spring photo bomb.

The long road.. update

(Grand Fondo)

(west point)

Over the last few weeks we raced at West point, this was a mid week race and we ended up holding my line and another rider hit me, he went down and i was lucky to stay up, we would end up in the second small group but still lapped a few riders in the short 40min race, On to the Somerset Grand Fondo and a 123 miles of hilly riding with buddy Dan, Have to say i loved it, bloody hard work and came in 20th, Will be back next year for sure, then it was the Avon road race, off with the lead group and feeling good, dropped my chain but pushed on rather than wait for the second group to catch, Sadly i followed the arrows and like a few others ended at a mx race! lol, i went and did another lap before calling it a day before the rain came in, Less than a month now till BikeFest and so we have been on the Rocky Mountain XC bike a few times and loving it, Should be a good event if i can train well in the coming weeks.

slick trails after the rain

The Win Tunnel: The Effects of Drafting

Enduro testing

Getting some seat time on my Rocky Mountain Bicycles team bike. 

road racing again...

so it seems it would pay off to know A, how many laps your doing and where the finish line is.. lol Race starts and we have a few riders putting elbows out and some skids.. not happy slide a bit to the back before we hit the climb, only for the guy a few bikes in front to drop his chain and a load of us pile in to each other.. Packs gone i get going and t a few get my wheel and we get up to 7 riders, We try to get a train line going but its not great, after a few C and F bombs are dropped myself and one other ride do most of the turns and soon our group drops to 3 riders, i ask how many laps.. one says 3 one says were doing 4 laps? i take it the finish will be soon after the second and steeper little climb as a marshal standing there doing bugger all each lap, we put the hurt on the climb and drop a rider and were down to 2 as we go over the short climb and buddy says we have one lap to go, so i say i will work with him and he can have the sprint (ye right) as long as the other rider does not catch us, so we stomp on, we get round to the climbs and i turn on the hurt and drop him up the long climb, he gains some ground back before we hit the little climb so i lite it up and get a bit more of a gap.. now wheres the finish line??? marshal has fuckd off.. must be near the start so now im a good 5 miles out with a guy 20 seconds behind me and im shit on the flats.. So i put in a bloody massive effort and i do gain time, only thing i go past a 1k sign so think 1 k to the finish? well a few miles later im back on the climb??? i must of mist a turning for the finish so end up doing another 10 + miles ... still great training!

Dissapointing race at Modbury

Modbury race looked like fun, few more hills and 80 riders, But the race was over before it started.. The car went off and so did most of the bunch as we had a few miles before the flag drops and racing starts, Then we waited as the bikes went out then they let us off.. Well that was it race over, the car had gone off so fast the bunch had sprinted before the race had started to get the free draft and our small group had been screwed over... We set off hard to catch and we soon shelled a few in our group of about ten riders that then quit the race, We soon picked off a few riders from the main group and ended up with 3 MDCC riders and 3 Wheelers plus a range of other clubs. MDCC at first set the pace but it was slow and we all then joined in at the front and pushed the pace on and our group picked off more riders, By the last lap we had a few solid cat3 boys and now we had about 6 Wheelers and the pace was now being pushed along and a few more riders got shot out the back, Coming in to the final climbs a lone rider jumped off the front of our group and had a good 5/6 second lead and looked to be getting away, I moved up the pack and then put down some power jumping off the front and soon catching the lone rider before the top of the hill and kept going, As we made the turn in to the finish i had a look back waiting to see all the Wheeler and MDCC boys on my wheel but i had a lead and so put my head down and stomped in to the finish ahead of the pack with ease. Cant wait to get on the Rocky Mountain Bicycle next weekend for some real riding.