British DH Series round 3 – Llangollen;

It was not one of the best weekends for me to be honest. The track was wicked and the sun was scorching all weekend! The uplift was very slow though and in a whole day of practise I found even with my extra elite practise I managed 5 runs. And practise was about 7 ½ hours long!

The track was pretty short but very steep and so so dusty! I love riding steep and dusty stuff so the runs I got in were sick!

Sunday morning the uplift was a bit better and I managed another 3 runs before seeding. The course was getting pretty hard as the corners were disappearing and ruts and wholes replaced them. It was going to be very hard to do a run without mistakes but with the track being less than 2 min’s you couldn’t have any mistakes if you were going to do well.

In my seeding run I had a good run and held back for race runs really. My usual approach and it didn’t turn out all that bad. I was 4 seconds off of Brendan with some more to give.

In my race run I didn’t start off very well. I jumped the second bus stop and Landed too close to the edge of the track. I was drifting for a few seconds which really lost my speed. In a panic to gain it back I missed a high line into a corner as I didn’t brake early enough. I made a mistake on the steep shoot nearing the bottom too but this wasn’t too time consuming. My back wheel was just drifting over the edge of the corner for a bit as the crowds were all shouting.

I ended up in 16th place with a slower time than my seeding run. Not what I was aiming for but everyone has their ups and downs and this one just happened to be a bad one.

Here are some pic’s of the weekend;
















I am now looking forward to racing the duel at Brands Hatch for the Bike Radar show in a couple weeks.

Thanks to Last, Rezurgence, Lifestyle Ford, 2026 distribution, Nema Clothing, DMR, Funn, 661, Maxxis, KMC, Lezyne, Mojo suspension, Kali and Shimano.