June 2009

Track News
This update is a nice little multimedia one, with lots of pretty pictures of fun stuff!

Firstly, Aston Hill

I rode there on the last Wednesday in May, nice little evening session. The track was a bit wet in places from epic rain on Tuesday, but it was still good.



There's a set of three new jumps at the top of the hill, just along the end of the push path, these are two of the bigger ones.

I'm not quite sure what the new jumps are for, maybe just a bit of fun, but they do continue on a tiny bit as seen by this corner/rut maybe join the black/red run.

This is a new section on the DH4, after the big super chute jump thing, it makes this corner much easier to take. You can see the new DUBlack in the distance above the DH4's corner.



The DUBlack is also progressing quite nicely, it looks quite tough.

AND NOW.......................

THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...............

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CANNOCK CHASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES, it's finally been ridden, Chase Trails is.....................awesome!! It reminded me of a mini Les Gets. (the weather was boiling too!)
There's sooooo many different tracks to ride, and they all interweve and have different routes to take which is very cool!

Alot of the ones I did were quite fast and had lots of good drops/long jumps to do. You could get alot of speed on them.

There was alot of stuff I didn't try, mainly because it looked very scary!


This AWWWWESOME (combo) drop was on one of the black run routes, right at the end. It dropped down onto a really steep hill and onto the wicked tabletop seen below. This was my favourite track, for these two bits at the end. The track itself is actually very fun too, quite fast!


This cool bit of northshore was one of the scary things I Disn't do. It did look really good though. The drop is a bit of a step down and the shore itself was really well built!


This gap jump here was pretty lethal looking, the landings down kind of in line with the ATX.

This BIG gap jump looked awesome but uber scary!


eep!

Finally, here's a picture of one of the big doubles at the end of one of the tracks. HUGE GAP!

Rider News

Bulla seems to be getting faster... ish. He is also playing far too much PS3, but seeing as the outdoors makes him ill at the mo, it seems reasonable Boo hay fever!

Bike News

The Onza's DMR Simple Tension Seeker is broke and DMR are somewhat unresponsive about helping me get spare parts for it. I'm either going to persevere or look into a different tensioner, one which I don't have to drill out to fit my hubs!

The ATX is still running ok; gears need tuning, forks need a definate service and i've lost a crank bolt (it was a cool red one)

General News

Cannock Chase is ace!

Bulla turned 20 during May
The weather is nice, but hay fever isn't
Bulla