NEFR. RESPECT THE DIRT AND THE DIRT WILL RESPECT YOU

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SDA Round 3 NEFR Results:

After a 7 hour drive with Wayne's morning Glory hard on's with a car full of lads in a noise injected land rover Discovery, we finally arrived at Fort William at 12.20pm ready for practice.

Fort William was home to Round 3 of the SDA series and it saw some of the big guns turn up for the show such as Steve Peat, Nathan Rennie, Tracy Mosley and Fabian Barrel. The track has seen some major changes since last year when Chrissy and Wayne raced. The new top section is not only longer than before, but it takes a much less direct route to get to the original start. From the start you sprint along bout 50 yards into the left hand hip by the balcony of the Gondola station. From here you sprint along the rocky track into a "north shore" style boardwalk which looked very slippy but was actually very grippy. You then went into the pinball section, drop out of the old bus stop and hit two new rocky berms before getting onto the original track.

From here to the deer gate it was off the brakes, hold onto the bike and pin it. After the deer gate it it was back onto the loose surface and switchbacks. Up next was the wood section which seemed to be quite sketchy as the event rolled on and roots became exposed.

Out of the woods onto more switchbacks, across the fire road and into the gully. Out of the bottom and hit the tabletop or wall ride then get back on the pedals if you had the energy, fly back into the trees at a fair lick of speed. The problem with the speed was to try to avoid high siding the corner at the end as you a hit a quick right and then left, across the bridge and start getting on the gas again. Across the second bridge and then into a rock garden. This can now be hit with several pedal strokes and really rockets you onto the path and motorway section. Out of this section and up to full speed again into the berm before the "hip replacement" jump which gives you some serious speed as you pump out of the jump then back onto the pedals again. Squash the first new table, hit the double, attempt the next table and then really haul yourself towards the Tissot jump. Now you really flying as you pump the bike down the hill, squash the corner, a few more pedal strokes, pop the step up into the berm hit a small drop / double or really pin it and hope you land the triple!! Onto the last little jump, a quick sprint and that’s it a run of one of Fort William one the hardest world cup downhill tracks.

So for the results, Chrissy had the fastest time out of the team with a time of 6.30 Wayne was next with 6.48 then Ben with 6.56 followed by Ste with 7.48. Ses produced a superb display coming up with a magnificent DNF, due to his back wheel completely locking up on him and his chain snapping. He also nearly managed to run Fabian Barrel over during practice!!! He never fails to amuse us.

Next race will be in the Dragon Downhill series in Wales but we are planning a trip back up to Fort Bill before the Wold Champs is held there on the 3 - 9 September 2007. Details here

Photos Courtesy of Ian Linton