Twinshock Team Trial Details

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Details now on the front page but in case anyone doesn't read the front page, here they are again:

On 17^th June, South Birmingham Club are running the twinshock solo team trial. In addition to the twinshocks, the event will also incorporate two additional classes. Following the cancellation of the Pre70 team trial in Cornwall, a class has been added for club entered teams for Pre70 British solo bikes and there will also be a class for modern sidecar teams. Anyone can submit a team, so it is an ideal opportunity to get together with a bunch of mates and have yourself a ride in some excellent trials country.

The course will include roadwork and be on the Clee Hill, which in past years has hosted British Championship nationals such as the Vic Brittain and Greensmith as well as many sidecar championship nationals. There will be two routes. The twinshock teams will ride the harder route whilst the Pre70 class and sidecars will ride the easier. The hard route sections will be pitched somewhere around the level of an average Normandale round and will be intended to give a challenging but certainly not severe test to the riders. The B route should compare to one of the more challenging Miller rounds. The rules will be no-stop, as per Miller and Normandale series.

The nature of the land will allow for good natural flowing sections with no hinge-in-the-bike tight turns. The terrain for the sections will consist of rocky streams, mud streams, mixed mud/rock streams, mud banks, mud climbs, roots – pretty much a mixture of most types of going. Groups such as Bedlam, Beech Trees, Park Farm, Nine Springs (collectively, long continuous rock stream with steps, loose rocks mud banks) Starvecrow, Silvington, Silvington Wood, Clayhanger, will all be familiar names to those who have competed on the Clee Hill over the years.

The structure of the teams is: Twinshock teams will be 4 riders with the top 3 scores being used to determine overall team placing. Pre70 teams will be 3 riders with the top 2 scores used. Sidecar teams will be 3 sidecars with top 2 scores used. If anyone wishes to enter the twinshock class on British bikes in order to ride the harder course, either as a complete team or together with twinshock bikes in a team, this is acceptable but obviously you will be a twinshock team, not a Pre70. There is no twinshock class on the easy route. All twinshocks ride the harder route.

So, this is a rare opportunity to get your classic bikes amongst these old Clee Hill sections as the opportunity to ride up there does not arise too often these days with ever tightening land issues. If you’d like to make the most of it and enjoy a good traditional type road based event on the Clee, get your entries in now. So far, 9 or 10 twinshock teams have entered but obviously more are welcome. For Pre70, the class has only just been added following the cancellation of the trial in Cornwall, so you need to get organised quickly and get your teams in. Particularly all you BMCA boys, it’s a local event for most of you so get those teams in, especially those of you riding in the Manx Classic in the not too distant future. An ideal opportunity for a bit of practise on sections with similar features to those you will encounter on the island.

Regs and contact details are available in TMX ‘regs available’ section. Entries close 4^th June. Event organiser is Tim Fairbrother who can be contacted on 01562 754827

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Cancelled due to lack of entries