Monday, August 13, 2007
GYPO trails jam
Last week I headed up north a bit to hit up the GYPO trails jam. It's a cool place, it's really open so theres lots of riders go, I guess this way it kind of polices itself. There is a fun kiddies section to warm up on, lots of small jumps and berms, you can go round and round and round...without stopping! The mains were fun, mostly straight, quite short and steep. Not the sort of jumps I am used to but judge Mardy Williams said I was going high enough and slow enough, so I can't have been doing too bad. My favourite bit was a line not many seemed to be riding, but it looked good to me... a right hip into a berm then a transfer accross the next jump to the far right into another small berm, I loved it, great fun. The locals were hitting the first set up jumps faster and using all their speed to go sky high from there on. There was some really good riders, some nice tables, turndowns, 360's and even a flip mid section.
A good crowd of racers went along, Lee Bromfield left his clipped in kook image at home and ripped it up! Dan Clifford loving riding his bike as always. Tuffy boosting everything as normal. Fos had a massive grin when he got through the mains for the first time, then an even bigger one when son Dylan smoothed his way through on his skinny wheeled race bike. The kids rad!
Right at the end of the day, I over shot a set and had to jump off my bike. It launched off the next take off about 20ft high and landed right on the front wheel onto the rock hard trails..... no frame was going to stand a chance of surving that, sure enough I creased the down tube, so that was the end of my day and the end of my cromo dialled! I'll be riding a standard at the trails til Mike gets some frames in my size, as I don't want to do that to my ti race bike.
A few days later Shanaze and myself headed out to the UCI centre for a couple of days. The dutch team were also there and they allowed us to ride with them which was cool. We were way more confident on the 10m start hill this time, pedalling hard all the way down. I managed jump the 3rd straight pro section again, though it was bigger than I remembered!
A good crowd of racers went along, Lee Bromfield left his clipped in kook image at home and ripped it up! Dan Clifford loving riding his bike as always. Tuffy boosting everything as normal. Fos had a massive grin when he got through the mains for the first time, then an even bigger one when son Dylan smoothed his way through on his skinny wheeled race bike. The kids rad!
Right at the end of the day, I over shot a set and had to jump off my bike. It launched off the next take off about 20ft high and landed right on the front wheel onto the rock hard trails..... no frame was going to stand a chance of surving that, sure enough I creased the down tube, so that was the end of my day and the end of my cromo dialled! I'll be riding a standard at the trails til Mike gets some frames in my size, as I don't want to do that to my ti race bike.
A few days later Shanaze and myself headed out to the UCI centre for a couple of days. The dutch team were also there and they allowed us to ride with them which was cool. We were way more confident on the 10m start hill this time, pedalling hard all the way down. I managed jump the 3rd straight pro section again, though it was bigger than I remembered!
# posted by Joey : 8/13/2007
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