Club Championship Series 2025

 

You will note from the club event calendar that the club has taken the decision to go back to a club championship series. This series will run as a closed to club event. The idea is that the trials will be exactly the same severity as the previous Novice and Beginners series, but with an extra hard route on each section to cater for those riders who find the main route a little easy, ie Expert/ Inter and the really good Novice riders. It is hoped that by providing this extra route we may attract the more capable riders out there!

 

In other words this means that whatever class you entered last year you will enter the same this year, unless of course you want a harder challenge. The way this will work is that each section on the main route will be marked with pink flags for the hard class riders to deviate onto.

See the link over on the Club Events panel that wiil give you the classes available and the flag colours for each class.

Club Eventsdates

 

Calendar

EVENTS CALENDAR

Click text or image above for 2025 dates.

 

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Club Trial R1

Post Hill --22/02/2025-- 13:00

 

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Regulations for this years Championship Series

 

Other News

Points Table & Awards

Points table and awards have now being completed, unfortunately a computer problem has resulted in us not being able to present them in the usual format, clicking the link below will display the tables in a PDF form. You will probably need to use the magnify button to read them clearly.

WEST LEEDS CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS

Novice & Beginners Rnd 6

On Thursday evening it was looking likely that we may have to cancel the event. Friday saw a flurry of over 20 entries so it was game on.
A cool but dry day with the sun poking it's head through the many trees was to greet the marking out crew. What also met us was the gate not locked from the last event! Could have been interesting!
Anyway, Simon went off with Howard to be told where to put flags. While Nigel and Greg put all the flags in to confuse John. Section 8 anyone?
After the mid week down pour, Post Hill was surprisingly dry and grippy. Relatively low scores indicated that the marking out team got the sections pretty much spot on.
We hope you had an enjoyable afternoons ride around and you'll join us for the final event on the 26th of this month.

Steve Walker Trial

After a dry but breezy day on the Saturday setting out. we were met with a another dry and breezy day on Sunday.
Will Tolson triumphed on the Championship course with the loss of just three marks from Elliot Laws who kept his feet firmly on the pegs but a coming together with a flag saw him add a 5 to his score.
Paul Kettlewell was the man to beat on the 50/50 whilst Howard Gulley was the top of the tree on the Clubman course.
well done to everyone and thank for your support. Big thanks to the observers who withstood the biting wind. It did help that the riders weren't hanging around and we were all wrapped up for two!

 

Luskys Leadmine Challenge

Just two riders from WLMC took on this challenge and they are to be congratulated on completing 17 laps between the two of them! The two WLMC hero's are pictured below during the event.

Greg Kershaw on the left looking steadfast and Simon Cassidy on the right looking as though he was enjoying a joke!

Greg&Simon

Photos by kind permission of Nige Pearson

 

Novice & Beginners 5th Roundnews

A reasonable day for this the 5th round of this years series. Some sunny spells for the helpers to mark out the course. Nigel, Howard, Simon and Jeff were joined by club treasurer, Ben Ludgate who had dragged himself out of bed, the popular explanation being he needed to test out the new bike! However all these members did observe as well, so we had a full complement. Thanks to all those members and thanks to the riders who supported the event. Apologies for the delay with the results, a bit of a computer hiccup!
Results here and on Results page!

 

Stan Pitts trial report news

After spending all day Saturday, digging, shifting, plotting, riding and planting flags. 14 sections were waiting for the Stan Pitts trial.
We were rewarded with nearly 40 entries Some say this is a shame for the kind of trial this is. However, just to keep this fantastic piece of land in use keeps us going. Hardly June weather was on the agenda with brief rain showers and small chinks of sunshine. I say brief, hardly any! We were over run with observers and were very thankful that every section was marshalled.
It seemed the sections got a little harder as the day wore on, so, those that got off early probably had the best of the going.
One thing that Halton Gill offers is a good ride around. So, a simple section becomes an arduous task when arm pump has set in on the third lap. Danny Gamble was the top dog with Dave Petty topping the clubman A and riding an immaculate 90's Gas Gas Anthony Ayrton was triumphant on clubman B with Paul Gravlstock keeping him on his toes with another retro ride on the twinshock Fantic. We hope you all enjoyed yourself and tell your friends for next year....

 

Stan Pitts Trial Rider Photographs

Don't quite know how he does it, but regular observer Brian Aryton manages to observe and capture rider images as well. The 3 class winners are on this new page click below:

 

Stan Pitts Class Winners

 

 

Special Award

In recognition of his 60 year service to the White Rose Trial; long time club member Paul Whitaker was presented with a plaque. Seen here being presented by club president John Kershaw (the tall one). During this 60 years Paul has held various roles which were:

Clerk of the Course
Asst CoC
Event Secretary
Chief Marshall
Asst Event Secretary

Time Keeper
Observer

Award was donated by Gordon Carr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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