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 moreFinally Climbing That Ladder – Cotswold Clouds Trial 2022
Charlotte, my daughter and trusty passenger/navigator, is busy letting the rear tyres down on our Suzuki X-90 as it waits on a precarious little road high above the Cotswold town…
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 moreDarkest Before The Dawn…Especially With No Lights. 2022 Exeter Trial
We’re sitting in a little lane in south Devon. It’s early January and just after 7am. It’s dark. The engine stopped five minutes ago and we coasted down a hill…
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 more“It’s Trialling Jim, But Not As We Knew It” Three Car Trial Adventures
Untill November , taking part in car trials was a strictly Dad-and-Daughter adventure. Ever since I got back into competitive motoring I have been accompanied by my daugher Charlotte. We’ve …
Read moreThe Big Adventure : Lands End Trial 2019
They call the last “observed section” on the Lands End Trial OLD STONEY. It’s a little old cart track off the road that runs inland from Porthtowen on the rugged…
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