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Many thanks to the Pontypool club for a top trial this weekend, and especially to Rob Cobley for organising the event and sorting out an entry for me. Some lovely sections mostly in the Rocky streams for the 80 plus entry. I spent most of the trial riding around with Rob Pike and his lad Tom from the Mendip club, but made a bit of a mistake entering the 50/50 masters route!!! Bit hard for me on the day and I slid the bike across the roots and rocks and broke my rear brake pedal... the last lap and a half was done very carefully with strategic 5's taken!!
Thanks again to the Pontypool club for a top event, and Wales was lovely and sunny all day and we even had dust kicked up on the rides across the fields!!... **Full Results .xls file** .. I have discovered a way to win again, be the only clubman over 40 to ride the masters 50/50 route!!! :) .. If anyone enters the same class next time we will have a new award for best rider born on December 19th 1965, reckon I could win again. |
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Cheltenham Spa are running a Charity Trial on March 14th at Grey Hill, Wainloads Lane. Glos. All solo classes + two 50/50 routes. You can enter on the day, more details etc from Brian Bridson 01242 570471. |
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Just been in the garage and fitted a VForce3 reed kit to my Beta Evo, read further....
.. Just ridden the Pontypool event and it does pull very cleanly and responds instantly. Good on the top end as well. |
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Just a quick word to say thanks to the Mendip Vale club for a brilliant trial today (28th)... None of the promised rain or high winds arrived and the club set out what I reckon was about the perfect set of sections. ...It seems that the first set of results were wrong.. good old ms xcel problem, thought my counting ability was a bit out!! Just had the revised results in .pdf sent through and I am pleased to say I did ok on the clubman expert route, 3rd... and best over 40 as well (and the others rode the standard route) sadly the revised results were too late for the T&MX report!
Not usually my ideal type of section this muddy slippery stuff but my 290 Evo seems to flatter my ability!! Thanks to all at the club, and of course the observers on the day. |
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r2w friend Ian Cross, top photographer and owner of pics4all, has landed a deal to be the official lensman at this years MTB British Downhill Series (the BDS)... nice one mate. Bet you get more thanks than you do from the Trials world!!! |
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I recently ordered some parts from BTOSports.com in the USA and am glad to report what a brilliant service I got... the main man replied to my emails straight away and after paying via paypal the parts were posted and arrived about a week later... and that was on the standard cheapest postal service. Their prices are very good and Trials riders in the USA may want to check out some of the Thor gloves and shirts etc they have in their clearence section... They cover road, offroad, atv and casual items so worth cheaking out the site. |
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Take one Simtra, A Meta, A Castle and some Welsh snow... and you get a very strange day indeed! .. More Here. |
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Next Merthyr Trial... Easter Sunday 4 April.
Venue - Llwydcoed - sign posted off A465 Heads of the Valley Road.
All Classes Adult and Youth Start 11 a.m. Contact Kay on 01685 350798 (after 4.30 p.m.) Kay Bedford, Blanche House, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil CF48 3PD |
Event Reports |
Another top day out, this time at the SVMC event at Breakheart Quarry.. Image gallery from Scott Anderson, & another gallery from Heath... Also Ryan Pekala got his Koxx out for a play as well!
**Full Results now on SVMC website** Now if they had an over 40's masters award I may have won it, but 5th master overall was ok for me!
A brilliant day with the Merthyr Club at their recent club trial, in the lovely rocky stream gulleys.. A quick report of the day, and results download HERE... & also an Image Gallery
Zona 1 recently held their trial at Nettleton. full results .pdf
.. and photo gallery on PhotoBucket |
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Burners and I rode the Mendip Vale Turkey trial on Saturday, it also happened to be my birthday so I didn't commit myself until the last moment to ride and wasn't in fancy dress but most were... I dropped my partner Jo in at the deep end and handed her my camera so she could get some shots. Having never used an SLR before I think she got some good ones... use the image on the left , the traffic cone, to see the gallery!!... results now on the club web site.
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Becky Cook, Alexz Wigg and Ross Danby were at the BVM test day and gave us all a lesson in riding....
click the image of Alexz on the left to see a gallery of images I took of them during the day... then click on any thumbnail to view larger versions. Report on the day Here. |
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It's that time of the year again... well actually a bit later! The BVM test day was delayed for a few weeks to enable the 2010 Sherco ST 290 to arrive. Unfortunately we were without the Montesa and Scorpa machines but GasGas and Beta had a full selection to try out along with the Sherco's... views on the machines Here,.. meanwhile click on the image of me on the left to see a selection of images I took during the day. |
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First ride on the new 290 Evo today for me... I was joined by Mike, Burners, Squancey, Ben and Steve over in Wiltshire for a 5 hour play!! I was pleasently surprised that I managed to keep riding all the time, I thought the 3 month lay off would have not only ruined any fitness I had but also what riding ability. But the bike flattered me, it grips like mad and feels so much easier to move around than the Rev3. I put a few scuffs on it so it doesn't look brand new anymore!! .. click the Here for updated (16th Dec) bike info and work etc... A few pictures of us riding and a group shot here. |
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Now this looks nice... Ossa released the prototype TR280i at the Milan motor show this week. Fuel injection, chromo and alloy frame, twin tube swinging arm, reverse canted cylinder, exhaust outlet and air inlet opposite to normal etc etc.. Only bit I am not keen on is the USD forks. They have been tried a few times on trials machines and not lasted long. The black/white/green colours look stunning I think, and hints back to the old ossa days. click the image to visit the zonatrial info page. And see more images from MotoTrial.it here .. discuss the new bikes Here. 1280 pixel wide images available Here |
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Click the image here to get a large view of the 2010 TopTrialTeam Beta Evo... I reckon the original white plastics would look good with the black frame, like the SXS version from last year. |
