Thank you to the 74 riders that signed on for our first Trial of 2026 weather conditions were to say the least “Murky” we had set 10 sections to be ridden over reduced laps, and during the Trial we decided to reduce the total to 3 laps making 30 sections in all. All 9 class winners returned very low scores in what was very difficult going, it’s a credit to all finishers.

The Trial was set out on Friday by Erroll Gowshall, Rob Gowler and me, with the trial being the forerunner of what was a busy day for us at Poachers we had previously decided that it would be a reduced lap to give us all time to attend the lunch and presentation at Cadwell Park Clubhouse.

We thank every body for their help, David Hird and Harold were in hand to organize membership renewals, Ian Wilkinson had done a great job to co-ordinate the observers, Diane Guy helped with the signing on and made sure all the riders received their correct lunch voucher, Errol was in charge of getting the observers down to their section’s using the Quad from Smith Farm, Dave and Brenda had the responsibility of getting Ruby and Jess to sections 7 and 8 and the girls had the added job of clearing the sections in their group. The rest of the Trial was taken down and collected by Nick Neave, Steve Manning and Rob Gowler….all in all, a total team effort! Observers on Sunday were in section order: Diane, Sharron, Harold, Jeanette, Bill, Rose, Jess, Ruby, Dace and Brenda. Observers prize of £56.75 was won by Rose on section 6

We built on the success of our Christmas Charity Trial with the presentation of £2000. donated to our Charity Partners, St Andrews Children’s Hospice and Prostate Cancer UK, John Wilkinson was with us to record the proceedings of the day, and the awards presentation followed the lunch at Cadwell which we hope you all enjoyed.

I hope to have the permit for our next event on the 22nd of Feb at North Ormsby Quarry and the entry should be open by the end of this week.

Thank you all for giving up your time for our presentation, I know many of you have a long drive home; to think about our presentation for 2026,I would welcome your thoughts on how things went? Did it work being after a Trial? Was lunch to your expectation? What could we do differently to improve the day? Please email me separately at enteries@belton-4.co.uk with any feedback. Your continuing support of our events allows us to do what we do with charity donation and award presentations. We would like to know if what we do meets your expectations. Please take 5 minutes to send us your thoughts….negative or positive. MG

Well, a Trial that nobody stayed “clean” bikes, riding gear, boots!

That was our final round of the 2025 Championship, and I am happy to post you a set of results that show a total loss of marks = 2316 over the 4 laps, average 579 marks lost per lap! Thank goodness we decided on 4 laps. We would like to thank our loyal group of observers that have helped us on all our events during 2025, we couldn’t have done it without them.

Our next event is our traditional Christmas Charity Trial on the 27th of December, held at Smiths Farm Withcall. We hope to have the entry open by the end of this week and the entry will be limited to 100 riders, so its important to get you entry in asap.

Championship positions will be worked out during this week and will be posted on our website and “Facebook” page.

Thank you to all the riders that have supported the club during 2025 and we will be producing a December newsletter with our dates and plans for 2026. MG

We were offered the use again at AMCA Bevercotes for our 8th round Championship Trial, it’s a couple of years since we last used the area around the Motocross circuit, and the passage of time and track management reduced the potential to find the previous locations that had made for the ten interesting and challenging sections that we had anticipated, in fact, Mark Francis, Shane Lockley and myself found it very hard to come up with the eight that were the final choice for Sunday. We also considered the long-range weather forecast that indicated that we were in for a wet day, which didn’t arrive until we were ready to pack up and head home.

48 riders signed on for five laps of eight sections, seven riders managed to keep clean sheets all day. That being, 4 Expert and 3 Inter-route riders, with the majority of the seven on Pre-Unit bikes. Section 5 took the majority of the days marks, it looked easier when we set it out than it actually rode: a gentle down hill start with a tight left turn into a up-hill twisting gully that needed riding with pace, the majority of the marks were lost on the turn into the gully, Diane Guy observing here was kept busy with nearly 40% of the days marks lost here!

