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(for background to Conducted Trials click here) 

At HDMC, our Conducted trial team have one goal.
To make our trials fun to ride, yet to help bring our young riders on in their skills.
It’s critical we provide a happy, fun progression pathway for our youngsters from White route through to Adult routes.
We all know Kids learn and pick things up at different paces, and the skill set within a group is fairly wide, and can be challenging to accommodate.
So for 2025, we are introducing a 50/50 route in addition to the standard routes.
White = Beginners
Yellow = Good Bike skills and learning to navigate challenges like Rock steps / tight turns / Tree roots etc.
Red = More challenging Rock steps / Camber turns / tight turns into obstacles, generally not dissimilar to the adult easy route
50/50 = Riders will ride Yellow routes unless denoted at section start to ride Red. Where these riders will ride Red route, the Red severity of the section will be mildly easier than the other Red sections to accommodate the 50/50 Riders
This route is intended for those who have reached the limit of Yellow route severity but not quite ready for a full trial of Red severity.
‘That gentle fun transition’
It is a separate class, so usual rule applies, Ride 5 to Qualify, best 6 to count.
Please note: although the route is named 50/50, it may depend on several factors on the day what the course plotters decide to do. It may be only a few sections are ride Red, or possibly if Red entries low, we may have 50/50 ride more of Red than Yellow. Trust the team and simply check the start gate. If there is no sign (50/50 Ride Red) then you ride Yellow route.
New to HDMC or planning on joining us, have a look at our different routes (White, Yellow, Red)
Enjoy Christmas, I hope Santa brings everything on your list.
He doesn’t need it, but we’ve already sent him all your names and said you are all awesome great kids.
See you in Jan, dates for 2025 will be out soon.
Regards Conducted Crew
Chris Bancroft Chris Mitchell Faye Mitchell Joe Dykes Joanne Dykes


HDMC Trials UK Ltd 1st Conducted round review
What a fantastic time out for the 1st round of the Trials UK sponsored HDMC conducted series.
It’s great to see our youth riders moving up the ranks.
We had Yellows moving to Reds and Yellows moving to the new 50:50 route and Whites to Yellows.
PARKWOOD once again provided the perfect setting to allow a bit of all kinds of obstacles.
On the Red route Benjamin Swainson had an excellent opening ride on the Red.
Benjamin was at the top of the Yellow route for some time, so to see him come out of his comfort zone and apply his amazing skill to a harder route was great to see, and it paid off as he took first place on 31 marks dropped.
Tom Mitchell is on a mission for 2025.
Toms team manager has spoken to him for this years strategy, which is to utilise his grit and determination along with his ever increasing bike skills and hammer the Red route as practice for the British Youth.
It’s a great strategy and as with Benjamin, is paying off nicely. Tom took 2nd place on 53 marks, which is a great score for the first trial on the Red.
Watch these two names!
In 3rd Place with 72 marks dropped is Arthur Adams. This lad is just Epic! He literally throws himself into it and dosent give up. Size is his down fall, and that’s bike size, so to be competitive against the bigger wheel bikes is impressive.
50:50 Route.
The 50/50 route was put in place to bridge the Yellow to Red gap.
As with any new change, is is always nerving. Is anyone going to enter, is it really needed!?!
Thankfully it was indeed a success! It allowed Josh Bancroft, Wilfred Fawcett and Maisie Danes to ride at a level that tested them without knocking confidence.
Josh Bancroft took the challenge by the horns and really rode well. It took a few sections to get back into the rythm after the Xmas break. But once into it, his riding was impressive to watch. A lesson for the day, was to not wipe your nose when holding your bike on the clutch/brake whilst dapped, as the bike will roll back! Fast track from 1 to 5 haha, luckily it was a mistake that could be afforded, as he took 1st place with an impressive 36 marks dropped.
Wilfred Fawcett, is also coming on leaps and bounds on the Beta 80, tackling what’s in front of him well. Taking 2nd place on the day with 56 marks dropped was also an impressive score.
Coming up fast behind the Beta Boys is Maisie Danes on her Beta 80. Maisie has spent a long time up top on her OSET, she has now moved to the art of internal combustion, so is quickly learning lots on new skills coupled with muscling a bigger bike around. She may momentarily have dropped down the score board for a bit, but mark my words! It won’t be for long at all, she will soon be back fighting for top spot. So Wilfred, Josh, enjoy it whilst it lasts. Maisie is coming for your top spots. Finishing 3rd on the day with 65 is too impressive for only her 4th time on petrol and first time at this level.
Yellow Route:
Two riders on the Yellow Route today, Alfie Dykes having another solid ride to take first place with only 17 marks dropped, but starting to put the pressure on the seasoned Yellow Route rider is Oliver Clark, who has moved up from White and who had an outstanding ride today.
Dropping only 4 marks more then Alfie with 21, to take second place.
He has certainly set the bar high for the rest of the year.
White Route:
Freddie Moore is a welcomed new starter to the game, who took the top spot with 10 marks today, so well done Freddie.
It’s always good to watch the Fawcett cousins competing, they do have a good day riding with each other.
Jack just pipped Ned to second place by 2 marks, with Jack taking 2nd place on 11 marks to little Ned’s 13.
All in all it appeared a great day with lots of smiles. And as always, happy for feedback good or constructive.
Thank you all for coming along and thankyou to Chris, Chris, Joe for marking out and Paul Swainson and Jo Dykes for observing .
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*Bob Owen Trial – Conducted Report*,  10th November 2024

