Trials Torque

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.

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

Published: 30th April 2008

AS an addendum to our Scottish Six Days Trial preview (pages 26 - 28) we omitted to point out exactly how the numbers rotate each day in order to make the event as fair as possible - mainly because we didn’t have the exact information to hand when the feature was put together. However, thanks to the ever-helpful SSDT secretary Mairi, I can now fill in this blank.

Published: 30th April 2008

BECKY Cook extended her lead in the ACU Ladies Trials Championship by taking the win at the Longwood Ladies Trial, organised by Lincoln MC&CC, at Metheringham Quarry. The event, which was a fitting finale to the club’s 25-plus year tenure of this excellent venue, featured three laps of 12, mainly rocky sections.

Published: 23rd April 2008

JAMES Dabill bounced back from losing a seemingly unnassailable lead in the recent British Trials Championship opener in Kinlochleven to maintain his 100 per cent record in the 2008 Italian Trials Championship and make it three victories from three starts on Sunday.

Published: 23rd April 2008

HULL Auto Club is holding its annual Dave Summers Trial at Piethorn Farm, East Moors, near Helmsley, on April 27. This popular event will incorporate the first round of the Club Championship and also the third round of the East Yorkshire Centre Youth Championship.

Published: 16th April 2008

WITH the Lochaber club having got the Colin Appleyard sponsored 2008 ACU British Trials Championship off to a tough but well-received start in Kinlochleven, Scotland, last Sunday, the series moves immediately to Wales this weekend when the Neath Motor Cycle Club will stage Round Two at Lety Rafel Farm, Arwed, Aberdulais, on Sunday. The Neath club has many years of experience promoting British Championship events for the ACU and the three lap course at Lety Rafel Farm, featuring 12 observed sections, will be laid out by clerk of course James Lamin and Deputy Rob Berry and Assistant Steve Maclean.

Published: 16th April 2008

THIS year’s ACU British Trials Championships for Women and Girls got off to a cracking start at the Moorlands Ladies Trial organised by the Cheadle (Staffs) Auto Club at their venue at Sharpcliffe Hall, set in the picturesque heart of the Staffordshire Moorlands.

Published: 09th April 2008

NIGEL Birkett, of UK Scorpa Importers Birkett Motosport, and Steve Brookes, Area Manager for Putoline Motorcycle Oils, recently shook hands on a deal that sees the French Yamaha-engined machines join forces with the ‘bike only’ lubricant specialist for the 2008 season.

Published: 09th April 2008

REIGNING British Trials Champion Graham Jarvis gets his title defence underway on Sunday (April 13) when the 2008 Colin Appleyard British Solo Trials Championship kicks-off in Kinlochleven, way up on Scotland’s west coast. Many of the contenders – including local ace Gary MacDonald, limbered-up with a ride in the tough Irish European and World rounds at the weekend and are now well-up for the home challenge!

Published: 02nd April 2008

WITH the opening round of the 2008 FIM SPEA World Trials Championship now having taken place in Luxembourg the second round, which takes place this weekend at Bangor, near Belfast in Ulster, is right upon us. The seaside town, which hosted the event in both 2003 and 2004, is a brilliant venue with the padock right by the marina, close to the sections which are mainly set on the rugged, rocky coastline, with a contrasting group of six hazards in a steep-sided gully plus a couple of man-made hazards (the first and the last) right by the start-finish. There’s a full weekend of action as well with Saturday staging the first round of the European Championship, run over the same course with modified sections, while Friday sees both European and World competitors allowed to practise on the specially designated areas.

Published: 02nd April 2008

MARIA Conway and Katy Sunter made the Jack Wood Trial with time to spare after their overnighter by road from Ettelbruck, Luxembourg where they had been in action in Saturday’s World Ladies Championship trial.

Published: 26th March 2008

The Jack Wood National Trial this Sunday (March 30) at Bradfield brings out all the big guns of British traditional trialling into conflict and with an entry of 150 there is quantity

Published: 26th March 2008

THE three-round 2008 Women’s and Youths European Trials Championship got underway at the weekend at Grasse in France and there was a strong British presence, especially in the women’s class where British girls packed the top 10. Winner of the Women’s was seven-times Champion Laia Sanz who went absolutely clean through two laps of a dozen sections on her Repsol Montesa.

Published: 19th March 2008

YEADON Guiseley MC are proud to stage their National Chris Carter Trophy Trial, third round of the popular ACU Novogar National Championship, at Dob Park, Otley, this Sunday, writes Barry Robinson.

Published: 19th March 2008

WITH the Scottish Six Days Trial now just over two months away (Monday to Saturday May 5/10) the time has come for those riders lucky enough to have secured an entry (cue howls of derision from those who didn’t!) to think about their servicing arrangements for the week.

Published: 12th March 2008

THE fourth, penultimate round of the drastically shortened 2008 World Indoor Trials Champion-ship was staged in Milan last Saturday, in front of an impressive claimed audience of 8,000 people and with yet another emphatic victory, reigning champ Toni Bou virtually guaranteed himself the 2008 crown.

Published: 12th March 2008

HEAD for the hills this Sunday, to Castleton in the North Yorks Moors, where Middlesbrough and DMC is staging the National Cleveland Trial. The start is opposite the cricket field at 9.30am, when the first of the 180 riders will be flagged away to tackle the 36-section, 30-mile course.

Published: 05th March 2008

JAMES Dabill made a positive start to his 2008 outdoor campaign with a stunning, almost mistake-free, victory in the opening round of the Italian Trials Championship last Sunday.

Published: 05th March 2008

SHAUN Morris made his first competitive appearance on a trials bike since September last year, when he injured his eye in an unfortunate workshop accident, on Sunday in the Westmorland Motor Club’s Milnthorpe Cup Trial.