BATES TRIAL - 14 APRIL
Unfortunately we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel this weekends trial.
Both grounds are water logged making parking very difficult.
All entries will be transferred to the new trial. If this is not convenient and you cannnot make the next one on 12/5/24 at Vickers farm then please email me lborotrialsclub@gmail.com
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this.
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With just a week to go until our next trial, round 2 of our club championship! 14th April starting at 10.30. Entries via sport 80 only close midnight on Thursday 11th April.
Please note the change of venue to Riley’s Railway.
We have limited the entry to 60 due to the weather and difficulty parking at the venue.
Some exciting news for our youth riders! Parents please check your emails.
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TRIAL ON 14TH ARPIL
Due to the parking at our Vickers farm venue being water logged we have had to move our Trial on the 14th of April to Riley's railway,
We will also be limiting the entry to 60 riders, so please get your entries in early to avoid disappointment.
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Baker Trial 03/03/24 Results
Congratulations to the winners of the routes below.
Thanks as always to the observers, the course plotters and the people behind the scenes. Also, to all the riders for coming along.
Hard Route - Joseph Collins (Adult) Adam Day (Youth)
Green Route - Mark Hawkins (Adult) Lewis Harvey (Youth)
Yellow Route - Andy Butt (Adult) George Wareing (Youth)
Blue Route -Reece Mason (Adult) Isaac Kinninmonth (Youth)
White Route - Stewart Dickinson (Adult) James Dawson (Youth)
Big well done to all the youth riders for navigating their way around a muddy Riley's Railway.
Our next trial is being held on 14/4/24 at Vickers Farm. This will be round 2 of the club championship. Entries open 21/3/24.
We hope you have all enjoyed the trial and we hope to see you at the next one.
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CHANGE OF VENUE
Unfortunately due to land access issues Loughborough and District MCC have been forced to move the trial on 4th February from Mallory Park to the Rileys Railway venue.
We know everyone was looking forward to returning to Mallory as we learnt so much about how the ground rode in December but to respect the wishes of the landowner we could not provide a meaningful trial at this stage. We do hope to be able to return later in the year depending on availability of the venue and access to suitable areas to run a trial for modern bikes.
We know this will be a disappointment to many but we do hope that you will still support us at Riley’s. The venue is excellent but we know some riders worry about parking so we will be having a working party next week to improve the parking areas and to gravel the drive in order to improve accessibility.
We do hope those who have already entered will transfer to the new venue but if you have entered you will be contacted to see if you wish your entry to stand or to cancel and refund (refunds via the ACU/Sport80 process).
Apologies we have had to make this decision but with the areas we could access at Mallory this time we could not provide 10 sections capable of running three routes (and 50/50), in fact we were not able to open up 8 suitable sections so had little choice. We do appreciate Stuart at Mallory for trying to accommodate us and we fully understand why at this stage and with the weather we have had it was not possible to allow the scope of access we needed.
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Happy New Year!!
Our next trial is 4/2/24 at Mallory Park. Start time 10.30. Online entries will open via sport 80 on 14/1/24.
The Loughborough DMCC Club Championship will run from 3rd March trial to 17th November trial excluding the Susan Harris charity trial.
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As the old saying goes “do you want the good news or the bad news”, well let’s start with the good!
Thanks to the outstanding support from riders, section sponsors, cake makers, club officials and many more the club has handed over £2000 to Breast Cancer UK following yet another brilliant “Susan Harris Two Day Charity Trial”. A fitting tribute to close the involvement of Howard Jones in making this annual event such a success as he steps back from day to day involvement with the club.
Now the bad…a number of people expressed disappointment at the club’s decision to withdraw from running events in the winter months. The club has invested time and material to improve parking at Riley’s and to secure two alternative venues with better parking so that events in November, December and February can be added to the calendar. Unfortunately from the entries received for November it looks like riders do not really want these “colder months” events and the club will be making a decision after the November event regarding the viability of the December and February trials. As the old saying also goes “if you don’t use it you will loose it”.
If anyone has views on what the committee can do to improve uptake of our events please let us know, we have recognised that earlier in the season one or two of our events had white routes that were a level that was higher than the riders on this route expected, we have addressed that and we are always open to constructive criticism! November Chapmen trial
Entries are now open for on sports 80 for our 5th of November Chapmen Trial. Entries close on the 2nd of November at midnight,
This trial has been added to our calendar so please tell other riders as they may not be aware of this trial
Message from outgoing Committee
This is the last trial for which I have acted as Club Secretary/Treasurer, Trials Secretary of the Meeting and Clerk of the Course, since I was asked by Gary Shield in September 2018 to take over from Richard Hodges who had decided, at short notice, to cease being the Club Secretary/Treasurer and running the trials.
I would like to thank my son, Peter, who has been inputting and producing the results, looking after the website and Facebook pages for over 10 years and for his assistance in getting the computer equipment sorted for the new committee along with all the other various tasks and of course my wife Patricia for putting up with the disruption on trial weeks and also helping out with the multitude of things we have had to do!
Thanks to everyone who has ridden at the trials and especially to all the volunteer observers and course setters, without whom the events would not run. I wish the new committee all the best for the future and I am sure that the club will continue to go on from strength to strength in the coming years.
Howard
2023 Championship
The winners have also been finalised. Updated Championship Information is on the 2023 Championship page.
CLUB NOTICE Updated - 5/9/23
Loughborough and District Motor Cycle Club held its annual general meeting on 31/8/23 in line with the published constitution of the club. Minutes of the Agenda are posted at the link below.
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