Classic Trials

Classic Trials

About Me

I have come into 2012 with a strong desire to be more healthy and reduce my weight to something more acceptable for a man of my age and height. On the 1st of Jan 2012 at the age of 45 and height of 6ft 2in, I weighed in at 18st 2lbs (that's 256 lbs or 116kg). I have a pretty large frame and have always been able to carry a bit of excess baggage but I think its time to do something about it for my health and energy levels more than anything else. The experts suggest that for a man of my height and age I should be about 13.5 st but I have set myself a target of 15 st (210lbs or 95kg) - thats a planned loss of around 3 st (46lbs or 20kg) This BLOG is a record of my attempt to achieve this goal and I have made it public to help keep me motivated and on track. If you have any comments, thoughts or ideas and suggestions please feel free to leave me a message..

Thursday 27 December 2007

Eventpost 20 - BMCA Winter Charity Trial Mucklestone




Today was the Winter charity trial at Frank Bourne's farm. As you can imagine the going was pretty slick after the recent rain but the sections were quite good and gave opportunity to put some open sections on that gave opportunity to have a blast.
I dont feel that I had that bad a ride and after the second lap I had dropped only 4 marks which was in the running however I had a small problem when I caught my right footrest on a root and ripped the footrest out of it's mounting.
At first it was still rideable as it was hanging downwards at 45 degrees but then on the last lap it dropped off completely and although I was able to ride a few sections one footed I did lose two 3's where there was little option but to paddle along. In the end I rode my Dad's Fantic for the last 2 sections once he had finished the trial so I guess officially my result doesn't stand.
Still it was fun and after the last trial I was pleased that be finding some grip and at least being competitive.
Bill Bourne was the outright winner on 2. Not unexpected as he was riding his own land and is a bloody good rider but the rest of the results were pretty close and I ended up 5th overall and 2nd in my class so all in all not too disappointed, though some welding work for Dad this week!!
Pictures are from sections 3 and 4 today.

Results
2 Stroke
1. Nathan Jones 17
2. Dave Dawson 19
3, Steve Neale 53

Unit 4 Stroke
1. Jim Pickering 10
2. Alan Borton 18
3. Brian Dale 25
4. Gary Hawkins 26

Pre Unit 4 Stroke
1. Bill Bourne 2
2. Pete Reed 32
3. Bob Greenhough 33

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave,
Hope you had a great Christmas.
Good to see that bar the footrest, you are getting to find grip on the new bike.
Happy new year.
Richard.

Dave Dawson said...

Happy New Year Richard.

How is your Sprite coming along?? You will have yo get it finished soon or you will shelve the project for the summer to play with that Maico!!

Talk soon

Dave