Updates

9/14/2025 RITC Trials Event

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On Sunday September 14th, the Rhode Island Trials Club (RITC) is hosting Round 5 of the NETA Championship Series at 283 Escoheag Hill Road, Exeter, RI. It’s hunting season and fluorescent orange vests must be worn at this event.

  • Signup starts at 9am.
  • For beginners and youth – easy sections and an abbreviated 1/2 mile loop trail.
  • Event cost is $35.
  • Both AMA & NETA memberships are required.
  • If you are not a NETA member, a day pass can be purchased the day of the event for $15.00
  • Youth trial starts at 10am.
  • Riders meeting at 10:45am.
  • The adult trial starts at 11am and ends at 3pm.
  • No onsite camping. Camping is available nearby at Oak Embers Campground.
  • Friendly on-lead dogs are allowed.
  • Free admission for spectators.

Trialsmasters: Coach Swanson (401) 821-7077, Jeff Salois (860) 334-4816

Preregistration & Prepayment

Preregistration helps everyone:

  • Helps the organizing club better plan for an event.
  • Saves everyone time because there is no form to fill out and process at the event.
  • New this year, you can (optionally) pay the event fee using a credit card when you preregister.
  • All preregistrations are copied into the scoring spreadsheeet. This helps the volunteers responsible for scoring the event.

Click to see who has already registered.

Complete the form to preregister.

Participant

Age on January 1st of this year.

Activity

Select “Volunteer” if you don’t plan to ride, but can help with the event as a checker, scorer or in any other capacity. It is a challenge for the club’s to get enough help with host NETA events.
Select “Yes” if you don’t want a trophy or season points for the event.

4/27/2025 MMC

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  • Located at 110 Stantack Road, Middletown, CT. Use exit 20 off 91, follow Country Club Road to Stantack on the right up the hill.
  • Gates will open Saturday at Noon.
  • Event starts Sunday at 11AM.
  • Camping is permitted Saturday night. Dogs are allowed.
  • There will be breakfast sandwiches and other food and drinks available for purchase.
  • No riding permitted on Saturday due to insurance coverage, riding is permitted only on Sunday.
  • Youth riders: Just for headcount and trophy purposes, please preregister.
  • If you’d like to volunteer to check, contact Bob or Chris. Lunch is included.
  • Contact Bob Poetzsch (860) 906-7672 or Chris Antezzo at (203) 671-2096 with any questions.

Preregistration

Preregistration helps everyone:

  • Helps the organizing club better plan for an event.
  • Saves everyone time because there is no form to fill out and process at the event.
  • New this year, you can (optionally) pay the event fee using a credit card when you preregister.
  • All preregistration are copied into the scoring spreadsheeet. This helps the volunteers responsible for scoring the event.

Click to see who has already registered.

Complete the form to preregister.

Participant

Age on January 1st of this year.

Activity

Select “Volunteer” if you don’t plan to ride, but can help with the event as a checker, scorer or in any other capacity. It is a challenge for the club’s to get enough help with host NETA events.
Select “Yes” if you don’t want a trophy or season points for the event.

2025 Banquet Survey

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Please complete this survey to record your opinions about the 2025 banquet. This information will be used to help NETA improve future banquets.

Attendee

Ratings

1 = terrible, 2 = subpar, 3 = acceptable, 4 = Good, 5 = Excellent
How was the Devens Common Center?
How was the dinner?
How was the business meeting?
How was the awards presentation?
Did you like the items offered at this years raffle?
How was the event overall?
Please add any comments about this event that you wish to share.

Rhode Island TrialGP USA 2025 (update 2)

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Time is flying and the TrialGP USA 2025 Team are making significant progress in planning for the event.

Latest news is that the www.TrialGPUSA.com website launched over the weekend, along with links to the online ticketing and merchandising application. Great work by Mike Serpe!!!!

These sites are still being refined, but please have a look, buy something (don’t forget workers & checkers get free tickets and Limited Edition T-Shirt), and pass the links along to anyone or everyone in your contacts to help publicize the event and encourage others to make TrialGP USA 2025 a DESTINATION for July 11th – 13th 2025.

That being said, there is still a lot to plan, test, deploy and execute between now and then. Here are a couple items I would like to poll the RITC and NETA for assistance:

  1. I need a GEEK to help me to test and evaluate security monitoring software such as ZoneMinder and others. Experience with Windows and Linux environments needed……If you don’t understand anything from that, move onto #2.
  2. We are looking at alternatives to providing traditional power around the paddock area. One of those options is to use the latest gas or propane fueled super-quiet Inverters to provide temporary power to critical functions around the venue, such as, charging points for the team parking cars, small air conditioners, powering temporary offices for FIM, Video crew, Press, Admin, along with a cooled Medical Center.
    • Request 1. Does anyone have one of these super-quiet inverter generators they would be willing to loan, or rent, to RITC for the duration of the event?
    • Request 2. If you are considering buying a generator for this winter, I am exploring some options to get you the generator you want, at a lower cost, in return for loaning the unit for the event. We expect to need generators ranging from 1200Watts to around 9500Watts. If you are interested, please call me at 203 213 2949 to discuss.
  3. I am looking for someone to assist with evaluating and recruiting food trucks for the event. I would like to recruit the vendors from Rhode Island or Eastern Connecticut area. If you are a connoisseur of food trucks in the area, your assistance would be greatly appreciated and may even include a budget to sample their menus!

In addition to these, we are still looking to recruit volunteers to work for one day of the event, get free entry for the other, along with the Limited Edition Workers T-Shirt! Checker recruitment is going well, but we need assistance in many roles behind the scenes. Coach has a list as long as your arm!

That’s it for now. We will continue to work on making the event a success, any assistance you can give will be greatly appreciated by me, my team, the spectators, and the riders on the day!

Any questions or ideas how to make the event a bigger success…..I’m all ears!

Bob Manifold
RITC
Event Organizer – FIM TrialGP of USA 2025
+1 203 213 2949
bmanifold@spinpass.com