THE WRAP FROM THE ENDURO SUPER SERIES

Well what an awesome start to the year!

I have had a great series in The Tailwind Promotions enduro summer series supported by Maxxis! The first two races were relative incident free for me but, when I returned home from the second race I found a serious failure in the rear mount on my Niner sir

so with race 3 and 4 still ahead of me, turned to my friend in bikes Shannon AKA Koiled Imports to rescue me with a bike suitable for the remainder of the series - insert a sweet Ti SS....

picking the bike up only few days before the race and riding it once was not maybe the best idea...


The outcome of Race 3 ?


A good race a great bike, but a few drive line issues meant I finished 4th. Ok so this was still a good result but with the desire to win the series overall I knew I to sort my shit out and have a cracking last race...


Enter Race 4!


With the knowledge I needed to finish the race, but also with a strong desire to finish well I thought, (THOUGHT been the operative word in this circumstance) I had corrected the drive line issues...


This was not to be the case. 1st lap I think I dropped my chain 4 times. Rolling into the pits explaining the problem to Shannon his first reaction was to say TAKE THE EON and make sure u sort out the seat post height as you’ll be riding it for the rest of the day ...... My reaction.....(OK and then bloody hell) in a VERY small voice...

I have to say what an awesome bike to ride for the next 6 hours!

The rest do the race was incident free apart from one episode where I needed to put my body between bike and the ground for the briefest moment.


The Finish?

A respectable 3rd place and with the confidence on knowing I had won the overall series...

Last Friday Night Tailwind Promotions held there awards night the Kookaburra Cafe a local venue in Paddington, as I have already said... it’s has been an awesome start to the year...............

Enduro Super Series Race 2

With nearly a week of dry weather leading into this race, I think we all hoped for dry-ish race. This was not to be the case. I found the going harder than the previous 4 hour when more rain had occurred leading into the previous event. About an hour into the race we had some heavy rain right across the course. The result of this was, making a damp track even wetter and very difficult to ride some sections. With a bit more competition in the SS class than last race with likes of the Matt DOG racing I knew it was going to be a tough race...

Combined with a crash on the second lap and losing some time and remembering some advice from Matt DOG (insert link to blog) following the first race, saw me running most of the difficult sections for the reminder of the race. Knowing that Matt DOG, Anthony and Peter were all ahead of me at this stage it was a case of putting my head down and been consistent.

The removal of the switch backs towards the end of the race was a gladly welcomed by just about everyone. I think?

A bit of bad luck to Pete with flat tyres towards the end of the race resulted in a bit of good luck to me seeing me finish in 3rd place. As a few people have already mentioned it was a great day with good people and one I enjoyed.

Great racing by EVERYONE and well done to Shannon, Sophia, Rach, Dog, Prof and especially TR who made his return to MTB racing following a break in a few meanings of the word. Lastly thanks for all the fantastic support from Kirsty and everyone else in the pits who helped out.