G’morning all. Hope you all had a good week-ends sport.
The View from Ba House in May/June is now posted – I didn’t realize Jerry Cross had problems from Day 1 up in Scotland – Oh well he’ll have to enter again next year, he’ll crack it then I’m sure.
Don’t Forget: Kingswood’s Abbottside Enduro on Saturday – you’ve just got time to get your Entry in (closes tomorrow) & there’s Transponder Timing This Year!
Entry Forms & Regs are also posted for North Somerset’s 2 hour TattoTime Chase on Saturday 14th August, & the Kingswood Clubs’ Centre Trials Championship Hawkesbury Trophy Trial on 21st September.
See you there: Frank
Hi Frank,
Nice to see Nippers not lost his touch! Otherwise all quiet on the Wessex front it seems, so I thought a few memories of 4 days of Geuret trial might entertain for 5 minutes. ATC St Christoph (they have a website) based in Mid/southwest of France put on an international 4 day trial every year; we had been wanting to do it for some time and things worked out so that we could this year. We set off on the Sunday and took a leisurly 2 days to get to Sardent a small village just south of Geuret and had a rest day before the trial, we were able to sign on the day before. The trial consisted of 3 days of figure 8 loops a total of c.50 kilometres per day with 16 sections including a zone artificial in the village square with the last day being a single loop with fuel stops of c.80 kilometres and 25 sectiones or zones. What sections phew! and some of the interzone riding was pretty tough too, ruddy great big granite boulders and rocks everywhere; reminiscent of the anticlockwise approach to Fersit in the SSDT for those who know it. 360 riders signed on. Every section had at least half a dozen opportunities to get it wrong and every section was a minimum of 30 mtrs long. There were routes for all classes (4 routes in the sections). You could elect to ride two laps i.e 30 sections or just the one which was enough for us. Very hot weather necessitated carrying and drinking litres of water not to mention dust on interzones. I will definitely go again despite the easy going approach by the organisers ( which of course is a double edged “sword” ) in so much as no hassle with getting entries etc there was one Brit lad who rode who was just 12 but he said he was 17 and they believed him!!!. There were loads of Brits riding best was Liam Fox or is it Walker ..he came 2nd anyway on the hardest route which was a good result in view of the typical situation of drunken noisy brits trying to communicate by simply speaking english louder ..quite comical from my position as both parties in any conversation were equally abusive but neither understood the other so it was mutually OK. Janet as usual lifted the best trophy on the podium although she could only manage 3rd. I rode too hard a route for an old guy and came in ca. 20th in my class but it was great fun riding harder sections despite “punching” a few rocks..
Dinners ready so see you soon .CW