...without a hitch!

A new year sees the opening of a new timetrial course. For those of you hoping to be able to compare your times to last years course, im afraid the Forestry Commission saw fit to grub up a section and whitewash it with the new family xc route.

Andy and Adrian et al, have done a fantastic job with the route, at almost bang on 3 miles per lap (of which there are 2, GPS mapping possibly coming soon so you can go have a sneaky practice). Utilising pines network of singletrack, some fast fireroad sections, a section of the new family route and some gloopy slow stuff, theres a bit of everything on the new course.

Theres a good combination of fast and slow climbs as well as one nice little fast open descent, theres even some slow off camber turns which judging by the tyre tracks caused a few people to out brake themselves.

To summarise, new track, same old atmosphere and whitty banter, nothing too serious. Not enough Juniors or women..






















Oh and finally, an old balding downhiller came 5th...IN YOUR FACE!