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nick-r Member  Top Poster 2003  Member#: 116 Location: Registered: 26-01-2003 Diary Entries: 357 Mood: wheres the wind? |
1st March 2008 Other: gasgas motos UK enduro, llandrillo Wind Direction: n/a Wind Stength: n/a Surf / Sea State: n/a Air Temperature: cool Sea Temperature: n/a Weather: fair Max Speed: Distance Covered: yards.... The build up to the weekend had been immense, counting down the days and then the hours. 6am saturday morning, the time had come....I loaded the bike onto the trailer and set off to meet Col at Telford services, we needed to be at the venue to sign in for 10am. We arrived to see what looked like dirtbike heaven..:). The saturday was only the race experience day and and we thought we might have an advantage over stevebus and the other's by getting in an extra day of practice before the main event........WRONG!. It's almost laughable to think we thought we would be able to do two days....in fact I did'nt even last an hour. We kitted up eager to get out and sample the track. We could see the course snaking off up the hillside and just could'nt wait to get going. We decided to stay together for the first lap and just trundle round to check out the course, but as soon as we were allowed through the gate and onto the track, down came the red mist and we were off like no tomorrow......lol...Col immiediatly started flicking mud... :o. so i waited for the first available chance and slid by him, around the outside if i remember correctly. That was my only moment of glory and it was all to come to an ending within minutes. The lower part of the course was set out with tape essing through the field with really nice hairpin turns that you could slide out of. As i looked behind I seemed to have made some ground on Colin....Great .....just as I'd planned it!!!!!...and then as the track cut of the field and started uphill, I realised i was heading towards a big climb. I tried to build up speed to carry momentum because I had no idea how high the hill was, as the climb steepened the bike started to lose power and suddenyly it dawned on me that i was'nt going to make it, at this point Colin came thundering past me like a man possesed, that was the last i saw of him..:(....About 2/3 of the way up the hill the bike finally gave up, and there I was stuck on the side of a dirty great hill, could'nt go up and could'nt go down. I eventually managed to get the bike re-started and by running along side it and revving the cr@p out of it managed to get it to the top. I was now totally fcucked but on my way again, nevertheless. The course then went out and further up across moorland before sweeping back down through a technical (ish) forest section, where I found a qeue of people and lots of marshalls. I took my place in line and slowly made my way towards the place where the bikes were disapearing over. I had'nt had chance to see what i was going to be riding down until my front wheel was almost over the edge...:O....A very steep drop down muddy a bank that was lined with marshalls to help the stricken. I was ok though and managed to slide my way to the bottom with brakes on full. There was a sharp left at the bottom and no room to run off, so it was'nt possible to roll down. I was now feeling very hot and sweaty and was trying my hardest not to fall off. There were obstacles at every turn and absolutely no place to relax. I eventually completed the lap and set off on my 2nd, which was to be my last. The bike just would not make it up the big hill and in my desperate attempt to get up, the engine seized. So there i was, once again stuck on the side of the hill, lunatics flying past me like they were racing for the world title. By the time i had pushed the bike back to the pit area, I was totally fineshed, I even had to get 2 kids to help me push the bike last bit, it was so cacked in mud that it would'nt even roll down hill...lol....Col entered the 1 hour race on saturday and did really well, battling it out and passing quite a few people on the track, I counted 3 laps before he dissapeared....???????....After about 20 mins i began to wonder what must have happened to him.....eventually he came out of the forest and signaled towards the pits...it was over!...I ran over eager to hear what had happned to him. He looked tired as he parked the KTM up and immiediately slumped to the ground, exhausted. I'll let him tell you about his little excursion off the track...lol....Fortunately the marshalls were there to help him up and start his bike for him (he was upside down)....lol...Absolutley brilliant effort though....total commitment, balls to the wall. New found respect for those guys that are doing it for real, need to get in a bit better shape for the next one......we'll be back...:) would've been 5 stars if i had'nt had techincal problems. |
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