Report & Results
When force majeure meets the optimist!
With a brand new venue and our new farmer Huw being so helpful the team met one week before the trial. We really wanted to give you guys the best day out, so had called upon extra assistance to mark out the expert and masters route. We plotted the sections accordingly!
The day before the trial we met again to check the route, plotting a circa 6.5 miles of going was made more difficult when someone goes and tears down the arrows and some sections had been disturbed.
3am the morning of the trial I realised the light rain predicted was so much more and could hear the river flood past my home. Emergency plan A was set in place as we had to completely remove 2 traditional river sections. If more time was available we could have eased the other sections.
Lloyd Price took the overall win with young Iwan Davies not far behind. Good to see new young uns gaining ground hey.
Talking about young uns, Lyn Davies was smiling all the way around and took the masters followed by freshly back into the fold Dylan Evans.
Teilo Rogers nurtured by dad Gareth took the youth masters.
Another back into our trial family,
Dean Keniford took the clubman win and although he enjoyed the trial complained that his rollies were ruined my the stinking weather. Proper old school geezer who likes to clean sections with a fag in his mouth welcome back Dean. Old school geezer Steve Plain had a fantastic ride to take runner up clubman.
Sportsman masters was taken by Grant Thomas closely chased by Bretton King.
Maybe the class that suffered the most in the abnormal spring weather, Sportsman was taken by Andrew Lewis. A special mention to Jennifer Huntley for taking runner up, wharrateg Jen. Neath mcc and TTW Kevin Nedin also gets a mention for showing me how to wheely a trail bike whilst cleaning my section 7 again. See pics attached.
Veteran Ian Davies came home just in front of Dave Williams and
Baily Jacka took youth A.
Opinions were vast. From the best trial for years to people packing up and heading home as they ran out of steam. We will learn as a team and expect the unexpected the next time we return.
Massive thanks to our observers. Some had travelled for 2.5 hours to help us out. Our team of mainly old age and broken down humans and a extra shout out to our new Farmer Huw who had an excellent ride himself and his better half Farmer Andrea.
Full results will be posted later on the West Wales acu page.
So, did force Majeure beat the optimist, that of course depends on whos opinion you hear. We definitely didn’t intend to to have it so hard and will plan for the future.
Remember, What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Vamos,, come on.
| Lloyd | Price | Neath Motor Club | Expert - Adult | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iwan | Davies | Dulais Valley MC | Expert - Adult | 58 |
| Wayne | Jones | VOT | Expert - Adult | 63 |
| Gareth | Rogers | Neath Motor Club | Expert - Adult | 73 |
| Lyn | Davies | Dulais Valley MC | Masters - Adult | 30 |
| Dylan | Evans | Dulais Valley MC | Masters - Adult | 44 |
| Andy | Hayward | Dulais Valley MC | Masters - Adult | 58 |
| Joseph | Luther | West Gloucester & Dean Forest MCC | Masters - Adult | 71 |
| Dai | Collins | Neath Motor Club | Masters - Adult | DNF |
| Gavin | Richards | Stroud | Masters - Adult | No card |
| Teilo | Rogers | Master - Youth | Masters - Youth A | 84 |
| Archie | Fletcher | VOT | Masters - Youth A | No Card |
| Dean | Keniford | NST | Clubman - Adult | 28 |
| Steve | Plaine | Builth | Clubman - Adult | 40 |
| Kirby | Richards | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 43 |
| Huw | Jones | Dulais Valley MC | Clubman - Adult | 47 |
| Simon | Davies | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 51 (7x0) |
| Peter | Lewis | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 51(6x0) |
| Liam | Hughes | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 53 |
| John | Phillips | Dulais Valley MC | Clubman - Adult | 54 |
| Darren | Morgan | Dulais Valley MC | Clubman - Adult | 57 |
| Anthony | Mac | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 60 |
| Mike | Prythersch | Dulais Valley MC | Clubman - Adult | 61 |
| Glyn | Moses | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 62 |
| Danny | Thomas | Dulais Valley MC | Clubman - Adult | 65 |
| Dave | Bower | ? | Clubman - Adult | 68 |
| Simon | Ward | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | 71 |
| Russ | Meredith | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | DNF |
| Mark | Daniel | VOT | Clubman - Adult | No card |
| Michael | Chandler | Mercian | Clubman - Adult | No card |
| Chris | Jackla | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Adult | No card |
| Baily | Jacka | Neath Motor Club | Clubman - Youth A | 85 |
| Grant | Thomas | Dulais Vally MC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 29 |
| Breton | King | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 34 |
| Wayne | Thomas | Dulais Valley MC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 50 |
| Rob | Baron | Dulais Valley MC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 51 |
| Jon | Collier | VOT | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 54 |
| Mark | Mullin | Dulais Valley MCC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 62 |
| Gary | Birtwistle | Ledbury | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 63 |
| Eirian | Davies | VOT | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 70 |
| Neville | Thomas | VOT | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 71 |
| Lee | Collins | VOT | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 73 |
| Adrian | Lavercombe | Dulais Valley MC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 74 |
| Thomas | Powel | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 84 |
| Adam | Wight | West Glos and Dean Forest MCC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | 85 |
| Steve | Newan | ? | Sportsman Masters - Adult | No card |
| Stuart | Lynch | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman Masters - Adult | No card |
| Justin | Jones | Dulais Valley MCC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | DNF |
| Stephen | Morris | Dulais valley MCC | Sportsman Masters - Adult | DNF |
| Brian | Hazell | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman Masters - Adult | DNF |
| Lewis | Andrews | ? | Sportsman Masters- Youth B | No card |
| Andrew | Lewis | Stroud | Sportsman - Adult | 47 |
| Jenifer | Huntley | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman - Adult | 50 |
| Kevin | Nedin | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman - Adult | 57 |
| Stuart | Robinson | Dulais Valley MCC | Sportsman - Adult | DNf |
| Richard | Williamson | South Shropshire | Sportsman - Adult | DNF |
| Ian | Hawke | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman - Adult | DNF |
| Danial | Lewis | Dulais Valley MCC | Sportsman - Adult | DNF |
| Rachael | Wight | West Glos and Dean Forest MCC | Sportsman - Adult | DNF |
| Lewis | Andrews | Neath Motor Club | Sportsman - Youth B | No card |
| Ian | Davies | Dulais Valley MCC | Veteran (+55) - Adult | 45 |
| Dave | williams | Neath Motor Club | Veteran (+55) - Adult | 49 |
| Martin | Singleton | Neath Motor Club | Veteran (+55) - Adult | 75 |
| Rob | Berry | Neath Motor Club | Veteran (+55) - Adult | No card |
| John | Hill | Neath Motor Club | Veteran (+55) - Adult | No card |