Monthly Archives: June 2017

Pedalhounds Enduro – Round 3 – Aston Hill

Pedalhounds round 3 – Aston Hill - Bradley Hurr An early start (how every race day begins) and a nice sunny morning meant a pleasant drive to Aston Hill, the venue for round three of the Pedalhounds endure series. Known more as a downhill venue, it was going to be interesting to see what they…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoenix Bike Park – Adam Cavalla

MS&G Round 5 - Phoenix Bike Park - Adam Cavalla Due to the cows at Hadleigh Park, round 5 of Mud Sweat and Gears was instead held at Phoenix Cycleworks. Personally, I found this a welcome change as last time we visited Phoenix I really enjoyed it. A record 48 Hadleigh riders were entered so…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoenix Bike Park – Michael Milham

MS&G Round 5 - Phoenix Bike Park - Michael Milham So, we all rather unexpectedly found ourselves heading off to phoenix! Getting up seemed even earlier than normal but I still seemed to be one of the last to turn up for the morning race as I was greeted by the “Hadleigh Massive” on arrival!…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoenix Bike Park – Jonathan Stanford

Phoenix was my first MSG race.  Kevin Darragh has been training the Rookie Squad members for a race at Hadleigh Park, but the cows had other ideas so the race was moved to Phoenix Cycleworks in Suffolk.  (Photo Credit Kev Darragh) We arrived to find the club marquees set up and a large number of…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoniex Bike Park – Chris Dewson

MS&G Round 5 - Phoniex Bike Park My day started with arriving at Phoniex after carpooling with Jonathon Stanford (fellow rookie team member). After unloading my gear and finishing the HMTBC tents I went straight to sign on, and also helped Jonathon sign on. Once that was done it was time to carry on fueling…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoenix Bike Park – Mason Porter

We started the day with coaching covering jumps and pumping on the pump track at Phoenix bike-works because they don't have cows there. We had Daddy and Graham coaching us today, Daddy was telling us to start and Graham was at the other end.  Daddy had to keep telling me to ride up higher on…
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MS&G Round 5 – Phoenix Bike Park – Zoe Porter

I started today in the U12s coaching because i didn't want to be in a different group to the one daddy was coaching.  We did manuals, pumping and cornering on berms today.  I really enjoyed it and Daddy told me which bits to try and do and what not to as I was younger than…
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National Series – Round 4 – Dalby Forest

National Series Round 4 – Dalby Forest, Yorkshire - Robert Bates Preparation for this race started about 3 weeks ago with my training programme which was scheduled around revision for my AS exams which were taken over the last 4 weeks.  As we couldn’t book a hotel near to the course we decided to make…
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