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Robin Hood winner grabs the spoils

Yet another Northern Centre Championship round victory has fallen to Tom Swindlehurst, who has now won six of the seven rounds held so far in the 2025/2026 championship series which began in early November.This time it was the Bassenthwaite Club's Robin Hood trial at Glenridding alongside Ullswater in the Lake District, when he lost just five...

Tom’s the Jackson victor

Barrow's secretary Angus Jenkinson was besieged in his van, taking entries for the Frank Jackson Trial on February 1, and ended up with  numbers up to 74 numbers, in fact only 73 were issued as he refuses to allow any rider to be number 13.However it was number 69 that proved to be the winning digits...

Three for February to date

The opening three trials for February are forthcoming from this weekend, February 1 with the Barrow Club's Frank Jackson trial which is another round of the Northern Centre Championship. The venue is once again the Old Railway Line, Torver but please note the start time will be 10am as last year the trial finished a bit close...

Lonsdale falls to Swinny again

Having been heavily involved in the organisation of the Westmorland Club's Lonsdale Trial on January 25 which was a Northern Centre Championship round, writing a positive report may seem  to be gilding the lily, but the event went off without a hitch, it attracted 75 riders - a really decent entry in these challenging times and...

Big date change

This event is still many months away, but now is a good time to make a change to any calendar you may have.The Lakes 2 Day Trial will now be held on October 10/11 and the Richmond Club's Scott Trial will be a week later on October 17....

Lonsdale list

Entries for the Westmorland Club's Lonsdale Trial have reached 62 through the Sport 80 system and riding numbers have been allocated in order of receipt as per the list which will be displayed at the start. There's plenty of room for entries on the day up until the 10am start time. The sections will close at...

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ALL SORTED NOW Just a note to advise all visitors to this site that we are currently without pictures illustrating each page. This is due to a massive error on my part which I am hoping the company that hosts this site can correct. This doesn't affect the articles, but please be patient with the site appearance...

Swinny wins at Fell Green

When it comes to Northern Centre Championship rounds you can generally expect the Bootle Club;'s Fell Green Trial to be a tough one, but this year the event had been eased a little for the 33 starters, but that made no difference to Tim Swindlehurst who won once again to comtinue his thrust to retain the...

Lonsdale call for riders and observers

On January 25 the Westmorland Club's Lonsdale Trial is another round of the Northern Centre Championship for which the on-line entries are building nicely and there's still another week for you to make your entry at the standard price of £25 through the ACU Sport 80 on-line entry system.However, if you simply can't commit to entering...

D3 round 1 falls to Tom

Holmscales Activity Centre is an all weather centre and it's a good job it is for the Lakes GTRC D3 Racing trial, the first round of this year's series was hit by lots of rain and very strong winds which made for a pretty unpleasant day for those NOT on a bike.Riding trials when the weather...