Club News
Information Nuggets
Date: 20-Dec-2024A couple of small but important nuggets of information we have picked up from SACU communications this week that all riders need to be aware of,
1) After discussion and approval by the Trials Committee, it was agreed that, from 2025, all Adult Trials Licences will no longer be graded ie. (Novice, Non Expert & Expert). All Adult Trials licences will simply read ‘Adult Trials Licence’.
We are not quite sure what this statement actually means in real terms because no-one has explained it to us either, but I guess as a Novice rider you are now free to ride the expert route if you fancy giving it a go, just make sure you have plenty of spare bits for your bike handy.....
2) From January 2025, all Adult Applicant’s applying for a licence will be asked to upload proof of address before their licence is approved. This should be in the form of their DVLA Licence if applicable.
Just remember that the SACU Licence Portal doesn't open until January the 1st and that you will need to have paid your club membership fees before we approve your licence application. Membership of Bon Accord Motorcycle Club can be obtained on this link. As always your 2024 licence will remain valid until 31st January 2025.
Notes from the 2024 AGM
Date: 06-Dec-2024Notes from the 2024 AGM
The first thing to note this year was the rather poor attendance but my thanks to those who made the effort to come along and make a contribution to the running of the club. The good news is that all the main positions are filled again and that we have a solid core of committee members.
The accounts for this year show a healthy profit which was a reflection of the hard work put in by the committee over the year to make sure that income was always ahead of expenditure. The bad news is that we are about to spend the money we made on a new fit for purpose website as we forge a partnership with the fantastic guys and girls at Minto Branding who were enthusiastic sponsors of our D2D event last year. It’s an investment that we think is worth making our last site having served us well for the last 12 years.
More good news came as the AGM voted to hold membership rates at the same level as last year. A wee reminder again that our membership now runs from December to December so your membership fees are due now and can only be renewed by on The Entry Point website or by following this link https://theentrypoint.co.uk/events/bon-accord-mcc-membership-2025-EKLBoeNDY9Zwdv3 Please read the different type of memberships carefully and select the correct one for your needs. Also remember that you can’t renew your SACU licence until the 1st of January.
The cost of entering a club trial remains at £20 online and £25 if you insist on entering on the day. We should be in a position to finalise our calendar this weekend after the SACU dates meeting but we have ten or possibly eleven rounds pencilled in. For those that want them the trials season ticket will once again be available shortly. Our D2D LDAT will take place on the 24th August and will once again have the Grampian Transport Museum as it’s base. We are waiting on FLS permissions before we can finalise the route.
Championship enduro round will be in September, hopefully at Drumtochty but again we await FLS permissions. In collaboration with the Borders club and the Highland club we will placing an advert in the Scottish Farmer magazine to see if we can find some new land while the new website will also have a land wanted section.
Our awards night will once again take place at Newmachar golf club on Saturday 1st February with the fabulous Chinese buffet and some entertainment plus the quiz will be back and the raffle.
Next year will mark our 70th anniversary and as such we do intend to celebrate this occasion. Ideas are at the planning stage but if you have any old Bon Accord memorabilia kicking about such as programmes, posters or photographs please get in touch, bill@bamcc.co.uk
Can’t sign off without saying a big congratulations to our new Scottish trials champion in the Youth C class Mr Graeme Whittaker and also to Callum Gammie for winning the Best Scottish Newcomer award at this years Scottish Six Day Trials. In Enduro Robbie Allan was once again the winner of the Over 50 class while Alistair Millar took a very creditable second place in the Expert B class. Very well done indeed gentlemen.
Look forward to seeing you all at some point in 2025.
Bill McGregor
Trials marking for 2025 and beyond.
Date: 24-Nov-2024At the AGM of 2023 a vote was passed by the members to change the colours of the flags used to mark the sections in club trials. The only undecided item was when we would change to the new system. It was anticipated that this would happen in April 2024 but for various reasons we have ended up completing the current season using the colour scheme that we started with.
