A SUN-BLITZED Manton Quarry, near Lincoln, where Lincoln Motor Cycle Club staged the third round of the Ladies and Girls British Trials Championship.

Joanne Coles scored her third win in three events. Silsden’s Danielle Whitham had Hurworth youth starlet Rob Waite as minder and mechanic, and second place was enough to score 15 championship points.

Chloe Richardson won Class B headed a quintet of Yorkshire girls winning from Fryup’s Nikita Smith,Thornton le Dale’s Kate Hunter, Hull’s Simone Wallis and cousin Hannah Richardson with Marske’s Elle Braithwaite missing sixth place by a single mark, Another Richardson, Niamh, Chloe’s ten year old sister, was third in Class C behind Miss Waite.

LANDOWNER Simon Gill, of Ouseburn, opened the doors to a vast expanse of woodland and stream beds for Eboracum MC’s Annual Twin Shock Two Day Trial at the weekend.

Clerk of course Billy Kendra and helpers excelled in plotting a four-lap, ten-section course each day of the right severity, and all riders went home with a smile on their face.

Saturday saw an easy ride for the experienced as quite a few stayed unpenalised. Single marks were lost by Alan Cross, Richard Hildrick, Colin Bailey, John Pattinson, Mark Williamson, and Youth Matt Ackerly.

A superb first ride for Guisborough’s Sally Buckworth, losing 18, which brought the best out of trim and athletic looking father Trevor, who dredged the memory banks of his expert days to lose just nine marks.

Also, a good ride from Chloe Cockerill, settling more as the day went on.

Nerves jangled Sunday morning, 11 riders unpenalized.

First with a panic attack, Pattinson. A bout of rigor mortis in his knee sidelined him.

Section two and Jon Woods came to grief on the middle rock step. Then a shock for Mark Summer as, never making the turn at the end, the Honda hit the big rock and Mark was off.

Bailey nosed in front of Hildrick to take the Pre 65 award on most cleans. Ackerly headed the Youth class home on one mark lost and Tom Gill, best of the Clubmen on the rasping four stroke, spoilt a double clean sheet with a dab on the twists and turn in the stream bed of number seven.

Thirsk club stalwart Dave Almack snatched the runner-up berth from Tim Marrison who had a poor second day. In contrast, Martin Slowther stormed up the leaderboard to take fourth with a great ride of just seven lost on Sunday.

DAN Thorpe played on home ground in North Yorkshire on Sunday at Kinsgtone Farm, aka Sheps practice ground at Fellbeck, where the Master laid on three laps of 14 sections for the annual Yeadon-Guiseley Centre championship event.

It was a dry bright day and the scores in all classes were right on the button with clubman supreme Stewart Oughton posting a three dabs ride, all lost on the rocks at the ninth section where only Thorpe and Ben Hemingway ran clean all day.

Richard Sadler dropped three marks first time round then stuck in two clean rides but his problem was at the fourth where a last lap five lost him any chance of taking Thorpe to the cleaners. The entry was hot with 50 clubmen plus six youths and the hard course entry of 34 contenders.