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13th May Foxborough Quarry download results
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SUDBURY MOTOR CYCLE CLUB REPORT ON HARE AND HOUNDS ENDURO 13-05-12

Sunny, warm weather, good close riding and sunburn was the order of the day at the 2^nd round of the 2012 EMG/Eastern Centre Solo Enduro Championship last Sunday at Foxborough Quarry Sible Hedingham. The event organised by the Sudbury Motor Cycle Club was run on the Hare and Hounds format and first up were the Clubman & Sportsman Classes and has there were nearly 120 riders on the line they were dispatched 40 at a time with a suitable interval between each batch.  There was a lot of bunching for the first few laps of this 2 hour stint but as time went on the field thinned out.  There was keen and fierce racing between Stephen Green, Ian Tutton, Gareth Young and Ben Alexander with the lead changing several times as these four stopped to refuel on difference laps.  The bog was not used for this Class but with water lying on parts of the course which created muddy conditions in places and in other places it was dry and dusty.  The provisional results showing a Sudbury 1-2-3 with Green 1^st, Tutton 2^nd and Young 3^rd with Alexander 4^th all four competing 13 laps averaging just over 9 minutes per lap.  The provisional standings after two rounds sees Tutton 1^st on 34 points, Young 2^nd on 24 points, Green & Andrew Greenwell  joint 3^rd on 20 points, with Kevin Webb & Paul Belton joint 5^th on 16 points.

Next up were the Championship and Expert Classes who rode for 2.5 hours slightly amended route which included an extreme section and again one of the two bogs.  With 40 riders lined up it was again another good clean start and racing into the lead was eight times Champion Chris Hockey with Jamie Roper and Jason Moreland in hot pursuit.  They had no trouble in the bog and as they were in front of the pack they managed to negotiate the extreme section which consisted of three half tractor tyres sticking halfway out of the ground followed two lots of tree trunks the width of the track evenly spread apart which means riding with front wheel in the air to so as not to ground their machines.  This proved difficult for most riders in the early stages as some got stuck on the obstacles and fell off narrowing the route down to one line and with riders arriving in second of one another it caused delays, giving spectators a treat.  Around the half hour mark Hockey appeared at the beginning of this section and became stuck behind a stationery backmarker, then Moreland appeared having overtaken Roper and rode round Hockey to the next available line to take the lead before Hockey could change course.  For the rest of the time the first three positions did not change, they all refuelled at the same time but Roper began to fall back on the front two, his injured shoulder was giving him problems.  Moreland and Hockey battled it out and provisionally took the chequered flag 28 second in front of Hockey both completing 20 laps.  Roper hung onto third place one lap behind with Julian Harvey 4th, Stevie Roper 5^th and Ricky Roper 6^th.  The overall provisional standings after two rounds: Hockey 37 points, Moreland 33 points, J Roper 32 points. Julian Harvey 23 points and Ricky Roper 17 points. The Expert Class was hotly contended and provisionally it was a win for 52 year old Andy Mason by 12 second over Phil Burton with Nick Barrett wearing one of the Team Dave Roper shirts a creditable 3^rd in his first season in this Class.  Graham Mays, Club Secretary, had a steady ride throughout the whole 2.5 hours and finished a creditable 6^th.  The provisional overall position over two round is Phil Burton, 37 points, Andy Mason 25 points and John Bishop 21 points.  All the positions and placing are provisional while the 3^rd round is on 17^th June at Home Farm Little Hadham Herts again organised by the Sudbury Motor Cycle Club.

Iken Enduro
You can now enter Iken entry on-line via www.entrycentral.com/index.php?raceID=101245.

Annual Awards for 2011
Some images from the awards evening below see all the images >>HERE<<

SUDBURY MOTOR CYCLE CLUB PRESS REPORT 22-01-12

Gavin Hockey Chairman of the Sudbury Motor Cycle Club is competing for the second time in the Inter Continental Rally which starts in Almeria Spain (Spain) and finishes in Dakar Senegal (Africa). Gavin flies out on Friday 27th January to Almeria, over the weekend check his machine over and sign on ready to start on the Monday for a journey of nearly 4000 miles over 14 days.

This will be a real test of endurance for 44 year old Gavin and this year is riding to raise funds for two good causes one of them being the Dave Roper Memorial Fund, established to support young up and coming talented riders in the Sudbury Motor Cycle Club. The other good cause is the Brain Injury Charity Headway. So far £500 has been collected and it is hoped that a sum of £1000 can be reached. Anyone wishing to make a donation can do so by calling in at G H Motorcycles Ltd, 1 Challenge Way Hythe Hill Colchester CO1 2LY or Jim Aim Motorcycles Ltd 147 Swan Street Sible Hedingham CO9 3PT failing that by sending a cheque to either premises made payable to Sudbury MCC Ltd.

The Rally after leaving Spain goes through the African Countries of Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal while the daily routes are selected so that their character captivates the participants, leading them through miscellaneous parts of the European and African continents including the Western Sahara Desert. Gavin’s riding number is 227 Team UK 3 and his daily progress can be followed on www.intercontinentalrally.com and videos are available on a daily basis.

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Blast from the Past 

By & featuring Roger Chaplin

Anglia Television were doing articles on some minority sports and I was contacted by the Presenter and Interviewer Cy Percival asking me if I would set something up.  Filming took place in January 1971 and it is in black and white because of a union despite with colour filming.  The Sudbury Club in the 1960s organised for Anglia Television two scrambles demos at Tye Farm Great Cornard and of course we had the live BBC TV Grandstand Scramble (the second one they ever ran) with Murray Walker as commentator