Tuesday 17 August 2010

Lurley- 8th August 2010

I had high hopes of actually doing this one, an ASW organised Enduro cross, 2 races of 1 hour each with a break between the 2 races. I was going to test out the arm for the 1st race in order to see if it would cope with the riggers of racing and maybe do the 2nd race as well if everything went ok, but it wasn’t to be, oh b*llocks! So I was left yet again on the sidelines watching, never mind though, it was excellent stuff!

I traveled up to this one with Adam (Blake), got there nice and early, and with loads of time on our hands we decided to go and take a look around the track. A nice warm overcast day and the track was bone dry, very open and much similar to an old school motocross course, rolling fields, a few hills and a couple of jumps. After looking at the start of the kids race it was back to van to see if we could actually see anybody we new! Um………..what’s going on here? Hardly knew anyone! Apart from Barry weeks, John Pitman and his wife Sue who was taking some photo’s for her webpage (see links on the right hand side of the page) and Ben Scotts dad (sorry mate, seen you around at all the races but don‘t know your first name), we didn’t bloody well see anybody else that we knew.

On to the racing then and it was all extremely fast stuff with the motocross boys having their day and filling up the first 4 to 5 places in the expert class (no champ class), but that was to expected as the course had nothing really in the way of any tight nadgery stuff or obstacles to slow them down and the laps being a mere 5-6 minutes to complete. I was stood on the hillside with just about everybody else to watch the action so basically you could see half the track and follow the action all the way. Adam did well and was 1st of the ‘enduro’ riders home in the 1st race.

So there we are sat down having a natter before race 2 commenced and the phone rings……………’where abouts are you then? I’m on my way’, it was Steve (Jose) who’d been away for the weekend with his other half and her mum and dad and were traveling back when he had the cunning idea to make a detour and get them to drop him off so he watch the 2nd race and then get a lift home with us! And sure enough half hour later he pulled up, got out of the motor, said ’see ya then’ to the family, and off they went on their merry way.

So to race 2 then and me and Steve managed to find a nice hill out on the course that had some nice deep powdery dirt laying on to of it, probably about a foot deep in some places so nothing really seeing as everything was as ‘dry as a bone‘, but we knew it would catch some riders out and sure enough it did. We had a real laugh with a few other people watching some riders going up it, but wasn’t all fun and games as we did help a few out that got stuck in the deep stuff. I was stood gesturing most of the time to the 125 riders telling them to ‘pin it’ so they could make it up the hill ok without getting bogged down in the dirt, needless to say most of them ignored me! Aaaarrgh, wish I was bloody well out there riding! Would loved that bit of the course, I do love ‘pinning’ the old strimmers (if my memory serves me right).

After the 2nd race had finished and with Adam having an even better result with a 4th place, it was off to the burger van to get fed but not before I got on Blakey’s 250 and had a quick spin on it! We then had quite a wait until the results got posted up before heading home. Another good day out today and nice to watch a bit of Enduro cross.