Cumberland County can always manage to attract a healthy entry to their trials and that was again the case for the club's opening 2024 round of the Frank Smith Easy series held at Aughertree near Uldale.Nearly 50 riders enjoyed the trial on a February day. that was comparatively mild and with several of the Northern Centre's...
Joel Gowan will be enjoying his first Scottish Six Days Trial this year courtesy of Honda and the TMX Magazine. The offer of a bike has come about following Editor Anthony Suttons desire to provide some specialised coverage for the magazine, just as happened in the past when John Dickinson and Mike Rapley were the leading...
Only one rider in each class, Hard Course and Clubman course, managed to achieve four cleans of section nine in Sunday's Robin Hood Trial organised by the Bassenthwaite club, and those two riders, Simon Brice (lead picture) in the Clubman class and Tom Swindlehurst in the Expert Hard course both won their respective categories.Brice in particular...
It was youth to the fore on the first Sunday of February at the Barrow Club's Frank Jackson trial where Cameron Brice and James Postlethwaite - the two youngest riders in the Hard Course class - finished first and second in this third round of the Northern Centre Championship which started from the Old Railway Line...
February has arrived and whilst it's still very much winter, Spring is definitely closer than it was back in November.What's the old fool talking about - simple really, the perceptible change in the weather should mean that we can progress through the upocoming months with fewer, in fact hopefully, no cancellations, which is something the trials...
The weather news for January 28 claimed that it was the warmest day ever for January. That may well have been the case in Scotland from where the news story surfaced, but it also meant that generally mild weather was a feature in the Lake District where the Westmorland Club ran the Lonsdale Trial, the first...
The weather has caused another trial cancellation with this coming Sunday's Fell Green Trial by the Bootle Club hit by conditions that continue to affect the sport.Whilst Fell Green doesn't have any parking problems, the ground is frozen solid with the streams and rocks covered with thick ice and though the temperature is set to rise,...
Bitterly cold weather with a biting wind failed to deter the nearly 70 riders who chose to attend the Lakes Grass Track Racing Club's trial on January 14 at the Holmscales venue near Crooklands for four laps of the ten sections at this compact old quarry venue. Muddy banks, rocky streams and short rooted climbs featured...
With the Turner Trial having been cancelled, there is no event report this week, however, there's plenty of action forthcoming, so here's a brief rundown covering the next few weeks.First up is the Lakes GTRC trial at Holmscales near Crooklands, on January 14 which is a very sensible clubman event for all classes and grades of...
The Bassenthwaite Club regret to report that the Turner Trophy Trial scheduled for January 7 has had to be cancelled at the request of the land owners and tenants due to the extremely wet terrain conditions....