Edinburgh & District Motor Club
Pre'65 Scottish Two-Day Trial
1st & 2nd May 2026
Entry payment is now due
Emails have been sent out to all successful entrants requesting payment for their entry. Please check your inbox and spam folder to ensure you have yours. It contains important information regarding the trial which you should read carefully and it also gives instruction on what you need to do to pay your entry. It is important that you do this via the Jotform link as there is essential information on the payment form that you need to complete.
An alphabetical list of successful entrants into the 2026 trial is attached. This list includes the three reserve riders who have successfully gained an entry due to the withdrawal of three of the original list and congratulations to them on gaining an entry. Riding numbers will be sent out once the payment window has closed and all payments have been processed.
The Pre’65 Scottish Trial will again have a stand at the Classic Dirtbike Show at the Telford International Centre over the weekend of Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February 2026 so please come along to see us and have a chat. We are on Stand C73A in Hall 1.
On hand to answer any questions you have or volunteer to offer your services, will be our Observer Co-ordinator, Sally Burton and all our Eligibility Team will also be there with advice or to answer your questions as well as Secretary, Anne Gordon.
There will be a limited selection of our Official Merchandise to purchase should you need to replenish your Pre’65 Scottish clothing ready for the 2026 event.
Yours in Sport,
Anne Gordon
Secretary Pre’65 Scottish Trial 
ALPHABETICAL RESERVE LIST
Out of the unlucky 112 entrants who were unsuccessful in the ballot, the following 61 names were lucky enough to be successful in the ballot for a place on the numbered Reserve List. They have now all been sent an email with their reserve number. Reserve places will be filled by the Capacity class that the withdrawn rider was in to ensure we keep as even a class balance to the original ballot as possible.
The other 51 unsuccessful applicants in the original ballot are still on the reserve list but reserve numbers have not been allocated to them at this time. Those who opted not to be reballoted will not be included in this process and their entry for this year is now at an end.
There have been 3 withdrawn entries to date and emails will be sent out to the first reserves in the capacity class of the withdrawn entries to offer them a place, so please keep an eye on your inbox or spam folder.
For those successful in securing an entry into the 2026 event, emails requesting payment will be sent out shortly so, if you have accepted the offer of an entry, please also, keep a lookout for this in your inbox or spam folder.
Yours in Sport,
Anne Gordon
Secretary Pre’65 Scottish Trial
On that note, preparations and improvements are already underway for 2026. The trial dates are Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May 2026 with sign-on and machine examination on Thursday 30th April 2026. Entries will open on Wednesday 1st October and will be open until Wednesday 26th November 2025 so you will have a full 8 weeks to get your entry submitted using the Jotform platform and details of how to do this will be notified nearer the end of September. There are 200 entries available and a ballot will be held shortly after the closing date should the number of entrants exceed this limit.
To commemorate 50 years since the SSDT last started from Edinburgh, Vince Mackintosh has organised a fundraiser in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support to ride his 1949 Norton 500T, 204 miles from Edinburgh to Fort William on Thursday 30th April 2026 in memory of his late wife, Claire Mackintosh and Pre’65 Scottish Merchandise Co-ordinator, Elaine Gordon. He will be joined by 10 riders and a Special Guest rider all on period bikes. The JustGiving fundraising page – Back to the Future SSDT/Pre’65 is open now for donations so please support this mammoth undertaking by these brave, keen motorcyclists for such a good cause.
Please share the page link far and wide – https://www.justgiving.com/page/vincent-mackintosh-5…
Any donation you are able to make, big or small, would be very much appreciated, thank you.