It is hard to beleive that we are almost at the end of 2024 with only 1 round left in the Championship. The penultimate round was a revisit to Nant Y Ffrith and saw a good turnout of 67 bikes on what was a chilly day but a wonderful setting to have Kev in our minds on what would have been his birthday.

Pre 65 and Twinshocks gave a good showing with 16 and 14 bikes a piece with the Air Cooled Monos and early Water Cooled Monos having 7 and 2 entries. This left the Modern Monos to have a healthy 28 bikes on the day.

Clubman route was the most popular with 30 riders hitting the Yellow route closely followed by Intermediates with 19 competitors. Novices were really well represented with 12 riders followed by 6 Experts.

Tony Williams – Modern Mono / Clubman

Hello everyone, just arrived at Nant Y Friff to a really damp grey day. I was welcomed by Steve, Ali and Geoff , parking sorted, well here we go. I though I would try the Clubmen route.

Section 1 simple, but can easy drop marks. Dropped a daft one. Now Section 2, a climb over off camerber tree roots, cleaned it .

Section 3 belonged to Ian jones, this man dont miss a trick! A slippery slope to a tight right turn then steep down hill, through two trees and tight right out. Really messed this up, daft 3. Section 4 cleaned then Section 5, Dave Lovell. It was so easy but the off camber right hand uphill turn messed loads of riders up.

Now on to Section 6, Russ and Sue present. A very good section, you had to commit to it. A steep 3 steps, tight right, downhill to the out cards. Again got it wrong, another 3 and this was the story all day but a great enjoyable trial.

Well done everyone , Kev would have loved it.

Kenton Hackney – AC Mono / Clubman

Section 1: A pleasant cambered section with a tricky left camber to the right with a very tight exit.

Section 2: Gentle slope, sharp left then right with a gentle right exit if taken to quickly, caused problems

Section 3: A tricky entry with an off camber left, gentle turn with muddy bank to climb followed by a right over a log with two twists between trees

Section 4: Cambered section, left turn on a climb, twist across camber before a left right exit

Section 5: Mandy the cakes section. A pleasant twist and turn section between to bank sides with a tight exit

Section 6: The one by the derelict house. Oh how I hated this tight entry. A descent with a sharp and I mean sharp right turn between walls which appears to fall in your route at any given time

Section 7: Cheeky short entry before a right sweeping turn over a root that continued to be more exposed and slippy as the day wore on with two or three twist between trees

Section 8: Ably maned by Russ and Sue, slippy steep bank into a tight turn between trees with a small undulating descent

Section 9: Steep incline into a tight gap between trees with a few twisty turns and steep descent over a log

Section 10: Into a quirky in and out of trees with a cambered turn before the end cards good tight section

Facebook soundbites…

Nice to be back on a trials bike with Accy Classics after a bit of a lay off. Cracking big lap event with some great sections, thanks to all involved with organising, marking out, catering and of course the always friendly observers. A great venue and thanks to the landowners for it’s continued use.
A special place for Kev and nice to remember him on his birthday, RIP 🙏
Away in December but look forward to seeing everyone in 2025 for more feet-up fun 👍👍– Graham Pennington

Cracking trial again today, big thanks to everyone involved ,Russ and Mark for giving up their Saturday to set out the sections ,all of the observers without whom it wouldn’t be possible, Chris deburger for keeping us fed and watered , not looking forward to the results 😅
Cheers Accy – Steve Harding

Thanks to all riders that supported us today, a poignant day with the event being run at Nant y Ffrith on Kevs birthday.
Mark, Russ, Paul did a great job of setting the first few of sections in the vicinity of his memorial stone.
With the day starting foggy grey and dismal it left us assured that the decision to bring the start time forward to ten o’clock was the right one. With us being more or less wrapped up by two thirty.
Looking forward I think this may be the way to go for future winter events ( feel free to give us your opinion). As a benefit to riders and observers …
Good to see a few new faces, as well as the return of the “Cheshire Crew” plus one who im assured would make a good observer 😊😊
Thanks go to our caterer Chris de Burger and Niki his long suffering better half for keeping us fed and watered .
The landowner for his generosity in giving us the use of this superb venue once again.
But special thanks go to all our observers who brave the chilly conditions, where would we be without them 👍👍👍– Geoff and Jan

Before we move into the usual stats, we have to close by once again say a huge thankyou to the club team for all of the effort they put in over the preceding months to make this happen, the observers for still taking the time to support and the land owner as always.

Top Places

Pre 65

• Expert – Mike Jones, Triumph (93)
• Intermediate – Robin Foulkes, Francis Barnett (5); Tim Lewis, BSA (6); Roly Jones, Ariel (7)
• Clubman – Paul Brimelow, Cotton (1); Mark Gaskell, Triumph (3); Keith Gardner, BSA (5)
• Novice – Roger Smith, BSA (12); Terry Lloyd, Triumph (41)

Twinshock

• Expert – Richard Webster, Fantic (11)
• Intermediate – Jerry Hawker, Honda (9); Dave Pengilley, Kawasaki (9); Mike Smith, Honda (10)
• Clubman – Phil Cottiga, Fantic (5); Oliver Barker, Bultaco (14); Graham Pennington, Bultaco (18)
• Novice – Mike Kelly, Fantic (40)

Pre 1996 Air Cooled Mono

• Expert – No riders
• Intermediate – Paul Cartwright, Gas Gas (39); Steve Blaxhall, Fantic (52)
• Clubman – Ian Emery, Gas Gas (5); Andy Steele, Yamaha (9); Paul Corfield, Yamaha (14)
• Novice – No riders

Pre 2000 Water Cooled Mono

• Expert – No riders
• Intermediate – Alec Roberts, Montesa (11)
• Clubman – Marcus Greer, Beta (20)
• Novice – No riders

Modern Mono

• Expert – Kevin Hart, Gas Gas (0); Jordan Petrek, Gas Gas (5); Peter Ruscoe, Vertigo (7)
• Intermediate – Stephen Hall, Vertigo (17); Paul Hempkins, Beta (24); Stuart Parr, Beta (25)
• Clubman – Bert White Snr, Beta (1); Ken Williams, Beta (7); Spencer Davies, Beta (7)
• Novice – Graeme Ackerley, Sherco (5); Oliver Roberts, Sherco (18); Ollie Ackerley, Beta (20

Observer List

1 – Gordon

2 – Brian Cliff

3 – Ian Jones

4 – Paul Winter

5 – Wendy

6 – Dave Lovell

7 – Russ and Sue

8 – Jeff Hughes

9 – Dave

10 – Tom Austin

Stats

Bikes Classes

• Pre 65 – 16
• Twinshock – 14
• Pre 1996 Air Cooled Mono – 7
• Pre 2000 Water Cooled Mono – 2
• Modern Mono – 28

Route Classes

• Expert – 6
• Intermediate – 19
• Clubman – 30
• Novice – 12

Bikes

Pre 65

• Ariel – 1
• BSA – 4
• Cotton – 1
• Drayton Bantam – 2
• Francis Barnett – 2
• Triumph – 6

Twinshock

• Bultaco – 3
• Fantic – 7
• Honda – 3
• Kawasaki – 1

Pre 1996 Air Cooled Mono

• Fantic – 1
• Gas Gas – 3
• Yamaha – 3

Pre 2000 Water Cooled Mono

• Beta – 1
• Montesa – 1

Modern Mono

• Beta – 13
• Gas Gas – 3
• Scorpa – 2
• Sherco- 4
• Tenaci Wong – 1
• TRS – 1
• Vertigo – 4