Porkies Report
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:16 pm
This race course was awesome. First off the conditions were PRIMO!!! Just a speck of dust on some sections, excellent traction everywhere and just enough moisture to make roots interesting on some side hill. Flagging was excellent, one off course excursion following young Mr Wilton who figured that we had missed a turn first (I was just trying to stay on two wheels at his pace).
The course itself was an excellent mix of fast stuff with some technical climbs and descents. I had the pleasure of mixing it up with some great riders and had some excellent back and forth a great laugh. Clipped a couple of trees about 10 km into the 2nd loop, wound up bear hugging a tree and hurt all over. Twisted my gimp knee at the same time and it stung for quite a while. All this made me go into lala mode, fortunately dirty boy caught me with about 1/3 of the loop left. This refocused me and because he was riding so smooth and fast I latched onto him and followed him home. Even followed his lines, the best one being the base of a crooked tree used as a launch pad up some rocky ledges. I was right behind and even though the line wasn't the straighten it was just so awesome to watch had to try it myself.
Overall the most fun I've had racing in a long time.
The FX was made for that course. So effortless to turn and keep momentum, found it a little more difficult to gain speed on the open lumpy climbs through those fields, by the second loop just concentrated first on finding a smooth line THEN accelerating. Bike was on the ground 4 times. One rad shroud destroyed (more money for miss cycle works, happy Birthday day, BTW) each time it started immediately, screwed up a technical uphill and couldn't shift down (because my legs were flailing about two feet behind the bike with my belly on the seat) held it WOT and abused the clutch for what seemed like a minute. No hint of steam!!!!!
This race was an absolute BLAST!
How was yours?
The course itself was an excellent mix of fast stuff with some technical climbs and descents. I had the pleasure of mixing it up with some great riders and had some excellent back and forth a great laugh. Clipped a couple of trees about 10 km into the 2nd loop, wound up bear hugging a tree and hurt all over. Twisted my gimp knee at the same time and it stung for quite a while. All this made me go into lala mode, fortunately dirty boy caught me with about 1/3 of the loop left. This refocused me and because he was riding so smooth and fast I latched onto him and followed him home. Even followed his lines, the best one being the base of a crooked tree used as a launch pad up some rocky ledges. I was right behind and even though the line wasn't the straighten it was just so awesome to watch had to try it myself.
Overall the most fun I've had racing in a long time.
The FX was made for that course. So effortless to turn and keep momentum, found it a little more difficult to gain speed on the open lumpy climbs through those fields, by the second loop just concentrated first on finding a smooth line THEN accelerating. Bike was on the ground 4 times. One rad shroud destroyed (more money for miss cycle works, happy Birthday day, BTW) each time it started immediately, screwed up a technical uphill and couldn't shift down (because my legs were flailing about two feet behind the bike with my belly on the seat) held it WOT and abused the clutch for what seemed like a minute. No hint of steam!!!!!
This race was an absolute BLAST!
How was yours?
great way to strain your neck and lose the camera. 
I didn't do too well but thought it was flagged and organized very well (even though I got lost a couple times) Lots of great people, lots of fun. Thanks to everyone who helped. I look forward to the next one. 
