Broken cloud and sunshine greeted the riders for the 5th round of this years
British Championship, held near Bovey Tracey in Devon. The Ruby Rocks
venue presented a different type of terrain than that used for the last few rounds
as all the sections were set out in the river that runs down the gully in the woods.
The water was running over the green rocks in many of the sections, but the
trial really went down to just one section ... number 4. Michael managed to
drop 11 marks in this section over the three laps, two threes and a five. Apart from
that section he didn't really have any major problems.
Pune had to rush at the end of the first lap as time was tight, and he then stayed in
front of the other top lads for the rest of the day.
The last lap was his best, with a 3 on section four and then a slack 2 on the next section
... he then went clean from there. Although this wasn't enough to get the better of Alexz Wigg,
and Michael had to settle for runner up this time out.

" I am fairly happy with my riding today but i still made some mistakes. When
the trial is on the easy side, like today, then you cannot make mistakes. I had
some problems on section 4 today and that has cost me the win. Still i have
closed the gap in the championship to 6 points which i have to be happy about. I
would like to thank Shaughan, Malc and all the team for their help over the
weekend"