Sunday, when I arrived at Canada Heights I didn't jump out of my car to sign on straight away, no I sat there for a moment and pondered over the idea of why am I riding an expert trial when I'm a crap intermediate and would I enjoy it. Perhaps it could be said I'm trying to hard for riding out of class, perhaps it also could be said I've set my goals to high for my own riding ability… No, that's all wishy-washy crap, I wanted to ride this trial because I've got 'balls', yes balls and a very nice set thank you very much; someone told me once that you can be what ever you want to be if you try hard enough and in this trial I was living the dream of trying my hardest to be a expert, I'm not sure if the dream was truly lived out but I did it and you can't take that away from me.

At the Langmaid trial "what a brilliant trial that was" I spoke with Mark Baker a talented and charismatic expert and asked him if I could tag along on Sunday for some expert tuition, Mark said ok " top bloke" and when Mark caught up with me on section five he was accompanied by Chris Stoddard and John Sturdey, all of us riding the same expert route willing each other on in the most friendliest of competitions I've ever had the good fortune to be involved in. Many thanks to all three of you for your help and encouragement on the day.

Section 2: The section started with a quick loop through the start gate and then over a jagged tree stump, the front wheel needed to be in the right place when popping it over, I was craping myself on lap one and had to pull the bike over to continue - after looping out again to the left and coming back on myself I was faced with a large lump of concrete, on top of that was a log and on top of that was another larger log. "The clerk of the course must be on drugs, it sounds bad but had nothing on the crazy Super Expert route" and I bloody rode over the lot of it clean, shocked!!! I was, but after all my efforts I still managed to five this section on the next silly little downhill log.

Section 7: (Ian Martins section?) What… you want me to ride up the side of that massive 8 foot by 5+ foot cylinder, hold on there I think there must be a mistake let me check the colour of that section card 'blue' and the colour I'm riding 'blue'!!! Jesus Christ what have I done entering this trial…. I'm going to ride this in third I shouted to Ian … Yeah all right! I returned to my bike and couldn't understand why there were so many spectators standing around this section waiting for what? So off I went through the start gate over some logs and there she was the cylinder, the largest thing I have ever been asked to ride over calling me saying "come on big boy give me your best shot" - I approached the bitch cylinder and quickly run through the gear box to find third, giving a large portion of right hand and throttle I launched the bike in a desperate bid to get on top - no chance, I hit the approach log full on with my footrest and the bike stopped dead, catapulted forward and smacking my guts on the handlebars I turned to Ian and shouted . "That's a five then Ian" Yeah all right.

There's so much more I could say about this trial but I'll end up writing a book on it, so a big thank you to the Sidcup Club, Stevens Trials, all the marshals and Reg Playfoot course construction person. Well done to the winners Stephen Foord Super Expert, Mark Baker Adult Expert and James Burroughs Youth Expert. That's it see you all next year.