Bilstain revisited 2013 page 4
If you were lucky enough to pull yourself up the step, youd slowly be creeping along the rocks step top. You would look to your left and out of the corner of your eye you couldn't help but notice the thousands of people with there eyes set on you. Creeping aloing the top you might get a bit of vertigo as you look down the rock ledge to the bottom. You would then approach the 2 rock steps that you would drop down , each 2 feet high. The rocks would be covered in mud giving no grip. The often freezing trial conditions would harden your tyre. Your damp brakes might be having trouble as well. At the bottom of the 2 steps downwards there was a carpet of boulders ready to catch your fall !
Dont underestimate the drop.It was here in 1987 that Eddy Lejeune managed to climb the step with little difficulty. He then lost 2 as he dropped down. The first dab appeared to be for no reason just nerves and the though of impaling yourself on the rocks.
The camera flattens it , but believe me , its a nasty drop , especially on a twinshock or an old mono.
Dont underestimate the drop.It was here in 1987 that Eddy Lejeune managed to climb the step with little difficulty. He then lost 2 as he dropped down. The first dab appeared to be for no reason just nerves and the though of impaling yourself on the rocks.
The camera flattens it , but believe me , its a nasty drop , especially on a twinshock or an old mono.
Once down , relax the worst is over. Then ride up the path , turning left onto the rock slab again , but this time with no step. Then turn sharp ;left and head for the up hill ends , riding through the trees. It was on this slab turn that surprisingly (for his audience - not him) Steve Saunders dropped a mark as he turned right.
Once i had soaked up enough of the ambiance , i returned shivering with cold and excited back to the club house for a nice Belguim coffee with Eddy and his wife Dominique and Eric , who was helping to set out a trial.
