ActionSouthWest H&H 13th April Bickleigh, Devon.

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Post by isimmins » 13 Apr 2008, 21:49

I completed 1 lap, doesn't sound a lot, it only took me 28 minutes riding time for 1 lap. It was the one and a half hours resting as I went around that screwed it up!

The thing that really suprised me was the changes in terrain. Wide open muddy fields and grassy hillclimbs. Steep rocky rooty oh sh1t downhills. 3 foot deep bomb craters full of water. Muddy rutts with whoops in them etc etc. You get the idea, nothing like greenlaning at all!

The CRM performed brilliantly, flew up all the hills, got very hot though. Not sure about Vee Rubber V211s, clog up very quickly.

A great day out and I've got 4 weeks to clean everything before the next one!

At least I completed a lap so I won't go down as a DNF. One thing I never seem to learn is that no matter how hard you hit trees they will not move out of the way!
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Post by knackeredMk1 » 13 Apr 2008, 21:53

:D Sounds like you had fun :wink:


Good on you for sticking at it :!:
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Post by isimmins » 13 Apr 2008, 21:58

OK, so I probably will go down as a DNF but atleast I completed a lap!
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Post by j18kdd » 14 Apr 2008, 08:29

what club did you do it with i have done some with track n trail very good fun not done one on crm yet but done them on my old drz 400 and my ktm 525 now both sold only 2 strock now :D :D
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Post by isimmins » 14 Apr 2008, 10:34

j18kdd wrote:what club did you do it with i have done some with track n trail very good fun not done one on crm yet but done them on my old drz 400 and my ktm 525 now both sold only 2 strock now :D :D
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Post by slider » 14 Apr 2008, 12:03

knackering aint it!,did a wirral off road r.e day on saturday(straight from a 12hr nightshift with no sleep.did 3x5 mile laps in the practice session so i wasn't to fecked for the 1 hr race.managed 4 laps in the race and came 28th out of 80 odd riders so not too bad but i was caned driving back from wales :)
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Post by isimmins » 14 Apr 2008, 17:20

Well, that one lap took me 1 hour 54 minutes but someone else took 1 hour 57 minutes. So I wasn't the slowest! :o

The fastest were doing laps in less than 8 minutes, which is rather humbling....
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Post by isimmins » 24 Aug 2008, 16:08

Well April was a long time ago. The week after the event I felt really sh1t and it turned out to be Glandular Fever. So that explains why I got so suprisingly extra tired so quickly. Anyway, that is all gone now. So is the CRM, that enduro blew it up, I'm sure I overevved it but I did make it up some mega climbs!

It sold on ebay for £500 as a non runner. Currently restoring a 1987 CR250R, something more gentle...... ;-)

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Post by Gwyn » 24 Aug 2008, 16:24

isimmins wrote:Well April was a long time ago. The week after the event I felt really sh1t and it turned out to be Glandular Fever. So that explains why I got so suprisingly extra tired so quickly. Anyway, that is all gone now. So is the CRM, that enduro blew it up, I'm sure I overevved it but I did make it up some mega climbs!

It sold on ebay for £500 as a non runner. Currently restoring a 1987 CR250R, something more gentle...... ;-)

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