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Gary, Ben and Richard emerge Minthorpe masters

Rider A is planning his entry for forthcoming events. "What" he thinks, "should I ride in the Milnthorpe?" Will it be the Ariel, or perhaps my RTL or maybe the old Bully, but perhaps the best bet is the Beta, modern bike, modern trial, likely to be fairly hard, so it's the obvious choice. But no,...

Stribers is the next for the Barrow boys

After last weekend's big event at Tow Tops where well over 125 riders took part in the S3 round, it's back to basics this weekend on March 10 when Barrow Club guys get back into multi-class action with their postponed Founder Members trial which will take place at the venue known as Stribers.The start for this...

High Newton for Milnthorpe start

The big event for this coming Sunday, the first weekend of the month is of course the Westmorland Club's Milnthorpe trial which is round 4 of the S3Part Championship, generously sponsored by John Shirt Motorcycles.The full entry list was published on the Facebook page ACU S3 Parts National Trials Championship info page  where most details can...

New date for Fell Green

Following on from the recent Northern Centre Board Meeting, the Bootle Club's Fell Green Trial, a Centre Championship round, which was not held in January due to the land conditions, will now be held on Sunday, May 26th at Fell Green....

What’s on for 2 weeks

Just so that everything is clear, the Barrow Club's date for this weekend February 25 has been cancelled due to the land no longer being available and the Founders Members Trial which was scheduled for the 25th will now be on March 10 at Stribers flagged from Haverthwaite on the A590 road to Ulverston.So the next...

Ross stays feet up

Cumberland County can always manage to attract a healthy entry to their trials and that was again the case for the club's opening 2024 round of the Frank Smith Easy series held at Aughertree near Uldale.Nearly 50 riders enjoyed the trial on a February day. that was comparatively mild and with several of the Northern Centre's...

Montesa for Joel’s first SSDT

Joel Gowan will be enjoying his first Scottish Six Days Trial this year  courtesy of Honda and the TMX Magazine. The offer of a bike has come about following Editor Anthony Suttons desire to provide some specialised coverage for the magazine, just as happened in the past when John Dickinson and Mike Rapley were the leading...

Robin Hood results from Glenridding

Only one rider in each class, Hard Course and Clubman course, managed to achieve four cleans of section nine in Sunday's Robin Hood Trial organised by the Bassenthwaite club, and those two riders, Simon Brice (lead picture) in the Clubman class and Tom Swindlehurst in the Expert Hard course both won their respective categories.Brice in particular...

Young riders rule the Frank Jackson

It was youth to the fore on the first Sunday of February at the Barrow Club's Frank Jackson trial where Cameron Brice and James Postlethwaite - the two youngest riders in the Hard Course class - finished first and second in this third round of the Northern Centre Championship which started from the Old Railway Line...

Here we go with February’s happenings

February has arrived and whilst it's still very much winter, Spring is definitely closer than it was back in November.What's the old fool talking about - simple really, the perceptible change in the weather should mean that we can progress through the upocoming months with fewer, in fact hopefully, no cancellations, which is something the trials...