27th May 2017, Rock Station, 3169 SH 5, Te Pohue, Hawkes Bay
Mum, dad, and I stayed at my Aunty Marie’s for the weekend.
Saturday was easy but I was riding badly and it took me two laps to warm up.
In the morning, on the first section, I had problems with my carburettor. Mum and I went back to the van to fix it and Carl Robson, who was riding past, stopped to help. This sped things up a bit. It wasn’t the greatest start to the day.
Ashley and Troy Andrews ride Cross Country and MX but they had never ridden a trial before. There first ever trial was this weekend. Ashley was roughly mid-p[ack and did quite well. Troy came almost last but didn’t disgrace himself.
Also there was Jane Bennett who does Cross Country and Enduro. She’d been to one club trial before but that was last year.
I was racing a bit on my last lap because I thought it was going to rain and make the sections slippery. It’s sort of funny because that was my best lap by a lot.
My favorite section was number two. Most of it was fairly easy but there was this bank at the end with a small step-up just before it. A few of the better riders had some stuff-ups on it so it was really cool to clean it on my second lap.
My most disappointing section was one. On my second lap I was going up a small bank and my footpeg caught one of the flags and pulled it out of the ground.
It was basically farmland with a rocky creek and a few trees which they based the sections around. The creek was a bit different from the creeks I normally ride in. Instead of a whole lot of rocks it was just one big one with a few bumps and holes in it.
I didn’t have that great a day but that was just me. It was really cool for Gabby because she came third in the Intermediate class.