Wideopen team rider Steve Larking just sent over a quick report from last weekend’s SDA race at Fort Bill.

He raced on his Dialled Alpine hardtail and made the top 80 – nutter.

“The race was great, the weather held off on Sunday so the track started to dry out and speed up a lot

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I had no major issues bikewise, that track is just too much to get a respectable time in seniors on a hardtail. 6:38 saw me way down in 74th. Fastest and only hardtail again though! 

Pete (Wideopen staffer Pete Scullion) had a worse time of it. Blew the damping in his lyrics at the end of Saturday practice and we only managed to get him going again for the race runs on some borrowed (slightly shagged) boxxers, 7mins+ for him and way off the pace.

Chris Hutchens took the win in Elite but it was Ben Hall in Expert who had the fastest time of the day with a 5:02!
 
I’ll get a repo over to you in the next couple of days, and hopefully Mr Ian Linton will hook you up with some photos.
 
Oh and I managed to back the hire van into someones campervan on Saturday night. Complete arse! That’s me stung for £250 excess, ouch! Oh well shit happens. Now I really need to find a job.

Meant to send you a text on Friday to say that the Fork Juice arrived! Thanks a lot for that, it’s always nice to get stuff out of the blue. It seemed to do a good job of keeping the slop that was the woods section off my forks and seals (and goggles!).
 
Cheers,
Steve”

Yeah that’s snow up the top of the hill. The weekend before was the opening weekend, and there was still snow down the first 100m of track apparently.

 Check out the SDA website at http://www.sda-races.com/sda/

Jamie News, team