The journey from small guy to teenager...

[weeksy]

Yeah tape will be plentiful.

He's got blue tint and clear.

Bit of a stop start that bridge. I also bet it's a lot steeper in reality

[weeksy]

Well that's the job done and the boy isn't broken for Champery. He did a day at FoD this weekend with me and Crust and came back happy and fast

The bike has a few little jobs for this week before it heads off, but in truth nothing major.

Last night was the bottom pivot bearings swapping they'd been on their way out and had a bit of play, so they were replaced when i got back from FoD.
I still noticed a bit of play in there yesterday after that, but that seems to be rear wheel bearings on the Bontrager hub. So that'll get done.

All 4 wheels will be checked for spoke tension and a quick check on things like brake pads etc. It should then be golden and ready to go for his testing at Champery. How it'll be by the time i get there on the Thurs afternoon is anyones guess

He'll be rocking his new TLD D4, but don't get too excited, it's exactly the same as his current one



It's what he likes and knows and it matches his kit... but it's a brand new one

We'll be sticking some new rubber on there before race, probably for seeding i think, but that's a job for when we're there.

[weeksy]

2 years or so of racing, we either need to retire or get more wardrobe space

IMG_20240729_175047 by steveweeks59, on Flickr

[Noggin]

Put a board on the wall and spread the numbers around the room!!

[Alan PBTD]

Does the boy have a website / FB page a couple of my suppliers would like to follow his / your efforts - they are mad keen downhill bikers

Ta v much - and I enjoy reading all about the efforts !

All the best - Alan

[weeksy]

The best place to see him and get updates is Instagram

@Weeksy08
https://www.instagram.com/weeksy08?igsh ... x0dmZoNA==

I'll get him to add his FB, Snapchat etc.

There's also a Vlog or two

Where it all began

[Weeksy08]

Does the boy have a website / FB page a couple of my suppliers would like to follow his / your efforts - they are mad keen downhill bikers

Ta v much - and I enjoy reading all about the efforts !

All the best - Alan

https://www.instagram.com/weeksy08?igsh ... _source=qr

https://www.tiktok.com/@weeksy08?_t=8oR0WZuBaaH&_r=1

https://youtube.com/@weeksy08?si=WMGOyZtSfugxWJr9

These are the main platforms I use and you can see all of my content there.

[Alan PBTD]

Cheers ta - they own my local timber merchants and snowboard / ski in Morzine every year and well as MTB.

And before u ask yes I will have a word - you know me better than not to ask...

ATB.

[weeksy]

Tech docs, programme/ schedule etc all here.

Also live timing link
https://my.raceresult.com/299976/

https://www.uec.ch/en/event/220/2024-ue ... mpionships

[Alan PBTD]

Excuse me, but is James actually having a go - proper like ? And if so have u shown Mum that video ? Bad enough just watching it - and we were trying to work out how they actually build the track - must have shares with a helicopter co.

[weeksy]

Excuse me, but is James actually having a go - proper like ? And if so have u shown Mum that video ? Bad enough just watching it - and we were trying to work out how they actually build the track - must have shares with a helicopter co.

Lol yes mate, he's actually racing in the European championships. He finished 13th 10 days ago in the GB national championships.

Tbh, he's ridden worse tracks.

[weeksy]

Stripping and sorting the Session today, it all started well, but then 2 upper pivot bearings were running very slow, so they were replaced.
Next he complained he'd dropped the chain, I checked the idler wheel, oh jeezy that's very dead, the teeth are barely present lol. The joy of having an idler you can't see well.

The Argotal he had on the back is completely dead, the knobbles are all falling off, so that's been replaced.

Forks, triples, headset etc all checked, cleaned, greased as well as all pivots and bearings.

He's hammered this thing for sure.

So it's ready to roll again and some bits ordered up.

Shock is booked in with TFTUNED next Tues so need to get that shipped out.

[weeksy]

This gives a good idea of what they were up to after racing.

Sacha is a junior WC racer and they're now good mates, along with her brother. The other 2 are lads we've known from the paddock for a few years now

[Count Steer]

This gives a good idea of what they were up to after racing.

Sacha is a junior WC racer and they're now good mates, along with her brother. The other 2 are lads we've known from the paddock for a few years now

Great vid. Who edited that?

[weeksy]

This gives a good idea of what they were up to after racing.

Sacha is a junior WC racer and they're now good mates, along with her brother. The other 2 are lads we've known from the paddock for a few years now

Great vid. Who edited that?

Sacha the girl in vid. The boy is just finishing making his one. I'll link it up when it's done

[Dodgy69]

Great to see the kiddos having a fun time.

[weeksy]

Yesterday he was out coaching for 4 hours with Katy. They were messing about on GBU at the end of each fast run on a race track and one of them he was pulling whips and lost a pedal/foot....

[weeksy]

The Vlog is upon us

[weeksy]

It's been kind of an irritating time at the moment. The hand from Morzine still isn't 100% so i've basically been a van driver for the lad in the last week rather than a rider. He was at Rogate with mates on Sunday and then yesterday was Ponty with another mate. So he's getting plenty of time in on the bike, he's out on Weds with Katy and then we're off racing again this weekend. 

Which brings us nicely back onto the Trek Session.

If you recall we've been blowing through shock bushings in a fairly alarming rate at times. So the shock was sent off to the lovely people at TFTuned who're supporting him and the team this year thanks to Ruth and Katy. 

Just been chatting with the Tech Guy Mike about his shock and sadly it's seen better days, the shock body is damaged and marked up a bit more than they'd usually be happy with. Sadly the part is due "next year" lol. So they don't have a spare lying about either. It'll get put back together and after a fair bit of discussion on options the shock will end up at the spare. 

His current shock is off a 2024 Session from a mate which we bought as a spare. 



https://northwestbicycle.com/products/r ... h942777-01

This shows the top mount, rather than the standard bushing/spacer. It's thought of as being far more durable (especially with LLUMax bearings installed).

The standard shock is showing wear on the eyelet, so the recommendation from TFTuned is to keep the 23 shock as the spare and run the later 24 model as the everyday shock. Apart from the fact that we've used a little bit of 'mmmmm' and 'hows' that?' to get it setup, there's no real downside to this shock, but it does mean we may now have a bit of a play with this.  Of course TFTuned could dial that one in for us, but that means getting it out of the bike and off to them, which as we've got some racing coming up for a few weekends means we'll just have to wing it for now.

[weeksy]

The boy had his first go on Dirt Jumps.

He got a DMR Sect last year but in truth it's not been used more than 4 times at the local pump track. Katy had an idea to work on some jumping so he went and hit the DJ stuff with her.