ALPINE BIKES WINTER SERIES ROUND 2
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sponsored by Alpine Bikes, Buff, Trek, Fox clothing and Borderline Events
After the unfortunate cancellation of round 1, Round 2 of the Alpine bikes winter Series race took place at the weekend. As the name suggests it’s a winter race and the weather definitely kept it’s end of the bargain, with an overnight low of -15 and -7 showing on my car on Sunday morning.
The track at first appeared to be a bit sketchy and some big names decided that rather than risk a pre season injury, they’d watch from the comfort of the side. As the end results proved, the brave would win spectacularly. Total entries for the event were over 300 but only 203 raced, which at least kept proceedings a bit shorter.
Don’t get us wrong, there were some quite spectacular crashes, and our local A & E department will undoubtedly have been grumbling about the number of biking injuries (one of the consultants thinks mountain biking should be banned), but at least we’re not dying of heart attacks on our couches!
As I say some of the winners did it with great style.
Lewis Buchannan, his first ride as a junior goes and beats the field by 14 seconds on a borrowed bike from us. Lewis beat all comers last year, and looks set to do it again this year – if you want to sponsor a highly talented rider, this is your chance. He’s a great ambassador for the sport and is worthy of the attention.
Lewis’ 14 second gap is impressive, but Alpine Bikes Sponsored rider, Joe Connell took a further 3 seconds from that, taking the youth win by 17 seconds over Stuart Wilcox with Gregor Notman in 3rd. Who says there was no grip to exploit out there? As I say victory was for the brave (or insane).
Juvenille class was won by Niall Morrison, Dan Farley in 2nd place with Frazer McCubbing in 3rd.
The hardtail category (big respect to these guys, especially on an icy course) was won by Steve Larking with Stuart Black in second place and taking 3rd spot on the podium was Tom Cleave (who’s forks snapped in practice and were replaced by us overnight to keep him riding).
Masters category was won by Daz Westwood, Sion Jones in 2nd place just in front of Erland Mowat in 3rd.
In the vets class Pete Hoggan was the victor over Stevie Boyd with Seb Ramsay in 3rd.
Unfortunately for Harriet Latchem riding in a field of one meant all she had to do was get down the hill to win the Elite women’s, but her time did put some men to shame, which has got to be some consolation.
Bex Reilly took the women’s win,from Angela Coates with Mairi Gillis in 3rd. Mairi was riding her new BOS Idyll forks for the first time in anger and reckons they were awesome, which is good as we sold them to her! Her view on the forks when she came in was “They’re amazing”.
In expert riders, it was Alasdair Maclennan with the second fastest time of the day that took the win over Dale Russell with Eliot Machin in 3rd place.
It was a fantastic day, and again thanks to the following sponsors:
BUFF
FOX CLOTHING
TREK BIKES
And of course, BORDERLINE EVENTS, for organizing the whole thing and more importantly, getting the first round in at the pub on Saturday.
3 weeks till the next one, and we’re all hoping to have slightly better weather and more people down the hill.
Rob
Alpine Bikes
Innerleithen
After the unfortunate cancellation of round 1, Round 2 of the Alpine bikes winter Series race took place at the weekend. As the name suggests it’s a winter race and the weather definitely kept it’s end of the bargain, with an overnight low of -15 and -7 showing on my car on Sunday morning.
The track at first appeared to be a bit sketchy and some big names decided that rather than risk a pre season injury, they’d watch from the comfort of the side. As the end results proved, the brave would win spectacularly. Total entries for the event were over 300 but only 203 raced, which at least kept proceedings a bit shorter.
Don’t get us wrong, there were some quite spectacular crashes, and our local A & E department will undoubtedly have been grumbling about the number of biking injuries (one of the consultants thinks mountain biking should be banned), but at least we’re not dying of heart attacks on our couches!
As I say some of the winners did it with great style.
Lewis Buchannan, his first ride as a junior goes and beats the field by 14 seconds on a borrowed bike from us. Lewis beat all comers last year, and looks set to do it again this year – if you want to sponsor a highly talented rider, this is your chance. He’s a great ambassador for the sport and is worthy of the attention.
Lewis’ 14 second gap is impressive, but Alpine Bikes Sponsored rider, Joe Connell took a further 3 seconds from that, taking the youth win by 17 seconds over Stuart Wilcox with Gregor Notman in 3rd. Who says there was no grip to exploit out there? As I say victory was for the brave (or insane).
Juvenille class was won by Niall Morrison, Dan Farley in 2nd place with Frazer McCubbing in 3rd.
The hardtail category (big respect to these guys, especially on an icy course) was won by Steve Larking with Stuart Black in second place and taking 3rd spot on the podium was Tom Cleave (who’s forks snapped in practice and were replaced by us overnight to keep him riding).
Masters category was won by Daz Westwood, Sion Jones in 2nd place just in front of Erland Mowat in 3rd.
In the vets class Pete Hoggan was the victor over Stevie Boyd with Seb Ramsay in 3rd.
Unfortunately for Harriet Latchem riding in a field of one meant all she had to do was get down the hill to win the Elite women’s, but her time did put some men to shame, which has got to be some consolation.
Bex Reilly took the women’s win,from Angela Coates with Mairi Gillis in 3rd. Mairi was riding her new BOS Idyll forks for the first time in anger and reckons they were awesome, which is good as we sold them to her! Her view on the forks when she came in was “They’re amazing”.
In expert riders, it was Alasdair Maclennan with the second fastest time of the day that took the win over Dale Russell with Eliot Machin in 3rd place.
It was a fantastic day, and again thanks to the following sponsors:
BUFF
FOX CLOTHING
TREK BIKES
And of course, BORDERLINE EVENTS, for organizing the whole thing and more importantly, getting the first round in at the pub on Saturday.
3 weeks till the next one, and we’re all hoping to have slightly better weather and more people down the hill.
Rob
Alpine Bikes
Innerleithen
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