Alan Marin-Andrew showed that he was getting back into form with a single dab on the Clubman route, also sad to see Zac Coupland retire with chain issues after riding well for the majority of the day, The entry for our next event should now be open and I would ask you to get your entry form and payment over to me asap, its less then 2 weeks to the Trial at Henbeck on the 2nd of November.

And finally thank you all, observers and riders that joined in our minutes silence for Jean Witting, one of our long standing observers and wife of Stuart, she will be sadly missed, we also took the opportunity to remember Malc Wheeler ex TT Racer and Poachers Trials rider who had a celebration of his life at Cadwell Park earlier this month.

Jean’s funeral is on the 27th of October @ Woodlands Crematorium, Scunthorpe at 1.20pm, I think Daid Hird will have more up to date information, contact 07779 931022.

Thank you for your support of our Club and we look forward to seeing you all at our penultimate Championship Trial at Henbeck. MG

Grey skies and early morning rain didn’t discourage the 66 riders that singed on for our first Championship Trial since our summer break. It was relatively low scoring in view of the conditions but Parkinsons Farm flanks the Viking Way that has a high concentration of Sandstone within the sections.

On the Expert route sections 2 and 4 observed by Brenda McGregor and Course setter Errol Gowshall were responsible for extracting marks into triple figures over the four laps and were easily the hardest sections of the Trial. Inter-50/50 riders lost most of their marks riding the eased version on section 4 which was a Sandy Bank with a tight climb to the Ends Cards. Sections 8 and 9, which were Hard route sections for inter riders also extracted a high proportion of marks. On the Clubman route again Errol’s section proved to be the one that was the spoiler, nevertheless most of our Clubman riders went home with very commendable single figure scores.

Our next Trial is only two and a half weeks away, and it will be to the west of our normal footprint, we have asked the AMCA for permission to use the land that surrounds the old scrambles course at Bevercoates, I should receive the permit in the next few days and we will open the entry as soon as possible, last time we used this venue it was in the heights of the summer and the ground was very hard, especially on the hill climbs. So hopefully our visit in October will be the perfect time of the Year. I will do my best to get W3Words for the venue, if not then the postcode.

Thanks for your support of Poachers Pre65 Trials, especially to the riders that make long journeys to our venues, John Wilkinson has produced another excellent set of pictures, you should be able to find them on his Facebook page. MG

42 riders made it over to the venue just off the Sleaford to Grantham Road at Hanbeck for our first summer Trial. The free to members event was planned as a thank you to our riders for their support over the year and as compensation for the enforced cancellation of the non-Championship event at Wrights Farm. Sunday’s event was also a non-Championship Trial, but weeks of dry weather made the sandy sections as slippery as the muddy streams in the winter that makes this such a challenging venue.

The Expert route was won by Rob Poulter who managed to part with just one mark on section 6, his nearest single figure rival in 2nd place was Pre-unit expert rider, Mark Hawkins on his Ariel losing 8 marks very closely followed by Mick James on 10 marks lost.

Intermediate and Clubman results were the hardest to evaluate. With only a handful of 33 riders that made up the remaining classes finishing on single figures. Faultless rides from Intermediate supremos, Ash and Spencer, who didn’t drop a mark, New comer and pre-Unit rider for the first time, Jamie Moss lost his single mark on section 8, John Stevenson lost 2 on section 6 and Mike Crawford succumbed to a handful of dabs over 4 sections, all tremendous achievements in view of the high scoring results from the day.

It was good to see Curtis Connolly, who has been a regular visitor to Poachers Trials out on his very original looking Francis Barrnett, this was Curtis’s first event, and we look forward to seeing him again at forthcoming Trials.

We again thank Carl and Mark for allowing us free use of the venue and welcome any feedback, either on the Clubs “Facebook” page or via email to enteries@belton-4.co.uk

We will be posting in advance of the next Championship Trial in September the UpToDate standings and we hope to be able to open the entry for the Parkinsons Farm Trial at some point next week. MG.