Archive 05/04
Riders 4 Riders 3
The third of the Riders4Riders races took place on Sunday 6th March. The steepest part of the hill and a week of heavy snow made for some interesting riding conditions for the 70 riders who braved the cold.
Photos from practice and racing are here.
Motard Masters Round 2
Photos from the 2nd and now sadly final round of the Maxxis Motard Masters series from Three Sisters in Wigan are now online. The weather might have been a bit on the cold side but the action on the track was red hot.
Photos from all classes for both days are here.
Riders for Riders II
The second of the Riders for Riders races took place at PORC on Sunday 6th February. The rain stayed away so the new track got quicker as they day went on. The fastest time of the day went to Joe Achilles and was under 55 seconds.
Photos from the practice and race runs are here.
Wigan Whitewash
The first round of the new Motard Masters series took place at Three Sisters (Wigan) on 22/23 January. Matt Winstanley produced a superb performance and won every class he contested plus the Super Final. It wasn’t as easy as the results would suggest with Ady Smith pushing Matt all the way in the Super Final.
Photos from weekend are here.
People Power
With the demise of the popular PORC Winter Series a group of riders decided to run a race of their own. On a track built specially for the event almost 80 riders took part, photos from the racing are here.
Aston Hill In-Decent Exposure
Saturday 29th October saw the United Kingdom’s first open night time downhill race take place at Aston Hill. Using the Black Run, riders raced down the dark and slippery course with a variety of professional and not so professional lighting rigs. It was a great event and hopefully won’t be the last at Aston Hill.
Photos from the racing are here.
Update: 19th September
Photos from the 4th and final round of the Aston Hill 2004 Downhill Series are here.
UCI Mountain Bike World Championship
Photos from downhill here, photos from 4X here and photos from trials here.
NPS Combe Sydenham
The 4th round of the NPS Downhill Series took place at Combe Sydenham in Somerset over the bank holiday weekend. The typical unsettled bank holiday weather didn’t stop the riders from giving it their all. With a bit of sun on race day the Elite men got the best of the conditions and not suprisingly the last two men down the hill took the honours. Dan Atherton being narrowly beaten by his brother Gee. Photos from the racing are here.
PORC Final 2004
Photos from the final round of the PORC Summer Series including a guest appearence from Gee and Dan Atherton.
Photos from the final round of the PORC Summer Series are here.
PORC 1st August 2004
Sizzling PORC! The first day of August and we actually had some summer weather. The course at Penshurst may have been short but the steep and very lose middle section caught out quite a few unwary riders who got a dust bath for their troubles.
Photos from the racing are here.
Dragon Abercarn
A few photos from the Dragon Downhill race over the weekend. Last year Abercarn was host to a round of the NPS, even without national status it still saw a very good turnout. The course was steep, dry, dusty, loose and at under 2m30secs for the quick guys all action from top to bottom.
Photo gallery is here.
2004 Maxxis UK Supermoto
The 2nd and 3rd rounds of the Maxxis 2004 UK Supermoto Series took place at Lydden Hill in Kent over the weekend. The weather was very kind apart from one shower on Saturday afternoon. The racing was fast and furious with Honda guest rider Steve Drew over from the USA putting in a very strong performance in the SM450 class.
Photos from the Saturday (Round 2) are here photos from the Sunday (Round 3) are here.
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
The best mountain bikers in the world battled it out on the slopes of Ben Nevis for the first round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Gregg Minnaar secured a dream first win in the downhill on his new Honda bike. While in the ladies event it was business as usual for Anne-Caroline Chausson. The men’s 4X threw up a few suprises with Guido Tschugg taking the win. Anne-Caro got her weekend off to a winning start taking the ladies 4X.
Photos from the downhill are here Photos from the 4X are here. Photos from the pits are here.
BC National BMX
The third round of the British Cycling National BMX series took place on Sunday the 30th May at the excellent Peterborough track under superb conditions. Dale Holmes flew over from the US and must have brought the weather with him as the sun shone all day leaving the track dry and dusty. The guys from Peterborough BMX club had their work cut out watering and brushing the dust from the track.
Photos from the racing are here.
Aston Hill DH 2004 Round 3
The 3rd round of the Aston Hill Downhill season took place today on the Black Run. What did the most technical downhill course in the South have to offer? Finally the weather came up with the goods and the course was dry and running fast.
Photos from the racing are here.
2004 Maxxis UK Supermoto
Why does it always rain on me? The Maxxis 2004 UK Supermoto Championship kicked off at Snetterton on Bank Holiday Monday. The weather couldn’t have been much worse, it was difficult to work out who got the worse deal the photographer, the brolly girls or the riders. Answers on a post card…
Photographs from the racing in SM250, Euro450, SM450 and SM650 are here.
Aston Hill DH 2004 Round 2
The 2nd round of the Aston Hill Downhill season took place today on the Ultimate Pursuits downhill course. With good weather in the week leading up to the event we where expecting a fast dry course but very heavy overnight rain put a layer of greasy mud over the entire course just to make things a little more difficult.
Photos from the racing are here.
Aston Hill DH 2004 Round 1
Mud Glorious Mud…The 1st round of this year’s Aston Hill Downhill races took place today in pretty tricky
conditions. In the dry the Red Run would have been fast and flowing with Ian Warby having made some superb modifications to the track. With heavy rain the day before the event the riders found something quite different.
Photos from the racing are here.
Maxxis ACU Winter Supermoto 2004
Here comes the summer! The final round of the Maxxis ACU Winter Supermotard series took place at Lydden Hill on the 28th Feburary. Snow on the ground and sub zero tempreatures almost all day didn’t seem hold back the riders. Danni Muller and Christian Iddon fought it out in the Super Final. With the final round over we can look forward to the summer, fast dry tracks and warm tempreatures.
The gallery of photos from 450, 650 and the Super Final are here.