Just got word that Matt and Chritian finished third in the Elite men's pairs race. Full report and pics now live thanks to Matt and Rob Crayton.
Both the guys were on ASRs and running the Kenda Karma/Small Block tyres - apparantly they hooked up great on the one dry day the UK has had this year!
"After a week of heavy rain I wasn’t looking forward to racing in six hours of mud but when we turned up on the Sunday I couldn’t believe how dry the place was, even the water splash was a bit of a damp squib.
We set up at the far end of the paddock with the Yeti easy-up which dwarfed all the fishing brollies and makeshift awning to keep kit dry; the bloke next to us was well chuffed that he was going to get some free shelter just in case the forecast wasn’t right and it rained before 4pm.
Christian drew the short straw for the run (thank god) and finished it in a very respectable time and way faster than I would have.
Our plan was to do double laps and we’d already been joking around about who would get the fastest Yeti lap and with Christians second lap coming in at a blistering 0:25:21 I was starting to worry he’d already done it !! As the battle raged on I slipped into the lead of the times battle but amazingly when we checked the time after the event we’d both clocked a 0:24:57 so it was a tie.
For those of you who’ve ridden the course as part of the Enduro Six or SITS the organisers have ploughed a lot of money into making the course more resilient to the elements, they’ve dug out and hard cored the trails through blue bell woods and a couple of other places. Personally I don’t think much thought has been put into building the corners on these sections but as the race carried on natural berms started to appear and track just got faster and faster so be the end it rode well.
All in all it was a cracking race, we had some good banter with our fellow Yeti riders on the trail and getting 3rd place was the icing on the cake.
I’m taking a few days off the old bike and having a play on the local climbing wall and will get back into some steady mile before going to the Pyrenees with a couple of friends training to do an Ironman (mad fools).I believe the next event for the Yeti team is round two of the British Mountain Bike Series where our two Expert riders Luke and Christian will be going head to head, that should be interesting ;)."
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