{"id":54,"date":"2019-05-26T18:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu.gernot-menke.de\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:30:15","slug":"die-anfaenge-in-katalonien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/die-anfaenge-in-katalonien\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginnings in Catalonia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sant Feliu de Codines in Catalonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Catalonia, especially the greater Barcelona area, was an old centre of motorcycling, which also developed into a stronghold of trial sport from the 1960s onwards. The Spanish Motorcycle Trial Championship was held from 1968 onwards. With Bultaco, Montesa and Ossa, there were three manufacturers of off-road motorcycles in a region that was also blessed with ideal terrain conditions. Many new motocross and trial events emerged in the 1970s, inspiring young people with their bicycles. Sabadell and Sant Feliu de Codines became the two most important centres of bici-trial, as bike trials were initially called in Catalonia.<\/p>\n

In Sabadell, young people apparently began meeting in the early 1970s at a suitable site close to the city and, inspired by motorcycle trials, started training in sections. In 1975, this developed into organised events, which were organised by Oscar Puig, the father of one of the young people involved. In 1976, there was a \u2018Trophy of the City of Sabadell\u2019 and in 1977, the first Catalan championship was finally established. In Calella, too, there was a first Bici trial on 15 February 1975 \u2013 perhaps even earlier than in Sabadell \u2013 of which film footage has recently emerged. Due to the geographical density and the great terrain in the \u2018trial cluster\u2019 of Catalonia, the development of bicycle trials there was more dynamic and intense than in Germany; there were much larger starting fields and an excellent infrastructure. In collaboration with the bicycle shop \u2018Cicles Montey\u2019, the first small-series trial bike, the \u2018Keni\u2019, was now being built in Sabadell.<\/p>\n

In Sant Feliu de Codines, the beginnings \u2013 apparently from 1975 onwards, with the first events taking place in 1977 \u2013 were influenced by the three-day motorcycle trial Tres Dies dels Cingles, which had been held since 1973. Josep Figueras was the central figure there. As the owner of the bicycle and motorcycle shop \u2018Motos Figueras\u2019, he built a special trials bike in 1977 for Andreu Codina (Andreu Codina i Candelas, born 10 May 1964), who came from Sant Feliu de Codines and was the most successful rider there. In 1978 and 1979, Codina became Catalan champion on a Figueras bike. Later, Josep \u2013 a motocross rider and outstanding engineer \u2013 built the \u2018Fidan\u2019, also in small series.<\/p>\n

The name Pi first appeared in bicycle trials in 1978. In September 1977, seven-year-old Ot Pi, whom his father Pere Pi (then Pedro Pi) originally wanted to turn into a successful motocross rider, crashed during a children's motocross and trials event in Montorn\u00e8s del Vall\u00e8s and subsequently wanted nothing more to do with motorcycling. His father then had a small trial bike built in the research and development department of his company Montesa, which had also built Ot's competition motorbike, so that Ot could at least compete in bicycle trials: this was first the case in Bellaterra in 1978 (see section 6, chapter \u2018Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver and Pere Pi\u2019). But it was only after Pere Pi received \u2018the news of German bicycle trials\u2019 (see the chapter of the same name in section 6) through a visit from Felix Krahnst\u00f6ver in 1979 that he recognised the potential of bike trials and turned his attention to this rapidly developing new sport. He brought Andreu Codina to Montesa \u2013 as a development rider for the soon-to-be mass-produced \u2018Montesitas\u2019 and as a trainer for Ot. In 1981, the result of this was the Montesita T-15, whereas the T-10 model, which went on sale in November 1979, and the slightly later T-5 model had not undergone any special development work (see section 6, \u2018Pere Pi makes bicycle trials HIS business\u2019).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katalonien, vor allem der Gro\u00dfraum um Barcelona, war ein altes Zentrum des Motorradsports, das sich ab den Sechzigern auch zu einer Hochburg des Trialsports entwickelte. Ab 1968 wurde die spanische Motorrad-Trialmeisterschaft ausgefahren.\u00a0 Mit Bultaco, Montesa und Ossa gab es gleich drei Hersteller von Offroad-Motorr\u00e4dern in einer Region, die zugleich mit idealen Gel\u00e4ndebedingungen gesegnet war. Viele…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}