Motor Sport: Robin Luscombe misses Sunday's annual Northern Experts Championship Trial at Wildboarclough, south of Buxton, after selling his Yamaha sidecar outfit.

"I will ride Hamilton Yamaha next year in championship events. That will be the last of the Yamaha machines now that the factory have pulled out of the trials world as far as bikes are concerned," said the ten-times national sidecar champion.

Yorkshire Classic Trials Club riders turned out in force for Sunday's Pre-65 contest at Lothersdale, where 53 competitors endured a wet, miserable day to cover a four-lap course at Manor Farm.

Baildon's Dudley Robinson won the twin cylinder on his 500cc Triumph, covering the entire course without penalty. Keighley riders Jack Smith, Peter Baldwin and Andy Littler all won class awards.

Yeadon & Guiseley MC clerk of the course Dave Curry laid out 14 testing trials sections in the Cockhill Lead mines high above Pateley Bridge on Sunday.

Vast amounts of water flooding down the deep valley had washed rocks yards from their original resting places, but all the sections except one were ridden without loss during the day.

Curry marked out a near vertical climb, then promised a £10 note for any rider that got past the section end cards.

"I thought that I had a safe tenner in my pocket till young James Dabill got to within a foot of the target - one of the youngest lads in the trial and he nearly made it," said Curry after the near-miss.

Dabill, a Leeds schoolboy, was one of the stars of the trial on his new 200cc GasGas.

The adult winner was Otley's Danny Cockshott, who finished just one penalty mark in front of Guiseley's Chris Carter. James Lovell was the top rider in Class B, beating Dabill.

Just over 90 riders braved the cold conditions which had observers shivering at their exposed hilltop posts as the rain lashed down.

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