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BDS Rd.1 Combe Sydenham

BDS Rd.1- Combe Sydenham

On Thursday morning we left from my house to drive down to the first race of the year in the southwest of England. We finally arrived there in the evening, the weather was beautiful but there were no other racers to be seen! We parked up for the night, Dad made us some dinner and then we headed to bed after a long days travelling.

On Friday the other riders and teams started to show up and the pits started to take shape. I was lucky enough to do a bit of filming and interviewing for ITV West Country with Al Bond and Ronan Taylor which was a good laugh and a good experience.

Then right after we finished filming the interviews the rain started and I headed back to the camper for some cover! In the evening when the race stopped for a bit I headed up the hill to walk the track. The track looked like a lot of fun to ride despite there not being too many technical sections and I was looking forward to getting on my Zerode and getting my lines dialled in on Saturday.

Saturdays practice was pretty sweet, there were quite a few slick sections of the track so I threw my Intense Spike tires on and it was all good. The new jumps in the middle section added a bit more fun to practice, it was cool to have some more jumps on track than normal!

On Sunday the track began to dry up and I went back to dry tires for the race to get a bit more speed on the flatter sections of the track. My fresh new POC kit also arrived so I was stoked to bust out the new kit! Qualifying came around and I had pretty smooth run and came in 2nd which was pretty good as I knew where I could make up some time for finals in the afternoon.

In my finals the bike was working great but I made a couple of mistakes that cost me as ended up in 4th just 1.5 seconds off of winning! It was a good trip down to the first race of the year and my first race with my new bike and team! JC Here is the section of the ITV Westcountry which I featured in! - http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2012-04-13/mountain-bike-racers-head-to-exmoor/

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