"Late Run"
Every summer we hold an extra long day. We meet at 10am in Machynlleth and finish about 8pm. More challenging route for enduro bike riders with Colin and easier route for Ls and novices with Marianne.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11th, 12th and 13th April 2025, Tamsin Jones, Mo Rapley, Sarah Davies and I are organising a fantastic event at Hafod-y-Dafal, Aberbeeg, NP13 2ER, South Wales (only half an hour from the M4 near the bridge). There will be a lot going on, both solo and sidecar!
There will be hour long training sessions for trials riding, enduro, beginner and intermediate offroad skills with bikes supplied or bring your own. Some sessions are women only and other are mixed men and women. Participants must be able to ride a motorcycle using clutch and gears but do not need to hold a motorcycle licence as the event is on private land. Motocross clothing is suitable for all activities -we have some available to borrow. It must be booked in advance - see below for more information.
There are enduro, motocross, trials and grass track outfits available for driving (owner’s consent) and passengering, with lots of help and advice.
The solo enduro training is for riders with their own competition bikes only.
Offroad skills training with Tamsin: hire or bring your own trail, enduro or motocross bike. Available for 14 years up, minimum height 4’ 10”. Price £59 for your first session with hire bike and clothing, if you choose to do a second session it is £49; e.g. you might do a beginner and then an intermediate. Bikes supplied are allocated according to height: small wheel TTR125, CRF150, for 4’ 10” to 5’ 1”, large wheel TTR125 for 5’ to 5’4”, two CRF230s for 5’ 4” to 5’ 7”, a DRZ400 for 5’ 7” to 6’ and an enduro bike for 5’ 9” and above.
On your own bike, the first session is £39, with a second session being £29; e.g. you could do an intermediate session followed later or the next day by an enduro session, or you could do a beginner session in the morning/one day and an intermediate in the afternoon/next day.
Provisionally Tamsin's sessions are (subject to demand – may change):
Friday 2.30pm: beginner women – road rider – little or no previous off road experience
Friday 3.45pm: intermediate women – trail rider or off road school previously attended
Saturday 9am: beginner women
Saturday 10.15am: beginner mixed – TTR125 and 2 CRF230s available
Saturday 11.45am: intermediate mixed men and women – fully booked
Saturday 1pm: enduro mixed – must have your own enduro bike
Saturday 2.45pm: beginner mixed
Saturday 4pm: intermediate mixed
Sunday 9am: beginner women
Sunday 10.15am: intermediate women
Sunday 11.30am: beginner mixed
Sunday 1pm: intermediate mixed
Sunday 2.30pm: enduro mixed
Due to insurance restrictions, trials riding, quad driving and driving and passengering on the sidecars is for 18 and over only. (Tamsin’s sessions are insured separately).
Trials riding: this is to be provided by my friends on their own personal trials bikes, for which I am immensely grateful. The sessions cost £49. Times not yet booked: 4pm on Saturday and 12.45pm on Sunday. We may be able to add some more sessions, but we are awaiting confirmation.
The sidecars and quad: passengering is tiring and you will only do a few minutes at a time. Just turn up and hop on when you are ready. We are pleased to have three lady enduro and motocross passengers to impart their knowledge: Sue Kemp, Kelly Roo Higgins and Sara Osterholzer, with their drivers of course! Our thanks go to Paul Pelling, Mark James, Bryan Bodfish and Shane Horton who are bringing their classic Norton Wasp motocross outfit. Let’s get more women passengering! Peter Dale will bring his trials outfit – if you have never seen one, they are quite different to anything else! The drivers and passengers will advise you. A full set of motocross clothing including body armour is required for the grass track and enduro/mx sidecars. Driving the sidecar will be at the discretion of the sidecar owner. A grass track “old and new” sidecar will be present, but the land is not ideal for it. Sarah Davies will bring her quad along for demo and rides. If you are doing a solo session, you can try the sidecars free of charge. If you only want to drive and passenger on sidecars, and/or the quad, the price is £29 a day to cover the land use and your insurance.
To book - please email [email protected]To book clothing, please let us know what items you need and your sizes, XS, S, M, L or XL for helmet, feet size and waist or dress size for trousers.
Please note that personal accident insurance is NOT provided. If you wish to have personal accident cover in place, the only method I have found is for you to buy a NORA advanced licence for adult competition, which provides cover for a year at all NORA events. It is £90. For Licence Club, choose UK Women in Motorcycle Sport as your club. For Licence Type choose National Advanced. For Licence Class, choose Adult Competition.
Basic camping is available, but the landowner has not yet said whether it will be free for participants or a small fee extra. It is on top of a hill, so we hope the weekend is not too windy or rainy, and might be better for campers and caravans. There will be portable toilets, but no showers, no electricity or water. We will go out for a meal on Saturday night – please let me know if you will be joining us.
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"Red Ride"
Before 2020 we held weekends during the summer for riders of Honda CRF250Ls and Rallyes, with routes for experienced trail riders, intermediates and novices. There has not been much demand since.
