Attached are results for the Manchester 17 Fisher Trial 11.01.15
Manchester 17 MCC – Fisher Trial Report
Fear of forecasted snow proved unfounded as The Manchester 17 Club held its opening trial of the year, The Fisher trial, two laps of 20 rocky sections held around Flash Village, near Buxton, Derbyshire - officially England highest village. The trial hosted the first round of the 2015 Cheshire Centre and North Wales Championship series as well as the club's 2015 Edgar series which amass points from the four road based trials run by Manchester 17 throughout the year.
For this year's trial the route was lengthened and featured a new group of natural flowing sections at 'Manor Rocks'
A very pleasing entry of 127 turned up for the event from far and wide. There was some concern that because of the large entry the trial wouldn't be finished in daylight hours with lap one taking some riders up to four hours. However the second lap was quickly over with riders familiar with the sections resulting in most riders taking less than hour to complete lap two, so in actuality everyone fished well within daylight hours.
The trial consisted of three routes – expert, clubman and 50/50 a combination of the harder clubman's sections and the easier expert sections.
Winning the premier expert class was Jotagas devote Ross Danby who made the long trip from Worcestershire to put in an excellent five clear ride finishing on a miserly total of 3 ones and a two. Following were regular Man 17 trial entrants Dan Thorpe and new Gas Gas rider Richard Timperley.
The fifty fifty route resulted in a spectacular ride from Sheffield visitor Darren Wasley who fished on a very low score of 3 with Jeremy Darlington from North Wales, an offspring from the famous Darlington dynasty who dominated Cheshire Centre and North Wales trials in the sixties and seventies.
In the clubman class it was local Buxton rider Andy Hipwell seemingly riding a most unsuitable bike - a 175 Yamaha - who yet again dominated this class but this time only by one mark finishing on 19 with Steve Kenny and Phil Hume following on 20 each.
Riders seemed to enjoy the trial, the predicted snow didn't happen, the predicted inability to finish in day light hours didn't materialise, there were no injuries.
A special mention must go to the exceptionally, hardy observers because though it didn't snow it really was very, very cold and to volunteer to stand out four 5 hours is really beyond the call of duty!