I today witnessed a very unfortunate and unbeleivable incident at todays British Trials Championship trial at Brimham Rocks.

George Morton had just ridden up the big rock step going into section 2 when his bike caught fire. He bailed off and after

a couple of attemps to put the flames out with water the fire just took hold. Eventually someone got hold of a fire extinguisher

and Steve Colley was the guy who used it to put the fire out. By this time (approx 5 mins) it was too late and the bike was wrecked.

It was incredible how fast this fire took hold of the bike.

I took a short video with my phone which was taken just after a minute which I have posted here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLBeebj1p0.

You can see how bad it was in such quick time

That looks expensive! I was there today and missed it! looks like ther will be some cheap rev3 parts on ebay soon!

There was a mention of rebuilding it

Maybe something to do with the petrol leaking from the Rev 3 carb when stopped. Beleive it or not, I was once told by Lampkins that 'they are designed to do that'.

NYL was there and the problem appears to have been electrical near the radiator.

Photos of this added to front page article. Looks nasty

yeah did look nasty, my dad said that was a write off. he wont be using that again.

Edited August 6, 200719 yr by weeble