Saturday saw the No Fuss Events team head to the 7 Stanes trails at Kirroughtree in Scotland for the second of their 10′s series. Wideopen rider Steve Larking was there to start his solo attack on the “Britains Best All Round Mountain Biker” challenge (more on that in a moment…).
MTBCuts Stu Thomson was also racing and put together this nice edit that I think somes up the event really well. Mud, rain, more mud but lots of fun!
So “Britains Best All Rounder Mountain Biker”. The idea is riders enter three of the toughest No Fuss races and are awarded points depending on their performance in each event. After the third race the rider with the most points is crowned Britains Best All Rounder.
10 @ Kirroughtree was the first event to test riders all out endurance seeing how many laps of the course they could do in 10 hours. The second race, the Endurance Downhill, is in two weeks time and will see riders tackle the World Cup Downhill track at the Nevis Range near Fort William in an attempt to get as many runs in as possible in the 6 hour time limit. Then in September everyone will make their way back to Fort William for the Tour De Ben Nevis which is set to be one of the UKs longest and hardest point to point stage races.
Steve got off to a good start at 10 @ Kirroughtree managing 6 laps before the event was stopped early due to fading light in the trees and the track rapidly getting more cut up on the natural sections. That put him 38rd out of 126 solo riders. He is now currently on the blag trying to convince someone that lending him a downhill bike to race Fort William on is a good idea!
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Go Steve – good lad!