Alansbmx Racing

Desire and commitment

Hiya all, well its been a hectic few days coaching with the BCF talent team guys. We worked in conjunction with some road/track specialists. There was around 30 riders, 9 bmx and the rest young fast road and track riders..

We took them to Harworth on Thursday and after some familarisation on the bmx bikes the track cyclists did a great job on the track. I was really impressed. They have heaps of power. We just worked on loosening them up a little, some them could be really good bmxers.

On the Friday we went to the Velodrome in Manchester and it was the their turn to show us the way. It was strange to ride a bike with no gears, no brakes and a fixed wheel around an extremely banked circuit. Ive never done it before but it was awesome. Thanks to Tim Buckle for that..

Arran and Deaksy held our team banner high. (if Deaksy could just concentrate on the riding more and not on the ladies!!) The guys all did a great job and went through a demanding training session. We also had talks from bmx legend Jamie Staff and World champion track cyclist Rob Hayles on Friday about their training and motivation.It was an eye opener for the bmxers and i think set a benchmark for the desire and commitment these guys will have to show if they really want to be champions.
I thank our road colleagues and Jez Hayes for making this possible, overall it was an insprising few days.
My new bike
Okay heres my new Supercross in metallic Green, its a peach. I didnt like the colour but after we put on the white rims and white forks it looks ace..I aim to put it on the gate for many a masters final next season. Meantime iam going to be riding some skateparks over the winter to work on my skills.

SPONSORSHIP
The whole sponsorship deal is now sorted but i will leave it to Alan to make the announcement that you already know. Safe to say all on the main team are going to have a bumper 2007.

Keep checking my raceskills blog for more updates and riding tips..

see ya Mike.

posted by Mike Pardon @ 6:50 pm