In order to respect the wishes of the members who voted for the change we can now announce ahead of the 2024 AGM that with effect from the 1st of January 2025 the club will be reverting back to marking out club trials with a core route of Red and Blue where a rider must pass through a pair of flags with the blue flag on their left hand side and the red flag on their right hand side. The core route will be ridden by all riders unless there are coloured flags placed to indicate a “split” in the route. On seeing a split of the correct colour for your chosen class the rider should follow the split colour until it either re-joins the red / blue route or it reaches the end cards.
A comparison of the old route colours versus new route colours and championship classes follows below,
| Rider Class | 2024 Route Colour | 2025 Route Colour |
| Expert / Championship | Red | Pink |
| Sportsman | Blue | White |
| Sportsman Over 40 | Blue | White |
| Youth A | Blue | White |
| Clubman | Green | Red / Blue |
| Clubman Over 40 | Green | Red / Blue |
| Clubman Over 50 | Green | Red / Blue |
| Youth B | Green | Red / Blue |
| Adult C | Yellow | Yellow |
| Pre 65 | Yellow | Yellow |
| Twinshock | Yellow | Yellow |
| Youth C | Yellow | Yellow |
| Youth D | Yellow | Yellow |
| Youth E | Yellow | Yellow |
A few points worth noting,
- The new route colours will only be used at Bon Accord Off Road club events, i.e. club trials.
- Championship and National trials will still be marked out with the Yellow, Green, Blue and Red routes that have been in operation for several years now.
- As the Expert class is now marked with pink flags it will be necessary to find an alternative method of route marking and so this will be done at all trials with orange coloured ground flags.
November 2024
Final Trial of 2024
Date: 05-Nov-2024OK folks here we go then for one last dance in 2024. Entries are now open for our final trial of the year at https://theentrypoint.co.uk/.../club-trials-championship... Venue is Craibstone Woods just off the AWPR at the airport turn off. Usual four routes to suit all ages and abilities. Compact little venue which will surprise you at just how testing it can be and perfect for a short winters day. Start Time will be 10:30am
Ballindalloch Trial results
Date: 19-Aug-2024Results from the combined Bon Accord / Inverness trial can be found on the club website at https://www.bamcc.co.uk/events/2024.html Big thanks to Alan the farmer for the use of his ground in a spectacular part of the countryside. Also to Dave, Jamie, Colin, Andy and Andy for setting out and picking up a great trial enjoyed by all if the smiles on the faces were anything to go by. Any queries on the results should be directed to bill@bamcc.co.uk just don't expect an instant answer as I'm not in the country but I will re-check when I get back.
D2D Special Tests
Date: 05-Aug-2024
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Club Membership Changes
Date: 22-Jul-2024To all club members,
For a number of years now the club membership system has operated on a 12 month rolling calendar basis, i.e. if you joined up in April 2024 your membership would expire in April 2025. This worked fine until the SACU moved their competition licensing online in such a way that the club now needs to approve every SACU licence application from one of our members. At the AGM held in December 2023 a vote was passed to allow the club to return to December to December membership at the end of 2024. Under the new system anyone joining in say April 2025 will see their membership will expire at the end of December 2025 as indeed will all club memberships. It is our intention to offer half price memberships at some point during the calendar year to ensure that we can keep providing value for money and that new members are not being unfairly penalised. It was also decided by a vote of the membership at the same AGM that we would no longer send membership cards out due to the costs involved in printing and posting them. Your e-mail receipt of payment will be your proof of club membership.
The new system has 3 main advantages for the club, 1) it greatly simplifies our administration 2) we are now in sync with the SACU licence portal, 3) we can take advantage of the membership system offered to us by our online entry providers at no extra cost. This year has been a bit of a transition year for memberships but I must advise that no-one should use the membership link on the homepage of the website to join the club or renew their membership. I am aware that a small number of people have used this link in the recent past and we will be in touch with them shortly to offer them refunds or extended memberships. Any current club member whose membership is due to expire before the 2024 AGM has now had their membership automatically extended at no cost.
What happens next? Nothing happens now until the next AGM in December 2024 when the members will take a vote on the 2025 membership fees. Once these are decided, all members will be advised of the new membership rates and given a link to allow them to join or re-join the club. All memberships will then be valid until the 2025 AGM where the process will repeat itself.
