Sunday 4th Feb 2018, Andrew Clement’s, Wiremu Road

Results?

I got a ride over with Kevin Pinfold.

The trial was at Andrew Clements farm. None of the sections were in the paddocks; they were all in the trees. This was good since it was a really muggy day.

I started the day off riding with Kevin and was having a great time. Then my fan stopped working and the bike started spitting coolant everywhere so we went back to Kevin’s van. Eventually Kevin managed to figure out what was wrong and get it going again. I went out ahead of Kevin to finish my second lap and then, because I was tired and we’d gotten a bit behind eevryone else, I just did my last two laps as one.

This was a mistake because I wasn’t riding with Kevin anymore and didn’t have anyone to tell me to pull my head in.

Even though the rest of the day was pretty tiring I still had one ‘YES!’ moment. There’s this tree and it has a whole lot of really ugly criss-crossing roots radiating out all around it that they use as a section for a lot of the events that they have there. It’s quite difficult.

On my third lap I cleaned it. I don’t want to brag too much but, as he bet me on almost every section, I’ve just got to say that the best that Kevin got was a two.

I was a bit hot and bothered and didn’t enjoy the trial as much as I should have. I liked most of the sections and I was just having a bad day.

Afterwards we went for a drive in Andrew Clements new Aston Martin. I wish I’d been wearing my Garmin Sports Watch… because when he accelerated my heart beat quite a bit faster.