OH! So Close…. 98th Lands End Trial . Easter 2022
There is an element of cruelty in the way the MCC Land End Trial works. You either pass or fail each hill or test as it comes. There are no…
Read moreIf Ever A Place Was Well Named… Clee Hills Trial 2022
In Shropshire, England, near the town of Craven Arms is a strange stone tower rising out of the woods at Callow Hill. Known as Flounder’s Folly it’s an 80 foot structure…
Read moreKeep Calm & Carry On : The Edinburgh Trial 2021
It’s raining hard and the lanes to Middleton-By-Youlgrave in the English Peak District are a chain of puddles through dripping hedges and overhanging trees. It’s mid afternoon on Saturday October…
Read more“Sorry To Bother You But…” Exmoor Clouds Trial 2021
September 5th . It’s supposed to be red hot and balmy but on the north Somerset coast, Exmoor is shrouded in mist and the temperature has been distinctly average for…
Read moreTHE PRESIDENTS TRIAL – Nothing To Do With Politics… Honest!
It’s a rather unfortunate title for a motor sport event these days. If you Google “President’s Trial” you find a lot of stuff about impeachment before way, waaaaaaay down the…
Read moreIt Already Seems So Long Ago : Clee Hills And Cotswold Clouds Trials 2020
This week we would, if things had gone normally, have been getting organised for the LANDS END TRIAL in which Carlotte and I were entered with our Suzuki X90. Of…
Read moreThe End Of The Road, For Now : VSCC Herefordshire Trial
It’s nearly the end of March 2020 and I was planning to be at Goodwood for the Member’s Meeting this coming weekend. A fortnight later we should have been off…
Read moreOver Thinking Litton Slack : 2019 MCC Edinburgh Trial
So there we were , in our nice, warm Suzuki X-90, on the way down through the fields to the most infamous hill on the entire Edinburgh Trial. A hill…
Read moreNext Stop Lands End…
Easter is approaching as I write and in the past that always meant a big event of some kind. Back in the old days before I had the much-missed shop,…
Read moreA Whole New World – Back In Action After 16 Years
I never retired from motor sport. I just didn’t compete in it for 16 years. It was, as several ‘resting’ F1 drivers used to say, “a sabbatical”. It turned into…
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