Eventpost 58 - Bonanza Trial

Yesterday I rode in the British Bike Bonanza Trial at Horsley near Stroud. The trial was a round of the British Bike Championship which started at the site of the Bonanza Scramble and took in the first 13 sections in the arena then wend out on the road for a further 16 or 17 sections.

The trial was on the easy side and even managed to find some muddy sections which was surprising after the dry spell.

I rode the arena sections for no loss of marks where there was only one or two tricky sections and the rest were pretty straight forwards. then out on the road to 4 separate groups of sections.

I got to the first group and there was quite a queue of riders waiting to go into the section. As I had parked my bike near the start of the section along with Arthur Browning, I followed him when he took his tuen and I think we queue jumped most of the entry as we ended up at the front on the road and rode most of the sections first.

I think the sections would have mostly got easier as we seemed to be scrubbing loose rocks and undergrowth, however I managed to ride the trial for a loss of just 1 mark which I was pretty satisfied with.

The one mark was lost on an off cambered turn over roots which followed a muddy gully and I lost the front wheel a little which resulted in a steadying dab.

I heard that a couple of riders (certainly Chris Collins) had finished on clean, but all in all a great day on the bike and a lovely ride around the Gloucestershire countyside in the sunshine!!


I would also like to say hello to all the riders that introduced themselves to me as regular readers of the BLOG. I am glad you enjoy it and to anyone else, if you see me at a trial please come and say hello...

Just bought the Trials and Motoicross News - nice little picture of me in there this week - Thanks Colin!! Here are the reults;

Pre Unit Pringer
1. Paul Edwards 1
2. Nick Wooley 8
3. Graham Barton 9

Pre 70 2 Stroke
1. Glyn Moses 7
2. Mike McKenzie 7
3. Dave Spurgeon 13

Pre 70 Unit
1. Chris Coillins 0
2. Darren Snell 0
3. Barry Stephens 6
4. Keith Gardner 7

Pre 70 British Specials
1. Dave Dawson 1

Beezerpost 45

I received a DVD this morning from Colin Bullock at CJB Photographic with a couple of clips from the last Sammy Miller round and also a section(not ridden very well though) at Red Marley.

Funnily enough, at the Miller trial I had just seen Mick Grant have a 5 on this section and Sammy himself pointed out the line - as you can see, he stuck around to see whether I obeyed the master's orders!!

Thanks Colin!

Beezerpost 44

After a few attempts at quietening the bike down with the Seely Honda exhaust system and muffling devices on the end of my pipe that didn't quite do the job, I have opted for another alternative that should do the job.... Dick Walker of WES has kindly produced a silencer for me that I think looks really nice and as removed the loud bark that was present before.

First run will be this weekend at the Bonanza Trial so I will let you know how it performed after the weekend..