Results Rd 10 Peak Classic Trials Club Championship Bracken Rocks Sunday 24Th November

[old trials fanatic]

Some trials venues always, despite the course setters efforts, seem to turn out more challenging than others and Bracken Rock is most definitely one of those . Last Sundays event Rd 10 of the Peak Classic Trials Clubs 2013 Club Championship was much harder than intended but still provided some great battles in all the classes on all the routes. One of the facts of life with harder courses is that the cream always rises to the top and on this occasion it was Mark Weston on his Montesa that took overall honours in the Expert Twinshock class with a superb ride in very challenging conditions to lose just 10 marks ahead of Local farmer Rob Carson who due to the demands of running a farm nowadays doesn’t give him as much time as he used to have to ride trials but he secured a credible second place on his TY250 Yamaha with a loss of 15. It was nice to get a couple of entries in the Air cooled mono class for a change and Bob Gent on his TR34 Beta had a good ride on 18 marks followed in second place by ex works rider and stalwart of the East Midlands Centre Chris Milner on his Yamaha “special” which features a 4 stroke Yamaha serrow motor in a TY250 monoshock chassis. Chris mainly did the modification as he is struggling to kick start a bike nowadays and the Serrow engines electric start makes life a lot more bearable for him nowadays. He did well to keep his score to a very respectable 35 marks. Perhaps Yamaha missed the boat and should have sold a bike like this ?

Peter Carson had his usual classy ride to take Classic Expert British Bike honours ahead of Rob Spencer on his Ariel which was quite a handful on the slippery terrain but he kept going and finished second. Well done Rob a display of true grit.

Nice to see Simon Bown, Fantic, have a good ride to take the win in the Classic Expert Twinshock class with a loss of just 25 from second placed rider Bob Sherras on his Bultaco who lost 32 and with another Bultaco mounted rider finishing off the top three namely Robert Mycock on 44 it could have gone either way so well done all of you.

David Pattison led the Intermediate Twinshock riders home with a typical polished performance on his Bultaco and only managed to lose 14 marks in the process with second placed Nick Burton on his Fantic and third placed Mark Kearsley, Yamaha, astounded at how he managed to find grip where seemingly there was none. Well done David.

A much closer battle took place in Classic Intermediate Twinshock with John Morley on his Honda just pipping Steve Fletcher, Yamaha, to the win John losing 42 to Steve’s 43 oh if only LOL. Nice to see Cliff Bradley on his Yamaha take third place on 50 from an unlucky Tony Shaw, Bultaco who just missed out on the top three with a loss of 53. Still some very good performances lads of which you can all be proud.

This leads us to the final battles for top honours in the Clubman classes and none tighter than in British Bike Clubman. As has been the case all year it was nip and tuck with the battle going right to the wire and this time 12 year old Harry Lyons on his Bantam just managed to keep evergreen Arthur Tomkinson on his Greeves Scottish back in second. We wont mention Arthurs age but he can give more than 60 years to young Harry and only finished the one mark behind him at the end. Superb this is what Classic trials is ALL about guys.

While we are talking about close battles another one took place between Michael Fletcher riding in his first season of trials on his Yamaha and Glyn Ridgeway making a comeback to trials after many years away doing other things, kite surfing being just one of them, on his faithful Ossa. Michael may be amazed to find he only lost 68 marks to Glyns 70 to keep current Clubman Championship leader Glyn in second place.

So great to see some young blood coming into the sport of classic trials and making the rest of us lift our game.

Our next event will be the final round of the 2013 season and with many Championship placings still to be decided it should be a good one. So hopefully see you at Burycliffe Quarry on Sunday 22^nd December.

Expert Twinshock

1^st Mark Weston Montesa 10 marks

2^nd Robert Carson Yamaha 15 marks

Expert air Cooled Mono

1^st Bob Gent Beta 18 marks

2^nd Chris Millner Yamaha 35 marks

Classic Expert British Bike

1^st Peter Carson Bantam 8 marks

2^nd Rob Spencer Ariel 78 marks

Classic Expert Twinshock

1^st Simon Bown Fantic 25 marks

2^nd Bob Sherras Bultaco 32 marks

3^rd Robert Mycock Bultaco 44 marks

Classic Expert Air Cooled Mono

1^st Gary Martin Yamaha 73 marks

Intermediate British Bike

1^st Colin Fray Dot 70 marks

Intermediate Twinshock

1^st David Pattison Bultaco 14 marks

2^nd Nick Burton Fantic 44 marks

3^rd Mark Kearsley Yamaha 61 marks

Classic Intermediate British Bike

1^st Peter Elvidge Bantam 56 marks

2^nd Paul Beswick James 63 marks

Classic Intermediate Twinshock

1^st John Morley Honda 42 marks

2^nd Steve Fletcher Yamaha 43 marks

3^rd Cliff Bradley Yamaha 50 marks

Clubman British Bike

1^st Harry Lyons Bantam 41 marks

2^nd Arthur Tomkinson Greeves 42 marks

Clubman Twinshock

1^st Michael Fletcher Yamaha 68 marks

2^nd Glyn Ridgeway Ossa 70 marks

3^rd Tony Fray Yamaha 105 marks