Dawn to Dusk - very muddy

[Wreford Miles]

So last year I said never again on the Airhead

And as I arrived yesterday afternoon it started to rain and carried on through the night!

The first lap went very well, I had a good start, even though I was taken out on the first bend, and managed all the climbs with some degree of control and best of all I knocked over an hour off last year’s 1st lap time of 2hour 40 mins.

Last year I also had to stop several times, this year was nonstop and I was even contemplating staying out for a 2nd lap.

I took a short break and then went out for my second lap, the track had really begun to churn up and although t went well for the first half the 2nd half took its toll and I arrived back in the pits shattered.

After a longer break I went out for my 3rd lap and found a course that was proving impossible for the Airhead with deep ‘engine catching’ ruts on all the climbs and it took me 40 mins to do around 20% of the course!

That was enough for me so it was a short cut out and an early trip home.

Thanks to Dave for the advice and early morning tea and the Irish clan and friends for the encouragement and use of the pits.

Next year I will not do it on the Airhead.

 

[Hew]

Great effort Wreford

I just watched this lap and that tired me out
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=dawn+to+dusk+enduro&hl=en&sitesearch#

 

[Wreford Miles]

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The hill at after 7 mins 30 seconds was the final straw for me and at 10mins on this video I turned off... it had taken me 40 mins to there!

 

[Hustler]

Well I'm very impressed, done very well in my opinion.
Next year it will be 3rd. time lucky on the Airhead.
Go on, just once more.

 

[Wreford Miles]

Not just any mud this is Welsh open coal mine mud

 

[Wreford Miles]

Who's this man?

The Airhead was tough but attempting the D2D on one of these is something else.

 

[ChubbyThumper]

Who's this man?

The Airhead was tough but attempting the D2D on one of these is something else.

He fell off in front of me going down a bank turning right onto a fire road. I didn't fancy picking that big sucker up, when I saw he was ok just kept going with all the other good samaritans doing exactly the same.

Nice to meet you Wreford and great to see someone doing something different. Hope you got your fuel funnel back ok we were all using it in the Irish gazebo

 

[ChubbyThumper]

Not just any mud this is Welsh open coal mine mud

Only got to clean this today (3 days later!)

 

[david a hall]

the hp2 cidnt manage a second lap!!! i take my hat off to you it was tough, i did a lap on my ty yam pulling people out of bits of sceanery and that was hard enuf!!!! have you recovered?

 

[Wreford Miles]

have you recovered?

Last year was tough

This year as I mentioned I felt really good on lap one but lap two hit me hard...And on the Monday I felt as though I'd been thrown down the stairs a couple of times!