Behind the scenes we are working hard to get a new website in place to give all the correct links and reflect the current club structure but it’s taking far longer (and proving more costly) than we had ever envisaged. Hopefully that is reasonably clear to everyone but if you do have any questions just ask away by e-mailing bill@bamcc.co.uk
Club Trials Championship Round 6
Date: 04-Jun-2024Round 6 of the club trials chhampionship will be held on Sunday 16th June at Upper Wheedlemont near Rhynie with a start time of 11am. Usual four routes to suit all ages and abilities with no competition licence being required to enter this event. Online entry form can be found here https://theentrypoint.co.uk/events/club-trials-championship-round-6-krQ0L4RaVeVdE81 or you can enter on the day but this will cost you £5 extra. Parking is through the metal gates, up and over the hill and then down to the windmills.
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Club Trials Championship Round 5
Date: 16-May-2024Entries are now open for round 5 of the club trials championship which will take place at Mains Of Glack, Rhynie on Sunday 26th May with a start time of 11am. Follow the link for the online entry page, https://theentrypoint.co.uk/events/club-trials-championship-round-5-krQ0L4RaVeVdE81
Enduro Results
Date: 22-Apr-2024The rprovisional results from round 3 of the Scottish Championship Enduro held at Craiglash on Sunday 21st April are now available on our website at https://www.bamcc.co.uk/events/2024.html Any queries on the results should be directed to bill@bamcc.co.uk in the first instance please.
Enduro 21st April Final Instructions
Date: 19-Apr-2024The riders final instructions for the enduro on the 21st of April can be found here Please make sure you read them and understand them. Due to protected nesting birds there must be no excessive revving of engines in the paddock area, no parking in front of the quarry entrance and please take all your litter home. When riders reach the start of the special test they should stop and wait for the automated display to count down to GO before they enter the test. This way each rider gets at least a 15 second gap and if there are faster riders waiting at the start please consider letting them go first. We have a large entry and it's going to be busy......
Club Trials Championship Rnd.4
Date: 19-Apr-2024The 4th round of the club trials championship has had to be moved at short notice from Monymusk to Colpy as the result of a waterlogged car park. We gave it every chance but the recent somewhat wet weather has left the car park deeply rutted. Fortuneatly we have secured Colpy as our alternative venue and as result the trial will start half an hour earlier than usual at 10:30am. Follow this link to enter online https://theentrypoint.co.uk/events/club-trials-championship-round-4-70wvYOwX1el13pE
Craiglash Results April 24
Date: 07-Apr-2024Full results from Round 1 of the SACU Scottish Trials Championship held at Craiglash on the 7th of April 2024 are now available on the Events and Results page of the club website at https://www.bamcc.co.uk/events/2024.html Bit late in the evening to start thanking everyone who needs thanked but we hope you all enjoyed your day. Results remain provisional for 7 days during which time if you want to query them e-mail bill@bamcc.co.uk After seven days the results will be final.
SACU Premier Trials Championship Rnd. 1
Date: 08-Mar-2024Round 1 of the 2024 SACU Premier Trials Championship will once again be hosted by the Bon Accord Motorcycle club of Aberdeen at our poplular Aberdeenshire venue of Craiglash Quarry on Sunday 7th April with a slightly earlier than normal start time of 10am. Online entries are open now at https://theentrypoint.co.uk/events/sacu-premier-trials-championship-2024-round-1-68wJp4qVp9MV5rg
Please take some time to read the ammended 2024 SACU trials regs https://www.sacu.co.uk/assets/Scottish-ACU-supplementary-regs-2024-26-02-24.pdf as they do contain some significant changes for this year. Any club member who isn't riding this year don't worry we have plenty of ways to keep you involved with the running of the trial, drop me an e-mail bill@bamcc.co.uk for details.
Round 2 Trials Results
Date: 05-Feb-2024The results from round 2 of the club trials championship are now available from the Events and Results page https://www.bamcc.co.uk/events/2024.html Well done to all our winners and a big thanks to Murray for setting it out and doing the scores. Next trial is at Findon on Sunday 3rd March.
