This is an urgent plea from the Westmorland Club who need two or three riders able to set out the Milnthorpe Trial this coming weekend (March 2). Obviously everything will be supplied and advice as to where the trial needs to be, starting from the club's own land at Lindale.The problem is that those who regularly...
Trevor Fawkes (lead picture) and Simon Brice had a very close finish in the Cumberland County Club's opening Frank Smith series of easy trials at Aughertree near Caldbeck in the middle of February on their Betas, with Fawkes claiming the win by a single mark from Brice.Yet another bitterly cold but dry day with a chilling...
The Westmorland Motor Club was the only Northern Centre club to have a stand at the Telford off-road show last weekend where they promoted the variety of events the club hosts.In addition to the 8 trials the club holds every year - and already they have hosted the first round of the S3 Parts Championship, Westmorland...
Our ace photographer Eric Kitchen took a day off from the Bassenthwaite trial, it being so cold, (who would want to be handling a cold camera all day), so Rappers snapped a few whilst observing, the few being in the Gallery now.When riders complete a section then sit on the bike complaining they've got arm pump,...
More Kitch pictures in the Gallery. Riders with the surname beginning with B, seemed to be the trials men in a different class at the Barrow Club's Frank Jackson trial, which started from the Old Railway Line, Torver and was a round of the Northern Centre Trials Championship.Over the Green course, a mix of the hard and...
It's that time again when we take a quick look at the upcoming events in the Northern Centre.Starting off on February 2, the Barrow Club have the Frank Jackson trial which is a round of the Northern Centre Championship. It starts from The Old Railway Line, Torver, which is a regularly used base for a trial...
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...