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Flora Wins for Kevin Miller and Ryan Tonkin

Popular trial with 118 bikes entered

Ryan and Claire Tonkin on their way to winning the car category on The Flora Trial

The sports most southerly event was well supported with 118 bikes and 15 Cars entered for the Pendennis Motorcycle & Light Car Club’s Flora Trial which started in Redruth and followed a figure of eight route.

With the nature of the sections the club need to limit the number of cars taking part and their entry mainly comes from west county drivers. Needless to say the cars don’t tackle some of the narrow sections.

Bike winner Kevin Miller also won last years event. Kevin runs the popular Facebook Group Long Distance Trials, LDT’s, Lightweight Bikes UK covering the LDT scene which embraces trail bikes competing on a road event with sections more challenging than ACTC or MCC events.

Bike Videos from Andrew Kearns
Outfit and Car Videos by Lisa Gregory and Simon Oates

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Flora Wins for Gareth White and Kevin Miller

Diverse entry for the sports most westerly event.

Gareth White putting the power down on his way to winning the car category

The Pendennis Motorcycle and Light Car Club attracted its usual diverse entry for the Flora Trial. Off Road Bikes, Adventure Bikes, Outfits, Quads, Bikes on Enduro Tyres, Cars, no other Classic Trial has such variety.

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Tough Tamar

Jack Selwood strengthened his position in the Wheelspin Trophy over Dean Partington who moves up to second place eight points behind the car he bought back into the sport.

Paul Jones captures Henry Hoggart on Tanks Terror. Henry was passengered by Norton Selwood the force behind the ACTC FB Group and Instagram.

This was a challenging Tamar Trial, especially for the cars, where even the most hardened competitors struggled on the new woodland sections towards the end of the trial.

Kevin Miller was third bike overall and would have won if he had not failed the first observed test. Kevin is the Admin of the FB Group “Long Distance Trials, LDT’s, South UK Lightweight Bikes” Photo by Paul Jones

Motorcycle competitors had some bike only routes and sections that were difficult enough to ensure there were no clean sheets. The classic lanes that started the morning didn’t prove too challenging but then came the Solo only section at Ladye Park where three was the lowest score. John Luckett dropped four here and was the only bike to clean the grassy Tanks Terror but had the misfortune to retire later.

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