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ACU Trial GB Class review from St Davids Trial.

Jack Price (Gas Gas) heads off to the first Trial GP round in Italy this weekend holding a single point lead in the domestic championship from Toby Martin (Beta), whilst Dan Peace (Sherco) sits in third ready to pounce on the leading pair. Current Champion, James Dabill has elected not...

Champion Danby strikes back in ACU Trial 2.

Following a defeat in the opening round, Ross Danby (TRRS) won the ACU Trial 2 class at the St David's Trial in a convincing manner and in doing so heads the series after two rounds. In a tough battle for second spot, Returning punch cards of fifteen and eighteen set...

Another Price at the top.

TRRS rider Lloyd Price took the ACU Trial Expert Class win at the St David's and with it gained the coveted Point-S Red Plate as Series Leader. A brilliant second lap, completing the twelve sections for zero marks lost set up the win for the rider from Maesteg, but it...

St Davids Video Clip now online.

We are pleased to announce that we now seem to have sorted the gremlins with the website and a short (two minute) clip of some of the action from round two can now be found by clicking the "Videos" button at the top of this page. We hope to improve...

ACU Trial 125 Class St Davids Report

As the series heads off to Tynemouth for a double header in two weeks time, two riders are tying at the top of the ACU Trial 125 Class after Ben Dignan (Gas Gas) reversed the roles from round one and comfortably beat Brett Harbud (Beta) this time round. Both riders...

Brief Summary of the St Davids Trial.

Jack Price, pictured on the opening section, Ross Danby, Ben Dignan and Lloyd Price all won their respective classes in todays St David's Trial which was the second round of the 2019 series. Whilst Gas Gas and TRRS riders shared the spoils with the top step of the podiums, no...

St Davids Preview - Trial GB and Trial 2

Round two takes place this Sunday with the St David’s Trial, high above Aberdulais in South Wales. With current Champion, James Dabill not being able to commit to the whole series there will be a new holder of the coveted red plate at the end of the event in...

St Davids Spectator Information.

Regular visitors to the St David's Trial will know their way around the course at Llety Rafel Farm, but a first time visitor may find this information useful as the whole course is about three and a half kilometers long. The opening pair of sections are situated just along the...

Preview of ACU Trial Expert and Trial 125 classes

The St David's Trial ACU Expert Class boasts big entry on Sunday. Thirty two riders will compete in the ACU Expert Class with Chris Stay, Ben Morphett and Dan Thorpe who all stood on the podium at the first round fending off challenges from Sam Yeomans and Charlie Smith....

Profile of the day - Aiden Bowker

Coming from a motorcycling family background it was always likely that nineteen year old Aiden Bowker was going to follow in his father, Neil's footsteps, by becoming an off road all rounder. We caught up with the Bowker's after Neil had just finished competing in the SSDT. Currently a Business...

Final layout at the St Davids

In glorious sunshine, the team at Neath were busy at the weekend doing the final marking and preparation for the second round of the series which takes place on Sunday. It has been confirmed that six of the twelve ACU Trial GB sections on each of the three laps will...

Tyler Rendall - Profile.

Although he is out of action for a few weeks with injury to a couple of fingers due to an accident at work, we take a look at up and coming West Country rider, Tyler Rendall. Having received a tremendous amount of backing from his parents, Steve and Nicky over...

Further around the course at Tynemouth.

Following our preview of the earlier sections last week, we now move two third of the way round the course to the wooded hillside which will form part of the Trial on both days. The furthest away from the start area on the anti clockwise loop, the group here will...

Jersey Rider - Richard Pallot.

Living in the South of the Island of Jersey, competing in the ACU Trial GB Series has it's challenges for twenty year old Richard Pallot, but coming from a Trials family background where father Tony and also Grandfather competed in Trials, makes a huge difference. A Welder / Engineer by...

Rider Profile - Tom McCabe

Sometimes it is quite refreshing to hear that a rider enjoys his work life just as much as his Trials riding and that is exactly what Farnham Expert, Tom McCabe does. A Bricklayer, Groundworker and Digger Driver by trade, Tom freely admits to loving his work and although he works...

Todays Profile - Ben Dignan.

Today we move to the ACU Trial 125 class and take a look at Scottish star, Ben Dignan from Roy Bridge, which is just a few miles north of Fort William. At the tender age of sixteen, Ben has attracted a portfolio of sponsors including Gas Gas UK, Highland Leisure...

Another look at Rounds three and four

Whilst we must remember that the second round of the series is yet to take place on the 19th May, being the St David's Trial at Neath, Clerk of the Course Paul Battensby has sent us more pictures from Shaftoe Crags near Morpeth, where the double header takes place as...

Rider Profile - Charlie Smith

Britain has a lot of young talent emerging and seventeen year old Charlie Smith from Bradford is certainly one to look out for. Finishing a superb fifth in the ACU Trial Expert class at the opening round, Charlie put his full fourteen years Trials experience to good use, cleaning twenty...

Rider Profile - Steve Harris.

Steve Harris, at the age of thirty two, is one of the more senior riders in the ACU Trial Expert Class. Living in Redditch, more or less in the centre of the country, Steve didn't start riding Trials until his thirteenth birthday, but he also had five years out concentrating...

Entries are live for the next four rounds

Whilst the majority of series riders have now entered for the St David's Trial - the second round of the series, Riders and Teams should be aware that entries for the two Tynemouth rounds (3 & 4) plus the Anthony Rew Trial (round 5) are now live on the ACU...