Tell Us What You Think...

Thank you to everyone who attended the final round on 2nd Oct, we hope you all enjoyed it. Please leave you feedback here by clicking 'add comment' at the bottom of the page.
We are already looking forward to seeing you in Feb 2012!
Gina Bewlay
TGOR

Morning Folks,

Thanks to all the individuals who have left me some very nice, encouraging words regarding the pictures on my website, and for all the enquires for purchasing,for those who haven't already put in a request for copies of the pictures or wasn't aware all the pictures are available for purchase 'copyright free' at a very competitive rate.

Thanks again to all those who have taken the time to send me messages, it is appreciated.

Regards

Dave

http://didphotography.smugmug.com

Evening All,

Just to let you know I have uploaded loads of pics from Butts Quarry at the following website -

http://didphotography.smugmug.com

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did attending, I think I have just about got all the dust out, I even helped one female rider out of the trees after 'coming a cropper' result - One burn from a very hot exhaust and a broken lense on the camera - Dohhh, but loved every minute of it.

Cracking event and I will be looking out for the next one.

Cheers

Dave

Hi, great event, loved it. Just one comment about the report Gina, it reads very well but I have to complain about one part!!!!
You put I was on the tail of Damian for the duration of the race, I was in fact leading the race for most of it until about last half hour when I pitted and came back out in second place. I was gutted, I nearly got it back in the last wood section but got stuck behind someone. So just a small complaint but it means alot to me. Otherwise had a great day could do it again!

many thanks to the truegrit team. great track, good mix of technical sections and short fast straights. cant praise you all enough. didnt here a single complaint and thats rare! well done to dusty sonia. it means alot to all us vain riders being able to see pics after the event. come rain or shine she is always there.thanks to all the marshalls, without you giving up your time where would we be. you are all greatly appreciated. thanks to everone involved, julian and nieve.

Hi just a brief note of thanks to the true grit team for organising such a fantastic ironman event staged in the splendid Butts Quarry at Ashover in Derbyshire on the weekend of 3rd July 2011...
Ask a 12 year girl what she wants to do for her birthday and you would probably get answers like,
" can I have an ice skating party " or "Can I have the latest JUSTIN BEIBER" album. Unfortunately the answer I got was can I do an ironman with my pal Nieve Holmes !

So that was it.. she was on the list ... and not wanting to be left out so was the old man, at a not so youthful 43 years I wasnt sure if this was something I could do... I am more of a jelly bean than an IRON MAN.
The sun came out as well as a wholesome entry of eager Iron men and to be politically correct iron ladies...and girls who were courageous enough to put themselves up for this emense challenge. ! The event itself was second to none, with friendly helpful faces at signing on through to fact that there were plenty of marshals to help out where needed. I think I speak for the the rest of the riders when I say that the track was spot on, utilising parts of Butts that had never seen a knobbly before. It was fun yet challenging to ride..again a lot of thought had gone into the layout of the course which was well marked out . The riders who decided to sit this one out definately missed out on a real corker ! For me The ride itself was real enjoyable up until around the the 3 hour mark which is when I went into zombie mode. i know this because my jaw drops and i start to dribble which was difficult with a mouthful of dust. Whilst on the subject of dust some of the spectators looked like extras from the film "apocolypse now " they were absolutely covered... in particular I take my hat off to the lovely lady taking photos.. Man she looked like she had just walked through a desert for two weeks... and then back again ...(Gina tell me that wasn't yr that wasn't your mam ?)
Thanks again for a great day we all enjoyed it lots. To Julian Holmes sorry I couldnt make the presentation I was busy trying to stay upright .
Just want to say that I still cant move.. and my rear end resembles something you'd see on african baboon.!
Until next time !

hi
thanks for a great event, very well run.I think it was alot better having the man standing on the platform with the start flag reasier for all to see :-) also the woodlands was alot better then normal as we had chances to overtake people makes a nice change for been stuck behind them and to top off a good day, brilliant trophies thanks again & see you all at TGOR's iron man .
Kris weston #219

Great day cheers guys very demanding track, would like to thank Brad Anderson for not landing on my head in the quarry section, very un-nerving looking up at someones sump plug when your still on your bike :-) great day loved it.

mint day loved it , was rough and dry and very demanding ,well done to the tgor team and to all those who rode, very well run much prefare the flag drop at the start :-)

Big thanks to everyone involved in providing yet another well organized event hope every one had a great day cant wait for the next one!

Thanks to all who organised the event .It was the best and most enjoyable track I have ridden at Driffield , better than the end race of series last year ..What a nitemare that was. Anyway , sorry to anyone I knocked off , was a much more flowing course and not stuck in woods all the time .Superb and had a right laugh and a fair result too.Cheers Jase "who dares wynnes" wynne.

Elliot Shaw here :)

What a fantastic weekend!

Track was fab, i usually don't like driffield alot, but it was ALOT better than any other driffield track iv ridden befor, was better the open spaces and shorter laps it felt more like a competetive race, i loved it!

Was well orgonised so great job TGOR and Bewlay family :)

And though i don't know who crashed, Gotta say that air amburlance was there fast within a few mins of the crash, so gotta give credit to them guys and who ever was injured speedy recovery!

Roll on the next DBT / TGOR Event :) See ya there!

top track , very fast and plenty places to past, kids race good entry , jamie no 12 had to work hard , on good line up of kids , adiults race very fast and moveing hardly any bottle neck sections , just a shame my clutch started slipping halfway into the race , over 40 rider

thanks to all at TGOR great track one of best driffields yet
hope all riders who came off not to badly hurt especially
the rider who needed helicopter.
cheers andy

Dear True Grit

The venue was spot on the weather was perfect the marshalls were plentiful and did a fantastic job the sport would be lost without them . Now for a moan the track was very poorly marked out no where near enough tape to guide riders hence a free for all took place at certain parts of the course ? how much does a roll of tape cost? buy in bulk not much ! or perhaps the money you save on providing poor tropheys could be diverted to the tape fund ?

Regards Ian

what a day! All was going well, had great weather, track was spot on and well organised. However 2hrs in, i had an off and broke my collar bone in two places! Not a happy bunny. Paramedics were ace and sorted me out good with gas an air an plenty of tramadol. Gonna be 8 weeks before i'll be back on the bike at the least. So much for a good start to the season. Thanks to my Dad and good mate Dave Rothery for washing my bike and getting the van and me back home. Special thanks to paramedics Dave and Tina and the staff at bridlington hospital. Ian Robinson number 275

awesome event today, track conditions were perfect.
well organised, was unfortunate about the delayed start but the TGOR team handled it well.

thankyou to the TGOR team for yet another great event.

Luke Gorse

i really enjoyed today track was great could have been a bit longer but great day all round wether aswell :)x

Wow what a fantastic day at driffield!!!
Everything was spot on including the weather.
Well done to all the riders and i hope everyone enjoyed it.
Big thanks to all the marshalls who turned up and kept us safe.

Please leave your feed back of how today went for you below.
- what did you think to the track?
-what did you think to the venue? (easy to find? Carparking & Camping?)
-Hightlights of your day
etc etc

Cheers
Gina Bewlay :D