To quote Harry “Bazbo” Heath “his cock was flopping about all over the place”, unfortunately due to legal reasons we have had to blank out Rob’s prized floppy although he assures me that anyone booking a holiday with DHSpain.com will have the optional extra of “naked downhill” on any track in the local area.
As I mentioned of course today we started shooting for FOFO2, unfortunately my two filming “butties” from Wales Paul Roberts and Tim Smith havn’t been able to make it over the Severn Bridge to the airport at this time of year as apparently they are cutting down on the amount of Welsh awesomness allowed in England at one time – shame. Anyway here is a shot of the “Meatspin” Tom Deacon without his meat on show luckily, railing a dusty turn for my camera:
And another one of Harry Heath smashing it right in on another bit of cracking DUSTY track:
So that’s about all that has happened today. It’s been a lovely evening at the ranch enjoying the film Notting Hill and doting over Hugh Grant until the early hours (perfect film to watch with 4 other guys). Tomorrow we have planned another filming session and then we are going to snuggle up together under the duvet and watch “Ghost”, I’m sure it’ll be bloody fabulous.
I’ll fill you in on the details of what happens during Ghost tomorrow.
Well Milky has gone to bed after being up all night showing the Spanish ladies a thing or two, disappearing from the face of the Earth to get a pizza (although I wasn’t aware of any pizza establishments that were open at 6am this morning) and so I thought I’d update you on what has been “going down” today in DHSpain HQ in Malaga.
Nothing interesting to say really apart from we got back at about 9 this morning and slept in until 2. Harry “Baz” Heath was crashed out until at least 5 and then secided to go for an epic run into town to burn off all that Spanish beer he had last night. Tom “Meat” Deacon only resurfaced about 10 minutes ago after being slightly worse for wear. Main man Rob didn’t look like he’d left the house all night this morning although he must have been in quite a state judging by the middle aged Glaswegian woman he was attempting to pull last night.
The plan was to go and do a bit of filming this evening but that went out the window because no one cane walk straight so we’ve had to resort to watching “White Girls” on the box. Everyone is up early in the morning though as we have a full day planned tomorrow of media madness for Wideopen and FOFO2 so keep your eyes peeled right here.
Woke up to another stunning sunny day after a good night out on the town till 3am. Come about half 1 a storm rolled in and then cleared a bit so we spent the afternoon/evening riding the Sram test track in the drizzle.
The track was still deep in dust, flat out and rad. We then went for a huge shop to get stuff before heading home for pizza and ice cream , a bit of time on here. Once this is updated I’m gonna get half an hours rest and were going down to the coast for a BIG night out tonight! We’ve left tomoz free of all but a small evening photo sesh on a local track. Ha!
Anyway some photos from the Sram track, will be back there later on in the week to film for FOFO2 in sun (with any luck).
Our mate Pete over at Hotlines just sent these photo’s of the team issue Lapierre DH-920. It’s team only and at the moment won’t be going into production.
Frame : Lapierre DH 920 Team edition
Fork : Fox 40
Rear Shock : Fox DHX 5.0 titanium spring
Gears : Shimano Saint
Brakes : Shimano Saint 203mm
pedals : Shimano DX
Wheels: Mavic DeeMax
Tires : Hutchinson Barracuda Hardskin DH 2.3
Handlebar : Easton Havoc DH
Seatpost : Easton Carbone
Saddle : Selle Italia SLR
Chainguard : E13 LG1 for Lapierre
Stem : E13 AliStem
Mudguard : Neoguard for Team Lapierre
Weight : 17.325kg / 38.2 lb
Pretty sexy – but obviously not as sexy as that leopard carpet. And are those pole dancing poles?!
Right so Thursday night me (Milki) and Mono went to Brizol airport, flight was at 7am so sat in the airport trying to sleep and not getting a wink!
But that’s as bad as it gets. Got on the plane (delayed thanks to some mechanical issue ), got to spain, got off the plane, got picked up by Rob and Tom Deacon from DHspain.com, taken right to where we where staying, got all at home, built the bikes up and then spent the whole afternoon (2 till 7pm) riding and got 10 runs in on a great track that was loose, a foot deep in dust and fast as you like. Such a great start to what I think is going to be a good week. Harry Heath is here as well so I have lots of pinners to keep my camera happy.
Anyway off down the town for a few drinks now, lazy morning tomoz then off for loads more riding at the Sram test track I think….
Met up with Cy from Cotic today for a feature that’s going in Issue 9 (nearly finished!). Great blast around the local trails…
With my computer going phizzzz and Jamie only just finding his feat in his new house Issue 9 will be with you as soon as we get use to MacOS 10.5 and have unpacked all those boxes!
Bit of a mental weekend at the UK Bikepark this weekend with Rich Thomas coming away with the win (1:23:70) from Jack Reading in second (1:24:76) and Will Soffe in third (1:26:46).
Last year’s winner Chris Hutchens struggled with mechanical all weekend, hurt his thumb in bulldog on Saturday night and came 5th.
Wide Open team rider Ste Larking put in an impressive time on the Dialled Bikes hardtail with a 1:38:09 and I did shit with a 1:43:16.
Good weekend, good job to the UK Bikepark guys for putting on a really good race.
Mono says: “Basically I’ve always wanted to have a really good go at a BMX street/park vid and when I first met Joe at my work back before Christmas I didn’t have a camera. So now 3 months on I finally have a camera and we went out and did two days of filming, this is the result. I’m pretty pleased with it myself!”
High Line Racing is a brand new team based in Scotland and started up by Tom Lamb. They have backing from I Cycles, Uplift Scotland, Nema, Electric, O’Neil, Maxxis and THE and will be riding in custom printed Nema Podium kit.
The team consists of 4 riders.
Ronan Taylor a Junior with impressive 1st and 3rd finishes at the Innerleithen winter series this year.
Callum Gault an Expert after a successful season in Senior last year including a win at Aberfeldy.
James Shirly an Expert. Impressive result at the Fort william Endurance downhill last year with a 2nd. And wins for his team the Glen Croft Rabble in all the No Fuss endurance XC races.
Tom Lamb. Team manager and another Expert rider. A disappointing season last year still yielded qualification to Expert and this year will be spent concentrating on having fun at the races, getting this team off the ground and cementing himself as a solid Expert rider.
All the Riders will be competing at the least in the SDA series, the Scottish champs and any National races in Scotland. Some of them will be doing a full national series and also competing in one off events like the Fort william endurance downhill and the Fat Face night race if it returns to Edinburgh this year.
A set of SIXPACK XXL Millenium bars and a Raptor X stem landed on my desk this morning which was pretty wicked. The bars are a whopping 760mm wide and look the bomb in flashy white with some nice graphics. Seems everyone was running wide bars last weekend at Wentwood so I’m pretty excited to see what the fuss is about. Maybe also a bit nervous about those narrow trees up our local woods!
We took a quick look at these a couple of weeks back as part of our Propane exclusive test so it’s good to get some through for a long term bashing. All seems to be quality, good looking kit so far…. Looking forward to getting them on the bike this evening!
Millenium XXL Bars: made of 7075 / T6 double butted alloy / 760mm width / 25mm rise / 9 degree backsweep / 5 degree upsweep / available in 31,8mm diameter / colors: black, white, grey
Raptor X Stem: full CNC´d / 45mm reach, 15 degree / available in 25,4mm and 31,8mm / CNC side logo / only 37mm clamp height / colors: black, liquid-green, white, red, gold, wood
