Qld Titles - Yamaha nowhere to be seen!

[Rob W]

First up - how did you pull up David?

Second, Honda 1,2,3 in twinshock class. Well done guys.

[motostar99]

ah you beat me to it! I was gonna ask how David was as well... didnt see it, but heard all about it from the girl who was observing the section. Sounded nasty!

Well done to the Honda riders!!

Nic

[David Lahey]

No worries I'm fine and the only Yamaha entered went like a Swiss watch and was a dream to ride.
I had to DNF the event as a safety precaution due to being momentarily knocked out.
I do feel sorry for the observer having to witness something that must have looked a bit scary.
Thanks again to Zac Reed for making sure I got back to the first-aider safely.
Thanks also for everyone involved in running the event. It was very enjoyable and well run.

[motostar99]

well that's good to hear David. As safe as we sometimes think our sport is, doesn't take much to do some damage! Yeah Leanne who was the observer was a little bit shaken up by it, but she was alright after a while.

While I didn't see your stack there were some pretty good ones out there! Saw Richard Kent flip his bike off a bank heading towards about 5 spectators who fortunately got out of the way. I also saw Boyd Wilcocks stack it twice, one over the handlebars coming off the end of the big log on the second day and another one flying down a hill trying to regain control on section 2 day 2 (well the second one wasn't actually a stack). Not to mention myself ending up neck deep in water on section 1 day 2 with the bike on top of me!!

Made for a good weekend!

Nic

[Don Duck]

David,
Glad to hear your all Ok.
Dont worry all the Yamaha riders will get their moment to shine
at MTCQ's "TY Challenge" in July!

Cheers Don

[Tee-Why]

Care to enlighten the rest of us about the stack David? Sounds nasty?
Glad to here you can out of it ok, hopefully the bike too!

[David Lahey]

Care to enlighten the rest of us about the stack David? Sounds nasty?
Glad to here you can out of it ok, hopefully the bike too!

The Qld titles was great. Well the first day anyway. I DNFed on day 1 after a pretty minor crash that knocked me out for a few seconds. We (twinshock, classic and clubman) had eleven sections on day 1 and eight of them were normal clubman standard and three were set a bit harder with the intention to take points off the top riders. I'm pleased to report that all 11 sections were all able to be ridden no-stop. The three with hard bits were only hard due to obstacles and traction rather than tight turns. Conditions were fantastic. The place is a very lush cattle property with sandy loam soil and a lovely flowing creek, rock outcrops scattered over the place and some fallen trees. It was cloudy and cool to start with then a thunderstorm just as we had the briefing, then lovely clear dry weather and blue sky - perfect for trials riding (everything was still wet)
The logs were used as the go/no go obstacles and claimed many points. The one that got me was a 700mm log running across the top of a muddy bank after a turn at the bottom of the bank. I did it perfect the first two laps but by the third lap the best line was very slick so I took a different line which had not been used yet to get better drive, but still didn't have enough speed by the top of the bank and came to a standstill with rear tyre almost on the top of the log. I was still leaning forwards when the bike started to go backwards and the front wheel was suddenly turned to the left as the rear of the front wheel hit the log, and the RH bar end gave me an upper cut to the chin.
I could still hear OK and knew I was rolling over and over back down the bank, but couldn't see for a few seconds and while my speech sounded OK inside my head, I don't think any of the reassurances I was trying to give the observer were actually being vocalised.
Anyway I felt fine soon after but MA rules are that if you get knocked out even for only a few seconds, you can't ride till a Doctor checks you out. Ah well. I did have a great time riding for most of the day.
Oh yes the bike is fine. The Majesty is a fair bit tougher than its aging rider.
I will be putting up some photos on the trials website but there aren't many because the thunderstorm interrupted my photo session in the parc ferme.
I also stuffed up on another log jump and luckily Lindsay Haig was right there and got an action photo.

[Warren]

David
Good to see you and the bike are fine.

Rgds
Warren