After missing the last Moto Gymkhana competition, Matt Hull returned to take victory at Round 6 at Donington Park this Saturday. He was followed by Mark Wraith in second with Neil Wallis-Tennant coming third. A little over 2 seconds was all that split the top three riders, despite the course proving a challenge for most.…
Moto Gymkhana Scotland @ MCN Scottish Motorcycle Show 7 to 8 March 2020 Come and see us at the MCN Scottish Motorcycle Show at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB. We are located in the Lowland Hall (L85). Ask the Moto Gymkhana Scotland team any of those questions you’ve always wanted to ask and…
UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2018 Round 1 – Donington Park (Tarmac lake) Want to give Moto Gymkhana a go, in a fun non-competitive environment? Click on the Blue Pylon to find out how………. It doesn’t seem more than 10 minutes since we finished the 2017 season yet here we are at the start of a new…
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UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2017 Round 5 – Donington Park (Tarmac lake) Wow, what a fantastic end to what’s been the closest MotoGymkhana season in the UK. Two of the three classes were still up for grabs on the final round as riders faced an open fast track on the Donington Park tarmac lake. Once…
UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2017 Round 4 – Donington Park (Heritage Loop) Well could it get any closer at the top of UK MotoGymkhana? After the fourth round at Donington Park we are set up for a winner takes all situation in both the expert and novice classes. Yet again by some miracle we had…
. UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2017 Round 3 – Rockingham Speedway Round 3 of the National Moto Gymkhana Championship visited a new competition venue for the sport, Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby and yet again the sun gods smiled upon us. Three warm dry events in a row must be a bit of a record!…
UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2017 Round 2 – Donington Park. Well that’s round 2 of the National Championship done and it’s already getting interesting in all classes. Dry and warm is what we wanted, and dry and warm is what we got. Out on the massive tarmac lake at Donington Park it’s possible to lay…
UK Moto Gymkhana Championship 2017 Round 1 – Donington Park. The 2017 National Moto Gymkhana season got underway with a healthy entry for Round 1 on the wide open spaces of the Donington Park tarmac lake. Before the event nobody knew what to expect from the new course designer for this year. There were a…
Barcelona European Practice Weekend – 2017 What a great weekend at the Honda facility in Barcelona! It’s always great to be a multinational bunch, and our group of 19 consisted of 11 Dutch, 3 French, 3 Brits, 1 Spaniard and 1 American (James, the organiser of Moto Gymkhana and world course in California). Us Brits hired…
2016 – Moto Gymkhana National Championship – Round 4 Grim conditions meet the all riders for the fourth round of the Moto Gymkhana Championship. As well as driving rain and high winds, the weather had knocked a large number of leaves from the trees causing problems for the course lay out. The solution was a…
2016 – Moto Gymkhana National Championship – Round 3 Round 3 of the UK Moto Gymkhana championships returned to the Launch pad area at Donington Park. Competitors were faced with a course that mixed fast and flowing with slow and tight sections. Several older obstacles making a return to the layout. The weather man…
The second round of the UK Moto Gymkhana championship took place on the huge tarmac lake at Donington Park, the size of the venue allowing the course designer to come up with a larger than usual layout. A good entry, excellent weather and nice clean tarmac promised a great day for all. The first attack…
Blessed with perfect weather the 2016 Moto Gymkhana Championship got underway at its spiritual home of Donington Park with a couple of particularly devious obstacles thrown in by course designer Andrew Freeman. One particular combination looked tricky to remember and so it turned out with no less than 10 competitors going wrong on their first…
Date: 5 & 6 of March 2016 The winter can be long and frustrating one, we need still practice so the opportunity to go to Spain and ride was too tempting to miss. Our friends in Motogymkhana NL, specifically Stapel Boxer had been liaising with Honda’s 4.5-million-euro state of the art training center in…
