OLLY KENDRA was on top form at Moorgate Farm, Ouseburn on Saturday where he won the Eboracum Motor Cycle Club’s AJS Trophy Trial, ahead of David Pye and Richard Kendra.

Olly set the standard by riding the first four of ten sections without penalty. The first seven were in the Big Plantation where the gradients, stream and large rocks at the west end always test competitors.

Richard Kendra started badly by riding over a section marker right at the feet of the observer. That was five marks on his card almost as the trial started.

The second section featured a rock climb followed by a plunge into the stream and out over an exposed tree root.

Very tricky for all Hard and Clubman A class riders. Sections three to five climbed the valley slopes over rocks and it was severe for the hard course riders. Olly Kendra and Pye were the class leaders. The final three section again saw Pye closing in on the winner.

Shane Monkman, Matt Sharp and Darren Johnson won the main classes while Aldis Blacker and Zac Collinson were the “lone rangers” in the two youth classes.

HATS off to the Tweed Valley Club last week, for after two years work they finally got the go ahead to run their trial at Alnham Farm, near Alnwick, in Northumberland.

New courses are naturally hard to come by these days so a healthy 60 riders turned out in glorious but windy conditions to see what was on offer, which turned out to be five sections on steep banksides followed by another five in a disused quarry. Colin Ward (Beta) dropped three single penalties in the quarry and this score put him four clear of Lewis Peart (Ossa), who was a further four better off than Carl Shaw (Montesa).

Apart from Shaw’s loss on his last lap visit to section two, only the quarry sections took marks off these three, with section seven, a climb up very loose boulders, taking the majority of marks.

DARLINGTON Motor Club staged their Help for Heroes Trial at Downholme, Leyburn on October 27 in the worst weather conditions possible.

The trial was well supported and the final figure raised was £1,200, after payment for the use of military land.