Melville MC
Rd 1 – Melville MC Winter MX Series
Lochhouses, Dunbar
Report and pictures: Graham Milne

THE sun always shines on the righteous, so goes the old saying, and there must have been at least 180 righteous motocrossers at the opening round of the Melville MC’s Winter Motocross Series at the fabulously prepared stubble-field at Lochhouses, near Dunbar, just south of Edinburgh, last weekend.
The sun was out all day to warm the many spectators’ cockles as we were offered some hot-blooded racing by the adults, Youths and Quads, desperate to get in some competition before they, hopefully, get new machinery and kit from Santa.
Sean MacDonald got into some Adult A class ‘Strictly Come Crashing’ positions during his first race when he ‘grabbed too much front brake and headed south finishing in sixth place.

Pictures above by Graham Milne -click for larger images.

However, the KTM man gave himself top marks in the following motos by taking the subsequent race wins and the overall honours.
Jamie Duncan took the opening win but didn’t feature again all day.
Peter Kelly and Colin McLuckie scored well to snatch runner-up and third places respectively.
One to watch in future enduros, Neil Chatham topped the Adult B class after three races wins kept him ahead of Cumbrian Karting supremo Justin Edgar and man on a come-back after 20–odd years away, former Scottish MX championship contender David Lawson in runner-up and third places respectively.
Another man with maximum points was Steven Currie (Snr) in the Adult C class as runner-up John Moody stayed consistent ahead of third placed man Danny Stewart.
Seventeen Quads took to the start.
Smooth riding by overall winner John Crawford kept him ahead of runner-up Ian Neill and Richard Telford in third place.
However, the final race was won by Andy Britton.
The Youths played their part on the day as Steven Craig’s first and third race wins were split by a second race second spot for the overall honours on the day.
Second race winner Mark Perfect had to settle for runner-up spot once Craig was back on the boil.
Jake Boyes was nearly one of the boys in third spot.
The Big and Small-wheeled 85cc classes were run together and this filled the start gate up perfectly.
Young man on a National Big-wheel championship mission next season Mattie Fleming had no competition at the front and basically had a hard training day against his dad’s stopwatch as he swept to the overall Big-wheel maximum honours.
The fight was on for the two other podium slots and they were filled by Kane Young and Andrew McNicoll battling all day with young Young taking the runner-up spot ahead of his rival McNicoll.
The dynamic display of the day came from John Adamson as he swept to the Small-wheel class wins but, showed the Big-wheel class riders a thing or two by riding in second spot behind Fleming for much of the three races before being overhauled by only a very few of the bigger bikes.
Kyle Peebles snatched the Junior 65cc class honours ahead of lady pilot Tara McLeod and Scott McLean.
The 12 Auto class riders took to their own wee circuit nearby and Lewis Dow took the top honours ahead of runner-up Jordan Gill and third placed Lyle Crothers.

The next Melville Motor Club event is the final round of the Metzeler Melville Cross Country Championship on the 7th December at Lochhouses, regulations can be downloaded from; www.melvillemc.co.uk www.scottishenduros.co.uk www.enduronews.com www.scottishmotocross.co.uk

RESULTS
Adult A: 1 Sean McDonald, 2 Peter Kelly, 3 Colin McLuckie, 4 Robert Brown, 5 Jason Edgar, 6 David Houston.
Adult B: 1 Neil Chatham, 2 Justin Edgar, 3 David Lawson, 4 John Skelton, 5 Gary Turner, 6 Paul Benham.
Adult C: 1 Steven Currie (Snr), 2 John Moody, 3 Danny Stewart, 4 Iain Martin, 5 David Watson, 6 Stuart Campbell.
Quads: 1 John Crawford, 2 Ian Neill, 3 Richard Telford, 4 Robert Graham, 5 Mark Wilson, 6 Jamie Clunie.
Youth MX2: 1 Steven Craig, 2 Mark Perfect, 3 Jake Boyes, 4 Daniel Monks, 5 Russell Valentine, 6 Ryan Johnson.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Mathew Fleming, 2 Kane Young, 3 Andrew McNicoll, 4 Jason James, 5 Harry Cooper, 6 Aaron Munro.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 John Adamson, 2 Greg Queen, 3 Dean McLeod, 4 Jack Taylor, 5 Sean Williamson, 6 Fraser Pohlen.
Junior 65cc: 1 Kyle ‘Rusty’ Peebles, 2 Tara McLeod, 3 Scott McLean, 4 Aaron MacDonald, 5 Lee Perfect, 6 Morgan Legge.
Autos: 1 Lewis Dow, 2 Jordan Gill, 3 Lyle Crothers, 4 Dominic Stevenson, 5 Daniel Chisholm, 6 Gregor Campbell.