On The Pegs December 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 12 | Page 53

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 12 - December 2018
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November 10th. Late enough in the year to be cold, but early enough that
snow is not guaranteed. The morning opened on the Dayton Motorcycle Club,
overcast, destined to reach a high temperature of no more than 33°F. On the
agenda was Trials Inc’s year-end club meeting. Members drove from hundreds
of miles away, from Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, to participate in
discussions on 2018 series overview/recap, class restructuring and other propos-
als, vote on officer positions, and set the 2019 series schedule.
At the end of every riding season, Trials Inc awards its “Trials Incorporated Sea-
son Championship Award,” a traveling plaque to the winner of the Champ class.
The winner is awarded a name plate that is placed on the giant plaque docu-
menting the year and winner’s name. It was determined that in the past several
years, the difficulty of the Champ class had been set for the skill-level of current
Pro-level riders. Unfortunately, this meant that the skill level required to move up
to this class was too great for any Expert-level rider to advance. This also meant
that only the Pros would get a chance to have their name emblazoned on the
traveling trophy. It was determined at the club meeting that the difficulties of the
upper-level classes needed to be restructured to allow not only a more seamless
transition between classes, but also the possibility of having a current Expert-lev-
el rider graduate to Champ class and be awarded the title of Series Champion.
The election of the 2019 officers was conducted and concluded with no chang-
es from the 2018 season. Adam Blumhorst remains President; Travis Daniels stays
on as both Vice President and Competition Secretary. Brad Baumert remains
Treasurer. Becky Pfeufer was elected back to the role of Reporting Secretary and
gained a new title as Videographer for her work in capturing video of riders at
many events of the 2018 season. Kim Conley stays on as Photographer, and I was
elected back to the positions of both Photographer and Publicity Secretary.
The only rule change that occurred, although not entirely a rule change, was a
change to the definition of Trials Inc’s Open class designation. Initially intended
for either the new rider who needed to find what class his skills fell best, or the
weekend hobbyist who just wanted to have fun and not compete for champion-
ship points, the intention of the Open class was for a rider to choose a difficulty/
class before entering a section and remain in that class until the end of that sec-
tion. In other words, if a rider approaches Section #2 and decides that the ob-
stacles for the Advanced class are too great, they can declare to the checker that