This past weekend we did alot of riding, and I'm definitely not complaining! On Saturday I met up with Jonty and Kyle to ride some DH at Giba gorge and shoot some photees with Lloyd. We played around on the big table in the quarry and got some sweet air. Later that afternoon I put the DH rig away and pulled out the bike bike to try the new dirt jump park at Giba. Those things were pretty hard to get through, the lips are really steep so you gotta carry loads of speed between the jumps which was harder on a longer wheel base bike, coz I saw those bmxers making it through with no problems at all. I've gotta true my rear wheel later today...
On Sunday I raced the Maverick Super D event. The course was really hard in the beginning, it started with a steep climb that eventually worked it's way towards some nice fast flowing single track. It was just under 5 km's long so my Morewood Ndiza was the weapon of choice for the day. The race format was very similar to a 4X event, the first two riders made it through to the next round. I won the first 2 heats I was in, then came third in the 3rd heat after a scary crash that left me with a few roasties. The next heat I had to finish in the top 4 to move through to the finals, which I manged to do. I just didn't have the energy to keep up with the pace the guys set at the beginning of the final so I just had fun and enjoyed the single track! the cross country boys dominated the event taking the first two positions and Pat Morewood schooled all of us to finish third, don't believe these guys when they say "I'm not that fit"! I finished 6th for the day,was happy with that coz the track was really awesome.
- Thanks to Lloyd Ramsay for the pic
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