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Calvert rises to the Challenge!
Published: 07th May 2008 The going was quite tough for riders on day one. Clerk of the course, Alex Smith, and his merry men, had plotted a course going the opposite direction to many previous years. Late spring snow falls had ensured that the moors were much wetter than usual and the long haul over the Meall na Cruaidhe path was more energy sapping than at former events. Uncharacteristically of the Pre-65 Scottish was a massive log-jam queue at Camas na Muic on the south shore of Loch Leven – a point noted for next year by the organisers. -
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It’s three and easy!
Published: 07th May 2008 THE 2008 Scottish Six Days Trial got off to a fantastic start with brilliant sunshine gracing the Highlands for the opening day’s 58-mile run – and the day ended with a three-way tie for the lead! Dougie Lampkin posted his intention to stamp his authority on the event in his eagerly anticipated return ride with a cool, confident clean sheet through the day’s 30 sections – but keeping Dougie honest were a pair of Sam’s, in the form of Ludgate and Haslam! -
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Beauty and the East
Published: 07th May 2008 DESPITE a disastrous final race on Monday, Conner Walkley won the Senior class at the East Kent club’s Canada Heights International Youth Motocross over Sunday and Monday of the Bank Holiday weekend. -
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Swordy is king of the Hill
Published: 07th May 2008 DOMINATION was the order of the day at Lyng on Sunday as respective championship leaders Billy MacKenzie and Stephen Sword blitzed the opposition to record resounding double wins at the sandy, demanding Norfolk circuit, venue for round four of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship. -
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Chad’s gots the Energy!
Published: 07th May 2008 AFTER more than a few ups and downs, Yamaha’s Chad Reed did what he should have done much earlier in the season and finally claimed the 2008 AMA Supercross championship, his second, after claiming a resounding victory at the series showdown in sin city, Las Vegas, on Saturday night. -
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EK’s big night out
Published: 07th May 2008 ERIC Kitchen, T+MX’s long-standing photographic contributor, and his wife Ellen, were star guests at a dinner staged at the opening of an exhibition of Kitch’s own selection of Scottish Six Days Trial pictures, being staged in Fort William this week. -
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Ben’s Bracken blast
Published: 07th May 2008 WITH the National C and D round tucked away on Saturday, East Midland Racing Association took charge of the fourth round of the British Youth A and B Championship on Sunday at a slightly damper, and more testing, Bracken Rocks. -
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Maverik’s Knight
Published: 07th May 2008 BOUNCING back onto the track looking better than ever, Bournemouth based Youth motocross team Maverik Racing have upped their game this year with a very polished and corporate new look for this years’ riders. -
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Zorro lives!
Published: 07th May 2008 TOBY Eyre, son of Ken Eyre, is always up to some jolly jape with his latest feat being to run the London Marathon -
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2008 SSDT scrapbook
Published: 07th May 2008 THE weigh-in on Sunday for the 2008 Scottish Six Days Trial was a day of two halves. Nice and dry in the morning and then wet and ’orrible for the afternoon parade! Some things never change. -
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