Far and Wide
The South West Classic Trials Association’s annual Dartmoor Two-Day Classic Trial attracted the maximum allowable entry of 125 riders in early September, in a showery but warm South Devon sunshine. From the Isle of Wight to Yorkshire and Kent, to South Wales and Cornwall they came to sample the cream of Devon’s Classic weekends. The Pre-65 and Twin-Shock entrants faced two laps of 19 sections on each of the two venues over the two days, through the mainly rocky streams and rock strewn boulders in the wooded copses below the famous ‘Hound Tor’ at Widecombe-in-the-Moor on the higher reaches of Dartmoor. A few miles away under the shadow of the equally famous Ruby Rocks sections on the lower slopes of the moor lay the venue for day two at ‘Paradise’. Run as a joint venture between the South West Classic and the West of England Club this was the 30th running of the event, which was sponsored by The Twinshock Shop boss John McDonald.