An amazing 90 riders tackled the final Pre-67/Twinshock southern centre championship round at the Pickling Yards on Sunday – a great entry and great weather to go with it. The course was laid out with the older bikes in mind, and gave a fair mixture of mud and grippy gravelly sections to deal with. The event also incorporated the Ron Walters Memorial award for the best rider on the C Route

Due to some issues with uploading the large results sheet, it can be found on the Nomads facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/257580464393976

Huge thanks to all of you that supported this series and making it such a success. Obviously thanks to observers & officials on Sunday & to Nomads that gave up a ride again to organise. Best wishes to a few riders who succumbed to hopefully minor knocks & for a speedy return to action. A few mechanicals also contributed to some non finishers.

The parking area & course was left totally clear of litter as per normal for the Trials Community, but great to see we are all protecting the land.

Our next will be the Landowners Charity Trial on 10th January – once again at the Pickling Yards. Start is 11am and run under AMCA rules. £15 adult,£5 Youth- Free Hot Dog & tea or coffee or soft drink included

Landowners Charity Trial & Raffle- prizes & donations welcome. The Trial will be preceded by the 2025 Series awards presentation if we manage to get them engraved in time!

Don’ forget our next trial will be the Open-to-Centre’ Mike Slatter’ Classic (open to all classes) observed A.C.U trial in The Pickling Yards Mortimer, on Sunday 23rd November 10.30AM start. As it’s part of the Southern Centre classic championship, entries are available on ACU Sport80

https://acu.sport80.com/

The Pickling Yards is ideally suited to classic events and sections will laid out with the older bike in mind.

Last Tuesday evenings fun/ practice trial was a great success with 34 riders turning up on a perfect evening.

We will be running the second of our two Fun/Practice Trials tomorrow night – Once again at Ellisons from 5pm -Tuesday 12th August.


Any questions, call Brice – 07733 017670

Thank you all for supporting the Pathfinder once again this year! Whilst the event is now full, I will be running a reserve list so message me if you are interested.

ian.mace@gmail.com

There are also several incomplete entries – so if you started to enter and changed your mind, please let me know so I can reallocate the entry. If you do want to ride, get on to ACU Sport80 and complete the entry. Any problems, message me.

A sunny morning in rural Berkshire enticed 26 riders to sandy Hermitage for CTC 3/25, welcome to returnees & recruits Trevor, Jason, Lewis, Simon & Diccon. Rey & Dave set 3 varied routes of a ‘technical ‘nature, a necessity due to the dry conditions.

The results suggest they did a good job, as usual Bailey was immaculate in cleaning the A route with Rey not far adrift given the 50 years age penalty!
B route was close too, Adrian easing back in to action after a year of body upgrades on 7 marks lost to nick it by only 1 mark from Mark ,himself running in new body parts, with Dave only 3 marks further
adrift.
C route was purposely set to encourage the mixed age & ability range to safely enjoy their day, Jim & Simon sharing a ‘clean’ tie, maybe one of them should adopt a cravat! Glen on his real Pre 67 was a
close 3rd too.

With a few machine gremlins thrown in to the mix several competitors took the opportunity for ‘rider development ‘practice rather than actual results, all welcome!
Nomads take a summer break from the official AMCA CTC series until October 4th followed by the ’Mike Slatter’ ACU open to centre mixed class & Twinshock/pre67 centre championship round on
November 23rd, more updates later in the year!

Meanwhile, the club will be running our flagship ‘Pathfinder 3 Stage Trial’ (listed on ACU Sport 80) on May 18th at Bagshot, help on the weekend always welcome.
We still hope to secure the use of our Silchester venue for a couple of early summer Evening AMCA Trials, again updates will be posted if we get the go ahead

Full Results – here