOP Want Ads have been "retired" (ads prior to 2007). Several had no dates in parentheses (we sometimes forget to add that important upload date), so were deleted if we thought they were prior to '07, while some got estimated dates, if we thought they were added later.
We have been amazed that not all sellers bother contact us to remove their ads once their bikes get sold. So, when you sell a bike that's been advertised in the PITStop Want Ads, PLEASE notify us that it's been sold (use the email link at bottom of this page). We can then remove the ad, eliminating clutter and preventing you from getting unwanted calls. Note - there are several on-going "Wanted" ads with and without dates, that are still there (including Piotr's, until he moves back to Poland). Please accept our apologies, if we've deleted an active ad of yours. Let us know and we'll put it back in. |
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March 12th |
Prairie City update! If you plan to camp overnite at Prairie City SVRA this weekend, there is a new wrinkle in dealing with the gate after hours. The Rangers will keep the gate open until 10:00 pm both Friday and Saturday nights. So, you do not need to call for the gate code, you just gotta be inside by 10:00 pm! |
| Check out the flyers for next weekend's Mike Fenner Memorial Trial at Prairie City SVRA and the flyer for the British American Cup at Hollister Hills in SVRA a month later. | |
| Dan McManus started a downed-tree plan to use many of the Prairie City trees that fell down during the January storms. Some have prepared to be trials obstacles for the Fenner Trial. There is a pdf file of the plan, including photos, to meant for the webpage. For some unknown reason, it refuses to make the journey from the PITS pc to the webpage server. (At over 9 megabytes, it may be too big - dunno.) The photos are from several Sundays ago when about 20 PITS members showed up to help get ready for the Fenner Memorial Trial. The fall-back is to bring some hard copies of the plan to the Fenner Trial. | |
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Feb 19th |
Great news - a bunch of PITS guys showed up this past Sunday at Prairie City SVRA to help get ready for the Mike Fenner Memorial Trial in March. Both sets of organizers, Saturday's (Dan McManus, Marty Kent and Mike Miklancic) and Sunday's team Codde (Chris, Greg and Mike), benefitted from all the manpower.
In addition to what the organizers had already done, which was a bunch, three huge trees that were unridable as they had fallen, were pruned and "adjusted" to create some great obstacles. One tree had fallen right in the middle of a planned section, obliterating many of the existing boulders. Now that tree and the rocks will all be used as obstacles. Also in a small valley, many small boulders were "rolled" and "cajoled" into new positions, to make for a better section. There will be an article with pictures posted shortly after the film gets developed. |
