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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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