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Sorra round proves a classic

The Bootle Club has historically been an organiser of classic trials in whatever series of sponsors there are at the time from the early SEBAC shock sponsorship, through the Kia series, the Rockshock years backing the events and now, for 2025 the clothing company SORRA, who have put their weight behind the trials - and indeed...

Tommy Addison dies at 77

It is with much regret that we report the passing of Tommy Addison on March 19. For many years Tommy was the long standing Chairman of the Barrow Club and was responsible for establishing the security of the club after some difficult times.Tommy Addison was a regular competitor in most trials in the Northern Centre but...

Latest Northern Centre placings

With all the results from the start of this website until the current day readily available for inspection within the Results section, it seems a good time to list the current Centre Championship standings of the 2024/2025 series. You can view the placings as they stand following the D.R.Burrow trial by clicking on the Results link...

Manx guys test the Cumbrian locals at Graythwaite

The riders who tackle the hard course in trials often say they like the sections to be tough. Well, they got their wishes at the Barrow Club's D.R.Burrow trial in Graythwaite Forest, which was a round of the Northern Centre Championship, in fact it was the last round until the next round in a month.With the...

Batty is Bowston’s best

Using the excellent Ghyll Farm, Bowston venue, the Sedbergh Club opened the first of their series of six trials planned for 2025 with three laps of 12 sections, intentionally set out on the easy side which attracted an excellent entry of 76 riders who rode any one of three routes through the sections.The course opened with...

D.R.Burrow all set up and ready

Graythwaite Forest has been used on an occasional basis for trials (and in the past, enduros) for many years, but has since suffered extreme damage due to storms and normal harvesting of the timber. It has made organising the annual D.R.Burrow trial a difficult job, but following on from his successful plotting of the recent Founders...

Haresceugh next for Cumberland County

Cumberland County MCC have their annual Haresceugh Club Trial on Sunday, April 6 which will be flagged from the A686 just before the top of Hartside pass. The start location for What three words : leans.realm.sunset will take you there, which is a roadside parking area, so please park tidily. The course will be over four laps of 10...

It’s all sunny for the Founder Members

Take a brilliant sunny day overlooking Morecambe Bay and the estuaries joining the Irish Sea, early Spring warmth, a decent trial on a great trialing farm and four laps of 12 sections, and you have the very best multi-class trial that could be available.That was the offering by the Barrow Club for their Founder Members trial...

New look for the next Barrow trial

Regular Barrow club  rider Peter Mawson put his hand up to offer his help in setting out the forthcoming Founder Members Trial by the Barrow Club on March 9 which will be at Stribers Farm, Haverthwaite with a start time of 10.30am and all entries taken on the day.Peter has taken a different look at the...

A lookback to 2007

For nearly ten years, a regular column written by Westmorland Trials Secretary Mike Rapley first appeared in Trials and Motocross News when it was a weekly newspaper, then was transferred to the internet site, Trials Central. Mike wrote 476 columns before finally deciding that enough was enough. The first 276 were for TMX and the final...