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Sixty one years on and the White Rose Trial blooms again. Not quite the original but the same quality of terrain. The same facts apply to the organisers. Many are old school thinkers and plot sections that can ridden and cleaned. The entry number of one hundred and eighty is a true testimony of the trial. The trial has changed slightly but not a lot. Over twenty five international riders have tasted the White Rose and only missed out when the foot and mouth cattle disease dropped by in 2001. I remember sixty two years navigating my black Flying Standard saloon car up from Otley to the outback for me, of Hawes. Aforementioned saloon had cable brakes that did their own thing. The course was daunting. The Knockaknee section was just that and a mile trudge through deep bogs Kate's Cottage, with a fine view of the mighty Ribble head Viaduct, is now a crumbling ruin but the stream above is still a section. Renee's Gorge is gone due to land changes and the Snaizholme sections are history but with changes. The muddy track from Renee's Gorge has also been dropped as are the Snaizeholme sextet of rocky hazards which are still part of the course but from another direction. The three subs at Ricky Climb got the ball rolling the old favourite Widdale s two sections followed by a wade through Sheepdip. Piggeries two subs were seventh and eighth. Easy Street was nineteenth, and not easy. From that point onwards the old White Rose came into the picture. Wether Fell, Steptoe Don's Dig and Delight featured five subs followed by Bowden Back Yard and Muddy Gully. The run-in featured B'stard, Knockknee and Final Fling. Forty great sections.
The third section took marks of many of the one hundred and eighty competitors including the winner who dropped a boot for the first time, He repeated that move only three more times. Typical White Rose section plotting. Rob Waite was on Sadler all the way. Lakelander Darren Brice was near but a three in the third and a stop in eighteenth affected battle for the win. Richard Gaskell won the 50/50 class on a tie breaker with Lewis Byron and West Leeds front runner Ben Ludgate.The trio signed off on just eight penalties. Consett's Stephen Bennett also dropped eight marks to win the Clubman class from Mark and David Coulson. Katy Sunter completed the forty section course to take twenty second place in the 50-50 class.
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