The Annual General Meeting of the Northern Centre took place on Remembrance Sunday at the Villa Hotel, Levens where there was a good attendance of centre officials and many of the award winners of centre championships were present.The Centre Chairman Angus Jenkinson opened the meeting and said:Let me welcome everyone to this afternoon’s Annual General Meeting...
Bassenthwaite's D.K.Laing trial on the first Sunday of November traditionally opens the Northern Centre's trials championship season with a couple of rounds before Christmas prior to the remainder of the season's year continuing until the end of the following October - strange but true; the reason being is that by finishing in October the year's champions...
Now that we've entered the real start of the winter months with November, here's a brief plan of the upcoming events .The new 2023/2024 Northern Centre Trials Championship kicks off with the Bassenthwaite Club's D.K.Laing Trial at Threlkeld Quarry near Keswick on Sunday, November 5 which is flagged off the Penrith to Keswick main road. Most...
Riding Trial GB rounds has proved to be a positive effort by Tom Swindlehurst who scored a narrow but decisive win in the Bootle Club's 4th round of their 2023 series at Fell Green on the last Sunday of October.Swinny only lost six marks which that in itself was a fine ride and with Darren Brice...
The late John Holmes was a stalwart member of the Westmorland Club, a quiet, unassuming gentleman who was a genius when it came to engineering and in particular preparing Triumph Cubs for trials, and the final club event for 2023 was held in memory of John at the club's own land at Lindale.In comparison with many...
The Westmorland Motor Club will be back with a bang this Christmas as they host another of their popular gatherings at the Crooklands Hotel, Milnthorpe near Kendal, just a mile from the M6 Junction 36 on Friday December 29th. The pandemic put a stop to these very popular gatherings but now they are back with a...
Apologies for this latest venue change, but Westmorland MC have had to change the venue of their trial scheduled for October 22 as the parking at Staveley Head is considered too wet, so the club will make a return to their own land at Lindale, with a 10.30 start of this clubman/easy clubman trial which will...
Brownrigg Fell has always been a popular venue for Cumberland County trials and it proved to be the same again in the middle of October for the Dixie Dee trial where 60 riders took part in a clubman trial which featured a normal clubman course and an easy clubman course which was ridden by 25 riders.Best...
Though not a Northern Centre event (for which this site is intended), the Scott Trial is very much a classic in which many northern riders and persons are involved which was again the case this year when the trial took place on Saturday, October 14.Wilf Shuttleworth at Goat's Splash, early in the trialFour regular riders from...
Having just arrived back from holiday, riding my 350 1959 AJS in a 6 day classic bike rally in northern Spain around the Picos mountains I can begin to pick up on what has been happening whilst I have been away.In the results page there are two new sets just added, from the Lakes Club's event...