I don’t know about anyone else, but it didn’t take me long to fall asleep last night. 
What an absolutely phenomenal end to the year. 

Full of nothing but highs. 

A nice big entry and lots of new and returning faces. 

To start with, a huge welcome to 
Brandon Casey 👋
Harrison Cockshott 👋
Freddie Moore 👋

6 fantastic sections were marked out within the Parkwood Off Road Centre superb grounds. 

Section 1,2,3 were within the rock garden of the centre, and it’s certainly a rock garden that is intimidating, it’s seen world champions ride around it and now future champions. These were also set out in between 2 sections of the Adult course, so a perfect opportunity for the Adults to see what’s quickly coming upon them as competition. 

Section 4 was a good old down a muddy banking, hard right and back up to come back down, we know kids love rollercoasters, so we took the opportunity of making one. 

Section 5 was a test of traditional trials riding, slow round the trees getting the arms and legs bent. 

Section 6, this was an early Scott training section, a rocky stream bed with a step at the end, flags on the banking and it was a good point and shoot and see where the rocks guided you. 

So how did we all do then? Firstly, every single rider was riding like a champ, there was some seriously good riding skills on show. 

On the Red Route: 

Jamie Waddington is certainly showing some good skill upon his Beta Evo 80, taking 3rd place on the day

Tate Croft has come back to trials after a break for Enduro, showing that Enduro grit and determination taking 2nd place on the day with 53 marks dropped. 

Rocco Watson is always a joy to watch, and indeed has taken 1st on the day and provisionally 1st in Class for the year. 

Welldone all red route riders, it was certainly set out to test and educate, and it did just that. 

Yellow Route: 

Again, all Yellow route riders were indeed outstanding to watch, backed up by some adult riders taking time out to come and watch who had nothing but admiration for all our juniors. 

Third place, on the day was Alfie Dykes making sure there is indeed petrol on the podium. 
This did make third place in the championship very close, with Tom provisionally taking 3rd in the championship. 

Second place Maisie Danes, who missed out on first place with her nemesis section 6 taking the majority of her points. Second on the day and provisionally Second in the season. 

Top spot, Benjamin Swainson who had a fight on his hands, Maisie was pushing hard all day and all season, great battle between the two and makes for good telly. (If Trials was on TV) 
First on the day and Provisionally First in the championship. 

White Route: 

Emma Mitchell rode a blinder of a trial, going clean all day secured her First on the day and Provisional First in the Championship.  

Oliver Clark was hot on her heels, (Clerk of the Course, don’t worry she didn’t really have heels on, appropriate trials boots were worn) 
Finishing the day on only 4 marks dropped and taking provisional Second place for the year. 

As always a huge thankyou to Chris Mitchell Faye Mitchell Joanne Dykes Joe Dykes and Chris Bancroft for the continued support, without you, the Trials UK Ltd conducted series would not be the success it is. 

Thank you to all Parents for giving your young ones this amazing opportunity in life and indeed for supporting Horsforth & District Motor Club and more so our Bob Owen Charity Trial. 

The winner of our KUDU giveaway bag, was Ned Fawcett, Thankyou Russ Brodie for providing this extra bit of fun and Lucy for expertly pulling a number out of the bag. 

In the words of Porky Pig…. ‘That’s all Folks’

Chris Bancroft

For a bit of background info on the junior Conducted Trials click here

Well summer holidays are over, and our Juniors are off back to school. We have some starting year 6, some starting high school and maybe some starting a new school or new class.

Good luck to you all and enjoy it.

See you all in October for Dry Gill.



Harry Hemingway may have won the Trial GB at the famous Addingham Moorside, but I’m afraid once again the real trial action for the weekend was taking place at the even more famous Bumpy trials park and excitement provided by our ever growing Youth riders.

Thankfully the rain held off for the duration of the trial, which allowed the section markers to test the skills of our 12 Small Wheel riders on varied terrain.

Ranging from a Mini Luskys Leadmine Marathon up the stream, dusty off camber decents and climbs and the thing all riders young and old dread! Tree roots!

