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ISDT 1939: Germany’s Proposed Revision of the “International” Rules
In the frontispiece editorial in the 8th December 1938 issue of the Motor Cycle the article reproduced below indicates British concerns about proposals being made by Germany as hosts of the ISDT 1939...
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ISDT 1950: Six Thrilling Days – A Journalist’s report
the ISDT 1950 saw the Silver Jubilee of the International Six Days Trial. In the 5th October edition of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ appeared a three page photo review written by George Wilson based on his own...
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Welcome to the Speedtracktales Library and Shop
When I restarted Taff’s site, all I had to begin with was a website copied to a harddisk drive that I had been able to download in its entirety from his old server. Since then I have been greatly...
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Internationally Famous: Royal Enfield at the ISDT 1948 – 1953
“The story of the Royal Enfield in the International Six Days Trial 1948, 1949,1950, 1951, 1952, 1953″ is the title of a palm of a hand sized original publication produced by Royal Enfield in 1953 that...
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ISDT 1951: George Wilson asks Where do we go from here?
The following article about the ISDT 1951 appeared in the 4th October 1951 issue of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and in which George asks a number of questions about the venue for the event, the future of the...
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Merry Xmas 2013 and a Happy New Year for all of our readers and supporters
Image – Happy Xmas 2013 and a prosperous New Year #116 JH Arnott 496cc BSA Großglockner ISDT 1939 (Image courtesy TECHNISCHEN MUSEUM WIEN) Thanking our many many visitors in 2013 and especially those...
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ISDT Image Archive: The Stilltime Collection
Recently noticed in the last few months a new collection of very old Photos started coming up in Google Searches although they appear to have existed since at least 2012. A number of the photos I have...
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The SOS end of year . . can you identify if any of these images come from an...
A kind random end of year post letting you, the reader, join in the fun of putting places and names to pictures…. The basic ISDT keyword search of the still time has unearthed a quality haul of 518...
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Mapping the ISDT: Germany / Austria 1939
In this Post we are going to create from modern geographic information such as Google Maps, the route of the ISDT 1939. I needed to have a list of destinations for the event to help tagging a recently...
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ISDT 1939: Day five & six reports 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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Mapping the ISDT: Germany 1936
Uh oh here I go again, lets get mapping. Any tips or clues welcome as we are a bit short on detail other than this map. Image – map from ‘Motor Cycling’ showing all 6 day routes for ISDT 1936 Here we...
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Mapping the ISDT : 1975 Isle of Man
We’re not yet ready to start this one as we still have Wales to finish but if anybody has higher quality maps than these low resolution images we have acquired to help improve accuracy or has personal...
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Mapping the ISDT: 1935 Germany
Based at Obertsdörf in South East Germany, the second of a three year stint which immediately after a limit of no more than two events in succession could be held in one country, the following two...
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ISDT 1937: Images from event report ‘Das Motorrad’ 24 July 1937 Issue 30
‘Need a job done go find a busy man’ so the old maxim goes and like rust we never find time to sleep at Speedtracktales. Just before Xmas as the project of mapping the routes began an original copy of...
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ISDT 1914: Maurice Greenwood and the ‘Great Escape’ Prequel…
One of the great joys of helping rebuild this site has been the quest for making new material and the recovering of lost treasures as this event’s story is one of a history drawing to an end when the...
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The Putoline Telford Twin Shock, Classic and Road Race Show 22/23rd February...
Back again is Alan Wright’s fantastic bike show dedicated to the old days with a strong representation not only by Off-road but also Enduro and ISDT. A popular feature of the show is not only the...
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Mapping the ISDT: 1965 Isle of Man
In preparation for the ongoing project to try to map all routes for every ISDT, I’ve acquired a map for the ISDT 1965 from the official Programme. If anybody has any more information about the exact...
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Mapping the ISDT: Wales 1961
I am starting the preparation to mapping all the ISDT’s, especially our home nation ones in the UK. Work is commencing as detailed mapping or advice on the route becomes available. Thanks to the kind...
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ISDT 1961: Event report Das Motorrad – 21 October 1961
I was pleased to discover a copy of Das Motorrad covering the ISDT of 1961 in Wales. As much as I am a fan of the quality British Bike Magazines of the period ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and ‘Motor Cycling‘ both...
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1968: ACU Revolutionary proposals for pepping up the International Six Days...
Olga Kevelos was one of the foremost and often admired of the women riders of the ISDT very forceful and singleminded when needed which as a rider gave perfect qualities to compete against and beat men...
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