Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Bikes!!!!

Called the ASR 5. Comes in Carbon or Alloy. 5inches of travel.





Oh yeah.... So many options... UNREAL!

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Big weekend of Mountainbikes part2

Sunday... FTF winter Series Round 4. Officer.
Final round of the series, with a 4th, 1st and 2nd I had to go. Been a while since I've finished an XC series.
The weather on saturday was ugly and sunday wasn't looking any better. And the rain didn't hold back. Cold and wet was the order of the day. With a minimal turnout for A grade it was a matter of getting around and hoping the 8 hours of saturday Epix riding wouldn't slow me down too much.
With Big George, joel and i on the startline we had went with the No Warmup and No Clipping in till the gun goes off rules. Seemed to work for me. Stunned into life up the first fireroad I followed joel around for part of the first lap before taking the lead and slip sliding my way around the park...




Early on in the race, clean...

Half waydone?? still kinda clean so maybe not....
As the race went on i lost the rear brake, over shooting a corner or two and finding the rough i realised it was metal on metal. oh well, along with my rear tyre I was relying on skills to keep me moving...

The Side knobs grip, you just have to lean it over there....

In the end I stayed in first. Covered in mud and loving it.

Finished! Mud times. RIP rear pads, front pads and bottom bracket...




Series Winner!! Dare I say one of the Best Trophys I've got...

Big weekend of Mountainbikes part1

Saturday, Epix... From Ringwood to St Andrews on the trails. My day started at 6:30am as i rode from eltham out to Ringwood for the start of the ride. In typical Epix fashion we had all weather combos. My favorite was the soaking rain that turned to hail and created a river down the trail we were riding..

Chose to ride the ARC as it was already dirty. Plenty of monos, log jumps and drifting to be done...
Not many photos taken by me cause of the rain but i got this one of Bellie..

and one of Matt...



Safe to say it was an awesome ride. Plenty of good times, good trail and a beer to finish it all off.

Checkout the EPIX blog for all the photos....


Monday, September 7, 2009

Winner!!

OnYa Mate!! #1...

I didn't make the trip upto Canberra so to keep it interesting I got some new parts for the Carbon ASR....2010 Fox, Elixir CR Mag and White Pedals.... Awesome
Staying in melb over the Worlds weekend left me with some time to do some service work... The DH9 is now ready for new bearings, should get rid of that klunk noise too.

And finally, since my Myotherapist says digging is good for my back, a few more turns have taken shape...