It's Saturday evening, two weeks before the entry deadline for the Angela Redford and at the latest count we have 113 riders entered for the trial at Brookhouse Brickworks, which is the third round of the ACU Classic Trials Championships.

This figure is some way short of last year's massive number and we don't expect to reach such a total this year, primarily due to the current economic climate, but as there's still two weeks left, more entries will surely filter through.

If you are planning to ride and haven't yet entered, then get on and do so. The trial format will be the same as previous years, but Nick Shield is developing the sections so expect some changes.

There is going to be one change; we plan to ensure that riders in each class all start at the same section, to make it dead fair for everybody. But of course, with riders starting two at a time at minute intervals, one rider will go one way and the other rider the other way. Which means to achieve this, riders in a class, will not have consecutive numbers, but will be all odds or all evens. If you don't understand, we do and that's all that matters.