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Nigel Shepherd has got permission from the land owner and has been in dialogue with Haggis at the hills borough club. I'll ask him to pop to the club meeting also.

Here are some photos of the venue. Mainly elite sections shown. Should be a good trial

I'm going up there today Dave to have a good look round so I'll try and get some photos. Its a steady venue and I would say two or three elite sections may be a bit tame but hopefully the other 5 or 6 will make up for it. Presume you will be at Shipley tomorrow? Helping setting sections out, help with signing on, getting full quota of observers, telling observers when its finished, collecting all flags and section markers in and putting them all away, ensuring venue left tidy. Any help with these would be good cheers.

It was a really windy day so you wouldn't of heard much bike noises but just the wind.

Had to edit the video on youtube so it can play on mobile devices. Please excuse the music as the original was not allowed due to copyright.

He has looked up to many riders over the last few years but currently he likes watching Vasek Kolar and Abel. He also loves the oppurtunity to go practicing with Jack Carthy. He was born onto a trials family and attended his first motorbike trial when he was only 2 weeks old, since then hes been to hundreds of trials and spent many hours pushing a plastic tricycle round international paddocks at world motorbike trials. Its in his blood.

We'll be there. Also Sam Shepherd is going and Alex Richardson & Oliver. Think the Rolls will be going also.

Adam headed out with his practice partner Sam Shepherd to Higger Tor to enjoy a sunny but cold day. Enjoy! Vimeo https://vimeo.com/59850534 YouTube

As some of you will have noticed there are 4 Tyke Trials taking place this year in the Sheffield / Derbyshire area in addition to the normal events held in West Yorkshire. My wife and I have been thinking about running some events for a while now and thanks to the agreement from Barbara and the rest of the Tyke Trial club we will run 4 events this year under their banner. The 1st event will be held at Berrycliffe Quarry near Elton in 4 weeks time on the 10th March. It would be great to see the all normal Tyke riders there but also some new ones from the local area or those further south who think the journey to the normal venues is just that bit too far. Anybody wanting to give us a hand with the organisation would be gratefully appreciated. The other dates / venues in the area are - 19th May Dudwood Farm, Nr Bakewell 18th August Gibralter Rocks, Nr High Bradfield, Sheffield 27th October Bracken Rocks, Nr Matlock Please note that all these venues are private land and no one must go practicing at them unless they have the landowners permission.

Hathersage area on Saturday for some natty

Adam is running a CC on his practice bike and it seems to be good. He has Monty pro race front and rear on his comp bike but hasn't used it much so far. They are really light and do grip well. Can't comment on wear rate of the rear yet but he ran a front pro race for 6 months last year and its great.

Adam is in the black Jitsie gear on the Onza. He's 11 in a couple of weeks and Sam is on the monty 207. He was 10 a couple of weeks ago.

Few clips of Adam Morewood & Sam Shepherd playing on Adams practice sections. Not bad for a couple of 10 year olds!

Ride down a steep hill with the brake on to get it really hot and then pour water on the disc and pads which should steam off all the contamination.

Sensible comments at last!

Good day practicing in the sun at Matlock Quarry

The std lever blades are 3 finger. I think the Magura ones will fit

It has got a split clamp. It says 2 bolt clamp in the description and I've seen the prototype. It also looks the same either way up so can be used on the left or right hand side.

Tensile are bringing out a brake lever combo for your Magura. Looks good with split clamp, 3 finger lever blade along the lines of an 05 Magura. Metal TPA and flip - flop design. http://www.tensile.net/tensile-tocco-hydraulic-caliper-brake-lever.html

Will be fine with shorter stem and cutting bars down. Also make sure you adjust the brake lever reach so they can ride with one finger on the lever. The other thing to consider is the gearing. It seems a bit high (too hard to pedal). without big expense the best thing is to put a larger rear freewheel on.

Problem is Kev that the older Red riders want to be challenged more with some large moves and Adam and Charlie aren't physically big enough, plus red is full UCI rules where cadet is BIU. See how they go over the winter with practice. Adams not 11 until February so if he's already on Red at that age there is not a lot to aim at. The decision at the meeting was to try and toughen up the sections a bit as Red, blue, green have all become a bit easy.

Yes your correct. There wasn't enough entries in the 20" class to get a full podium and 11 classes at each event was a bit much. But there will still be an overall championship at the end of the year for 20" & 26".

Oh s*** just realised that makes me a southerner! Lol

I read somewhere the centre of Great Britain is actually in Lancashire. So that makes the rounds a good spread. The nearest round to the centre is Shipley. So there 3 north of there and three south. Unfortunateley it's never going to suit everyone and it all comes down to where you live. Me and the wife did 20 years I British championship sidecar trials and every event apart from 1 per year was south for us.

Colour scheme chosen by Adam for his Genesis XS!