I can’t begin to properly express my gratitude for CTTA’s help to get our fledgling vintage club off the ground. This past weekend’s Summer series was great. The turnout wasn’t as big as Salado, but good enough. We could not have asked for better weather in mid August. I doubt it ever got above 90.
For the Vintage Trial, we had a total of 18 riders, 10 of those vintage, the rest support riders on modern bikes. Unfortunately, we had no entry’s in the Vintage Novice class. The largest class of vintage riders was the intermediate class with 6 riders, with Steve Elms riding both events, CTTA’s morning event and the SWVTA afternoon event. Hat’s off to Steve. The Intermediate class (the 2 line) finished with two riders tied for first with a “clean” trial. Marty Scott, on his TY250 and Tom Willis on his trusty ‘ol Monty 247. After a two section ride off on the “1” line in section 6, then section 3, Marty prevailed to take the gold.
The highly competitive “Expert” class riding the “1” line had 4 riders. Me on the TY175, Shawn Willis on his Fantic, the SWM mounted Adam Hall and last, but not least, Neil King on his Honda Reflex. The “1”line seemed challenging to all but Shawn. He finished the day with only 2 points dropped. Excellent ride, Shawn. The rest of us drug up the rear with Adam finishing 2nd with 9 points dropped, me with 10 points and Neil placing 4th with 14 points.
At the end of the day, I would have to consider it a huge success, which could not have happened without the help of Mark Hansen and Don Scott. I can not begin to express my gratitude to both of these guys. Thanks you again for taking time off from work to come out Friday to mark the loop and build the sections. I heard nothing but good things about them the whole day. THANKS!
And a very big “Thank You” to Mitch Ely of CTTA for staying for the vintage event to not only take care of sign in and scoring, but to help the cause by riding the Support Expert class.
Stephen Hetzel