|
|
||
All content © Bob MuIIins | |||
 
THE PUTOLINE KIELDER EXTREME SATURDAY was prologue day and after a week of heavy rain the weather was warm and dry , the prologue would use an Enduro style special test comprising of gravel roads, gnarly woodland trails and open forest breaks, after a sighting lap riders had 2 timed laps the fastest would provide their start position
Sunday dawned with heavy skies and rain, with an 8 am start and a 65 mile
single lap comprising of some of the toughest enduro riding ahead of them, the
riders lined up in their prologue result and would start individually
according to their time difference on the prologue.
It was nearly an hour before the 4 placed man Robert Allen arrived at the finish as best clubman and a further wait of 46 minutes saw Chris Cook take 5th overall and 2nd place in the clubman. Chris Green finished in 6th best o4o rider, Chris Green was the last rider to make it within the official 6 hours, but clerk of the course John Kerwin has awarded gold finishes to Danny Calkin, Dean Hall and Lewis Peart just finishing outside side the 6 hours but completing full course , John said I couldn’t do anything else these 3 riders slogged their guts out to get to gold but give them a well deserved gold finish.
A massive thank you to Gary Nicholson race 2 off road for supporting the event, all the riders that made this epic event possible, and to all the marshals, officials time check staff, Mick Lawrence and crew who plotted the course and Putoline oils for their help. Dirtbike actions next event Helmsley enduro weekend 20th October the Helmsley time card final round NEC, 21st October NEXC final round.
|
Jack
Spencer Beta set the fastest time of the day on his first timed run with 6m13s
with second placed man Spike Gilby 31 seconds behind, Dave Wood in third, Luke
Lusher 4th there was no change to the top 4 riders on the second run, Dawson
Marriott improved his position on the second run finishing in 6th place just
behind Robert Crayston in 5th, Lewis Peart finishing 7th Vince Harker 8th
Stuart Mack 9th and 10th John Battensby.
32
riders entered the silver section and by 10.01 am with the weather clearing
and brightening the leader Jack Spencer arrived at silver with David Wood 9
minutes adrift and Lusher a further 2 minutes down. 12 riders entered the gold
section the hardest technically and longest it took Jack Spencer 80 minutes to
complete arriving at the finish at 11.21am a ride time of 3hr 21 minutes.
after a close battle through the first half of gold Wood finally broke clear
of Lusher to arrive at the finish second 10 minutes down on winner Spencer,
Lusher finished 3rd 5 minutes behind Wood. Luke used an elderly borrowed ktm
150 from James Teale and had never been on it before the event .
The
Kielder extreme enduro is easily the hardest extreme enduro event in the uk so
to every rider that made the bronze or silver finish a big well done.