LEVEN VALLEY TWO DAY

Every year my events calendar is pretty much full, covering most things motorcycle and trials related. My ever-suffering wife usually takes a pen and marks the calendar in any random spot, and that’s my two weeks’ holiday booked! Having been married for 20 years, this year she wanted something special, and when the pen landed on late September we decided on Rome, Italy, bingo top result! Just before we booked our well-earned holiday I just happened to mention a new event in Kinlochleven, the Leven Valley Two Day Trial; ‘Hmm…’ was the response I got. So, after a roasting hot holiday in Rome reduced from twelve days to six we returned home on the Tuesday, and it was a Thursday departure up north to resume the ‘Holiday’ in the rain! The month of May has meant just one thing in my life since 1976, and that is the Scottish Six Days Trial. This new event was running at the end of September as autumn closed in on us in Kinlochleven, which is the location used for so many years in the SSDT and one strongly associated with the Pre-65 ‘Scottish’. This new event promoted by the Kinlochleven & District MCC over the weekend of the 29th & 30th September offers classic trials riders an alternative event as it is open to all twin-shock trials motorcycles. Article: John Hulme