We went one more, Tree roots off camber up and down hill!

Usual routes Red ‘Hard’ / Yellow ‘Medium’ / White ‘Easy’

Red Route: Maisie Danes stepped up from her usual Yellow route for this trial. Maisie’s Team Manager / Minder / Tea boy felt this was a good move to test Maisie ahead of her British Youth trials. And my word did she attack the Red route with her great skill and commitment. Dropping only 19 marks for the day was a fantastic result.

Maisie started the day as the only Red route rider, but at sign on we were informed by little Arthur Woods dad he too would like to have a go at Red. I’ll be honest, myself and Jamie had reservations on this and I did ensure that Arthur was ok with what was ahead of him. Bigger steps, tighter turns. Arthur stood his ground and said he wanted to do it. We could only accept the determination and hope the colour came back to his dad’s face soon, drip white wasn’t his colour.

Arthur gave every section his all, and showed he did have that grit and determination, his skill also shone through, yet unfortunately marks were dropped more due to the limitations of the small wheel size of his TRS. To finish on 66 marks dropped only 47 behind Maisie certainly got the thumbs up from us.
Well done Arthur and I hope your dad’s recovered from a day of panic and worry ?.

Yellow: In a trial, you can often have a good idea of positions before results come out. Not at yesterday’s trial. Theo Jepson and Tom Mitchell were battling it out in their group, and spent the day dropping a mark, then the other would clean, next section they would swap, and in the other groups Joshua Bancroft and Alfie Dykes also made the score difficult to guess. Joshua sadly got offline and had his front wheel catch throwing him off balance to dap but not strong enough to hold up the Evo 80 so 5’d, whilst later on Alfie also offline just before the dreaded tree routes threw him off sideways to also take a well earned lay down in the dirt.

To see the results combined for the day and seeing 2nd-5th place only have 4 marks difference shows how tight the fight was.

Benjamin Swainson showed his ever improving style and being a Bumpy trained rider brought home 1st place on home soil with only 1 mark dropped.

2nd Alfie Dykes 13 marks dropped Theo and Tom post trial paddock talk, thought maybe tied and would go to most cleans, actually had Theo pip Tom to 3rd place by 1 mark. Theo 3rd on 14 marks and Tom 4th on 15 dropped.

White: White route also had a close fight ‘can you see why the British round had nothing on us now!’

Emma Mitchell and Oliver Clark spent the day neck and neck, Section 1, both dropping 1 mark on lap 1 then clean through out. Section 2, Cleans up to lap 4 where Oliver dropped 1 mark, Section 3, Emma pulled ahead with clean where Oliver dropped 2! It went on like this all day!

Final results saw Emma on top spot with 4 Marks dropped, Oliver got on her heels ‘don’t worry ACU, she wasn’t riding in heels!’ With 9 marks dropped.

Team Fawcett travelled cross borders to attend our trial, and it’s always nice to see riders come from afar to support and join in the fun.

Ned was 3rd place on white with 39 marks and Wilfred on Yellow route dropped 30 for 6th place. Another set of riders who are growing in confidence and skill, and always have a smile on their face.

We should possibly do this officially, but I think those who watched would agree, rider of the day must go to Mia Green.

Mia is growing in confidence, and starting to trust standing up over varied terrain.

Riding the White route, as the day went on Mia got more and more confident where at section 5 rode 4 times, stood up and for 4 cleans. Followed by 2 cleans on Section 6.

I believe the news reported a sonic boom, but this was just us giving Mia a well deserved round of applause.

Mia, trust your bike, trust yourself, when stood up you looked amazing and in control. Most of all trust your dad, he knows what he’s doing.

It was a long report and I hope you had time in your busy days to read the full report, it’s long because it was a Fantastic trial.

Remember 2025 we will be adding a 50/50 option. And the severity of the red routes they will ride will be about the same as this trial.

This allows us to bridge the gap between those wanting to progress to Red but allow us to keep some higher severity to test our British Youth riders. If you need more understanding, please get in touch with Chris Bancroft.

As always these trials do not just happen, a lot of work goes on before and on the day of a trial.

Thank you to

Bumpy Ltd for the use of the land and the work the Charity does for our sport.

Trials UK Ltd for supporting the Conducted series

KUDU for Printing number boards / Section boards / observers boards. But also our club clothing, order online

https://kuduproducts.co.uk/hdmc.htm

Martin Fairburn for entries and results amongst many other tasks

To all the parents for supporting your little trials riders and giving them this fantastic opportunity.

Joe Dykes Chris Mitchell Chris Bancroft for Marking out a fantastic trial

And of course Joanne Dykes and Chris Mitchell for observing.

Faye for pictures of her group and Chris of the other group.

Chris Bancroft