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1952 The Six-Days of the 1952 Games were held in Austria, from September 9th to 14th, in Bad Aussee, and proved an instant success. After rejecting more than 80 candidates, 262 riders were admitted to the starting line, of which only 260 atually took off. The 63 German riders formed the most numerous team, followed by 55 Englishmen, 31 Italians, 29 Austrians, 23 Dutch, 20 Swedish, 17 Swiss, 12 Czechs, 7 Spaniards, 1 Danish and 1 Irish. Three other women were regularly registered, the English Olga Kevelos, riding a Parilla, who retired on day 3, followed closely by compatriot Molly Briggs, riding a Triumph. Victorina Massano the Italian, riding a 125 Rumi, even showed up at the start. Among the hundreds of bikes present, there were only 8 with a cylinder size exceeding 100 cc, three from Alpine NSU Fox 75cc to 99cc and 5 NSU Fox of 99cc. The entire Alpine Club finished the trial well and in the Team Standings, proved the best of the Italian motorcycles, in 7th place, behind Jawa, CZ, BMW, BSA, CZ and Jawa. The Austrian Alps and their hardest routes gave a difficult time to all participants and, also in this edition, there was a night test. At the end of the sixth day, after a strict selection, only 158 riders crossed the finish line. Browsing through the pictures of the motorcycles involved in the race, it is noticeable that the transformation process went quickly. All the bikes were specially prepared and, among the modifications to make them more competitive there were raised mudguards, the first types of wide handlebars, initially of ‘cowhorn’ type without a central reinforcing bar, high level exhausts to overcome fording, and the first, ingenious breather protection systems. Since this was a new sport in continual evolution, the experimentation was moving forward at 360°, and not all developments were valid, as for example the original ‘rakes’ to remove the mud from the front mudguard were first mounted on the maico 250 in the Six-Days trial but were later copied by many other marques before being abandoned by everyone. The Chech team of Zdenek Kolicek, Jaroslav Pudil, Richard Dusil, Jiri Kubes and Jan Novotny won the Trophy and their co-nationals Frantisek Blaha, Vojtech Kolar and Bohumil Kabat took the Silver Vase. Italy was present with a mixed team, an assortment of five makes made up of the Alpino 73, Rumi 125, Parilla 150, semi-scooter Aermacchi 125 and Guazzoni 175. At the finish line there were only four riders, Cavalli, Grieco, Premoli and Serafini, classifiied in 6th place. A similar result was obtained by the two teams in the Silver Vase, Italy B (Fornasari, Benzoni and Ventura) and Italy A (Romano, Riva, Strada) who were classified respectively 6th and 9th. The best of the Italians was Ventura on an MV 125, who took the gold medal, Riva on a Rumi 125 who won the silver medal while Carissoni (Rumi), Bernardi (Puch 250) and Ravinale (Morini 125) took the bronze. 1953 Year after year, the ISDT grew in importance, and the edition of Gottwaldov-Czechoslovakian Zlin, which was held September 15 to 21, further confirmed the trend. 1954 In the middle of the fifties the period of the English motorcycle concluded. The bikes were already in decline and they now gave way to ever more potent and aggressive machinery. In 1954 the Campionato Italiano di Regolarità (Regularity Italian Championship trial) was established, run over a distance of 5 trials. |
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