14-01-2018, 06:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-01-2018, 06:55 PM by Pearls not a Singer.)
(13-01-2018, 04:49 PM)Special Bits Wrote: A quick update. The night of the Exeter was bitterly cold, minus 6c reported by a marshal. We set off from the Haynes Motor museum at 02.23 and had a 23 mile road section to the first test, a cross the line reverse back then forward over line C timed job. no heroics, just got the test completed and straight into the first stop-restart of the event, a reasonably easy one. So having lulled us into a false sense of, oh this is rather easy, security, the next hill was as rough as you like, the chassis hitting the ground a few times. this rather set the tone, with some of the tracks approaching the hills, and leading from them, being at least as bad as the trials hills them selves! During the night it is all a bit of a blur, we had trouble with a dodgy headlight switch, making the lights go out on bumps, of which there were plenty, but still managed to clean all the hills we did. daylight came just as we got to the breakfast stop at Crealy, revealing a white landscape with a thick covering of frost.
Setting off from Crealy I commented how difficult the crash box was being, putting it down to cold oil. Unfortunately as I changed into 3rd just under the M5 J30, the gear lever went all floppy, a quick peer down the footwell revealed that the stub of Austin Gear lever had snapped off flush with the gearbox turret top, game over. This being about the closest the trial came to home, I decided to drive the car back to my parents 15 miles away, with it stuck in 3rd. There were a few tricky hill starts, but I managed to get it home.
There's a couple of videos Ill endevor to share, sorry they are rather dark, the new camera didn't cope well with low light.
Entry in for the Lands End trial, Good Friday-Easter Saturday.
Stuart
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Us on Pin Hill around 4,30 am
Struggling up one of the muddier hills.
Trialing with no lights
Well done Stuart!
For those who've never been to the Land's End trial, pictures here show just how challenging the Hills can be for a 7.
This
is the Blue Hills on the 2012' and here
in 2014