Anglesey - June 1999

Saturday 26th June 1999
We soon had the bike setup, it's always the same at Ty-Croes. Trying to get the gearing right is quite difficult. On one hand you want to go down the straight as fast as possible but you have very little power to get up the hill. The wind also changes direction frequently which also interferes with bike setup. However this was soon overcame and a comprimise was reached. The bike ran fine all day and in the evening there was very little work to do.
The weather forecast wasn't good for Sunday and most of Saturday night there was quite long spells of rain.


Sunday 27th June 1999
The weather steadily got better on Sunday morning and by the time the 6 hour race started the track was dry! We had a good race keeping the bike out on the track all day. Lea fell off 4:30min into the race, but the bike wasn't damages and Lea only had a few scratches and scrapes. Again the electronic tagging made the racing more proffesional, you could quite easily see how the race was going and keep an eye on lap times etc. We were doing 1m 13s or 1m 14s ocasionally we could do 1m 12s when the wind was in the right direction!
In the end we did 242 laps and finished 15th in Class 1. Due to our disaster in the first race at Rowrah we're 20th overall in class one.