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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Published: 30th April 2008

THE Spanish Sherco factory has just released news of an exciting tenth Anniversary model designed specifically to commemorate their ten years of manufacturing trials bikes.

Published: 30th April 2008

THE 2008 AMA Supercross series is going down to the wire after Kevin Windham rode his best race of the season to snatch a vital victory at the penultimate round of the series at Seattle’s Qwest Field on Saturday night.

Published: 30th April 2008

SEBASTIEN Pourcel stopped an Italian clean sweep in Portugal, but he could not prevent David Philippaerts joining Toni Cairoli as the new red plate holder as the MX1 and MX2 world series takes a week’s break before the long haul to Bulgaria.

Published: 30th April 2008

THE battle that’s raged for years between Christian Iddon and Matt Winstanley to be Britain’s best Supermoto rider resumed for the first time this season as the pair met at the weekend’s opening round of the British Supermoto Championship at Lydd Raceway tucked down in the southeast corner of Kent.

Published: 30th April 2008

THE mighty Repsol-Montesa HRC squad dominated the two-day third round of the FIM 2008 SPEA World Trials Championship, staged at Sequatchie, Tennessee, in the United States of America, finishing one-two on both days. The excellent Trials Training Centre venue saw Takahisa Fujinami successful on the opening day, staged in hot, humid but dry conditions, whereas when the rain fell on day two it was World Champ Toni Bou who regained his normal position at the head of the field.

Published: 30th April 2008

THE second round of the Ian Durston Plant Services British Sidecarcross Championship was held at the brilliant Desertmartin track in Northern Ireland. This was the first time the championship had ventured ‘across the water’ to the province and it was worth the effort as the track was in excellent condition, though it was tough as the soft sandy track cut into deep ruts as the day progressed – making it a real survival of the fittest!

Published: 23rd April 2008

MacKenzie continues his quest for the Fuchs Silkolene Charity Award

Published: 23rd April 2008

TORCO Honda’s rookie sensation, Trey Canard, is the new East Coast Lites AMA Supercross champion. After a rough couple of weeks that almost cost him the title, the 17-year-old bounced back in emphatic style at the final round of the East Coast legs of the series at St Louis on Saturday night to snatch a famous and controversial win from championship rival Ryan Villopoto.

Published: 23rd April 2008

THERE was a moto win for CCM on their GP comeback after 19-years when Greg Hanson stormed to victory in the opening Veterans World Cup moto.

Published: 23rd April 2008

WINNER on a most cleans tie-break the week before, Michael Brown also scooped round two of the Colin Appleyard ACU British Solo Trials Championship by a clear eight mark margin in the Neath club’s St David’s trial.

Published: 23rd April 2008

SUNSHINE and a bitterly cold North East wind welcomed riders to the picturesque Dean Moor circuit in Cumbria for round two of the Wulfsport British Masters series over the weekend.

Published: 23rd April 2008

ON Sunday, the Remedies Bar Motocross Championship made its first visit of the year to Whiteway Barton for round four in the current series.

Published: 17th April 2008

TMX's most famous and highly regarded trials photographer Eric Kitchen will be the star of the show, when an exhibition of his work, aptly titled "Observed" opens in Fort William on the Saturday evening prior to the start of the 2008 Scottish Six Days Trial .

Published: 17th April 2008

At the Haynes International Motor Museum Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7LH. Monday 5th May (Bank Holiday Monday). Show Times - 11:30 and 14:30