Excellent weekend had, i had to work on Sat which was probably a good thing as it not only got me a day off this week to go to Fort William, but it was also DAMN hot so good not to have to get too sweaty until later.
Beer had while setting up the gazebo
IMG-20250712-WA0022 by
Steve Weeks, on Flickr
It was then straight into practice for the boy and his mate who we were looking after for the weekend as his parent couldn't make it. So i was spannering both bikes, but as they were both Sessions it was cool for me
Practice went mostly well, it was a completely new track and it got insanely blown out and dusty, so much that the boys had to give bigger gaps than they usually would otherwise they couldn't see. On one run the boy caught someone and stacked it into a tree through lack of vision, giving himself a dead leg in the process. But with a bit of a rest he was relatively OK.
We then headed out to Coleford for Pizza and kebab (way too much chili sauce !) and back for beers. It was a lovely evening so some bike chat and analysis of a mates golf swing was the order of the evening.
Sun brough practice which went pretty smoothly all round, our mate rarely hits a podium so was trying to pick up pace to get him to the pointy end.
They were chatting lots about line choices, what they were hopping/clearing.. He couldn't quite clear everything the boy was, but pretty much.
Run 1 saw them both come down happy enough, the boy was 2.98s clear at the front with a good run. Our mate came in P5 for run 1 and not exactly unhappy as his teammate was P3, but wanted better.
Lunch and banter with more mates who came to spectate and then back for run 2.
Our mate came down into P4 which was soooooo close.
The kid who was in P2 came down and was faster than his first run (he's a super fast BMXer) but didn't get past the boys time (just over 1s away) so by the time he crossed the line the boy was confirmed in P1 anyway. Sadly he didn't get quicker due to a corner he went high on the berm not having the same berm lol. But the targets for the day were 1. Race Win, then 2. Fastest time of the day.
He managed both goals and we're more than happy with that.
Today is stripping the bike down, cleaning, lubing and checking, sorting the TMD, checking headset, sorting chain and gearing. Getting a new rear 27.5 ordered as a spare and checking things like pads, rotors, clearances, pad rub etc.
After that it'll be cleaning the van, sorting all the kit in there, getting the 'catering' box all ready.
Weds we're off to Fort William for National Champs. The weather is looking somewhat dubious and 'Scottish' so we'll see how that goes
It'll be a tough one of course compared to an MIJ, but we'll do our best to have a bike and a rider that does as well as humanly possible.
Long weekend for sure, we're not back to lunchtime on Monday.
IMG_20250624_123247 by steveweeks59, on Flickr
IMG_20250716_221651 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20250717-WA0000 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20250717-WA0002 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
