Yesterday I rode in the PJ1 Northern British Bike Championship round at Trevor near Llangollen.
During the week leading up to the event I had been setting up the bike to run on an Amal carb and even though it was far from running as consistently and cleanly as it does on the DelOrto carb I thought I would give it a go at this trial. That was fine until right up to the start when I took a look round the car park and saw that just about every Triumph cub was fitted with a DelOrto and clearly there was no real application of any rules relating to the bike requiring a British original carb so in the interests of having a good trouble free ride I promptly switched back from the Amal.
The trial was held in a beautiful area with fantastic scenery and great trials ground that mixed just about every type of going that you are likely to come across, Mud, streams, slippery rocks, slates and woodland.
The sections had been marked out on the easy side, however with the various types of terrain and differing conditions it was very easy to lose marks and I saw some of the recognised top riders losing marks and the odd 5's on the loose banks in the woods and the slippery rocks in the streams.
I had a very steady ride for 4 single dabs, 2 of them early on where I made mistakes on slick cambered turns in the woods and another 2 after the lunch stop when we were the first to ride through some rocky streams and I lost the front wheel on the slippery turns.
I have not seen any results yet but I am hopeful that I will have produced a decent result. I would expect some of the aces like Carl Batty to have been on clean but after that it's anyone's guess at the results.
I will update with results as soon as I hear something. The picture is of the start whilst we were waiting for the off - Steve Thompson is holding my bike to the left of the shot.
Results just received from Brad Jones
Results:
2 Stroke Hard route
1. Carl Batty 0
2. Peter Gaunt 5
3. Jim Pickering 7
4. Darren Cooper 8
5. Russell Jones 12
Unit Construction Hard Route
1. Dave Dawson 4
2. Dave Wood 7
3. Mark Quinn 9
4. Malcolm Cocking 11
5. Chris Denney 14
Pre Unit Construction Hard Route
1. Roly Jones 8
2. Mick Grant 10
3. Duncan McDonald 15
4. Dave Emmott 23
5. Mick Clarke 28
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