After a load of rain the riders knew it was going to be a slippery one at the Pontadawe venue for the Neath MC 3 course trial. A poor entry (only 22 riders) and a struggle to get observers didn’t put too much of a damper on the day. Trial was separated into 2 sections, with the riders heading to sections 1,2 & 3 first, riding 4 laps of those sections first. Sections 1, 2 & 3 provided a nice mixture of stream work, and slippery bank’s with some steep turns taking marks from most riders. Once all riders had ridden the first 3 sections 4 times, the pack headed back to the start so the observers could be recycled and re-used!! Section 4 was something different, a graded hill climb which posed no problem whatsoever taking a grand total of 0 marks from the entire pack all day. With the second part of the day having a mixture of tight turns, tricky log sections, banks and classic trials sections a good day had by all.
A massive thank you to all of the observers for standing out for the day, and the club members for putting on the course. And of course, thanks to the land owner for the use of the ever improving trials venue at Pontadawe.
PHOTOS TO FOLLOW
| Rider Number | Name | Course / Class | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | Total | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Eirian Davies | Adult – Not so Easy | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 28×0 |
| 3 | Ian Davies | Adult – Not so Easy | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 27×0 |
| 20 | Dave Williams | Adult – Not so Easy | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | |
| 17 | Christopher Singleton | Adult – Not so Easy | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | ||
| 8 | Ian Hawke | Adult – Not so Easy | 0 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 42 | ||
| 21 | Emily Williams | Adult – Not so Easy | 1 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 63 | ||
| 4 | Iwan Davies | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 10 | James Lamin | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
| 19 | Wayne Thomas | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 | |
| 1 | Mark Daniel | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 17 | ||
| 15 | Kieran Morgan | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 18 | ||
| 6 | Simon Davies | Adult – Tricky | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | ||
| 13 | Anthony Macklen | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 20 | ||
| 14 | Darren Morgan | Adult – Tricky | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 21 | ||
| 18 | Julian Smith | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 21 | ||
| 12 | Stewart Lynch | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27 | ||
| 11 | Ade Lavercombe | Adult – Tricky | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 28 | ||
| 16 | Kevin Nedin | Adult – Tricky | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 40 | ||
| 7 | Ashton Dugay | Youth – Tricky | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 |