I was entered in Class 0 in my Sidevalve Dellow. However, a lazy summer meant I hadn't fixed the car since breaking it on last years trial. Decided to go up and take pictures rather than use the Beetle.
We spent the morning at Barmford and saw all the bikes and 75% of the cars. It was bone dry of course and very rough. Star climb of the day went to the guy on the old BSA Bantam who rode up as if it were a flat main road. Not so many of the other motorcyclists. We reckoned at least 25% of them fell off. Either in trying to get away from the restart or easing off to much for the final slab and loosing all momentum.
Many of the cars suffered from to much grip and there was a constant smell of fried clutch. This caused quite a problem for some of the higher geared re starters on the restart, their wheels wouldn't break traction and ease the pressure on the clutch resulting in stalling. There were some very impressive climbs by some of the seemingly endless procession of Suzuki's which without a restart made light work of the old hill.
We were in good company on Bamford. Pete & Carlie Hart, Mal & Donny Allen, Julian Lack, fellow non-starter Richard Peck and Tony Rothin, there to see Nick Farmer in his old car just some familiar faces. Oh and I nearly forgot El Presidente, sorry Jonathan.
Moving on to Excelsior we saw the last half of the cars, including a few Class 0's. The restart on the corner is past its sell by date. If the hole gets any deeper it will be down to a coal seam. Despite this it didn't present too many problems. Apart from those who started to spin their wheels and were rapidly given a fail and told to stop by the restart marshal. Lets hope this didn't cost anyone a triple.
How was your Edinburgh Trial?
