The journey from small guy to teenager...

[Mr Moofo]

Great that it is coming to fruition!
Privateer - great bikes - makes me an early adopter!

It’s great that they are picking up on young talent and letting them develop with a great coach

[weeksy]

Great that it is coming to fruition!
Privateer - great bikes - makes me an early adopter!

It’s great that they are picking up on young talent and letting them develop with a great coach

Absolutely mate, it's fantastic from both them and Katy. As you can imagine, we're pretty excited by it all.

[Nordboy]

It's awesome news but I'm still confused as to where his speed comes from

Def time to buy a race van or motorhome !

Here we go again

I spent the morning looking and TBH there's more options now than there was when i was looking last time.

But i can't help but think that when we had the Vito, it wasn't quite enough and to be really worth it i'd need to be going daft big like a Peugeot Boxer type size and that becomes considerably less practical day to day. However i basically don't ever drive the car, unless going somewhere with MTBs. Every now and again i go to the Supermarket, but mostly Mrs Weeksy is about anyway so i could in theory take the Focus.

The van thing will and is likely to happen... I just don't know if it'll be 3 months, 12 months or 3 years from now.

https://www.aspirecomps.co.uk/competiti ... -december/

Got to be worth a punt? Looks ideal for what you want.

[weeksy]

Here we go again

I spent the morning looking and TBH there's more options now than there was when i was looking last time.

But i can't help but think that when we had the Vito, it wasn't quite enough and to be really worth it i'd need to be going daft big like a Peugeot Boxer type size and that becomes considerably less practical day to day. However i basically don't ever drive the car, unless going somewhere with MTBs. Every now and again i go to the Supermarket, but mostly Mrs Weeksy is about anyway so i could in theory take the Focus.

The van thing will and is likely to happen... I just don't know if it'll be 3 months, 12 months or 3 years from now.

https://www.aspirecomps.co.uk/competiti ... -december/

Got to be worth a punt? Looks ideal for what you want.

Super. I'm in for 3

[MingtheMerciless]

Oh shiny van……..

[weeksy]

Great that it is coming to fruition!
Privateer - great bikes - makes me an early adopter!

It’s great that they are picking up on young talent and letting them develop with a great coach

Well we were offered either bike, a 161 or a 141 but we decided after discussions with Katy to go 141, well, i say WE decided, i did Sometimes the boy doesn’t know everything and he just sees numbers, 161, bigger is better… Not necessarily the case, especially for the stuff we’ve got planned with the Privateer which is for him, fairly simple terrain at say Southern Enduro, so a bit less burly, a bit lighter, bit poppier, he’ll be flying. Katy has shown in some of here clips/pics just how capable a bike a 141 actually is.. So he’s got one of those ordered up.

He’s now just waiting impatiently for permission to ride from Mrs Weeksy and the Sports physio type guy… he doesn’t have it this weekend though, so i’m flying solo.

[Taff]

Wow, this is amazing news, congrats to little man

Katy is going to bring him on to the next level and this next year is going to be brilliant for you guys, can't wait for the updates

[Mr Moofo]

Great that it is coming to fruition!
Privateer - great bikes - makes me an early adopter!

It’s great that they are picking up on young talent and letting them develop with a great coach

Well we were offered either bike, a 161 or a 141 but we decided after discussions with Katy to go 141, well, i say WE decided, i did Sometimes the boy doesn’t know everything and he just sees numbers, 161, bigger is better… Not necessarily the case, especially for the stuff we’ve got planned with the Privateer which is for him, fairly simple terrain at say Southern Enduro, so a bit less burly, a bit lighter, bit poppier, he’ll be flying. Katy has shown in some of here clips/pics just how capable a bike a 141 actually is.. So he’s got one of those ordered up.

Which is the correct decision - the 141 seems way more capable that the front travel suggests. They tend to say the 161 is a race bike that needs to be ridden really had to get the best out of it. So a bit like feeding stawberries to a pig in my case!

[weeksy]

2022-11-27_04-33-14 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Mr Moofo]

^ straighten up that head badge - please

[weeksy]

^ straighten up that head badge - please

Ha ha. That's not his usual one actually, he normally has a gold Burgtec one has won for his 2nd place at Stile Cop.

[weeksy]

There's another 'coming soon' coming soon

[weeksy]

Unrelated to that... we have some dates

British National DH Series.
Rheola 15-16 April
Fort William 6-7 May
Llangollen 8-9 July
Rhyd-Y-Felin 22-23 July NATIONAL CHAMPS
Glencoe 19-20 August
Antur Stiniog 23-24 Sept (clashes with Milland Southern Enduro)

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

That's a lot of driving

[weeksy]

That's a lot of driving

LOL mate that's less than 50% of the world next year in terms of driving. We've also got the Pearce Cycles events and then Southern Enduro. Both won't be much less in the way of driving... but this is his big chance, so we're taking it with both hands.

[weeksy]

Well that's the family weekend away booked LOL a nice little cottage in Fort Willam for summer

[weeksy]

and a long weekend in Glencoe booked too

[Mr Moofo]

Have you got good waterproofs?

[Count Steer]

and a long weekend in Glencoe booked too

Take midge spray! (I guess it depends which part of summer, but, when we camped there it was like the gathering of the clans for flying things ).

[weeksy]

Have you got good waterproofs?

Yeah mostly... i'm hoping the August in Glencoe has a chance of being weather friendly... but May in Fort William, i'm just hoping not to drown.

The great part though is that the World Championships are at Fort William next year in Aug, so the May national date will have every superstar pro and their dog all racing and practicing. It should be absolutely epic for the lad. Obviously he can't race the Worlds as it's invite/ranking based and he's too young anyway. But this will be cracking exposure for him to that environment.