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1967 –
During the '60s, the discipline of off road motorcycle regularity trials took on all its most typical and unique characteristics, so as to affirm its identity in the world.
Consequently the selection criteria of the organizing countries also changed. Instead of the victorious nations of the previous edition, those who were able to offer a scenario and a typology of circuits suited to this type of competition were privileged, already previously tested and with their constantly growing technology, athletic and sporty.
On the international circuit the Tatra Trial had long been established, which like the Bergamo Valleys lasted several days and attracted a rich array of international drivers.
It was surely for this reason that the 42nd edition in Polish Zakopane dell'ISDT took place September 17th to 22nd, along the tried and tested circuit of the Tatra Mountains.
Among the 17 countries present, the West German team was the largest presenting 59 riders in the saddle on 22 Hercules, 20 Zündapp and 17 Maico.
There were 30 British riders and 30 Polish riders, the hosts, 27 Czechs and 27 Russians, 24 Swedes, 23 of the GDR, 16 Dutch, 13 Austrians, 12 Spaniards, 11 French, 8 Finnish and as many Americans, 5 Belgians, 4 Canadian and 2 Swiss.
After three years of silence the Italians finally reappeared with 22 riders, 11 with the Gilera  and ten on Moto Morini.
The Trophy team was made up of Demetrius Bonini - Morini 125, Edoardo Dossena - Morini 100, Alessandro Gritti - Morini 175, Arnaldo Farioli - Gilera 125, Carlo Moscheni - Gilera 175 and Fausto Vergani - Gilera 100.
The team was plagued by bad luck and could not manage better than 7th place.
For the fifth consecutive time the palm of victory went to East Germany DDR and its formidable squadron of MZs.
Salevsky Werner, Hans Weber, Karlheinz Wagner, Klaus Teuchert, Peter Uhlig, and Klaus Halser dominated the scene, unrivaled without rivals to challenge their supremacy.
Austria finished in second place and Czechoslovakia came third. But the competition was tighter in the Silver Vase, which saw twenty committed teams of 4 riders on domestic and foreign motorcycles.
Czechoslovakia finished first on the Jawa, with A. Zemen - 250, D. Miarka and M. Vitacil - 350 and J. Jasansky - 402, a few lengths from the riders of the two Germanys.
Though Italy did not shine as a team, there was a more than satisfactory level of individual performance, highlighted by 9 gold medals Arnaldo Farioli (Gilera 125), Carlo Moscheni (Gilera 175), Giuseppe Panarari (Gilera 98), Edward Dossena (Morini 98), Eugene Saini (Gilera 125), Franco Dall'Ara (Morini 125), Francesco Foresti (Gilera 125), Roberto Mongini (Gilera 98) and Carlo Paganessi (Gilera 125).

1968 – The year 1968 will forever remain mythical, not only for the libertarian wave of May in France, but also for the splendid edition of the Six-Days, the 43rd, which ran from San Pellegrino, a few kilometers from Bergamo, September 30th - October 5th.
After seventeen years, the International Six-Days Trial returned to Italy in the wake of a growing success, affirming the event as a worldwide spectacle.
Nations and motorcycle companies were directly involved, with all their picturesque circus, the world's elite riders milled around on the starting line and thousands of cheering fans followed their idols.
The teams arrived in dribs and drabs, but already by mid-September there were few rooms left in local hotels throughout the entire Brembana valley.
In the few free patches of land on either side of the river Brembo,there were tents and campers from all over.
The proven organizational apparatus of the Moto Club Bergamo was as always up to the job and devoted to the preparation of its riders, since the first months of the year, with a busy schedule of tests whose circuits often included the most representative of the race, crossing all the fascinating valleys of the Orobiche Pre-Alps over a total of 1260 kilometers.
At the Six-Day of St. Pellegrino two small jewels of engineering made ​​their debut - the first two 50cc motorcycles built in Italy and really suited to off-road racing: the CMK of Otto Koler and the Müller Zündapp by Bruno Müller.
The CMK was brought to the race by two riders from Bergamo, Walter Arosio and a young Piero Polini, and was well suited to both and brought to fruition with the test, only missing the gold medal due to a nasty fall on the 5th day.
The Müller Zündapp was brought to the race by Bruno Birbes who finished the trial behind Piero Polini.
The test proved to be particularly selective from the start, requiring the riders to traverse steep and rough mule paths, which often reached  2000 meters in height, to be taken at average speeds of between 42 and 47 km/h.
At the end of the first day only one of the 7 teams involved in the Trophy (six riders and machines of the same nationality, and in three different classes of displacement), came out with zero penalties, West Germany and its red Zündapps.
The challenge for the first place was played out between the two teams that for the quality of their mechanical mounts, athletic preparation and unassailable organisational efficiency displayed a complete superiority, West Germany with its powerful Zündapp and East Germany with the invincible MZ.
After five days of hard conflict and a ruinous fall by Werner Salevsky who fortunately managed to save himself but not the bike which was smashed in a deep ravine, the confrontation was decided.
At the end the Trophy went to the Zündapp kings: Volker Kramer and Andreas Brandl, on 50cc, Heinz Brinkmann on a  75, Sigfried Gienger and Lorenz Specht on 100cc and Dieter Kramer on a 125 after dominating the event for a week, finishing the trial with zero penalties.
The Italian team, composed of some very strong riders such as Pierluigi Rottigni - Morini 100, Fausto Vergani - Gilera 100, and Franco Franco Dall’Ara and Giovanni Collina on  Morini 125s, Carlo Moscheni - Gilera 175, and Eugene Saini - Gilera 175, who had held up well to the shock of the first day, grossed several penalties on the following day due to mechanical problems to Moscheni’s Gilera and Dall’Ara’s Morini.
The big setback, however, came on the fourth day, Thursday, when Rottigni’s Morini ran into serious ignition trouble, and even worse, appeared at the end of the day without the required seals on the engines, resulting in consequent disqualification.
Behind West Germany came Czechoslovakia, Sweden third, fourth was East Germany, Austria 5th, 6th and 7th Italy England.
The unfortunate luck of the Italian Trophy riders, did not occur also for the team involved in the Silver Vase, Italy A, consisting of Demetrius Bonini - Morini 125, Arnaldo Farioli - Gilera 125, Francesco Foresti -  Gilera 175 and Giuseppe Signorelli - Morini 125, which with only one penalty in six days, prevailed in two different classes of engines.
In the special class for the Industry Teams at the top, four teams found themselves in zero penalties, those of: Morini B (Bonini, Signorelli, Calligola), Zündapp A (Brandl, Gienger, D. Kramer), Zündapp B (Specht , Trinkner, V. Kramer) and Simson (Schneidewind, Schünemann, D. Salewski).
Following the burgeoning interest in off road riding among the public, in 1968 the International Motorcycling Federation instituted the European Championship.
This was subdivided into eight classes - 50 - 75 - 100 - 125 - 175 - 250 - 350 and 500, and the first competition was run at Zschopau (DDR), on the 4th and 5th May.


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