2008 Race Dates T B C

[ace]

GO TO the last Page for the 2009 chatter,
Just changed the title, first few pages are 2008 stuff.
Ace



Ok loads of dates in and confirmed and posted in the EVENTS CALENDAR click on the heading above to have a look, will add more as they come in. Also if anyone has any other comp dates but cant post them let me or dirtydave know and someone will do it. Now most of the dates are DH, which is what i do, let us know about Dirt, XC or Singlespeed events.

P S check the event sites as things/dates can change and i might have wrong dates etc etc.

ukbikepark.com........dragondownhill.co.uk........ .............................nps4x.com
12/13 April .............. 5 / 6 April @ cwm carn.................................20 April @Chicksands
10 / 11 May .............. 10 / 11 May @ Gethin..................................17 May @Bridgnorth
31may / 1 June ........ 21 / 22 June @ Rheola................................18 May @Bridgnorth Nat Champs
12 / 13 July...............12/13July Welsh champs @ Mynydd Du..........15 June @ TBC
6 / 7 September...... 6 / 7 September @ Mountain Ash................12 / 13 July @ Redhill
4 / 5 October ........ 11 / 12 October @ venue TBC.........................16/ 17 August @ Uk bike park

And yes both of these support Hardtail,

[Avril]

damm these desisions

the dragons tracks are my favourite but i do need to support UK bike park as my local series

better speak to boin as he is my HT racing teacher

[ace]

Bit of a hard choice, go with what you can do. I plan to do the dragons and do some of the Bikepark. It comes down to cost, and it would be hard to do them all ( be nice though ) . Did get to check out your round 2 and it looked good, had a chat with ben at the gap jump and matt the timing man.
Matt always makes me laugh, did you know he had a complaint at round 2, someone questioned his timing gear, " why do think its wrong " said matt, " well it must be wrong i got beaten by hardtails " said the slow rider, at this point someone else butted in and said " wow beaten by hardtails they must really know how to ride there bikes." complaint killed and honour restored.
it made me laugh and matt was pissing himself when he told me.

[ace]

Ok some more Race dates for those of you up North. These are for the winter mini series by www.descendhamsterley.co.uk
15 / 16 December.
12 / 13 January.
9 / 10 Febuary.

[ace]

A few more race dates way up north in Scotland go to www.alpinebikes.co.uk for more details, Saturday practice, Sunday am Practice pm Racing, only 1 timed run as it gets dark very early up there.
January 26/27.
Febuary 23/24.
March 22/23.

[steve]

Is anyone heading up to do the alpine bikes series then? Or down for those of us north of the borders?

[ace]

Some more winter dates/uplift days down in the Somerset area. No HT cat listed, but i will work on it for RD 2 Ashcombe. I help out with the tracks and taping as its near me, and have talked about a HT cat, might get Dave to agree to one, anyway check out naccevents.co.uk for more info.
Dec 23 Avill Ball track, Onabike cup winter Rd 1.
Jan TBA uplift day.
Jan TBA Ashcombe track winter Rd 2 ( near Torquay ish ).
Feb 3 Birds Hill track @ coombe Syd winter Rd 3.
Mar 9 Avill Ball winter Rd 4.
Mar 30 Uplift day TBA.
April 5 Uplift day Combe syd NPS track.
April 6 Combe syd winter Rd 5 ( final ).
April 20 Uplift Day TBA.
If you do come i advise you bring spare tyres ( spikes or swamp things ) as birds hill and avill ball are newish tracks ( loads of topsoil ) and if its raining they can be a Mudfest.

[ace]

Due to a death in the event organiser's family and funeral, round 2 of the south west winter series is postponed. This was going to be at Ashcombe near Torquay. Check there site for info, try naccevents or south west series or try on a bike cup to get on it.
Our respects go out to Dave ( organiser ) and the race will be another day.

[ace]

While at Rheola the other week, i caught the tail end of someone else's chat with jason, and they asked what i was going to, which is when will the race dates be confirmed. Well it sounds like end of Feb early march as it all depends on what logging is going on at the chosen venue's, so they all have to sit down and sort out what forest is safe to use and when, just keep dropping in to the dragon site for info. Hopefully the FARM will be back on for this year ( end of season race there last year ) and if it's dry that one will just be nuts, the only DH track i know with an 8 pack in it !

[ace]

OK heres the Dragon race dates for 2008.
Rd 1 5/6 April @ Cwm carn.
Rd 2 10/11 May @ Gethin.
Rd 3 21/22 June @ Rheola.
Welsh champs 12/13 July @ Mynydd Du.
Rd 4 6/7 September @ Mountain Ash.
Rd 5 11/12 Oct, Venue TBC.