There will be a signing on session at Tynwald Inn St. Johns Wed 8th July 8pm for local riders, marshalls and timekeepers wishing to compete/help out in the SMCC 2 Day Enduro, there is already a considerable amount of off island competitors and numbers are limited.

Both days of the 2 Day Enduro are rounds of the Isle of Man Enduro Centre Championship.

The 2 Day Enduro is on 25/26th July both days start and finish at St Johns Old Railway car park.

Further info including Entry forms and Regs are available here

Honda C90’s did battle with trials bikes and quads and a sea of Enduro machinery in the SMCC EndurOgasm event held at Carnegrie on June 27th. Club jester Jason McNee excelled himself in organising one of the most ridiculous and fun events seen for many years with extra laps added to riders on slower or less well suited machinery as well as riding ability.

The result was a topsy turvy finishing order with Richard Murphy, Robert Bakker sharing the rostrum with TT and World Championship Grand Prix legend Dave Leach.

Best entertainment award and a testament to Honda engineering were the trio of Rory Howell, Russell Moore and Tom Dawson (all dressed for the office) winners of the 1 hour C90 class. Each of them had various difficulties to overcome including lack of adequate footwear and loss of a top box, flapping centre stands but all made it to the finish.

Evening entertainment included Round 1 of the SMCC summer series club trial, BBQ and the very popular moped special test course.  The MopedGp finally finished at midnight with best lap going to Aaron Smith from Mark Crellin (best dressed man award) and Russell Millward with a notable performance from Richard Skillicorn whose pocket was considerably lighter after the event.

Jason would like to thank everyone involved especially Nick Cannon who set out huge amounts of the track on his own and didn’t even ride! Dougie and Angie for BBQ, Sandy Hannay and the bar staff.

Mark ’shiner/pizza topped mattress’ Hutchinson and Richard Skillicorn for  taking in the course despite being extraordinarily drunk the night before.

Special thanks must go to Ian Baxter-Ross and Drew Peacock for timekeeping.

EndurOgasm promises to return next year bigger, better and even more silly!

EndurOgasm Handicap Fun Event Results

The final motorcycling event of TT 2009 was the Southern MCC Enduro Round 4 held at Sulby Claddaghs with special tests in Sky Hill and Ohio plantations with going between on the upland Sky Hill greenway roads. With fantastic weather and the plantations in a very dry state the course was only subject to limited deterioration throughout the event.

Expert Juan Knight was the outright winner setting the best time on each test except for his first run through Ohio no doubt taking his time to settle into the route before steadily setting quicker times than 2nd placed man Barry Kinley. Ben Begbie had another solid run in 3rd.

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The Isle of Man ACU Enduro Championship standings after Round 3.

Enduro Championship Standings

Round 3 of the Isle of Man Enduro Championship started at the Old Railway Car Park St Johns with special tests around Eairy Beg and Archallagan plantations, once the rain started both tests became very tricky and it was an achievement to finish the event.

Juan Knight took overall honours but was kept honest by 2nd placed Barry Kinley, Ben Begbie and Chris Madigan who were all within 90 seconds of each other after 3 laps of the course.

Clubman was impressively won by Kieron Jones by almost 8 minutes whose times were comparable with the top 3 in the Experts class. There was another close battle for 2nd spot Mark Oates, Kevin Riley, Andy Cannell and Jimmy Cubbon all in contention for the top 3 and finished in that order.

Sportsman completed 2 laps of each test with Andrew Sidebottom and Andrew MacDonald separated by no more than 1 minute with Graham Taubman finishing 3rd. The rear of field featured some lengthy times and congratulations should go to those who stuck at it and got home for a finish.

Clerk of the course Nigel Beaumont would like to thank Rob Faragher, Mark Wilson, Maurice Bellando, Helen Beaumont, Wendy Crellin and all at DAFF without which the event would not have run.

The whole enduro committee would also like to thank Gary Cawtherley who spent most of the past 2 weeks living in Archallagan plantation and set out a fantastic and very long test.

Western Enduro - Sunday 17th May

*UPDATED*  includes Novice class

The SMCC Easter Monday Fun Enduro was greatly enjoyed by all competitors and was the first event for a number of years to include Quads and made more interesting by the Quad class being run in tandem with the Clubman Expert class.

Held at the SMCC clubs land at Carnagrie made use of much of the natural landscape and included a roped “snail” chicane that involved essentially riding round in circles until finally reaching the exit.

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Supplementary Regulations and Entry forms are now available:

Isle of Man 2 Day Enduro 2009.

Once again Minimix Concrete are backing the event which is this year to be based in St.Johns and in the southern plantations, Green lane tracks and includes a new special test course. Day 2 will be in the reverse direction to day 1 with some variation which will make the event a challenge for all competitors.

Both days of the event are eligible for championship points towards the ACU Centre Enduro Championship and feature all 3 classes of Expert, Clubman and Sportsman.

Travel and Accommodation details are available here:

Minimix 2 Day Enduro - Steam Packet Holidays