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Written by Gordon Ayshford
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The sun shines on the Warriors Sent: Fri 10/11/2006 00:03
By Gordon Ayshford – Team manager for Witley Warriors http://www.witleymcc.org
After a long and tiring slog out to NZ the GB squad are all present and correct - back on their feet running - the rain and cloud that greeted them on arrival at Taupo on Thursday afternoon was burned off this morning (friday) by bright sunshine and in the crisp morning air the bikes were un-crated, riders signed-on and off for test rides on the Yamaha test track.
Next on the agenda is finding and walking all the special tests in the dramatic, alien volcanic terrain - complete with sulphur springs and steam rising out of the ground!
More reports as the preparations focus on the approach of the event start on Tuesday 14th.
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Written by Geoff Grimes
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  Geoff J.Grimes Reports..
First Report
It’s always an adventure going to an Enduro, and especially when it’s a bunch of blokes together in a foreign country.
But actually it all started ages ago, as it has to, so entering aside and club meetings and getting the money together is at this stage taken for granted. Well even at the last minute there was lots of panicking, not least from Rob who burned his clutch out four days before our departure! Well it’s not that unheard of so I went to collect him a bunch of parts from CI sport in Leatherhead.
Slowly but surely we were getting closer to the off. Bikes were packed the night before departure at Robs House into Pete's van (oh Robs van also blew up the week before so were now using Lawrence’s car in its place, I told you this can be an adventure).
So an early start got us on a ferry bound from Dover to Dunkirk and a long drive ahead to stop in Nurnburg in Germany, I was travelling with Lawrence and he was still aching from the previous weekends riding. After a pleasant meal and nights Kip we were off to drive on to Slovakia via Austria. All went well and we arrived in Povazska Bystrica in good time. We had a little look around the start area and met some old friends in our assigned pit area.
We headed off to meet our landlord, Miroslav, at our accommodation at the arranged time to find him with a couple of other people sitting drinking outside our Chalet, whilst he was relieving himself in the gaze of our headlights, his opening gambit as we got out of the car was an almighty fart!
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Written by Geoff Grimes
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Geoff J Grimes
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I.S.D.E. REPORTS & IMAGES
FROM POLAND
E-m@iled as it was happening
from Geoff Grimes.
Pre-Event
Hi
Well things are all going roughly to plan as the bikes are safely in park ferme in town for today’s parade back to the start area. The riders have all seen the tests now after a couple of days driving around the Kielce region and getting acquainted. I didn’t say Walk as all the tests, be Enduro or Moto X are the same. All set in fields and posted and taped on fairly flat grass or stubble. We believe these will cut up quite badly and become very rough. They are however reasonably long and the consensus is that they will be five or six minutes long. After the last test the riders took a lazy lunch in a roadside pizzeria and basked in the sunshine. Last nights opening ceremony went with a bang, quite literally with spectacular fireworks closing the evening. The team were enjoying a beer or two at a bar overlooking the amphitheatre where the ceremony was held as, like most competitors, they didn’t fancy sitting through the rock concert after being presented by the FIM and Kielce representatives. The evening was fun and enjoyed by all and I think especially by Murray. The only people not present were Bernard and Dave Kav. As Dave just arrived from his epic journey and was too tired to attend, Bernard stayed at the hotel to show him the ropes.
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Written by Gordon Ayshford
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The Witley ISDE 2001, a story told from the viewpoint of the Team Manager, Gordon Ayshford in a scrapbook of words and pictures. Raw and uncut - as it happened. The words are from the reports that Gordon and Colin Boniface despatched daily from the ISDE press office to the Witley websites and bye-mail to the supporters at home. The pictures are from Gordon’s camera. The feeling of connection with the world back at home gave the squad a boost, knowing that they weren’t alone against the world, that the Witley membership was sharing the experience. Here the experience is encapsulated.
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Written by Gordon Ayshford
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 Introduction
In 1999 the Club had a dream, and there is no better way of describing it than to revert to the pen of Gordon Ayshford, Chairman of our ISDE Sub Committee, who wrote this report for the SE Centre Gazette immediately after the 1999 ISDE in Portugal:
“INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS FOR SE CENTRE –
Best British Team, ISDE PORTUGAL, 13-18 SEPTEMBER 1999
“‘Win With Witley’ read the bold banner headline on their promotional flyer.
“From the position of reigning champions in the SE Centre Enduro Combine and veterans of the ’97 ISDE in Italy, they had a dream: that in this, their club’s 75th anniversary year, their entry of two teams – the Witley & DMCC team and the Witley SE team, would live up to Witley’s reputation as a club of winners.
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