Durham Dales

David Golightly just missed an overall win on test times last year. This year he went one better, beating Dean Partington on the hills. Phil Sanders was best Motorcycle

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Barry Redmayne has been using a Suzuki X90 recently. For the Durham Dales he reverted to his 4 Cylinder, 1600cc, Suzuki engined Liege which runs in Class Eight. Photo by Dave Cook. You can purchase prints and HiRes Downloads from this and many other trials on his Web Site
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Phil Sanders was best Motorcycle. Pictured here by Dave Cook on Calvers Hump

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Kimber Trial

Edward Wilkins won the MG Car Clubs Kimber Trial in his MG TC

The sections and the special tests provide that competitive spice beloved of all true MG drivers, yet remain suitable for all cars whether concours or “well used”. In addition to classes for all types of MG and similar pre-war sports cars, there is a class, with its own award, for non-MG’s.

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Team ADA’s Lands End

By Adam Walter, Class B

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Team ADA happy at the top of Blue Hills

Team ADA went partially back in time for the Lands End trial this year. I kept with my trusty, modern Yamaha XT 225 (Serow) but Dad opted for his 1959 Greeves 197 which he used a few times on the trial in the early to mid 80s. Adrian, meanwhile, chose to tackle the trial on a Honda SL175. I think the aim was to spice things up a little.

The second thing I noticed on the way to Bridgwater from Plusha, after the first which was plenty of blue smoke coming from Dad’s Greeves, was the slower pace we’d be travelling at this year. That being said, we managed to keep pretty well to time throughout the whole trial. The only holdup was at Hackmarsh, if my memory serves me correctly, which opened about an hour late for some reason. Still, it was a chance to have a bit of banter with the other riders.

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Dry Yorkshire Dales

Both Motorcycle and Car Categories had low scores as the sections were bone dry and there was a lot of grip everywhere. John Kenny was best Motorcycle, besting the versatile Steve Kingston on his Class A machine as opposed to the familiar MG Midget. Dean Partington was best car.

The dry sections put a strain on transmissions, Clive Kalber (Tucker Peake Pop), Lee Peck (Dutton Melos) and Dave Haizelden (Reliant Scimitar) all having their machinery wilt under the strain.

Sword Point 1 took away a few car clean sheets with a restart for 7 & 8 and a deviation from the main track for all proving problematical.

Both Dean Partington (DP Wasp) and David Golightly (Morton and Brett) only dropped two marks, Dean on Sword Point 2 and David on Watergate 2. The overall win going to Dean on test times.

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Paul Merson wins Bovey Down

Paul dropped 9 marks in his Shopland Mk 2, just one better than Stewart Green in his SG Gruffalow

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Jim Mountain restarts his Class Eight Dellow Mk1 just in front of a very slippery tree root! (Photo by Debbie Leach

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