Stratford Upon Avon Club Trial

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The Stratford Club are holding the second of their summer trials events at Sambourne Farm near Alcester on Sunday.

The event will feature a good ride around the farm with three routes available to cater for all levels of ability.

Sambourne is signposted from the A435 between Studley and Alcester, the start time will be 10.30am.

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Stratford Upon Avon MC Club Trial Sambourne Farm 7-8-05

Steve Harris smashed the form book with a perfect ride of the 40

Expert sections at Sambourne Hall farm near Studley on Sunday.

The long ride around Sambourne farm was made even longer by the mid

week rain which stopped farm manager Dave Heming's combining.

The large 'flat in top' field used in previous years still had crops on it, so some

careful headland deviations were needed. The 10ft vertical drop to the left of

the narrow path certainly slowed everyone down.

Former Stratford Club Youth Champion Harris had the measure of the tight

turns in and out of the deep streams around the farm.

With Harris finishing on zero, runner up John Cowleys chance of a win

disappeared at section seven on the first lap when he misjudged the height of

the raised log and needed a very long dab to stop his Gas Gas from looping the

loop. The tight turn onto the log took marks from all on the A route apart

from Harris and third place man Michael James.

Mick Chapman yet again topped the less severe B route

dropping just 5 marks, one better than Scorpa mounted Pete Barnett. Chapman was

the only rider on the clubman route to stay clean at muddy rooted section two in

the ponies paddock.

On the easier C route, Andy Bishop 'just' edged out Barry 'Justice'

by 11 marks to 12 despite loosing concentration and having a stray dab in the

shallow water at section nine. Chris O'Brien finished on 13 which was a superb

ride on a Beta AlpTrail bike.

Congratulations also to class D rider Chris Wickham competing in only his second

ever event. Chris completed all four laps of the trial and attempted every section

on his 80cc Beta, father and minder Pete Wickham did his best to follow round but

even the local iron man competitor couldn't complete the four laps on foot.

Results

Stratford Club Trial

Sambourne Farm 7-8-05

A route

Adult: S.Harris (Beta) zero, J.Cowley (Gas Gas) 5, M.James (Gas Gas) 7, L.O'Reilly (Gas Gas) 20

Youth A: T.Charleston (Beta) 84

B Route

Adult: M.Chapman (Montesa) 5, P.Barnett (scorpa) 6, G.Moore (Gas Gas) 9, N.Jones (BSA) 16

Youth B: B.Barnett (Beta) 50, J.Charleston (Gas Gas) 52, M.Hullah (Beta) 87, C.Evans (Gas Gas) 96

C Route

Adult: A.Bishop (Gas Gas) 11, B.Justice (Beta)12, C.O'Brien (Alp) 13, S.Middup-Jones (Montesa) 16

Youth C: M.Donovan (sherco) 82

Youth D: C Wickham (Beta 80) 108