ENTRY FORMS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD UNDER ‘EVENT FORMS’ SECTION ON THIS WEBSITE

There will be awards for the Top 3 in each class, Clubmen and Experts on the day.

Day licences will be available on the day for this event at a charge of £10. This is a new regulation being brought in by MRA (Ireland) for 2012 season. Therefore the club has to apply this to all our events. This will be the regulation across the board and is not a profit making exercise by Mourne MCC Ltd.

The event was a fun-day, rather than a race, and the 81 competitors had the chance to ride for two hours on the track which was almost one and a half miles long.

This is the third year that the Mourne club has held a cross-country event at the start of the New Year. In 2010 the riders had to deal with riding through snow and in 2011 frost had left the ground frozen for the event. But in 2012 with heavy rain leading up to the event riders, such as Killinchy man Adrian Lappin, Crossgar’s James Cuffey, Saintfield’s Tom Lecky and Alan Campbell from Downpatrick, were treated to a slippery track which was to cut up heavily in places.

Thanks must also go to Bells Crossgar for the use of the forecourt on the Saintfield Road for parking vehicles.

Photo © Barry Clarke 2012

(Left to Right): Mark Douglas from Crossgar, Ballynahinch man Arthur McMullan, Downpatrick man Michael Killen and Mark Kirkpatrick from Aghalee.

Cups will be presented to the prize winners from events run in the past year. Also presented on the night will be the Seaforde Motocross Park Cup and the Norman Campbell Memorial Cup. (All prize winners will be notified by post)

Tickets are priced at a very reasonable £17.50 each. This is for a three choice hot-food buffet and an evenings entertainment provided by a local comedian. Music by local DJ to suit all ages.

Anyone who attended last year, will know how good an evening it was, and all new faces will be made very welcome.

Tickets can be purchased via this website, (Fill in contact form page) most club members and by contacting Billy McLarnin directly on 07860 608 418

The officers and members of the Mourne Motorcycle Club Ltd would like to take this opportunity to wish all our members and anyone associated with the club, a very Merry Christmas and prosperous and safe Happy New Year.

Best Wishes for 2012 and beyond!

ENTRY FORMS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD UNDER ‘EVENT FORMS’ SECTION ON THIS WEBSITE

Day licences will be available on the day for this event at a charge of £10. This is a new regulation being brought in by MRA (Ireland) for 2012 season. Therefore the club has to apply this to all our events. This will be the regulation across the board and is not a profit making exercise by Mourne MCC Ltd.

For safety reasons we need to split riders into two groups for this event.
This will be done by the order entries were received (fully paid) in one group and late entries/expert riders in another group.

Things have remained much the same for the officials within the club; current chairman John Bassett was re-elected at the helm after doing a brilliant job this previous twelve months. Ken Dickson will assist John in the position of vice-chairman, after being re-elected to his previous seat. We as a club are indebted to the hard work of all our regular club members, and know that under the guidance of John and Ken we will grow and grow in 2012.

We are always seeking new faces and all members will be warmly welcomed to any of our club meetings on the third monday of the month at the Millbrook Lodge Hotel, Ballynahinch from 8pm.

2012 Season Club Membership forms are now available for download under the ‘Club Forms’ section of this website.