Ash is a little bit used and abused and doesn't have a lot going for it anymore , well not for us white boys, blues and reds and pansy yellows no problems a twist here a twist there and over some twigs makes there day and keeps the old boys happy. We made the whites as challenging as possible with what we had to work with and it was a good thing we had the trusty chainsaw handy for the ash chainsaw massacre with trees falling here and there, we should have had hard hats with the amount of trees falling down around our ears, enough to build 10 full size log cabins and a raft to float on down the Mississippi, lets say the skyline has changed.

The whites lets say were a bit out of cliffs league you should have seen the expression on his face when he saw section one, myself and Gary had marked the section through a set of trees one with a two and a half foot step and just enough space for the handle-bars and a rizler paper and then a tight turn out. I did manage to go back and clean it after the trial Section 2 was easy and should have caused no probs with the whites and blue boys since there was not much you could do with it. 3 was another story up round the tree of death sun in your eyes by lap 4 having to ride blind then sharp right at mach 3 back down missing a tree by only a few inches then back up the steep banks, was quite a hairy rollercoaster ride and did have me worried on a few occasions, but come lap 4 i managed to clean it don't know how but just don't ask me to do it again!! As far as I know I was the only one to clean it all day.

Section eight also had me wishing I had never laid it out, it had taken me gary and ed about an hour to cut up a tree and make a step, through the middle of another tree we had demolished earlier then to make matters worst we put in an evil step through some more trees. Well it did make us think for a while just how the bloody hell we was going to get through it without bending the bikes or dismembering our fingers. Quite tight but you had to give it full welly to get up the stump we had left right in the middle of the two trees and if you got it wrong like Gary did on the second lap it was gonna hurt bad!. I bottled it on the first lap and I think ed didn't make it either but Gary gave it the full chocolates treatment and flew straight through no probs, but come second lap got it Pete Tong and managed to smash his new front light and pop out both his fork seals whilst going full pelt into the handle bars.'OUCH'

Come second lap I managed to clean it and also ed got through with no problems both our confidences were getting braver but Gazza had lost his bottle on this one, don't blame him I would have if I had done the same death defying crash earlier. By the way we heard cliff fived it 4 times I think he needs to down grade himself your riding with the big boys now mate, cliffs results don't seem to be doing very well lately having been miles from mine and garys scores for the past 4 or 5 trials he seems to be going backwards and this is the man who is going to be riding whites in the nktc in the next few years.NOT!!. get the coffin ready ive got the reef!

Bitching apart the trial was a good`n and about 30 riders turned up we had two great days down at ash and had a great laugh laying out all 10 sections, my thanks go to all that turned up on the Saturday :that's Gary-Ed-Lou-Dick-Roger-Ron-Dennis-Paul&Gary Stevens and last but not least me.

See you all at the next event and that's the Kent & Sussex Kessex cup trial on the 12th October down at Hourne farm, Sussex,,,,,Chow

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