Due to a variety of reasons, the Bassenthwaite Club are not able to run the planned first Wednesday evening trial, originally scheduled for June 7, but hope to run on both July 5 and August 2.It has also just been announced that the Sedbergh Normandale Trial on June 4 has also been cancelled due to insufficient...
Combine a Bank Holiday Monday with a beautiful Spring day in the Lake District and you have the formula for a perfect motorcycle trial - and that's what the Lakes Grasstrack Racing Club provided on the final Monday of May at Redscar when they promoted their GS Motorcycles sponsored round on the hilly course near Crook.Having...
Peter Blowers was the winner of the Bootle Club's multiclass trial on the last Sunday in May at Fell Green, where, despite a very small entry, the riders enjoyed four laps of ten sections.Blowers won the Over 50 class with the loss of 13 marks, his nearest challenger being Lee Southam who took the under 40...
Report: Arran MurphyRounds 3 and 4 of the West Cumbria Motocross Club championship were held at the superbly prepared Dean Moor circuit near Workington.First up on Saturday were the Auto pilots and it was Daniel Morris who took home maximum points and stood on the top step of the podium followed home by Archie Armstrong who...
Two glorious days of Rockshock trials were enjoyed over the Saturday and Sunday of May 20 and 21 when the Sedbergh and Westmorland Clubs held the third and fourth rounds of this popular series.Aimed at Air-cooled monoshock machines, Twinshocks and British Bikes originally built prior to 1975, both trials attracted very healthy entries in all three...
Two trials this coming weekend, May 28 and Bank Holiday, Monday, May 29 with Bootle having a Gowan Construction multiclass trial at Fell Green with a 10.30am start, then on Monday it's the Lakes GTRC at Redscar, Underbarrow near Kendal LA8 8UH, flagged from the Black Labrador pub LA8 8JQ and from the B5284 near The Sun...
The Percy Duff Barbon Speed Hill Climb will bounce back into action once again this year when the go-ahead Westmorland Club stage the event on Saturday, July 22 at the popular Cumbrian tarmac track at Barbon Manor.Speed hill climbs in the UK are relatively few in number so to have one in our own area makes...
Joel Gowan was truly on top form at the Barrow Club's multiclass Muriel Wilkinson Trial on May 14 as he roared his 250 BSA round the four laps of 10 sections at Everard Lodge, Lowick for the loss of a single mark.But if Gowan was on form, then so too was Peter Blowers on a brand...
A reminder now about the trials on for the next couple of weeks.On May 14 it's the Barrow Club's Muriel Wilkinson trial at Lowick which is a Clubman event with a very easy Black course in addition to the normal clubman routes. Start time is 10.30 and the venue is flagged from the Lowick to Broughton...
There was a healthy entry in excess of 70 riders at the Lakes GTRC trial at High Borrowbridge where there was a hard course, a clubman course and an easy clubman course.Tom Swindlehurst was a very clear winner of the hard course route from Owen Gilchrist in a high scoring category with only four riders in...