The annual Scott Trial, 2016 edition is just but one month distant!

The first rider will leave the start field at 9.00am on Saturday, 22nd October at Feldom Lane, near Richmond, North Yorkshire (Sat-Nav DL10 4AR); flagged away by Councillor John Blackie of the Richmondshire District Council.

The Scott is a time and observation trial which has been going since 1914, and 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of its running by the Richmond Motor Club for the Yorkshire Centre ACU.

Entries closed on September 9th with a full compliment of 200 competitors, the alphabetic entry list is now available on the Richmond Motor Club (Yorks) Ltd official website.

However, as is normal, the event will have an 88 page full colour, official souvenir programme for sale pre-event, priced at £5.00 for spectators and Scott enthusiasts. The proceeds of which are distributed, (post event in February) to the ‘Scott Charities’, which is traditional and part of the event. Riding numbers will be shown in the official programme.

There are some new features at the trial this year, so please ensure that you pick up your copy of the programme at the usual local Richmond outlets from Monday 10th October, or from the stall at the start field on the day of the trial. If you do buy at the field, get there early as the programme is likely to sell out quickly.

Trials Guru’s John Moffat, a keen supporter of the event, has taken on the task of producing the official programme this year from Julia Robinson, wife of Clerk of Course, Paul Robinson.

Moffat said: “I have had a busy, but enjoyable time collecting all the photographs, information, adverts and articles to help make the programme a souvenir of the 2016 Scott. I am grateful to Julia Robinson for conducting a very smooth hand-over to me and to those who have written articles, accounts and the foreword for this years edition. The programme will be printed locally in Richmond and distributed pre-trial and available at the usual outlets in and around the Richmond area. I will still be undertaking duties at the Scott, which includes some course laying out on the Friday and start/finish line commentary as the action happens on the day”.

He added: “I’m grateful to those who have helped me obtain information and the articles and remember, everything that is raised by the programme and this magnificent event is for the Scott charities, all very worthy causes”.

Stay tuned to Trials Guru for more Scott Trial 2016 updates …

James Dabill (Vertigo) has claimed his seventh ACU Trials Championship at the Tynemouth & District Motor Club round near Newcastle at Morpeth’s Shaftoe Crags, Middleton on Sunday 18th September round nine.

We are always on the lookout for something out of the ordinary at Trials Guru, so here we have something for you!

Some artwork that was undertaken by designer Justyn Norek in Milan. The drawings never made it into metal, but they are at least some nice design exercises.

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All images copyright of Justyn Norek Design, Turin, Italy.

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Something a little out of the ordinary for Trials Guru’s John Moffat when he undertook some commentary work with former British ACU Motorcyle Racing champion, Rob Orme and British and European Truck racing and Motorcycle Racing champion, Steve ‘Stavros’ Parrish.

Moffat was attending the annual Grampian Motorcycle Convention at Alford, Aberdeenshire, organised jointly by the Bon Accord MCC and Grampian Transport Museum on 4th September.

Attended by around 6,000 members of the public, the Convention is a showcase of motorcycle sport in Scotland. The main attractions were the ‘Purple Helmets Motorcycle Display Team’ from the Isle of Man and three times British Champion and four times SSDT winner, Steve Colley with his Mr. Showtime motorcycle Display Show, both from the Isle of Man.

Moffat: “I really enjoyed catching up with my old mate Steve Colley as he is no longer a top flight trials rider, but our paths cross form time to time. Steve Parrish I actually interviewed many years ago at the Scottish Motorcycle Show, so we have met previously. Steve Parrish is a great practical joker and he put on a mini-edition of his MAD tour evening the night before the convention. He is a great entertainer with anecdotes of his racing career which ensure that he hasn’t had a ‘proper job’ for 43 years, having been a professional motorcycle racer from the age of 20 and moving into truck racing”.

He added: “The Purple Helmets I have seen before, but they always add something new to their act and they are hilarious, if you haven’t seen them, see them, they are really funny and it’s fantastic entertainment, they should get them up for the SSDT, that would really be something else!”.

Continuing our coverage of trials in the south west area of the UK, we have created West Country Trials – Take 2. It’s launched now with regular additions.

View it: HERE

To expand the coverage of the South West of the UK, we are setting up a new section’ on Trials Guru called ‘West Country Trials – Take 2’.

We will start this by featuring the photographic skills of Linda Ashford from Somerset.

Coming soon on Trials Guru …

We have been upgrading Trials Guru recently so that you can search for riders easier.

The names of riders featured in photographs have been put into index at the start of special sections. More will follow over the next couple of weeks.

Who knows, try putting your own name in and see if you are on here, many have.

All you need to do is go to the ‘Search … ‘ box above, type the name in and hit you enter button!

We are delighted to confirm that this years event will again be sponsored by Trevor Willans and his company, NDL based in Darlington.

The Scott Trial is one of those trials that appears to be over and done in a matter of hours, but in reality it takes the organising committee around 10 months to prepare, run and complete all the paperwork, planning and marking out needed to run the toughest one-day trial in the world!

So as you can imagine there has already been a lot of preparation work already completed for this year’s event, with the distribution of the 2015 Charity monies completed in February, the Regs, permit and permissions gained, the Clerk of the Course has already been out and about with his assistants to try and give the course a few new dimensions. Last year the new sections and partly new route were said by some riders to be a new challenge and enjoyable!

One thing is for certain, it will be another great traditional event with a worthy winner at the end of the day.

Entries are coming in fast now and of the first 68 entries, a fantastic 25 are from first timers so those of you who have ridden before, you better get a move on and get your entries in as soon as possible. We are also having quite a bit of interest from riders wanting to enter charity teams, so please get those entries in quick, as we can only take 3 teams.

Our friends from overseas are hoping to join us again this year and we already have two teams entered from Rhondda MC so don’t forget to make sure that you enter for all of the individual and team awards that you are eligible for.  

As ever the entry is first come first served with a 200 rider limit, you can download your entries from RMC website www.richmondmotorclub.com .

For all other information please get in touch with the event secretary Diane Horner at scottsecretary@richmondmotorclub.com

PAUL ROBINSON – CLERK OF THE COURSE, SCOTT TRIAL 2016

We do things differently on Trials Guru – The Scottish Six Days Trial ‘special section’ has recently been updated with more information and photographs, don’t miss it!

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Read about this letter from 1958:

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Go to the Trials Guru SSDT page: HERE