Race Report || SDA Round 4 || Ae Forest 2013

The one and only SDA race series.

Last year I had a tough race at Ae Forest SDA. It was the final round and I was in contention for winning the series. It was between myself and Fergus Lamb and it was down to the wire! Whoever won the race would win the series. I crashed on my first run and gave myself the WORST dead leg of my life, seriously never experienced anything like it before. Strapped it up, smashed some pain killers and bashed out my second run, I crossed the line and posted a time on the exact same second as Ferg’s first run time! Scratch that, the exact same tenth of a second! No wait, the exact same hundredth of a second! He beat me….. by….. 0.003 seconds. Gutted.

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Race Report || Scottish Champs || Dunkeld 2013

When the 2013 calendar was released at the start of the year I took down the dates and started punching them into my calendar. When I got to the Scottish Champs I noticed a severe clash of interests. My girlfriend’s brother’s wedding fell on the same weekend…. Damn! I wrote off being able to race but as details for the wedding started rolling in I realised, if I managed to survive the wedding, I could make it to the race on Sunday morning. Race Entered!

The tropical conditions made for amazing riding! Photo – Paul Cram Photography

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Race Report: SDA Glencoe Round 2

I’ve raced at Glencoe every year since it’s inception and it has consistently been THE most challenging track in the country. Steep, rough, wild and very technical. When I heard that the snow melt had left the main track too sketchy to race I was a little disappointed. The decision was made to run the race on the red route which everyone assumed would be a walk in the park…. we were wrong.

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