24 riders enjoyed near perfect conditions at Lake Bridgeport on a beautiful Saturday in mid-August.  It had rained a bit earlier in the week – just enough to keep the dust down and create near perfect traction. A cool front had also come through and the early morning temps were in the mid-60’s!!! I doubt the mercury hit 90 at the hottest part of the day.

Trials Master Mark Hansen set 5 fun sections; the scores were a tad low, but everyone had fun and they would have been much tougher had the weather been anything like August normal, i.e. 10 – 15 degrees hotter.

There were several perfect rides on Saturday. Tomas Pantin had a perfect scores on the Novice line and a 3-way tie in Amateur saw Ray French, Tom Batchelor and Jeff George also all on zero points. Ray French and Tom Batchelor participated in a ride off and Ray nudged Tom for the win after 6 rides on the Intermediate line in sections 4 & 5. Expert was also tightly contested with only 3 points separating 1st – 3rd. Daniel Hunt took his first Expert class win; wasn’t he just last year’s Novice Cup winner??

Thanks to Mark Hansen, Stephen Hetzel, Mitch Ely, and Don Scott and anyone else that helped put on Round #3!

Check out the results here

First and foremost, I want to thank CTTA for helping out SWVTA put on their first “vintage” trial ever. I considered it a huge success. And special thanks to Mitch Ely for sticking around all afternoon to do sign up and scoring late in the day. Thanks to Toni, Tomas, and Nora for manning the the main gate. Much appreciated. And thanks to Jay and Michael Glasscock for letting us piggy back their event. And last, but not least, thanks to the riders that braved the heat and came out to support our endeavor. We had 27 total riders, 6 of those on modern bikes. We also had two more show up, but their bikes crapped out before the event. Welcome to the world of vintage.

It was hot, real hot. Not as hot as Green’s Bayou was last August, but pretty damn close.
We actually dodged a bullet, because Sunday was worse, very humid.

All the class winners were our normal vintage riders with Jay Huffman taking first place in the Novice class with 0 points dropped. Larry Doyle won the Intermediate class with 0 points dropped. And Don Scott tied for first in the Expert class with 0 points dropped with Adam Hall. They elected to settle it with a coin toss.

Here are the results from Round #1. Don’t let the 0’s fool you, I did get some points off the other riders. My intention was to keep it nice and simple because of the heat.

Larry Doyle and Steve Elms rode both the am event and the Vintage event.
– Stephen Hetzel

38 riders tested themselves on the sections at CTOR set out by Michael and Jay Glasscock! Our trialsmasters did an excellent job with a most excellent and very fun loop and sections that provided challenge without overly inducing heatstroke in all of the participants! Thanks Guys!

Thanks to everyone that had a hand in making round #2 a very fun event. Especially to Mitch Ely for scoring – both in the AM and PM! Here are the results. I apologize for the delay in posting…

In case you haven’t heard, we had CTTA T-shirts (created by Jay Glasscock) for trophies to the winners and for sale after the event. We will have more t-shirts available for sale at round #3. All proceeds will go to the Candlelighter’s Childhood Cancer Foundation via the Charity Trial at the Harvest Classic Rally – so, buy two!

Hope to see you at Round #3!