Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Making your mind up
At the weekend I headed up to Sheffield for a day, got to ride the new and improved Rotherham track without the nasty cross wind there was last time I went. It was pretty fun, I like it all except the first straight! I'll post a vid later. Bailey and Fos turned up and were heading over to Brampton to check out the new play track over there, so I tagged along. After a 10min drive that turned into a 50min drive going round in circles, we finally arrived to see the place swarming with kids. It's great that it has that sort of impact on the locals. We had heared mixed reviews of the place but if you remember it's a play track and you do exactly that - play on it, then you'll have fun. I get excited about anywhere new to ride anyway. Half the track had short tall jumps, pretty good for learners as they are small jumps with more of a big jump feel to them. There was one longer jump, not that long, but it was quite tough as there was a big head wind and it was a fair bit longer than the jumps before it. Took me a few goes to pump enough to get over it as a bit more like trails style than race, so I wanted to do it without cranking inbetween. I got it good in the end, racering the first few and having fun boosting the last set. I'm sure you can boost them all without the head wind! The last two straights have several sets of lower doubles and a small rhythm.
Managed to get a day at the trails as well, but I broke my headset and had to steal Stu's longer cromo dialled. The trails were running super quick and I have to say the heavier bike felt lovely on the trails. I absolutely love my ti bike at the tracks and racing, but a bit of weight does feel nice at the trails. Maybe I should just eat some pies before hand. Anyway, I should have my new trails bike ready soon, an old Standard 125R (until Mike does another 21" Dialled cromo!), Steve put the BB in for me yesterday. Talking of Steve, he has a habit of building stupidly difficult lines at the trails, like putting a big peaky roller to pick up for right before a big hip, and then getting angry that he can't do it. (We don't even try). Check the video! haha.
Managed to get a day at the trails as well, but I broke my headset and had to steal Stu's longer cromo dialled. The trails were running super quick and I have to say the heavier bike felt lovely on the trails. I absolutely love my ti bike at the tracks and racing, but a bit of weight does feel nice at the trails. Maybe I should just eat some pies before hand. Anyway, I should have my new trails bike ready soon, an old Standard 125R (until Mike does another 21" Dialled cromo!), Steve put the BB in for me yesterday. Talking of Steve, he has a habit of building stupidly difficult lines at the trails, like putting a big peaky roller to pick up for right before a big hip, and then getting angry that he can't do it. (We don't even try). Check the video! haha.
# posted by Joey : 8/21/2007
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
