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jambon-
Thanks. Yea I think the location would be amazing for anyone who goes there for training on their experience days. Bullshitting my way into a marshal jacket, I met a lot of the instructors and staff and they were all super nice. Definitely the kind of people you want to trust to get your skills to the next level.
I was glad to have the Sherco though. Practicing in the gullies was great. Totally loose shale and stone on greater than 45 degree sloped hillside, I was effectively wall-riding and seeing just how much I could get away with before the side of the tyre slipped down the hill.
I looked at a few lines afterwards especially doing near-vertical slaloms on shale, and thought bugger me, how did I do that.
pdlouche
Yea the strong guys were strong but the weak guys, well….
I definitely earned my playtime, we lost count of the number of bike pickups on that climb. So many drops and so many people retired after a lap or two. Hardly even ‘racing’ and people were just failing to read the track.
Honestly it didn’t interest me at all to race per-se, but I would have loved to have the DR with me to try the entire track rather than the area close enough not to run out of fuel.
The location is amazing, it’s a ballache to get to; after the A470? it gets mega twisty for a van.
The Transit somehow coped fine! Even with a 990 Adventure, Sherco, passenger, and shitloads of kit.