JAMES Fry hits the road from Brighton to St John’s Chapel this weekend to ride the final round of the Novogar Clubman Championship – despite having taken the title with a winning round last Sunday in the Mid- Wales Centre’s event.

The MRS Sherco teamster will ride the North East Centre’s Travers Trial with its 40 sections high above St John’s Chapel and one great 35-mile lap. The Travers has always been one of the great traditional trials and Newcastle Motor Club have never implemented any major changes.

The trial was axed in 2007 when the foot-and-mouth and bluetongue diseases reared their respective heads, albeit 250 miles away.

Fry will not have an easy ride in the Durham hills. John Crinson ran him close last week, but Dale Robson and Lewis Peart will be fighting hard on home ground. The incomers are Ben and Sam Ludgate, Phil Alderson, Roger Williams, Gary Jenkins, Dan Farrer and Chris Pearson.

Apart from the openers at Burtree Fell, all the other sections are open to spectators so Whetstonemea, Smallburns, Killhope, Valence Lodge and Thompson’s Falls will attract the spectators. Stockton’s Mark Harper leads the 94 starters off at 10am.

● Great Ayton rider Phil Mayfield continued his preparation for the forthcoming energysapping Scott Trial in fine style by winning at the Thirsk DMC trial on Sunday held at the Gliding Club Lane venue near Sutton Bank Top.

Clerk of course Dave Almack and helpers put together a cracking four-lap, ten-section course round the old Pringle’s Wood circuit for what turned out to be a slightly disappointing entry. The weather did its best as for once it remained dry and sunny.

Dan Peace from Pickering – undoubtedly emerging as one of the East Yorkshire Centre’s brightest young talents – produced a great performance in riding all the toughest expert sections alongside Mayfield, and he really had the little Beta buzzing with some great rides on the hard, slippery sections.

● Predictably, Jon Tuck and passenger Matt Sparkes won the Yeadon-Guiseley club’s Mel Harrison British sidecar championship at Pateley Bridge on Sunday, by a country mile, but, Darley builder Kevin Morley and 17-year-old Cullingworth passenger Sam Luscombe rode their Beta to victory in the Expert category.

Skipton’s Ian and Chris Pickard also delivered a top result by winning the Clubman class. All the class winners were mounted on Beta machines.

● Spaniard Toni Bou took his second succesive FIM World Trials Championship at Castelloli, Spain, on Sunday, where he ran away with the final event in the series a massive 16 penalties for challenger Adam Raga.

Dougie Lampkin rounded off the season with an average ride, for him. Dougie was unlucky on lap one to fail four sections but improved on lap two but his Spanish rivals on homeground were invincible. James Dabill and Michael Brown failed in their efforts to climb on the podium this year.

● Phil Alderson and Martin Crosswaite headed the Richmond trial on Sunday at Low Row, where Alderson won the event but only after a tight battle with the Bingley rider. Crosswaite lost after a tie breaker decision.

Haworth’s Wayne Braybrook was also on the losing end of a tiebreak to Ben Hemingway for third place. Despite the low number of starters, just 60, it was a classy event with sunshine wall to wall up in the Richmondshire hills west of Reeth. The two-lap course featured some of the best sections in Yorkshire.

● Fifteen-year-old West Witton schoolboy Richard Sadler blazed a victory trail at Diamond Pastures where he won the Bradford MC trial at the Park Rash venue. Trawden’s Ross Crosby managed to beat Nathan Wrigglesworth in the battle for runner-up position.

With Richmond trial not a million miles away entries were low.

The shale exit at the top of the fifth section did dig out – and that accounted for the winner’s final score. Youth A Richmond rider Will Reynolds got it right with a clean, single mark and a brace of threes. Only Sadler cleaned the last four sections.

● The Acklams gang scooped the novice class at the Ripon club’s seventh round, and final round, of the Acklams Motorcycles summer championship series on Saturday at Winksley.

Mill House Farm was the almost instant venue for round seven in the championship. Joel Sadler put one over his father on the four-lap ten-section course.