Round 1 National enduro Champs and the Top Trailrider Series

[chop]

When: Saturday, 07 Feb 2009
Where: John and Fiona Scotts Property 1333 Hauturu rd Oparau
District (Region): Otorohanga (WAIKATO/WAITOMO)
Directions: Sign posted from Pirongia follow Hiway 31 to Oparau and follow arrows.
Classes: - E1 = Up to 200 cc 2t Expert & Intermediate
- E2 = Up to 250 cc 4t Expert & Intermediate
- E3 = Up to 400 cc 4t, up to 270 cc 2t Expert & Intermediate
- E4 = Over 400 cc 4t, over 270 cc 2t Expert & Intermediate
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- Veterans 40 - 49 y.o Intermediate
- Veterans 50+ y.o Intermediate
- Veterans 40 + y.o Expert
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Terrain: Farmland and Native bush
Contact: Forest Trail Events
Sean Clarke 0275 996 045 or 07 8865 918

Other Details:
Round 1 National enduro Champs and the Top Trailrider Series. Special Test available for walking on friday only. Meal included in Entry fee.


Who's doing this????

[takitimu]

Who's doing this????

Be worth a wander I reckon, we are heading down lunch time tomorrow, camping onsite, the Nield boys are fizzing about Merriman racing this weekend.

[chop]

Yea i had thought about camping a few of the lads are. Cam was heading there tonight and staying till sunday. Its his first real ride back so should be interesting. Merriman will be awesome im sure he'll wistle by!

[takitimu]

Yea i had thought about camping a few of the lads are. Cam was heading there tonight and staying till sunday. Its his first real ride back so should be interesting. Merriman will be awesome im sure he'll wistle by!

Damn that was a good ride, I'm possibly a little biased because it was my second ride as Intermediate & finished losing 3 minutes, I liked the course last year & it was better this year.

A few thoughts,

- Awesome to see Birchy helping out at the check after he had DNF'd, hope no major damage.
- CR250F 2009 model, they suck to start hot, mate DNF'd because his would not go & saw an expert kicking forever in the extreme special test.
- It was extreme for the experts, only 5 guys made time, the 16 minute expert loop was balls out & if you were good enough & did not have an off you made time.
- Stefan Merriman can ride.
- Rory Mead is on fire this year, Birchy looks to have a real fight on his hands.
- The TE310 sounds a weapon down low, I thought it was a 450 as it went up the vertical creek exit in the extreme test.
- If you ride hard into a vertical bank, you really want the front wheel to go up & not stay there & compress, it looked painful.
- WR250F's can fly if required, though trees seem to stop them.
- Having an expert extreme test after the intermediates have finished that everyone can go & watch & the experts can come back down & watch the rest of their mates, that was legend, leaving my camera @ home on the other hand that sucked.

[Reckless]

Shit mate sounds like it would've been fun just to come and watch!

Good effort, thnks for the write up!

[takitimu]

Shit mate sounds like it would've been fun just to come and watch!

Good effort, thnks for the write up!

It would have been a great one to watch actually, we did 4 times around the time trail by the pits ( once for a look, the other 3 timed ), along with a expert only ( or navigationally challenged intermediates like my riding partner ) section a km from the pits, which they rode 3 times.

The second to last stage was 42 minutes long & I'd taken 48 first time around, so was happy to make it in 45, meant no break for the last 45 minutes stage, thankfully it was more loose & came in 6 minutes early, all up 5 hours riding & around 115km, no major off's which was good.