Well, how time flies! by the time that you read this short newsletter we will be about to commence our third event for this year, and we will be quickly approaching one of our blue-ribbon events “The Poachers Bag” the first round of the Northern British Bike Championship which is scheduled for 7th of April. If you hadn’t planned to ride the event we would welcome some help by way of observers for the day. The Trial starts at Smiths Farm Withcall and takes in 30 sections of varied terrain over a twenty-mile lap of the Wolds. The Trial attracts riders from all parts of the country and forms a classic national event. Observers receive a nice snack pack and club members qualify for a free entry to be taken at the next Club Trial. So, if you can help to support the event, please contact Errol on 01507 343745. 

As we progress into our Championship for 2024, I would just like to remind you that you need to be a Club member to qualify for Championship points, it is important that you renew your membership by the 4th Championship round at Flintwood Farm on the 26th of May. This gives us enough time to start to collate Championship points and publish Championship positions at the halfway mark in early June. 

On final Championship standing in general, in the case of Inter and Clubmen riders we would like to encourage Championship class winners to move up to the next level at the end of 2024. If this is something that you wouldn’t like to do, we would expect that you consider a year as a non-competitive rider. 

We have had good entry numbers for our first 3 events of 2024 and although we are increasing the fees that we pay to Landowners, and we have also experienced a rise in our AMCA Insurance and Permit costs, we are holding our entry fee at £20.00 per event which we will review again at the start of the 2025 season. Our observers draw continues to delight the lucky winners at each Trial.

As always, we will have a donations box on the signing on table at each event, we thank you all for your kind donations which are not compulsory, just a nice gesture for their commitment to our sport. 

If you recall that at the end of December we published the results from our Charity Trial, at the bottom of the results was the amount that we raised as a Club for St Andrew Hospice, that sum was £1300.00 we also had other contributions during November and December that took the final total to £1610.00. The hospice has over many years been the main recipient of our charitable fundraising, we think its now time to bring in another charity to share our contributions. We have asked “Prostate Cancer UK” to join “Saint Andrews Hospice” as our Charity partners for 2024. We will display both Charity logos on our home page of the website