Red Rose Classic Motorcycle Club celebrated a successful 2015 at their annual presentation night. The Colne-based club, which caters for Pre-65’s and air-cooled, drum-braked Twinshocks in Lancashire, handed out the silverware at a dinner held at the Old Stone Trough at Kelbrook.
Club secretary Andrew Scott won class C (Springer up to 250cc) on his Triumph Tiger Cub, with former world champion Yrjo Vesterinen finishing runner-up, and Steve Thomas third. Class Ce (Springer all cc clubman route) went to Peter McCawley, with Mick Dickinson and Les Humphries second and third respectively. Eric Atkinson and his Ambassador secured class D for Rigids up to 250cc, with David Wilkinson taking class T (twinshocks all cc) from Mick Clarke and Geoff Potts. Class Te, for twinshocks on the clubman route, was won by Paul Whittaker. Phil Holey finished as runner-up from Peter Rhodes. Ramsbottom rider Ben Butterworth was awarded the Bill Lampkin Memorial Trophy, given each year to the highest-placed club member on the Red Rose Classic Trial.
Three charities have benefitted from Red Rose’s activities, with £500 going to the North West Air Ambulance, and £250 each for the Pendle and Rossendale Mountain Rescue and Cancer Research, in the form of Graham Lampkin’s charity bike ride through Spain and France.
A further £260 was raised for the NWAA from a raffle on the night, and the presentations were made by club chairman Neil Rushton.
Andrew Scott, Red Rose Classic Club Secretary collects his C Class Award
David Wilkinson took top spot in the Twinshock Class