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2025 – Scotland post 8

Thursday was a tough day for the surviving riders in this year’s Scottish Six Days Trial with every rider in the trial losing marks, so that means  the leader for the first three days, Adam Raga, has now lost marks. He finished with the fourth day total of two and continues to lead the trial with...

2025 – Scotland Post 7

Two of Westmorland’s sponsored riders in the Scottish Six Days Trial are riding together, with the third member of the team nearly an hour and a half different in the trial running order, so to get all three together for an update is just about impossible.However, having spoken to Will Brockbank on Tuesday, he was having...

2025 – Scotland post 6

Will Brockbank, one of the three riders assisted by the Westmorland club had a great second day of this year’s Scottish Six Days Trial, moving up to 49th place in the overall reckoning after two days of action whilst his team mates in the prestigious club team contest, Tom Swindlehurst and Joe Hiley held onto 64th...

2025 – Scotland post 5

There’s a clash of news this Monday evening after the opening day of this year’s Scottish Six Days Trial - the weather has been fantastic, hot sun, blue sky with barely a wisp of cloud to be seen and 14 time winner Dougie Lampkin - who likely still had a 99% chance of winning - went...

2025 – Scotland post 4

    James Johnson at the weigh-in and Adam Raga Well, the final results of the Pre 65 turned out as predicted with James Noble and Gary Macdonald both finishing on cleans and Dan Clarke losing just one.Though the results were announced at the Saturday night presentation , the final list for public consumption didn’t appear until...

2025 – Scotland, Post 3

Saturday evening, about 8pm (before I’ve had my tea!).There were five clean sheets following Friday’s opening day of the Pre 65 Trial with Gary Macdonald, Jimmy Noble, William Tolson, Ben Butterworth and Robin Luscombe staying feet up through the day’ testing sections, a better result for the organising Edinburgh Club when compared to 2024 when there...

2025 – Scotland post 2

FRIDAY EVENING 20.30 hrs. Friday started off as a drizzly morning as the first riders left the start ramp for the opening day of the 2025 Pre 65 Scottish with three Northern Centre riders in the first ten starters.Video blogger Phil Haygarth was number 4 away but his trial lasted barely 2 miles as his  recently...

2025 – Scotland post 1

Thursday evening, May 1.The programme for the Pre 65 trial which starts in the morning was printed some days ago so the posted entry list is inaccurate as several of the riders still on the reserve list up until the final few days before the trial takes place have now been offered a ride. Two (at...

Daily videos of the SSDT from Phil.

The bulk of this posting was uploaded to this site some three weeks ago, but since then things have been happening!!Together with Phil Haygarth who has the You Tube channel "2wheels-Off-road" where he posts short videos of trials that he has attended, Phil and Mike Rapley have just put out a 34 minute video to preview...

Low scores at Cumberland

There was yet another good turn-out of riders for Cumberland County's Milburn trial, the second round of the Frank Smith easy series with nearly 50 riders in attendance.Low scores were the order of the day in both Clubman and Easy Clubman courses with Ross McCulloch losing just 3 to head off Lewis Gaskell on the main...