5th September

Over the weekend I took a trip to the awesome country of Sweden. I was invited to ride In a round of the Swedish biketrial championship In Partille and In some shows at a massive retail park/shopping complex near Gothenburg.
The shows went really well, we had some great crowds all day and the weather was perfect. The organisers and local businesses were very pleased with the day. Thanks to Peter for the invite! www.peterbackgren.com

We woke up on competition day to a very miserable looking morning and the weather didn’t improve all day. The wet conditions made the competition very tough. Mud everywhere and slippery Ice like rocks made all the sections really hard and a few a bit scary in places!
I had a very poor first lap. I was trying to ride everything too clean and precise and I was trying every move the hard way, making my riding very smooth but inefficient in these conditions. On the second lap (when the heavens opened again) I made a good start and became a lot more relaxed. I decided not to worry about how my riding looked or whether I should take the hard or safer routes and just rode how I felt at each section. This paid off very well, on my second lap there were some sections that only me and the winner got through and my second lap score was the tied 3rd best, 3 behind 2nd. As my first was not great I finished the day In 5th place, 3 points behind 4th place finisher Aurelien Narses from France.
I have uploaded some pictures of the competition to the – Swedish Championship Gallery

Big thank you to Roger and Peter Backgren and to everyone else who made It a very enjoyable trip!
( – Aside from my car breaking down when leaving Stansted Airport and having to sign up to the AA at Midnight to get it repaired – Donations  to fix the hole in my wallet this created are very welcome!)

20th Augest

This weekend I was In Antwerp for round 3 of the UCI Trials World cup. Due to the UCI series not being my main focus this year and partly because of the cost of it, this was the 2nd and probably the last round I will do of the 5 round series.
This worked quite well for me as there was no reason for me to think about ‘the big picture’ I could just go there and ride my bike.
The whole event was great, run over 3 days with huge support from companies such as Volvo and Red Bull and the city of Antwerp. We were next to the main part of the City and combining this with Sunny 30+ weather we attracted large, supportive crowds.
I was riding well throughout the day, having some really good rides on difficult sections. I made too many odd mistakes during the competition on the easier sections and also had some observer decisions made against me which I didn’t feel were right, which made my overall score and result pretty poor, however as I said this result ‘didn’t matter’ so much and I do think this was the best I have ridden all year and has given me good motivation as I enter the final part of the season
I have uploaded a gallery of pictures from the competiton ( thanks mum :p) have a look and see what the Antwerp world cup was like.

I have also just added a gallery from my week In the Czech republic at Dressler camp. These are some great professional pictures from my friend and hero of the trials community Lukas Burianek. I hope you enjoy them, you get a great sense of what the event was like and how fun it was.

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It’s been a pretty special week or so for me. After doing a run of 9 days straight of shows, I was home for 1 day before I headed out to Italy to take part in the “Grand Prix Internazionale di Bike Trial Santal” – a special rules, invitational competition.
The organisers invited 5 Italian riders and 5 foreign riders.It was held in the centre of Viaggio, a very popular, seaside tourist spot. I took part in a warm up demo on the Saturday night to promote the event and the main competition was on the sunday evening.
It was huge, we had hundreds of spectators during the evening and lots of media about, loads of photographers and a TV crew. It was a very fast paced exciting comp a lot of fun to be part of. I finished In 5th which wasn’t too bad – It was more about the event itself rather than the result.

After being home for a day I got message Inviting me to ride at a small event called to GoodWood festival of Speed! They were holding a MTB trials event on the Thursday In the GAS arena along the Motorbike trials, Freestyle Motocross and BMX events and asked me to take part. There were 3 riders taking part and we had a course that went around the whole arena. 3 Timed sections then a race at the end. It was filmed live on the Big screen in the arena and we had hundreds of spectators watching and following us around. It was great to see so many people following us showing such an Interest In Biketrials. Even though the competition wasn’t anything too serious……..I still should of won Mr Doney! I was being a bit too sporting, slowing down during a section while a rider fixed a puncture – I went a bit too slow! I’m blaming this for loosing out on 1st (Sore loser, I know, Rematch next year?)

We had the Animal Bike Tour’s James Thorne and Trials Legend Martyn Ashton commentating, they did a great job and it was fun being Interviewed a few times during the comp. We had a full on podium ceremony, champagne spraying and Prize Money, the lot – I was presented my Medal by Eigo Sato, a freestyle motocross superstar who takes part in the Red Bull X fighters.

I wont be forgetting this day in a Hurry!