Want to meet other members of Midland Trailquests, discuss our exciting sport, share event photos and find training partners? If so, join the Midland Trailquests group on Facebook.

To do this create or login to your Facebook account, then type 'Midland Trailquests' into the search box in the top right hand corner of the page. This will take you to the group's homepage. To keep out spammers new members have to be approved, but any MTQ member is welcome to join!

Andrew Waller used his local knowledge to secure a convincing victory in the East Haddon Haul, the first round of the Midlands Summer Series.

Dave Nichols, Andrew Waller & Allun Evans

Andrew visited 24 of the 36 controls on offer, his route covering all but the South-Western section of the map, ending up with 549 after an eleven point time penalty.

Allun Evans took the runner-up position with a score of 520 from 22 control visits, while Dave Nichols took third with 505.

Nigel Piggott was victorious in the three hour event, with a well calculated ride that saw him return just a minute over the time limit.

Many thanks to Dan Bunker and Dave Barker, who provided a tough undulating challenge for their first event, that was much appreciated by al those who competed.

Dave Nichols edged ahead of Ian Cartwright, who didn't ride at East Haddon, in the season long John Wilkinson Memorial Trophy.

5 Hour Event Results    3 Hour Event Results

Great Riding In Round Two

The second round of the Midlands Summer Series is also a new event.

The Hogweed Bicycles & Bridleways Challenge, based at Pucklechurch near Bristol takes place on Sunday 12th July.

The event, being organised by Anne Draper & Kaye Hall, offers competitors some fantastic riding in a beautiful part of the Southern Cotswolds.

So don't forget to come along and support Anne & Kaye in their first event!

Events Details

If you've ever found yourself in the situation of telling your mates about MTQ, but not having anything to write the web address down on, we have the perfect solution.

We have now produced some MTQ business cards which you can simply give to anyone who might be interested in joining and coming to do one of our events. These can be obtained from Mick Tucker who attends most of our events.

Oh, don't forget to take them out on your bike with you and give them to any other riders you meet and why not put some in your local bike shop too?

Many of you who change your e-mail address forget to update it in your MTQ details, which means you will not be receiving any of our periodic electronic newsletters.

So next time you login to enter an event, don't forget to check your details and bring them up to date. If our e-newsletters have bounced we will have set your account not to receive any more, so please change this setting back to Yes when your details have been updated.

If your details are correct and you are still not receiving our e-newsletter then it is probably being marked incorrectly as spam. Simply add e-newsletter@MidlandTrailquests.co.uk to the address book or safe senders list in the e-mail application you are using to overcome this.

© Alun Piggott

A Trailquest is an orienteering event, ridden on a Mountain Bike, and is currently the fastest growing branch of cycling, on or off-road, in the UK. Competitors come from all age ranges and both sexes, and it is not always the fittest riders that win as planning and navigation are just as important.

To find out what Trailquesting is all about read our guide.