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Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Special Bits - 07-11-2017
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Special Bits - 07-11-2017
Hope this will play ok? Video of our slightly half hearted attempt at Simms on the Torbay trial in March, nursing a sick half shaft.
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Timothy P - 08-11-2017
Ouch, glad to see repair is underway.
We'll definitely try to spectate a class 0 hill this year to see you in action on the Exeter.
Hope all of the preparation work goes well, and best of luck with the trial itself.
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Special Bits - 08-11-2017
This video is of us on the Kimber trial in 2016, including the infamous Alham splash, over a foot deep on this occasion!
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Special Bits - 13-01-2018
A quick update. The night of the Exeter was bitterly cold, minus 6c reported by a marshal. We set off from the Haynes Motor museum at 02.23 and had a 23 mile road section to the first test, a cross the line reverse back then forward over line C timed job. no heroics, just got the test completed and straight into the first stop-restart of the event, a reasonably easy one. So having lulled us into a false sense of, oh this is rather easy, security, the next hill was as rough as you like, the chassis hitting the ground a few times. this rather set the tone, with some of the tracks approaching the hills, and leading from them, being at least as bad as the trials hills them selves! During the night it is all a bit of a blur, we had trouble with a dodgy headlight switch, making the lights go out on bumps, of which there were plenty, but still managed to clean all the hills we did. daylight came just as we got to the breakfast stop at Crealy, revealing a white landscape with a thick covering of frost.
Setting off from Crealy I commented how difficult the crash box was being, putting it down to cold oil. Unfortunately as I changed into 3rd just under the M5 J30, the gear lever went all floppy, a quick peer down the footwell revealed that the stub of Austin Gear lever had snapped off flush with the gearbox turret top, game over. This being about the closest the trial came to home, I decided to drive the car back to my parents 15 miles away, with it stuck in 3rd. There were a few tricky hill starts, but I managed to get it home.
There's a couple of videos Ill endevor to share, sorry they are rather dark, the new camera didn't cope well with low light.
Entry in for the Lands End trial, Good Friday-Easter Saturday.
Stuart
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Us on Pin Hill around 4,30 amStruggling up one of the muddier hills.
Trialing with no lights
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Duncan Grimmond - 14-01-2018
Full marks for perseverance!
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Pearls not a Singer - 14-01-2018
(13-01-2018, 04:49 PM)Special Bits Wrote: A quick update. The night of the Exeter was bitterly cold, minus 6c reported by a marshal. We set off from the Haynes Motor museum at 02.23 and had a 23 mile road section to the first test, a cross the line reverse back then forward over line C timed job. no heroics, just got the test completed and straight into the first stop-restart of the event, a reasonably easy one. So having lulled us into a false sense of, oh this is rather easy, security, the next hill was as rough as you like, the chassis hitting the ground a few times. this rather set the tone, with some of the tracks approaching the hills, and leading from them, being at least as bad as the trials hills them selves! During the night it is all a bit of a blur, we had trouble with a dodgy headlight switch, making the lights go out on bumps, of which there were plenty, but still managed to clean all the hills we did. daylight came just as we got to the breakfast stop at Crealy, revealing a white landscape with a thick covering of frost.
Setting off from Crealy I commented how difficult the crash box was being, putting it down to cold oil. Unfortunately as I changed into 3rd just under the M5 J30, the gear lever went all floppy, a quick peer down the footwell revealed that the stub of Austin Gear lever had snapped off flush with the gearbox turret top, game over. This being about the closest the trial came to home, I decided to drive the car back to my parents 15 miles away, with it stuck in 3rd. There were a few tricky hill starts, but I managed to get it home.
There's a couple of videos Ill endevor to share, sorry they are rather dark, the new camera didn't cope well with low light.
Entry in for the Lands End trial, Good Friday-Easter Saturday.
Stuart
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Us on Pin Hill around 4,30 am
Struggling up one of the muddier hills.
Trialing with no lights
Well done Stuart!
For those who've never been to the Land's End trial, pictures here show just how challenging the Hills can be for a 7.
This
is the Blue Hills on the 2012' and here
in 2014
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Alan Bee - 14-01-2018
MCC Exeter Trial 2018 - one of eleven cars to clear Simms!
https://www.facebook.com/duncan.stephens.14/videos/10159994721050454/
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Special Bits - 14-01-2018
(14-01-2018, 08:09 PM)Alan Bee Wrote: MCC Exeter Trial 2018 - one of eleven cars to clear Simms!
https://www.facebook.com/duncan.stephens.14/videos/10159994721050454/
That was an amazing achievement, Alan, well done! Seemingly the first Austin 7 Saloon to clean Simms in living memory!
How was Tipley? I would have done the main trial rather than class 0 if it didn't include that horror!
See my half baked attempt on the Torbay trial above.
For those who have never been to have a look, video rarely does a trials hill justice. Simms is an absolute beast of a hill, 1:3 at points, rough enough that going flat out at it is almost certain to break the car, with a surface varying from rough gravel/mud to damp polished rock towards the top. When a car or bike fails, the marshals going to assist have a great deal of difficulty staying on their feet, and cars just slid back down the hill with all 4 wheels locked up!
RE: Ulsteroid trials and tribulations - Alan Bee - 15-01-2018
Hi Stuart, there was a delay when we arrived at Tipley which meant we did it in the dark, so only felt the bumps rather than saw them. I remember it from a few years ago when a steering arm broke and we turned over. It was a long night/day, 22hours and things get a bit blurry but think Tillerton Steep was probably one of the roughest. You are right about Simms being polished rock, because I have also slid back and turned over and also about the video not doing the hill justice until you compare it with the rest of the fields attempts shown on you tube.