Rochdale DMC championship round up

Eddie Bull

The third and final round of the Rochdale and District Motorcycle Club’s novice and beginner championship has taken place the club’s Sharnyford venue.

In the adult novice class it was a very close finish with first to forth place all finishing on 1 2 3 and 4.

Andy Wright was top man on his 4RT losing just the 1 mark on section 8 on his third lap, nerves must have got to him as a complete clean ride always takes some achieving.

Second place went to Scardon Coupe who had a 2 on section 4 on the first lap, third was Cliff Camfield and forth was Rochdale club stalwart Mick Whitlow.

In the youth novice class Richard Andeton went round for a loss of 6 but was riding out of class, so the points for the win went to Jack Butterworth who lost 18 in total and in third place was Josh Jones on his Sherco losing 33 in total.

In the Beginner or easy route class there was a varied field of machine’s being ridden with British thumpers the odd TY pinke and the rest all on the latest modern machinery.

Top man was Eric Boocock on his Triumph going around for the total loss of 6 marks dropped on various sections, second went to peter Andrews on 11 marks lost in total.

Third placed man was Eddie Bull on his BSA who finished on 12.

The youth beginner class only had the one rider in the form of Nathaniel Knowles who rode his Gas Gas around the 8 sections for a loss of 20

In the conducted class under the watchful eye of Neil Anderton there was also only one rider who got a full trial with verbal instruction all to him self and this was Josh Rogers who completed the conducted course on his Beta for a loss of 80 marks.