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THE PUTOLINE GRAYTHWAITE 2 DAY ENDURO

27/28 MAY - ROUNDS 2&3 OF THE NORTHERN ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP

2 GREAT DAYS IN THE LAKES AS PAUL BOLTON WINS DAY 1 AND LEE SAMPSON DAY 2

The Dirtbike Action crews annual end of May visit to Graythwaite estate in the lake district was a cracker for the 146 riders who took part, The team once again pushed the boat out finding another new mega loop to add to last year’s awesome 18 mile route, the riders started at 11am Saturday in hot and humid conditions and finished the day in heavy rain. The variations in the weather conditions took its toll on the riders with some failing to finish.

Paul Bolton took the overall Saturday win from joint second placed Spike Gilby on the Acklams Beta 300 and Gav Houson making a welcome return to enduro. Alex Owen made his trip to the lakes worthwhile with the over 40 win, Gary Parr was the best of the over 50 riders, Liam Crowe flew around the short technical test to win the Clubman E1 class while in the Clubman E2 class Ryan Patrick and Luke Berret shared 1st place, Will Westgarth was the winner in the Clubman E3 class, in the Sportsmans class the winners were Tim Fletcher E1, Aaron Athersmith E2 and Peter Whiteside E3.

The rain continued as the remainder of riders finished day 1 and persisted late into the evening.

Day 2 Sunday clerk of the course John Kerwin revised the times and numbers of laps for Sunday s 9am start with sunshine but a greasy course the riders would have a challenging 2nd day, after dropping a minute on day 1 Lee Sampson won the experts from Gav Houson second with Dave Wood third, Andrew Reeves won the over 40 class while Mark Barrow was the victor in the 050 class Nathan Cooke won the Clubman E1 class. Luke Berret won the clubman E2 class, Will Westgarth was best Club E3. In the Sportsman class Billy Stienman won E1 once again Aaron Athersmith was the winner in E2 while Luke Elliot picked up the E3 win.

The May bank holiday proved to a good choice for this fantastic event and the majority of riders enjoyed the location and course The EUROTEK PUTOLINE NORTHERN ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP moves to Langdale on the 11th June for round 4, the Ryedale crew have already been plotting new going and a flowing open test to book in www.ryedalemcc.com  or contact Alistair Griffin