Thetford

Thetford

Monday 16 March 2015

New Bike

New bike, new season and new challenges.  Its that time of year when everything looks positive and the planning and preparation is in place to race again (or at least try too).  The main difference this year is that I have actually entered some races!!!!!!!
 
 
 
So the plan so far looks like this
 
1st round of nutcracker MTB at Whinlatter
 
1st round of NPS at Sherwood (my local race)
 
National MTB marathon champs at Selkirk
 
Mountain Mayhem 4 man team
 
Bontrager 24/12 24hour solo (yes I am insane)
 
 
 
 

Mixed in with these is as many of the nutcracker series I can manage and a few of the Midlands xc series.  So it looks like I might be able to string a few races together this year.  This is also off the back of a new start this year riding for Pines Cycles-Felt-Enve.

So now that Felt will be on my new top it made sense that a felt bike was in order, my wife totally agreed and was so happy that I added another bike to my collection.  I am not a sponsored rider so getting anything for free is a bonus, a free bike is well out of my league, however I did get a good deal.

I went for the felt edict series, basically a full carbon 100mm suspension marathon machine.  I have to say that I am impressed so far, I got this bike for the longer events and I think it will serve me well.  Its first outing was a Cannock chase where it performed well, then its second trip was in the peaks.




It ate the miles up and the bike climbed well, I thoroughly enjoyed the day out but if you look at the pictures its easy to see why, having a nice bike is a bonus.






As I said though, I am not owt special so who cares what I think lol.  I know the guy who is helping our professional rider this year whose opinion and results really matter.  However if he reads this and wants me to do a proper write up, especially how well the Vredestien tyres work, any equipment or spares lying about which could help my endeavours would go down well (yes I am selling myself lol)


Anyway as I always say, when I have actually done some races I will try and blog about racing my mountain bike which is what this blog is meant to be about.