Thank you to all the riders that entered the Good Friday Trial, 58 riders signed on for 5 laps of 8 sections, with a few modified Poachers Bag section thrown in for good measure which resulted in a high scoring day, taxing but nothing dangerous, so with that in mind is hats off to the four Expert Route riders and one Clubman route rider that finished the day on single figures. Over the next few days we will be updating the Championship positions in advance of our next event.

It’s a big thank you to all our observers, also thanks to Mark Francis, Nick Neave and John Guy for their time on Wednesday setting out the sections for us.

Our next Trial is on the 11th of May at Flintwood Farm the excellent venue just outside Belchford, I will have the entry open as soon as possible. Finally, just next to my signing on table was a Bantam frame, we aren’t sure if it was “For Sale” or not, or perhaps just looking for a new owner, anyway Ian Wilkinson has it safe, if you could message me if you know anything about it.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing you all soon. MG

We are pleased to attach a set of results for our 3rd round Championship Trial at Syston, Mark, Francis and Boswell along with John Guy, Nick Neave and Patrick Sewell set out 10 sections ridden over 4 laps. Sections 1-4 set in the wooded bowl at the far end of the venue were a nice selection of climbs and descents around the trees, sections 5 to 10 were set around the stream area of the venue with section 7, a high climb around a tree with a steep drop into the stream leading to a harder exit for the Expert and Inter riders with a slightly eased exit on the Clubman route….this section provide to be the mark taker for the day, yet in saying that we did have a good selection, 4 in fact remaining clean with 29 riders on single figures. Which out of 76 riders that started the event is a pretty good ratio of getting it set just about right!

We were blessed with a bright sunny day at this excellent venue which made the time spent queuing at section 7 a good opportunity to catch up with fellow riders, we thank all the riders that made the journey over to perhaps one of our most westerly venues. The observer’s prize was won by Ruby on section 7, so thank you all for your contributions to the collection. Look forward to seeing you all next time. MG

Well, we avoided the rain! But it was so windy !!!

75 riders rode 4 laps of 10 sections, set slightly on the easy side with expected rain, resulting in a fairly low scoring trial, saying that only 5 riders over the three routes remained clean, so hats off to them for maintaining their concentration. We also welcomed our first junior rider for many years, Zac Coupland had his first Trial with us and under the watchful eye of Dad Darran, he had an excellent day just dropping 7 marks on his very standard looking Bantam. We must thank all the observers for their help especially Jess, section 4, Ruby, section 5 Ian and Sid on sections 6 and 7 who had the worse of the wind throughout the day. Another Excellent Observers collection raising £85.46, which was won by Brenda on section 9.

A big thank you to Paul Kirkby, Gary Carter and Mike Crawford for helping me set out on Saturday, At our riders meeting before the start, I explained that Errol was reducing his day to day running of our events, we thanked him for his many years of involvement from the formation of the Club to present day, it was heartwarming that he got such a marvellous round of applause from you all.

Errol’s role of working with the observers will now be undertaken by Carl Smith, he has been handed over all the observer contact information by Errol and I’m sure that Carl will be in touch with you all before the next event, if any observers need to contact him his number is as follows: 01529 304793, which is his work number, and is always manned during business hours.

Finally, I was given the sad news that one of the Norfolk group of riders that have regularly been making the long journeys to ride with us had sadly passed away, Nick Howling campaigned the big bike ethos of Pre65 Trials, although he wasn’t able to collect his award for Pre-Unit Clubman at Cadwell, we had the feedback that he was delighted to have won it.

I have attached one of John’s Photos of Nick taken at Flintwood Farm in May of Last year, thank you all for the minutes Silence on Sunday.

See you all at Syston, MG