Kempton Park hosted Round 6 of the National Championship, sponsored by Belray Blue Tac, on 7th September 2014. The course proved challenging for some of our 30 competitors; Attack 1 saw a few pylons being clipped and the Marshals being kept busy. Another course walk at lunch saw Attack 2 giving far better results, times…
Round 5 of the National Championship, sponsored by Bullitt Silicone Spray, saw us back at Donington Park on 9th August. This time however, we were on the Tarmac Lake….it was huge…several competitors commented that the course walk was like a marathon. All this space meant we could have a fast and flowing course (or requiring…
Round 4 on 27th July 2014 saw us head south to the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, sponsored by Belray 6 in 1. We had a grandstand, running commentary, a smaller space than usual but full on sun until most of the way through the second attack, when it turned into a monsoon. We…
With the Mercury climbing into the high 20’s Moto Gymkhana visited the fabulous Gaydon Heritage Motor Center for Triumph Live 2014. A one day festival of all things Triumph Motorcycles. Bikes, stunt shows, beer, bands, trade stands and of course, Moto Gymkhana. Equipped with brand new Bonnevilles, a Scrambler and a Street Triple we didn’t…
We returned to Donington Park for Round 3 of the Moto Gymkhana competition series on Saturday, 28th June 2014 and were greeted with rain, rain and some more rain! The course was fast and flowing, requiring hard braking which was impressive given the wet conditions. Our 22 competitors were tested with a set of obstacles…
The Northern Echo Arena in Darlington hosted the MotoGymkhana Weekend on 7th and 8th June 2014. It began with an Experience Day on the Saturday in somewhat wet conditions but that didn’t deter those signed up from having a go. All participants enjoyed their time learning the sport and having a number of attacks at…
Our third Experience Day got under way at Donington Park on Saturday, 31st May 2014 with 20 new people trying out the sport. After completing the warm-up course and GP8’s, it was time to move on to the competition course. This included obstacles such as an offset slalom, double jink, H-box and ending with the…
Donington Park hosted Round 1 of the 2014 Moto Gymkhana competition series on 10th May, sponsored by Duck Smart, Bel-Ray and Metzeler. 27 competitors were tested with a clockwise course that included obstacles of a double jink, slalom, 12m rotations and figures of 8, to name but a few. We welcomed some new members along…
Our second Experience Day event took place on Sunday, 4th May 2014 at Kempton Park Racecourse with 36 newcomers trying out the sport. We had virtually every make of bike arrive including a return visit from a Victory rider from 2013, proving that any machine can do Moto Gymkhana. After being introduced to the pylon…
Moto Gymkhana opened 2014 with our first Experience Day on 26th April at Donington Park, with pre-ordered sunshine and dry weather. The day introduced 3 new groups to our sport, with the AJP’s proving popular and being fully booked out. A good number though chose to use their own bikes, which included a GSX-R, Pan…
The 2013 Moto Gymkhana competition season came to a close on 28th September with a fantastic day at DoningtonPark. Neil Wallis-Tennant retained the Championship title with a total of 115 points, by securing 5 wins out of 7; Mark Wraith also returned to the podium, taking 2nd place with 97 points. A strong performance…
Donington Park hosted our final competition of the 2013 season on 28th September with the pre-ordered sunshine and no rain. 31 competitors took part on a flowing, clockwise course that saw a few penalties picked up and kept our marshals busy. The average time was around 2 minutes 15 seconds and 19 riders bettered their…
Round 6 saw us return to Kempton Park on Sunday, 8th September with 28 competitors, a downpour at lunchtime and an almost flying marquee which managed to destroy the second and third place trophies! Despite this, the course returned to it’s usual clockwise direction and a first ever 3 jink combination which saw many different…
Moto Gymkhana became part of history with a great event organised by Bike 1066 and Chris Knott Insurance, held in the grounds of the De La Warr Pavilion on Bexhill seafront. Bexhill is the birthplace of British Motorsport. Moto Gymkhana, including those who took part, are recognised by BexhillMuseum as the first official motorsport event…
