This is a great piece of land and has held many a good event for years and loved by lots of riders it always get a good entry. With the various terrain of rocks-mud and fallen trees you can't go wrong and easily covers 20 good sections for all classes. I always seem to ride at my best on pieces of land like Crowborough im a lot more focused and the old brain cells work a lot quicker by the time I reach the first section and where I seem to be going wrong at a few trials is I make stupid mistakes by riding the wrong way due to boredom!

The usual 20 sections had been laid out with a few new deviations put in here and there but most were as seen before and without looking at the route I could guess where they went without even looking at them, not such a bad thing as the land is the mutts nuts for us trials riders and is in the greatest pieces of land categories for us southerners.

Section 1 was Dicks a nice easy one to start the day with a drop down and up round the bank and back over a tricky little stump then having to line yourself up for the ankle biting drop through two stumps. Section two did look quite tricky turning up through two trees one at an angle and making you bend in all directions to squeeze through it, looked harder then it was. Five was the first of the stream sections and was quite easy to balls-up completely if you got the line wrong, I just couldn't get it right up round the tree losing a dab on the first lap then cleaning it on the second and boy did I have to fight for it. Could see the perfect line in my head straight up the rocks but could I get my bloody bike to do it. Lous section was another easy section and then came Tony's which actually was the first one to stop me in my tracks and make me think about it. I watched cliff ride through and he made a hash of it losing marks on the bottom turn then more on the log, but he did have a go at the white route. Having made the mistake of standing there to long and watching plenty of other riders mess it up Cliff style I managed to get away with a 1 on the bend then launch the bike over the log from a standstill, had me sweating!. After riding lap one for 2 marks I stood there again and watched everyone through, Ben Wibberly and also Ben Ely and some old geezer on a scorpa made it look easy and then Andy Ely cocked it up big style (and ive got it on video) so I had to make sure I got it right if I was to beat Andy on the day. I took a completely different route to every one else, down the bank and straight up the main root of the tree bouncing off the upright on the way through, and I can tell you the pain I went through just for that clean was unbelievable, but them feet stayed glued right on those pegs.

At the end of the day I think me and Mr Ely ended up on the same marks and Gazza was miles behind due to a doggy bit of maintenance and Cliff, well it goes without saying! Roy as usual was keeping his marks to him self and Monte had managed to finish in one bit, just one thing ive got to say to you two, get your arses down Burwash in a couple of weeks time me and gazza will lay you out some tasty sections, and drag that old geriatric Dave out of bed as well!!!!!!!

Thanks to both the Bakers for a wick-ed event and to all the Kent & Sussex and to the Marshals who made the event happen…cheers

See you next at the Tenterdens Weald of Kent trial till then. Chow