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Wye Valley's John Langford Trial results are now up. The club's Stan Hinsley Trial to be held on 13th July has been postponed and will hopefully be run some time in August.[On: 1Jul08 20:42]
Round 3 of Gwent Schoolboy TC's series. Results [On: 1Jul08 21:42]
Stroud Valley MC has its own website which is well worth a look. [Updated: 1Jul08 21:07]
Centre Championship Trial, Round 1 on 27th July - Note Venue is Storridge Farm not Bringsty. Corrected Regulations and Entry Form on the Calendar. Malvern are running this round. [Updated: 25Jun08 21:00]
Twinshock action. Wye Valley AC represented itself and, seeing as there was no official entry, the Western Centre too at the Inter Centre Twinshock Trial. They came 5th from 7 in what looked like a pretty tough event. More.[On: 17Jun08 22:09]
Centre Enduros are now in full swing. Find out more...[On: 17Jun08 22:09]
Glos and Cots Awards - have you won one and not collected it? Find out more...[On: 17Jun08 21:55]
Glos and Cots John Husband Team Trial held June 15.Results. Find out a bit more about the trial and the late "Hubbo" here.[On: 15Jun08 21:55]
Dates! There's been quite a few changes made since the last ACU Western Centre Board Meeting on June 9. Too many to mention but check out the calendar[On: 15Jun08 21:59]
Stroud Valley's Ron Carter Trophies Trial was a great success, with Henry Bendall taking top spot on a scorching hot day. Full results are available now and a roundup too. [On: 15Jun08 21:45]
New trial for Wye Valley. The John Langford Trial is named after the club's recently elected president and will be staged on June 29. John has been the club's vice-president for a good many years now, and has worked hard for the club in years gone by. John is now in his nineties and is still riding motorbikes, allbeit on the road, not off it!
The trial is a new venture for the club with the inclusion of classes for C and D class youth riders. The C class will ride the Easy Route (see supp. regs.) and the D class will ride a seperate Conducted Route. Adult riders are virtually all catered for, with the exception of Experts on modern bikes, although Experts are welcome if they ride a twinshock, a pre75 British bike or are over the age of 40. All the details are on the calendar.
For sale: Beta 270 For details click here.[On: 04Jun08 22:58]
Motorcycling adventuress Lois Pryce gave a great talk on her epic solo travels through Africa. Thanks to the Gloucestershire branch of the Trail Riders Fellowship (TRF), she was in Gloucester on June 4. More details
[On: 23May08 22:22]
Five Western Centre riders rode in the Scottish Six Days Trial , which finished on Saturday, May 10, with John Luff, David Luff and Henry Bendall claiming 2nd class awards. Find out how they fared. The final, final update is now on, with pictures of some of the lads at the finish and link to final results, awards and video.[On: 11May08 18:05]
Congratulations to Western Centre trials champ Simon Welch, who scored two British Championship points for 14th place in the Experts class at the recent 2nd Round of the Colin Appleyard British Solo Trials Championship at Neath. To the uninitiated, this is the class below the Championship but nobody's idea of an easy route! Well done Simon. Any Western Centre riders, officials and spectators are welcome to send updates on what they have been up to to editor@acuwesterncentre.org.uk
CHG 15th Annual Sphinx Long Distance Trial, held Sunday, April 20. Results and report (Now with Photos) - Gavin Moore, Steve Saunders and Andy Lloyd went clean and were split only on special test time.[On: 21Apr08 21:26]
We have a winner! Western Centre ACU vice chairman, Inter Centre Trials Team Manager, and Trials Recorder Tom Welch has won the Dick Wyatt award for services to the centre. Read more[On: 15Apr08 21:02]
Good luck to all our ACU national champions for 2008 - Steve Allen (Sammy Miller British Bike Championship, Pre-unit Rigid), Ian Hannam and Deb Smith (SMBBC, Unit Sidecar) and Nic Draper (Classic Trials Championship, Air-cooled mono).
This Website gets a new Editor
A new championship for trials observers - details.
Mercian Dirt Riders Club Enduro Championship - 6 rounds, best 5 to count. See Events Calendar
Trials Centre Championship Positions Full final standings
Wye Valley AC's Classic Series Final positions...
Stolen Bikes! and totally unconnected - Bikes for sale!
Trials Riders - A Call for your comments on the Section Marking Debate (Brett King has just updated after Sapperton.) Also Ken O'Brien on Observers topic.
About this Website
Riders page and Organiser/Official's Pages can now be found in the Gazette, as can pages for all the disciplines.
What's in the Gazette?
Breaking stories in the current gazette. This month in the Trials section we have an update on the changes to the Trials Championship and Grading. Plus the Final Trials Championship Results.
Results Service
Where clubs don't have their own websites we will be able to publish results on this website, or link back to where they are published. We have previously provided links here to the latest but have now changed to only list them on our central source which is the Event Calendar, found on the menu bar above.
Regs Available
All the latest Regulations can be found on the Event Calendar. Plus we now have some of our neighbouring centre's events listed starting with the Gwent Schoolboy Trials Club.
What about those unconnected souls you ask? A paper based system can still be used in parallel but thanks to some very supportive sponsors, riders can call in and pick regs up from them. (More details to come as Tom is negotiating now.)
Reminder
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