It was all change at Round 5 of the Moto Gymkhana competition season at Donington Park on Saturday, 3rd August 2013. 32 competitors were tested with a tight and technical course, including a double jink to finish. Our Marshals were kept busy with dabs, paddles and replacing pylons. Lunchtime saw a torrential downpour which…
Round 4 of the Moto Gymkhana competition season took place on Sunday, 14th July 2013 at Kirkbride Airfield, Cumbria and it was a hot one! The surface required a well thought out and strategically placed competition course, which included a double rotation that confused quite a few of our 17 competitors. Second attack times were…
The Moto Gymkhana Mayhem weekend kicked off in Cumbria at Kirkbride Airfield on Saturday, 13th July 2013 on one of the hottest days of the year so far. The AJP’s again proved popular although several people decided to give their own bikes a go for the second attack. There were some interesting interpretations of…
Moto Gymkhana – National Championship Round 3 – Donington Park Round 3 of the Moto Gymkhana competition season got underway on Saturday, 22nd June at Donington Park with 35 competitors taking part. For a change, we laid out the competition course in an anti-clockwise direction but included some super fast speedy sections as…
Experience Day – Ricoh Arena Coventry The Ricoh Arena at Coventry hosted the latest Experience Day for Moto Gymkhana on Sunday, 16th June. Ok, it wasn’t quite the Arena but one of it’s large car parks which provided a huge amount of space to set out the warm-up, GP8 and competition course. …
Moto Gymkhana saw 58 people try-out the mini course on our AJP’s at the BikeSafe event held at Doncaster Racecourse on 8th & 9th June. Everyone enjoyed it despite us hearing the usual “I’ll never get it right”. Most did, a few didn’t but all saw how easy it is to knock seconds off the…
[Moto Gymkhana National Championship Round 2 – Kempton Park] Kempton Park Racecourse saw Round 2 of the Moto Gymkhana competition season take place on Sunday, 26th May. 33 competitors took part with the usual array of machines. The course was fast flowing and included some new obstacles – Japanese Knot, Up & Down, Two Hearts…
[Moto Gymkhana National Championship Round 1 – Donington Park] We kicked off Round 1 of the 2013 competition series at Donington Park on 4th May with 31 competitors taking part. It was good to see a lot of new members as well as familiar faces return, and it was obvious that there had been a…
Moto Gymkhana Competition 7 of the season saw us return for the second time this year to Dunsfold Aerodrome. It requires a very technical course with lots of tight turns, gates and a challenging jink but provides plenty of opportunity for slaloms and rotations.Our top 3 changed places yet again with Neil Wallis-Tennant taking victory,…
Neil Wallis-Tennant on his Z750R took his third successive win in this year’s Moto Gymkhana Championship with Competition Round No.5 at Manchester Sportscity on Saturday. Mark Wraith on his MT03 took second and Jonathan Morris in third with his ZR-7S. The course was set out over a very long and narrow section and included many…
Competition 4 – 2012 Donington Park Back to Donington for Round No.4 with a course that included a tricky little clover-leaf, an even trickier triple jink and the ever-decreasing circles. Both competition attacks took place in the morning, followed by the all important presentation and lunch. The greatest amount of sympathy was awarded to the…
Competition 2 – 2012 North Weald Our first time at North Weald and being held on a Sunday. It was largely dry and the marquee held on, being tethered to anything that had weight. There was a good turn out of members with a couple of newcomers, one of whom came 2nd in the competition…
Our Competition series got into full swing at Donington on Saturday despite threatening clouds we had a fairly dry day and consequently good attack times.First place went to Matt Hull, 2nd was Mark Wraith and 3rd Neil Wallis – Tennant.Results times:Course reference time 1.46.98Matt 01:49.06Mark 01:55.29Neil 01:57:33
Spring Competition – 2012 Touratech We kicked off the Moto Gymkhana season in style with our competition with our friends at Touratech on Saturday. Several members rocked up and some new faces. Everyone quickly got back into the swing of things – even those doing the timing (!) – after the winter break. Neil and…