After two rounds (Surrey and Scarborough) Cameron Batty now leads the ACU Youth C Trials Championship by seven points having topped the class overall at the most recent round in Low North Park, Scarborough.Young Batty won the first day by a single mark and lost the second day by two marks, but still took the weekend...
First of all, congratulations to Richard Gaskell with a totally stunning ride to win the Over 40 class at the Gerald Simpson Trial on May 19, which was the most recent round of the S3 Parts Championship. Richard lost just 4 marks, the lowest score of any rider in any class.Just in case riders are unaware,...
Two Coopers were the ace men at the Barrow Club's Muriel Wilkinson multi class trial at Everard Lodge, Lowick; Johnathan Cooper (lead picture) was the first who went on to win the Clubman course with the loss of just three marks, which gave him his first trial class win, and the second was Norman Cooper, the...
Riders who may be planning to take part in the Westmorland Club's Percy Duff Barbon Hill Climb can now make their entry through the club's website as well as the ACU/Sport 80 facility which so many find prohibitively difficult to negotiate.Go to westmorlandmotorclub.com and click on the events tab where you will find the link to...
Monday, May 13, 4.15 pmThis will be the final personal blog from the Scottish, started on Monday afternoon at home and with the very appropriate words sent to me by a friend, which I will repeat verbatim:"I enjoyed my visits to the 6 days and watched days 1, 5 and 6. I have been enjoying your writing...
Having been in Scotland for the two big trials over the past ten days or so, and with limited means of updating this website, only now has it been possible to add the results from the Sedbergh Club's trial on Sunday, May 5 and the following day's Lakes GTRC trial on Bank Holiday Monday, both of...
Friday Evening, May 10, 9.15pmThe song title says “the sun will come out tomorrow” and it did for the fifth day of this year’s SSDT - and a good job too, for the riders had suffered a mighty hammering on Thursday in what was described by old hands as the toughest day of the Scottish in...
Thursday evening, 11.25pmThe rain could be heard on the caravan roof overnight of Wednesday/Thursday, but it didn’t seem much on Thursday morning in Fort William. It was heavy drizzle with the forecast for the day to dry up by late morning, which proved to be the case.The plan was to go to the second group of the...
Wednesday evening MayIn all the years I’ve been coming to Scotland for the SSDT, rarely have I done anything else other than watch the trial. Once I went to Mallaig on the train with Stephanie Wood and Norrie Whyte, once I went on a boat trip to Mull and then out to see Fingles Cave, once...
Early Wednesday morning about Tuesday.Perhaps I should have proof read part 6, there were some glaring spelling errors caused mostly by the hated spell checker on my I-pad, so apologies the typing was not up to scratch.Its Swedish rider Per Berggren with 36 rides including this week to answer my quiz question for yesterday.The trial started...