British DH series round 4 Moelfre;

I was looking forward to this race to make a stomp down on my result the previous weekend in Italy. I like Moelfre too, it’s a pretty easy course to get down and although a lot of people think it’s very pedally, I think it’s ok if you carry your speed well. With it being an easier course you really have to do something special to get ahead of the rest.

Practise was wet on the Saturday and the grassy bits of the course were like ice which was quite fun. I changed to cut spikes for a couple of runs but as it dried up again I went back to high rollers. By the end of practise the course was in pretty much perfect condition. I walked the course and found absolutely nothing but one thing I wanted to look at the top of the course. When I got down I had the meal of a lifetime made by Jez from Chocolate distribution.



They had a gladiator style blow up thing in the big tent Saturday evening. It was one where you have to both stand on a little platform and knock each other off with big baton things. I watched that for a while before going to bed.

I did about 3-4 runs on Sunday morning as it was really fun being dry and rolling well.

Seeding was cancelled as someone had to be air lifted half way through it. This was a bit annoying as I wouldn’t have ridden for about 5 hours or more before my race run was meant to happen.




My race run went pretty well, I only had one proper mess up and that was just changing into a too easy gear before the 4X jumps at the bottom so I couldn’t pedal going into them. It was really windy the whole way down and I really thought that I got unlucky with it... it felt like I was slowing down a lot of the time with so much head wind. I made it down smoothly and Josh Bryceland was the current leader in the hot seat. I came in 3 seconds behind but managed to close the gap up a bit more as i went into 2nd. I waited for everyone else to come down and the first to beat me was good mate Rich Thomas by half a second. Then mark Beaumont came down and increased the lead. Steve came down and beat Mark by a few milliseconds which rounded off the results. Steve won with a 2min 25, Mark was 2nd with a late 2 min 25, Josh was on a 28, Rich was on a 30 and I was on a 31. I was pretty chuffed with that. I certainly didn’t find any shame in being beaten by current world champ and legend Steve Peat, last weekend’s world cup winner Mark Beaumont, previous junior world champ, Josh Bryceland and all round sick rider and good mate Rich T. I was happy to make my first Elite National Podium in my first year of elite too; it was certainly a good feeling.

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