We normally start our series off at Chicksands Bike Park in Bedfordshire due to the fact their the smallest jumps on our series and its also the only venue we use with real Dirt take offs and not wooden kickers, This usually eases the riders into the coming series and gives us a good platform to start the series. This year things had to change a little bit as dates with other venues couldn't be met so we had to start the series at Radical Bike Park and take Chicky as our second round. This really did not cause any problems for the riders as they all still went all out and pulled some banger tricks out of their trickbags.
As always our Open riders lined up on the start and started to drop for their seeding runs, with a few new faces chucked into the mix it was clear the other riders were waiting to see what the new guys had to throw down.
With the weather being a bit shady with a large chance of rain the riders were told by the judges to make sure they got at least one decent run in to make sure they had a score incase the rain came in and we had to use seeding results for the final results.
With flips, 360’s 360 barspins being thrown down we could see the riders had taken onboard what we had said about getting a decent run in.
After 3 runs each the Seeding results were as follows.
1st Joe Simkins
2nd Harry Gascoyne
3rd Rhys Pryce Griffiths
4th Harry Bolton
5th Finley Davies
6th Darren Eastall
7th Aiden McMillan
8th Larn Baldwin
9th Michael Parfit
10th Fin Evans
Competing with an injury from qualifications Ns/Joystick rider Zac Rainbow managed an awesome 4th place run with a Backflip Barspin, Backflip Table and a Huge Frontflip to finish but this was not going to put a dampener on 3rd place Saracen/Grinder rider Alex Cahill putting in a run of a Barspin, Backflip Barspin, 360 Down Whip and a Double Truck Driver to finish.
2nd place went to Dirt Wars Golden Boy (Most decorated DWUK athlete in the 10 series history) Corsair/Smuggling Duds rider Freddy Pulman with an outstanding run of a Tailwhip, 360 Tailwhip, 360 Barspin and a huge Frontflip Tuck No Hander on the last. Unfortunately for Freddy Tom Isted was fresh off a second place win at Bike Days and wanted the win at round 2 throwing down a huge run of a Backflip on the tiny set up jump, Backflip tuck on the second, 360 Downwhip on the third and a Backflip Tailwhip on the last. Two of the 3 runs of Tom’s had Cashroll’s on the last but crashed out, he did however pull one after 2 attempts once the comp was run. Well done dude!!!
1st Tom Isted Gt Bikes/Fox Europe
2nd Freddy Pulman Corsair/Smuggling Duds
3rd Alex Cahill Saracen/Grinder
4th Zac Rainbow Ns/Joystick
5th Sam Hodgson Saracen/Madison
6th Cam Crozier Privateer Rider
7th Harry Campbell Rose/Smuggling Duds
8th Daniel Stewart Kona Bikes
9th Joe Aldridge Chromag/Letsavew
10th Ali Dunn Atomlab/Tri Uk
Through out this years series we are also hosting a Best Trick contest sponsored by Bike Chain Ricci/Team Mt3 which is taken from all riders runs. Normally we would have the little ripper Kolby to hand out the medal but he was unavailable for round two so it was judged by our MC Dylan Stone choosing Kona Bikes Daniel Stewart for his Disco Pendulum Can Can. We are sure Kolby would approve…
Photos: Archie Bromfield
The next round is at the Malverns festival on the 14th to 16th of June (Comp day is the 15th with practice on the 14th and a jam on the 16th). You can either buy a weekend pass and have all 3 days at the festival (you can use any of the trails at the festival so bring a enduro or DH bike if thats also your thing) or you can buy a day pass for the Saturday (comp day) where you will get practice then seeding then finals then have to leave the site after podiums before the big saturday night party starts. You can get your tickets to the event here www.malvernsclassic.com by hitting the Buy Tickets tab or you can pay on the day at the door for a larger fee.
Full details will be up on the website on Monday the 3rd of June.