European championships DH @weeksy08 racing adventure.

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I only caught the latter half of the run. (Started watching early on and almost estimated very accurately when he'd be on).
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Count Steer wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 4:19 pm I only caught the latter half of the run. (Started watching early on and almost estimated very accurately when he'd be on).
I had my eyes closed 😁😁😁😁
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Skub wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 5:58 pm
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Poetry in motion. 8-)
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That looked pretty committed. :thumbup:

Good shot of that final bend into the finish line...bit of drifting going on?

Love the synchronised 'Allez!' from the two girls as he entered the gloomy bit. :D
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Count Steer wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:38 pm That looked pretty committed. :thumbup:

Good shot of that final bend into the finish line...bit of drifting going on?

Love the synchronised 'Allez!' from the two girls as he entered the gloomy bit. :D
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So, what happened? Did he set a time/get a placing or was the comment on YouTube about a missed sector timing right? I'm a bit puzzled. :eh:
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Massive Congratulations ! Up few levels from a few years ago - when pit boarding for Bevan and waiting for him to come round.. but the same ish in principal ! - but didn't feel the need to throw up...
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 12:25 pm So, what happened? Did he set a time/get a placing or was the comment on YouTube about a missed sector timing right? I'm a bit puzzled. :eh:
I have no idea what comment you're on about mate sorry.
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weeksy wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:05 am
Count Steer wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 12:25 pm So, what happened? Did he set a time/get a placing or was the comment on YouTube about a missed sector timing right? I'm a bit puzzled. :eh:
I have no idea what comment you're on about mate sorry.
Alongside the live footage there were comments eg from Isaac. One said Weeksy08 missed a timing gate or something + I couldn't see him on the published results, but I only found 4 categories - Elite, U19 × Male and Female.
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Ah. Missed that little detour last time.
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I'll just leave this here..........😂😂😂

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MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:54 pm I'll just leave this here..........😂😂😂

At least he can just buy the chin bar ....
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We've had an interesting week up to now.

The boy has been riding with a bunch of mates (well they are now) including 2 junior WC racers. It's been an absolute blast it seems.

We had another shock bushings issue which is really irritating me now, so I've been chatting with Ruth at TFTUNED on thoughts, we've got a few things to try when back. But chatting to others in paddock, this isn't uncommon on Sessions

So what we've done for now is fit what was at the time a brand new shock, it was taken off a new 24, it has a completely different mount with a big housing and bearing top end. It's been golden for 3 days now 

We've had some loose spokes but nothing major and a few sets of brake pads. New ones in tonight for tomorrows last riding day.

I've been nursing a sore hand which I'm happy to say isn't causing me too many problems. Still been out riding just as well/badly as usual.

We've had meals Sat next to Pros, we've had broken bones and plaster for mates, broken bikes, but it's been pretty much epic here. 
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Making memories. 8-)
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Well we finally made it home from what was the best holiday ever. Holiday in a very loose term of course.

The first few days was stressful beyond words, especially after walking the track which really didn't help. But the actual race weekend went smoothly in truth. There was only the shock bushings that was an issue. (And not brining enough footwear for myself)

The riding was a bit meh for me at times, the tracks are just not that brilliant at my level of skill, but honestly we have some excellent riding, I'm not good enough to hit the blacks (mostly, I did a few though) and the rest are pretty battered. But things like Serpentine were just ace fun. Ace was the bottom of Pleny Black. 

So it's time to completely pull the Session apart as I've still got a few days off work yet as the boy has coaching with Katy this week. All bearings will need checking, brakes sorting and deffo some spoke tension sorting. 

The lad formed some excellent friendships and even a bit of love interest lol. It deffo seems to have ticked all the boxes we'd hoped. 

We're all a bit fried now, so really looking forward to getting the tools out and playing with all the bikes and fettling them.