Ramps Skate Park is situated in a little Welsh town called Llanelli and has been a huge sucsess since being taken over a few years back by Adam Williams (Dirt Wars UK Head Judge and Ex Rose Bikes pro freestyle MTB rider). Not only does Ramps have an awesome Skate Park it also has a Dirt Park under development on the huge chunk of land next to the indoor and outdoor park and that’s where the Rose Bikes Dirt Wars FMB Series Round 4 went off on the 5th of August.
Saturday saw quite a few of the riders turn up for practice and also to help do the final changes to the course ready for Sundays round 4 of the series. After a few hours of raking and whacking the landing the jumps were good to go and the riders started to ride them in. With the sun going down and the course all ridden in it was all set and ready for the morning.
Sunday morning the riders hit the course as the crowd started to grow and all the locals came out to see what all the noise was and what was going on, all had smiles on their faces and made the usual “Woooo” noises as the riders started to go upside down and spinning through the air with their 360’s.
With all the practice out the way we decided to run Qualifiers/Seeding with all the riders together instead of the usual Open first then Pro after as this seems to push the Open riders on as it feels like their competing against the Pro’s. The Open riders were throwing out Tyre Grabs, Tuck No-Handers, Barspins and the occasional 360 attempt whilst the Big Guns were putting down 360 Tailwhips, 360 Double Barspins, Front Flips, Flip Tucks.
With all the riders having taken their 3 runs the Open and Pro scores were separated ready for the finals (The Finals were held separately).
Once all the riders had had lunch at the barbecue (Provided by Ramps Cafe) it was on to the finals and to see who could impress the judge panel of an Olympic BMX Athlete, an Ex Freestyle MTB Pro and a Pro Bmxer to walk away with the prizes for Open and Prize Cheques for Pro.
Saracen Bikes Sam Hodgson slipped back a little after qualifing in Second his runs seemed to slip a little as the FlipWhip didn't come out for the final but he did pull out a huge CandyBar Backflip sending our MC Dylan Stone Crazy..
The weekend was owned by the top 3 riders with 3rd place Smuggling Duds Freddy Pulman throwing out the Backflip Barspin to Tuck No Hander on the first followed by a Huge FrontFlip on the second but it wasn’t enough to shut down 2nd place Privateer Cam Crozier as he slayed a 360 Double Barspin on the first then a massive Double Tailwhip on the second.
1st Place went to GT Bikes Tom Isted and well deserved it was to with Tom launching a Double backflip on the first followed by a 3 Downside Whip on the second sending the welsh crowd mental and the riders alike.
1st Tom Isted
2nd Cam Crozier
3rd Freddy Pullman
4th Harry Campbell
5th Alex Cahill
We want to say a massive THANK YOU to Adam Williams and his team at Ramps Skate and Dirt Park for all the hard work they put in getting the course ready for the weekend and hosting the event, The riders, Spectators and especially all our Sponsors at DWUK Thanks again guys.
Round 5 will be at Rocket World in Henstridge Dorset on the 26th of August
See You There