Cheddar International
The venue was Cheddar, the event 2009 European championships rnd 13 & 14, the competitors Jenny Noble, Izzy Ferrada,Charlotte Green Luke Tamblyn and Alex Deakin.
What an awesome weekend the team had. Pictured above Luke Tamblyn ripping apart 17 - 24 on Saturday, one of the teams excellent results. 5th on Sunday. Tough class.
Jenny won every race on
Saturday and came an excellent 2nd on Sunday in her debut in euro racing.
Izzy was in superb form to take her maiden euro win on Saturday but a blowout and fall in the first moto on Sunday knocked her confidence, finished 4th but still an impressive performance.
Charlotte got pushed wide on the final straight on Saturday while challenging for 3rd and ended up 7th over the line. On Sunday after a bad gate she pulled back to 4th. Alex Deakin made the main on both days 7th on day 1 and 8th on day 2. Well done to the team and special thanks to Dave Alex Nigel and Steve for your help.
Vans Warner SPD Shoe
A long time in the works, but don't they look great, these pictures are taken from actual samples we have right now that our team will be trying out. Due to be released pre-Christmas.
Renthal bars
Oldskoolers amongst you will remember Renthal's last foray into BMX in the 80's when they sponsored the Ammaco Mongoose team. Anyhoo, Ison Distribution sent us a couple of pairs to try and these arent actually all that different from the originals. Luke and Jenny will be trying these out after Cheddar and we'll post some feedback here.
Peterborough rounds 5 + 6
It was really good to see Bradley Minns back at the nationals for the Peterborough double header and we understand he will be racing the rest of the season.Theweather forecast looked grim and overnight Friday it rained all night. Practice was very soggy but by lunchtime and with a dry morning the track had dried and firmed up. Through the motos the results where very promising for the team. Nothing worse than 3rd all afternoon.
And so to the finals and Jenny Noble rode
to a comfortable win in 10-12 girls on Saturday and an uncharacteristic 3rd on Sunday.
Bradly did a great job to get 4th in 13-15 cruiser on Saturday, went 1 better on Sunday with a 3rd. 8th in the 20" for Saturday and 7th on Sunday.
Izzy Ferrada took a tumble in the first turn when she was challenging for the lead and finished 8th on sat but much better on Sunday after leading for 1/2 the lap finished 3rd. She is going to win that class before long.
In the stacked 11 - 12 boys class Jack Clarke had a solid if uneventful weekend finishing 4th on Sat and an excellent 3rd on Sunday.
Jnr Female on Saturday saw Charlotte Green missing the gate, getting boxed on the 1st straight and recovering to come 3rd and on Sunday normal service was resumed with a gate to tape win.
Elite Male on day one saw Luke Tamblyn ride a great lap to 4th but on Sunday Luke had a run off with Dan White for the last place in the Final. Luke had to settle for the B final and second.
The bikes, race kit and tyres all performed exceptionally well all weekend.The lack of problems only left us the task of cleaning the bikes which was made easy using Fenwicks bike cleaner. Huge thanks go to all our sponsors.
Andy
BELGIUM. Euro rounds 9 & 10.
Team members Luke Tamblyn and Charlotte Green travelled with the BC talent team to compete at round 9 and 10 of the UEC BMX round 9 & 10 in Dessel, Belgium.
Over 750 riders attended the 3 day event and Luke and Charlotte rode well. Luke was riding male 17 -25 looking smooth and fast. He eased through the semis to the final which he led from gate to tape. Charlotte s moto placing where ‘s 3rd, 2nd and 2ndin her semi she came 3rd and In the final she rode a great lap to come 5th. Round 10 on Sunday was not quite so successful.
Luke made the main again but could only manage a 3rd. Charlotte got boxed in her semi on the first straight and could only manage a 6th.
It was an amazing weekend with British riders all performing like we know they can. Well done to everyone who made the 1000 mile round trip to Dessel.
Andy Green
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