As the headline says, the three winners in the opening round of the Westmorland Club's organised Lonsdale Trial which was round 1 of the S3 Parts Trials Championship were Dan Thorpe in the Expert Championship, Craig Talbot in the Clubman Championship and Northern Centre ace Richard Gaskell in the Over 40 class.Starting from the club's own...
We are sad to report the passing of well-known Lancashire trials rider Maurice Newsham who was for many years one of the top expert trials riders in the North West of England, riding regularly in both Lancashire and Westmorland as well as in Yorkshire.Maurice, who was 84, passed away over the weekend at his home in...
The next Cumberland County MCC trial will be the Frank Smith Easy Series Round 1 on Sunday 16th February at Aughertree nr Uldale, Cumbria which will be flagged on the B5299; the venue is What three words : ///responds.exist.functionsThe trial be over four laps of fell going with ten or twelve sections per lap with two courses...
Thee Northern Centre Trials Championship series returned with a vengeance on January 19 with the Bootle Club's Fell Green trial held in the coldest of cold conditions at the Irish Sea coastal venue. Ten observers manned the ten sections and all stayed at their posts as Tom Swindlehurst continued his 2025 quest to retain his Northern...
The ground was frozen following the many days of below freezing temperatures, but as the day progressed, the frost came out of the soil at Holmescales Activity Centre for the Lakes Grass Track racing Club's January trial that attracted 62 entries, with all bar four riders completing the four laps of ten sections.One of the attractions...
As long as there is no serious deterioration in the weather - and the forecast actually suggests it is going to get warmer - the next trial by the Lakes Club which is on Sunday, January 12 at Holmscales, which will be flagged from Preston Patrick on the Crooklands to Kendal road, should go ahead without...
Not unexpectedly, Sunday's Turner Trial by the Bassenthwaite Club has been cancelled due to the weather conditions. Unfortunately this is the second successive year the trial has been called off; the approach roads have a coating of ice and snow with more snow forecast....
If a trial happened to be near flowing water on New Year's Day, 2025 , at just about anywhere in the UK, then there would have been a good chance the event would have be cancelled or postponed, for the New Year's Eve day and night saw some of the heaviest rainfall for a long time.However,...
As we are about to enter 2025, here's a quickkie regarding the events for January.As always, Cumberland County open the year with their New Year's Day trial on Wednesday which will be at Nord Vue, Armathwaite and flagged from the A6 between Penrith and Carlisle. This is an enter in advance trial with entries closing via...
Fun in the mud, may well be headline to this trial report when the article finally makes it onto the internet, for it was mud that was the prime ingredient together with typical Cumbria rocks in the soil that the 53 riders in the Barrow Club's Boxing Day Fun Trial had to contend with over the...