An excellent entry of seventy three riders turned out for the Manchester 17 MCC’s Dead Easy Trial last Saturday, this being the last one of the series for this year. The venue was Wheston House Farm, Peak Forest, a superb venue for a Dead Easy trial. The ground is old limestone rakes, with a few exposed rocks set amongst the gulleys and grassy banks, with an abundance of available potential sections. Four laps of ten sections was the format, with a start time of 2 00 PM which seems to be popular with most riders.
The weather was good, albeit a bit on the cool side, and with every section manned by an Observer, all was set fair for a good afternoon’s sport. Among the entry on the Harder route were some very good riders, resulting in no less than seventeen clean rides. This however does not tell the full story, as scores further down the field were of a different order. Even those who went clean admitted they had to concentrate as it would have been very easy to lose marks.
Garry Shaw always rides interesting old British machines and this time turned up with a rigid Norton, the engine of which was 1947 vintage. He had a superb ride to pilot the old classic round clean. Similarly Joel Brayford, all the way down from Lancashire, rode a very tidy Ariel clean, beating father Maurice who had a stray dab on his immaculate Dot special.
There were no clean rides on the Easy route, the best being Dave McGregor, on his immaculate Greeves, and Steve Walker, who both lost one mark each.
Nice to see the Skehan youngsters all competing, with Youth B rider Keiron only losing four marks on the Hard route, and Youth’s C and D riders Isobel and Charles having a real go at the Easy route, both of them completing the course. Well done to them all.
Huge thanks to all who have helped to run the series this year, and to all who have observed. Also, thanks to all the riders who have given their support. That’s it until February of next year, look out nearer the time for details.
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REPORT : Roger Townsend