Mother’s Day today – so we hope you all enjoy your special day. Our best wishes go out to all the ladies.
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Well! The Scottish is all over for another year, and what an exciting climax on Saturday. – After looking solid all week Adam Raga slipped on Friday and ended up in a tie with young George Hemingway .
However! the upset was not to be as George fived the difficult Saturday waterfall section called Fassfern ( but then cleaned it right after to continue up the loop!!) – What would have been a fantastic win on the new Beta Sincro 125, ended up with a 3rd place finish behind Raga and brother Harry.(Beta Sincro) – Here are the results showing the top ten. – Very close at the top only one point separating each of the top three.
Congrats go to Adam Raga on his first win in Scotland, after losing last year. – (would have been nice to see him still on a TRS !!)
As for our two Cannucks – both finished – with Jon in 143rd place on 307 points, and Tyler 182nd with 395 points.(Both on GG) -The top USA rider was Joss Roper (Beta Sincro) who was 32nd with 91 points, and the best Lady Emma Bristow (Sherco) who was 51st and 121 points. – The last place finisher was Nazario Garcia Locano 258th and (wait for it !!!) – 1343 points – Holly Dixon was the youngest first time lady finisher on a Beta Sincro 125 – she was 230th with 551 points.
We suggest you click back to the first page results to get a feeling about the true difficulty of the Scottish Six Day Trial.!!!! And this year the weather was perfect. – A ton of videos on You Tube.
Great pic of Harry Hemingway on a typical Scottish section
A lot of Canadians have entered the Scottish over the years – some quite a few times, like Jon, Stan, Guy Smeeth plus Christie Williams and her sister. – and more, – a lot from Eastern Canada.
The weather this year was again very dry with hardly any water in the creeks, unlike the last time we were there in 1992, when the sections were like torrents. – just planning this event takes a year, even though the team all know the area well. – as much of the land is private, permission needs to be granted with things like lambing season taken into consideration.
I took this pic of Walt Healy checking out an old bike parked by the section called “Chairlift” in 1992 -when the water was coming down in torrents – hardly any water in that this year – Stan will tell you that riders do about 30 miles on the road to get to this spot, usually in the rain.
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So now that is over!! We can all look forward to the 40th running of the Outlaw Trial this coming weekend – The action all starts early Saturday morning at Ross and Judy’s great location at Magna Bay, and a reminder that there is a vintage bike class on the Saturday. (Note both days are run as separate events with medals both days for all classes.) – The Outlaw plaque is now full, so next year we will donate a new one. – for those not familiar with the pic on the plaque- it’s of yours truly in my very first Trial back in 1956. – Not all years are on this, as we had not planned on making it an annual event.
As we have just finished talking about the Scottish – here is a shot taken when we were plotting that Outlaw event at Greenstone Mountain near Kamloops- -a Scottish style creek section. – I was first to give this one a try, even waving my leg like the young guys!! I’m on that new 1999 Bultaco. -( later called Sherco) -Krash Crumly (Watching) helped put that one on, – We had some great sections at that venue, with a nice long loop. – The pic was taken by Steve the Vet.
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