On Jun 29th I rode the Beta in its first trial at the Wye Valley Trial. The event was laid out in great woodland surroundings with good rocky streams and banks.
The biggest change was getting used to the capability of the bike which felt bery twitchy compared to the classic bikes and also the sections appearing to be much more difficult, however once I started to ride the sections the capability of the bike made life much easier.
I got off to a very shakey start with a couple of 5's from stalling the bike resulting in 17 marks lost on the 1st lap. Fortunately I soon got up to speed with the bike and began to learn how to ride it again. The following 3 laps were completed for an additional loss of only 5 marks to finish on a total of 22.
Although the damage was done I frlt that I had made good progress and ended up in 6th place on the hard route which considering the shakey start, was not a bad result.
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