Posted on June 8, 2010 by jon
Seb Frost is one of our team riders. He promised to make some nice movies if we supplied him with a GoPro HD camera and chest mount, so we did. This is his first effort from Todtnau in Germany, following Jim Coneron on some classic fast Alpine DH trail action.
Seb uses the American Classic hubs and NoTubes Flow rims, has earned his Expert category race licence and he also runs rootsandrain.co.uk. Embedded movie not showing above? Click here to view on YouTube.
Posted on July 17, 2009 by jon
The Megavalanche has always been on my to-do list and finally this year I got round to doing it. Even the tall tales from people who had ridden it couldn't do justice to the scale and craziness of the event. Even the start above the snow was bordering on unrideable, let alone with 500 riders breathing down my neck, it was just a case of getting out of there as fast as possible and trying to leave the carnage behind.
Mega Avalanche start
The action started with the qualifying rounds on Friday, with 9 rounds of 200 riders each. The tight gravel hairpins straight out of the gate were the first potential for carnage, remember there are 25 riders per row all going to single file within the first 10 seconds of the race, but I left everyone else to pile up on the popular inside lines, scooting round the slower but safer outsides instead. 25 minutes later and barely able to grip the bars I finished 8th in my round, good enough for a 3rd row in the main event.
popping out at the end of the qualifier
Normally the race starts on snow. Well it did this year too I suppose, but...[ continue reading >> ]
Posted on May 14, 2009 by jon
A combination of awesome downhill skills, raw power and some NoTubes rims saw our team rider Dan winning the Ae Forest Avalanche Enduro last weekend. A full report will be up soon, but for now just enjoy the Euro music from the prize presentation...
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by Dan
Avalanche trophy
The Avalanche Enduro was held in Kielder forest on the 25/26th May, it was a good event with decent weather and better than expected trails.
Saturday we checked out the event stages ridding them all twice, there was a mix of loamy bits but mostly trail center stuff which was sandstone based so sandy with lots of loose rocks. The stages were around 4 mins long and most required a fair amount of pedaling to keep the speed up. Stage 4/7 was used on Saturday afternoon as a prologue to seed riders for Sunday, this was probably the flattest stage so was a real suffer-fest but I got down it in a time better than it felt. This result did however mean an early start time on Sunday of 8:40 to head up the hill, the time allowances to get between stages were quite relaxed giving plenty of time at the start of the day and getting tighter as the event progressed, if you had a problem then things started to get interesting.
My first stage was the most fun in practice with sweet dry loamy bends as well as dark greasy woods sections but come Sunday morning it occurred about 2 coffees too early in my day and I minced my way down with lots of little mistakes.
Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dan
just in Dan Darwood reports on the first round of the SDA:-
Scottish Downhill Association
I went racin' this weekend. It was the first round of the SDA up past Aberdeen at Pitfichie... a long way from anywhere
and once I had some beers I was putting the tent up (badly) at 1:00 on Saturday morning. The course had no uplift but
the push up wasn't too bad for a 3 minute run, it was dry and dusty and I got a wee bit of sun burn yesterday (doh!)
even though there was a frost overnight.
The top was flattish through the heather with loads of granite bedrock slabs, it then went into the woods where it was
all full of embedded rocks to hit and a couple of sweet bermed corners before a flattish traverse (again with more
embedded rocks) and the final berms and jumps to the finish. Initial practice was hard work but after some lunch I
adjusted my tyre pressures, tried a few different shock settings and put clips on, this plus some additional confidence
meant I finished the day happy that I knew the course and wasn't riding too much like a numpty.
My first run was a 2:49 and put me in 5th in the...[ continue reading >> ]
Posted on March 31, 2009 by bec
Things seem to have got rolling this year and we've hooked up with some good riders and team mates, more results and team updates soon we hope.
Team Just Riding Along
Seb Frost at Pearce Cycles rd 1
Seb Frost - expert DH - riding for us, testing the NoTubes Flow rims on the new American Classic front 20mm and rear 12x150mm in the UK Downhills. Seb was initially cautious about the light weight wheels but has just come back from the Maxxis Cup in Vigo where they stayed straight despite some enthusiastic riding (and the resulting crash).
team jerseys
Jon Webb - master DH - you've probably seen him somewhere before. Riding with some Industry Nine Enduro wheels in orange on Flow rims, for their 1750g weight these wheels are about as strong as they come.
Associated riders :
Jenny with her new kit
Jenny Copnall - elite XC - The UK National Champion, now riding for Fisher Outdoor Leisure with our NoTubes Race 7000 American Classic wheelset. At 282g each these are the lightest rims available and the whole wheelset comes in at just 1220g.
The Cycle Jersey Team - DH riders Ben Cathro, Joe Barnes, Chris Hutchens, James Scott and Chris Coates using our Copter Tape...[ continue reading >> ]
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