Canterbury starts their engines for the first ever TTT Moped Mayhem Championship!

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It sees 6 classes of bike an 9 teams competing for more than 4 hours to see who can do the most laps, with family and friends cheering on from the sidelines.  Kai Wei reports.

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00:00The Canterbury Trial Park is hosting this year's Moped Mayhem Championships, and despite

00:24the thunderstorms and gloomy weather, racers drove for more than four hours.

00:29So Moped Man has been running since 1980-ish, so it's been a long-standing race series or

00:38event series with five different classes of bikes, teams of riders up to six within each

00:45team and we run all over the country really.

00:50Race today was really good, track conditions were hard because it was quite muddy, all racers

00:55had a great time, including myself, so I went out there and had a few laps, might have

01:00done a few more than a few laps, but yeah.

01:03So yeah, it all went really really well today and I think everyone's gone home smiling.

01:09That's the most important bit.

01:11I've always been involved in motorbikes, gaining that from my brother who was the sidecar team

01:20mechanic.

01:21Yeah, I love it.

01:23Everything was involved with two wheels, that's me.

01:26The owner of the venue says that the park is very important to Kent and that one of its

01:29main aims is to keep riders off the streets and out of trouble.

01:33We started this about a year ago, so there was nowhere for anyone locally to ride, trying

01:39to get kids and adults as well off the streets and riding in parks and just give them somewhere

01:44safe, managed and marshaled to ride.

01:46We're off-road for bikes, you're not allowed to ride them anywhere other than private land,

01:52which is very hard to find these days.

01:55So we offer cheap, safe and decent place for people to come and ride really.

02:02The nearest tracks are about an hour and a half away, London way, and we're the only

02:06one sort of this side of Kemp really.

02:09Obviously I ride anyway, but not these sort of bikes.

02:12We're on proper motocross bikes normally.

02:15It's been a good laugh today, certainly a good event.

02:17I'd recommend it to anyone that's got time to come either next year or to their next round

02:23really.

02:27With all the teams taking home at least one trophy, which were made out of motorbike parts,

02:31it's safe to say everyone went home happy and muddy.

02:35Kai Wei for KMTV in Canterbury.

02:38You're welcome.

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