Singular had a fair fleet of bikes in attendance, with a few built up Swifts in geared and SS configuration, a complete Peregrine, and a few framesets including the just landed and still unpainted Gryphon prototype in 853.
There was a lot of interest in the bikes despite our somewhat out of the way location in the corner of the field. We didn't arrive until late Friday night, and couldn't secure a pitch in the trade area where we were also able to camp - so just set up our somewhat makeshift stand in the camp area and away we went.
Saturday was a 12 hour enduro in which we had a four man team. For some deluded reason which now escapes me we registered in the competitive teams division for a 9am start after some fairly heavy post-drive refreshments the previous evening. It's fair to say we all had a fairly painful first lap, but we managed to turn in laps of around 35 mins all day and finished on 20 laps. 25th in our class was not a bad result - we were certainly never in it to win it.
The more highly anticipated event, at least amongst our team, was SSUK itself. Due to kick off at the ungodly hour of 9am, some team-members managed to restrain themselves somewhat on Saturday night and managed to arise reasonably bright and chipper on Sunday morning. While we didn't set the world on fire - we did represent pretty well. Somehow I was 3rd out of the start area (learnt from the mayhem of Saturday...) which only meant a lot of people would go past me during the race... Ah well, these SS events are not about when you finish, it's all about how you get there - and we did it in style.
Thanks to all involved for a great weekend!
Sam
