Motor Sport: One of the main talking points in the trials world is whether Dougie Lampkin will be changing bikes next season.

There have been rumours of Honda offering the 23-year-old from Silsden a six-figure sum in contract fees.

Lampkin is the hottest property in world trials riding.

Currently the three-times world indoor and outdoor champion is with Beta, but there is the possibility of a move to Montesa, who are Honda-owned.

Much gossip at the Bradford DMC Trial at Howden Wood above Silsden concerned Lamp-kin and what is a closely guarded secret.

Organiser Ron Eddings and his clubmates had planned a course for frosty weather, but ironically snow was followed by heavy rain.

"Every year the course is coated in frost, and all the riders hate it," said Eddings.

"So this year we made sure that if it was frosty then the sections would be easy. So what happened? No frost at all!"

World No 4 Graham Jarvis, riding a factory-production 290cc Bultaco for the first time in a local event, had a perfect ride to win.

Ben Hemingway (East Keswick) was second and Haworth's Wayne Braybrook third.

Jonathon Smithies kept the GP Beta flag flying by winning the Clubman Class from Tony Holmes and Kevin Hickie, and Smithies' boss John Lampkin was fifth.

Youth riders excelled on the hard route, Skipton's Ben Naylor winning Class A on his new Beta, and Cookridge's James Dabill taking Class B and finishing tenth overall, notching some fine adult scalps.

Queensbury's Carl Davis again staged the Yorkshire Sports Car Club's autotest on Harry Ramsden's car park at White Cross, Guiseley.

Haworth garage owner Chris Leeming was fastest over the 20 special stages, while his wife Lorraine - sharing the family Escort - was fourth.

The course was covered in a sheet of ice before lunch, but rain then washed away the worst.

Teenager Sam Ludgate (Pontefract) took the top prize at the West Leeds MC Trial at Post Hill, Pudsey, ahead of Guiseley's James Noble and local rival Chris Carter from Tranmere Park.

Andrew Carter - Chris' young-er brother - won the Youth Class from Roundhay's Dane Sherwin, while his younger brother Zac took the Class C prize.

A total of 59 riders slipped and slithered around the 1950s scrambling venue.

Top man at the Richmond MC event at Reeth, which attracted 150 competitors despite appalling weather, was Scott Trial winner Phil Alderson. Almost a quarter of the field failed to finish.

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