Who we are

The Motor Cycling Club was founded in 1901 and is one of the very oldest clubs for the sporting motorist. We have over 1000 loyal and enthusiastic members who enjoy our own particular style of motor sport on two, three, or four wheels. Do not confuse us with the 'other MCC' which plays a game involving teams of eleven men in white flannels. To generations of motorsport enthusiasts there is only one MCC - The Motor Cycling Club.

What we do

We are known mainly for our three great long distance classic reliability trials - the Exeter Trial (held in early January), the Lands End Trial (held at Easter) and the Edinburgh Trial (held in early October). These have all been run since the first decade of the last century with the essential character unchanged and entries still numbered in the hundreds.

"Classic Trials are not just for Classic Cars, although many do take part ... what is classic is the format of the events."

Photographs taken by Charlie Wooding on the 2009 Exeter Trial

Website Update - 3 July 2009

The website redesign is now well advanced with all the most popular pages, and all of the Go Trialling section, now in the new format. I'm steadily working my way through the remaining About the MCC pages, to be followed by the updating of the older Events pages. I currently hope to have the redesign complete by mid-July.

If you find any broken links, or other problems, please re-visit the site after a couple of days, by which time they should have been fixed.

Andrew Brown. Website editor.

Technical Stuff

Standards compliance: The biggest change, although not visible, is that the site is being brought-up to 100% compliance with the XHMTL 1.0 and CSS 3 web design standards. I admit that I've been a bit lax with standards compliance in the past, designing primarily for the Internet Explorer 6 and 7 web browsers used by the vast majority of our visitors. Now that those using the Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE8 browsers are a significant and steadily-growing percentage (30% and rising at the last count), I couldn't put off a redesign any longer.

Screen resolution: When the previous site was launched, a significant number of our visitors were still using screens with a resolution of 800x600 pixels. As 95+% of our visitors now use screens with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels or larger, I have taken the opportunity to redesign the site to make use of the extra width which designing for this screen resolution allows.

Frames: The more observant of you will have noticed that the new site design does not use "frames". The use of framed websites has been the source of much controversy over the years and I believe that the trend to eliminate frames from website design is now unstoppable.

The Motor Cycling Club Ltd
Registered in England, Registered Number 72702
Registered office: 10 South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NJ

Our next events

Monthly Newsletters

Website Updates

3rd July 2009

The Great PR Debate
PDF copies of recent issues of News of the Week are now available on the Members' Pages.

23rd June 2009

AGM 2009
The Agenda for the 2009 AGM, and the Minutes of the 2008 AGM, are now available on the Members' Pages.

22nd June 2009

Edinburgh Trial 2009
The Supplementary Regulations and Entry Form are now available from the Downloads page.
New website design launched.

7th May 2009

Lands End Trial 2009
The Final Results are now available from the Events Archive page.

6th May 2009

Summer Run 2009
The entry form is now available from the Events Calendar page.
Testing Trial 2009
The "entrypack", including the Supplementary Regulations and Entry Form, is now available from the Testing Trial 2009 page.

Design and maintenance by AndrewKB