World Trials Championship, Wagner Cup, USGP » Event preparations

Rider section inspection

Griff Wigley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:25:16 +0000

I had some techie tasks and couldn’t get out to take photos of riders inspecting the sections this afternoon… except for these photos of Section 15 at the end the day.

Right photo: Hey, manicuring!

Photo album: tech inspection

Griff Wigley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:04 +0000

I was deployed on other tasks this morning and missed about half the tech inspection. But I still managed to get 3 dozen+ photos, including several of World Champ Toni Bou and many of the crop of U.S. youth riders. See the album or this slideshow:

Rhode Island Trials Club tech inspector team

Griff Wigley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:35:54 +0000

The tech inspector team from the Rhode Island Trials Club did the inspections this morning. I’ll have a photo album/slideshow shortly but here’s the team (click photo to enlarge):

L to R: Dave Aldo, Jim Grabbert, Carl "Coach" Swanson, Jeff Salois, Bill Bonneau, Hub Brennan, Bill Mathewson, Jim Watson.

Section inspection

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:32:54 +0000

L to R: FIM’s Danilo Galeazzi, Steve Storz (Storz Performance, Inc.) and TTC’s Dan Brown at lunch today in the TTC lodge. Steve speaks Italian and Dan doesn’t so he was indispensible. I later caught them inspecting Section 15 (below).

Signs and banners crew

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:58:18 +0000

To supplement the photos, text, and video on the Directions page, we put up signs and banners this morning at various points between the freeway and the TTC.

Left: Tim Cash and John Haywood, elite class sign installation engineers.
Right: We planted Sherco and GasGas banners in many spots.

Control center Cat

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:44 +0000

Catherine Bedley’s office is now in the new TTC headquarters. (Just don’t call it ‘the shop.’)

Center photo: Catherine at about 11 am this morning, showing off the one and only 2008 FIM SPEA Trial World Championship hat on the premises.

Factory teams arriving

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:08:07 +0000

From the deck of the TTC lodge, I zoomed in on the area of the grounds where some of the factory teams have already set up. I’ll get more photos later today. My next task is to help get directional signs and banners put up at various points from the freeway to here. See the Directions page for a preview.

All greened up

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:57:16 +0000

Things have greened up considerably here at the TTC since I was here a month ago for Trials Training Days. I took these photos of the lodge this morning around 8:30.

Right: The original owners of the Trials Training Center were Tony and Laura Bussing. They now live in Colorado. Tony is now a dog behavior consultant.

Weather for today and Friday: mostly sunny, highs in the mid-70s.

The planning intensifies

Griff Wigley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:20:05 +0000

While I was blogging tonight in the TTC lodge, event organizers Catherine Bedley and Dan Brown were having a logistics and planning meeting, going over the hundreds of details for this weekend’s really big show.

Lists, lists, and more lists!

Schedule/timetable of events

Griff Wigley — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:55 +0000

See this schedule/timetable of events (PDF) for the weekend.