Well I finally did it on sunday - got two clean laps, which was one of my goals from about 4 years ago. I ended up with three points for the whole trial (40 sections, or 4 laps of 10 sections), which is another minor miracle (I normally end up scoring at least 40 or 50 points).
The only thing that I will put it down to is riding so much recently, lots of practice gives an improvement in confidence=much less time spent falling off, and consequently very few bruises.
This sort of scoring is a bit unusual for us, as the goal of the trials master seems to be to take 1 point per section, meaning that the best riders in each grade should score around the 40 points for the day. This means that I was a bit of a 'trophy burglar' at this event and should of been riding in a higher grade, which is a bit embarrasing :o . I did however beat a couple of riders who whipped me by a large margin at our National Champs about a month ago, and they were riding the same line as me.
It still felt nice to beat some people who are much better riders than me..... :cool:
The only thing that I will put it down to is riding so much recently, lots of practice gives an improvement in confidence=much less time spent falling off, and consequently very few bruises.
This sort of scoring is a bit unusual for us, as the goal of the trials master seems to be to take 1 point per section, meaning that the best riders in each grade should score around the 40 points for the day. This means that I was a bit of a 'trophy burglar' at this event and should of been riding in a higher grade, which is a bit embarrasing :o . I did however beat a couple of riders who whipped me by a large margin at our National Champs about a month ago, and they were riding the same line as me.
It still felt nice to beat some people who are much better riders than me..... :cool: