2006 BYMX REVIEW - We're the young ones
By TMX Archives on 22nd Dec 06
IT was, it has to be said, not the greatest year on record for the BYMX championship in 2006.
Cancelled rounds, numerous wet races, some poor organisation from both the ACU and clubs, late venue changes to tracks not really up to scratch for what is the UK's premier Youth championship - Oliver's Mount and Talsarn spring to mind - plenty of protests, some lingering bad feeling, and even swinging fists all contributed to what just felt like a bit of a flat year after the past couple of bouyant seasons.
But it is the racing that everyone is there for though and once again the kids delivered on this front.
From a cold, blustery Matchams Park in March through Leuchars, Culham Park, Oliver's Mount, two Irish rounds at Ballykelly and Desertmartin, and the final round at Talsarn in deepest Wales, over 300 of the country's finest young talents rode with the kind of flat-out determination and heart that the GP scene could only hope for and produced yet another year of vintage race action.
When all was settled though it was northerners Jack Kelly and Luke Remmer, Welshmen Connor Walkley and Ashley Greedy, and southerner Dan Arnold who walked away with the 2006 championship crowns.
For full story see T+MX NEWS, Friday, December 22, 2006