Trial de Lyoffans 23/24 April 2016

Moto Club 90 with Jean-Luc Forrestier and Christian Molle organsied again a Twinshock Trial with AFATA status on Sunday 24  April.

When I woke up on Sunday morning, there was hail and rain. Brrr, but you have to support the organiser and so I loaded my Honda on the Honda and drove 2 hours north to France.
I was listening an old CD form Canned Heat: "on the road again"... "in wind and snow" and my mood became sunny.

Unfortuntately, there is more and more requested, that your moto is road legal, with registration paper and an insurance proof. No problem for my Honda, but not all the nice BSA and Ariels are road legal...so besides the missing new entrants to the twinshock scene and the getting older pariticipants, another negative point for the shrinking riders...

Anyway, there were not so many people at the start, although I was one of the last and had to que up in front of the first zone. It was wet, but no more raining with a strong wind, starting to dry the ground in the French woods. However, I used otften the 3rd gear on my TLR 250 and so I was glad I made a shorter 10/46 instead of the mosty used 10/43 secondary. I watched a nice clean of Jack Aebi on his Kawasaki and hoped, I could also find grip, which i did. With 1 point to start I was happy.

Here my choice of the great fotos from Jean Pierre QUEMIN (all fotos are on the link of Moto Club 90). Thanks a lot to Pierre.

Ernst Stampfli, 78 years old !	Edy, 60 Plus on Honda Special
Kurt Liechti on TLR 200	Belgium Rider Albert Couvelance on HvMarwick BSA 350
Christian Aebi on 322ccm Yamaha Folghera Tuning (1976)	Chris is concentrated
Brother Jack Aebi on his Kawa 250	this season with new green racing equipement
Moto Club 90 President Jean-Luc Forrestier on French Peugeot Pre65	Patrick "Papou" Thur on Tiger Cub
Belgium Ariel Rider Daniel Guilmont in the blue Expert line	Michel Petitdemange on Fantic, winner of the most Expert red line, best rider of the day
Webmaster Honda Pat in action	I lost here 2 of 11 points, almost missed a blue flag...
Francois Hausherr on the 242 Montesa, 3rd Expert blue	a Tiger in the mud
the expert rider Francois Guyard on the BSA B40, winner Pre65 blue National	nice pic of Francois in action
a nice Mayesty TY 200 light moto	Honda Specialist Edy Adam on H....
Rene Ruf on his new Tiger Cub	Rene in action

After some zones, I became confident, found grip an my worries about slippery impossible zones faded. I returned with 8 points from 10 zones.

One banana gave me power to attack the 2nd round. Now I did no more almost miss blue arrows and the zones dried up, could do most in 2nd gear and returned with 3 points.

I hurried up, as there seemed to be a thunder storm around and I lost only one dab in Sylvianes zone 2.

Olivier is enjoying the trial on his Moto Guzzi

Oliver with speed
Marc Maurer, winner of the green line Pre65 on BSA	Dany Kempf, 2nd of the green line Twinshock on SWM
Kurt is concentrated, ont the way to win the green line Twinshock	Edy Kämpfer
Frank Delubac on the 1988 Merlin 350 FIUS, winner of Mono Expert	Pat in Balance on his 250 Honda
organiser and wood owner Christian Molle on his nice Tiger Cub	Bic Thumper Ariel
François	in full control
Chris Aebi on the 322 Yamaha	Albert on BSA
me with a front lift	concentrating on the loose rockery
Jack	on his froggy green Kawasaki
Chris after the trial	me studying the ranking table

 After the trial I found out my ranking:

National blue Experts
Francois Hausherr         Patrick           Jack Aebi

the red line international podium Denis Mellet 3rd    Michel Petitdemange 1st   Edy Adam 2nd	Trials riding makes you happy and keeps young !!!! Philippe 3rd        Dany Kempf 2nd       of green line Twinshock in the back Jean-Luc Forrestier

Resultats AFATA Trial Lyoffans 2016

After the trial it started to storm and  rain again. It was a great Sunday.

Merci a Moto Club 90 ! It was a great work in the cold and wet condition...

Honda Pat