Appleyard to sponsor British Trials champs
By TMX Archives on 3rd Jan 07
The future of the British Solo Trials Championships is safe, thanks to Yorkshire trials fan Colin Appleyard.
THE 2007 ACU British Trials Championship will again be sponsored by Keighley motorcycle and car retailer, Colin Appleyard Motorcycles. The eight championship rounds will carry the familiar Colin Appleyard ACU British Championship title. Even better news is that the sponsorship of the championship has been secured until 2009.
Following four succesful years running under the Appleyard banner, Craig Holmes, Sporting Director of the Colin Appleyard Group, agreed terms for the next three years with ACU Trials and Enduro Commitee Chairman John Collins. This three year option means that the British Trials Championship series is guaranteed financial support until 2009. The Colin Appleyard organisation has so far underwritten the championship for a record four years.
This year (2007) the ACU committee has increased the number of events on the calendar to eight, taking in rounds in Scotland, Wales, The Ulster Province and in England in the Home Counties, Devon and Yorkshire.
Said Craig Holmes, "We at the Colin Appleyard Group are delighted to retain our strong connections with the Blue Riband class of British motor cycle trialling. We are not just a name selling motor cycles for the road. We currently have in stock just about every trials, motocross, and enduro machine on the British market. And many of our employees ride them, every weekend. The same level of interest also extends to road motorcycles. We sell them, and we ride them, for pleasure.”
Trials and Enduro committee man Dave Willoughby will again act for the ACU as event results and championship scoring co-ordinator and the series will have both a pre and post event press service operated by Barry Robinson. Both the specialist press and local media for each event will be informed of what is happening, when and where.
The 2007 series will get under way on Sunday, April 15, with the Lochaber trial in the Scottish Highlands with a trial staged on the banks of Loch Leven at Kinlochleven and reigning British Champ Graham Jarvis will be defending his title.
There is one new event this year and it is the Thames Trial, courtesy of the Thames MCC, which will run at the well-known Hook Woods Trial Centre, west Horsley, in Surrey, on September 16.