Valentine Trial – Results 2026

January 19, 2026

The first Cambridge Matchless trial of 2026 took place at Great Abington on a nice dry day. We had a great turn out of with 72 competitors.

The club would like to thank the working party for preparing the sections, Cliff Freed for springing into action with Ollie to get a mini-digger there to make the road passable near the car park, the observers (including Chris Koch for giving up his ride to observe the last section), the landowner, and all of the competitors.

Results – Valentine Trial 2026

The results are as follows:

Experts
1st – Martin Hawyes with 16 marks lost
2nd – Martyn Rushbrook on 30 marks lost
3rd – Chris Ryland on 32 marks lost

Expert B
1st – Nick Wilford, keeping clean all day
2nd – Thomas Norman on 1 mark lost
3rd – Simon Nunn on 5 marks lost

Intermediate
1st – Richard Norman with 10 marks lost
2nd – Stevie Roper on 43 marks lost
3rd – Andrew Dean on 14 marks lost

Clubman
1st – Craig Crowfoot with 2 marks lost
2nd – John Chatto on 3 marks lost
3rd – Peter Rushbrook on 6 marks lost (decided on most cleans)

Twinshock
1st – Peter Cook with 9 marks lost
2nd – Julian Mair on 21 marks lost
3rd – Andy Aldhouse on 34 marks lost

Novice
1st – Stephen Roscamp with 3 marks lost
2nd – Daniel Lett on 8 marks lost
3rd – Gavin Pryor on 31 marks lost

Sportsman
1st – Marc Lindup with 8 marks lost
2nd – Geoffrey Rank on 17 marks lost
3rd – Peter Yarham on 20 marks lost

Youth B (Middle Route)
1st – Harry Hawyes with 30 marks lost

Youth B (Easy Route)
1st – Eddie Lett with 51 marks lost

Youth D (Easy Route)
1st – Oliver Norman with 76 marks lost
2nd – Alba Gill on 79 marks lost
3rd – Jasper Gill on 124 marks lost

2025 Championship final Positions

December 20, 2025

Club Championship 2025 – Final Results

The 2025 Cambridge Matchless Club Championship was run over what should have been five events but due to a cancellation of the Ken Wood trial ended up being over four instead. Due to there not being an Easy route at the Stonebridge and Chris Wood events, it left the Sportsman with only to rounds. This led to some rule changes:-

  • For all classes except the Sportsman competitors need to complete three out of the four events to qualify for the championship, if a competitor completed four events then the lowest score was dropped.
  • For the Sportsman both rounds needed to be completed and both counts.

 

Congratulations to all that took part in our events and thankyou to everyone that played a part in making them happen.

Awards are as follows:

Expert Class

1st place and winner of the Wally Houghton Cup – Sam Rolls, with a landslide victory taking the win at all four events

Expert B Class

1st place – Chris Koch

Intermediate Class

1st place and winner of the Gordon Price Cup – Christopher Jones

Clubman Class

1st place – Chris Aylott

2nd place – Andrew Dean

Novice Class

1st place and winner of the Vic Miller Cup – Simon Hood

2nd place – George Dean

Twinshock Class

1st place – Andy Aldhouse

Sportsman Class

1st place – Paul Harvey

Youth

Unfortunately, no youths completed enough rounds to qualify

2026 Championships

We will be running the Club and Summer Series as two separate championships again in 2026. Same rules will apply as 2025 and hopefully we’ll not have any cancellations this time.

Finally on behalf of the Cambridge Matchless Motorcycle Club we’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Dale