The organisers of the British Mountain Bike Series have announced a further 5 brands who will be exhibiting and demoing at this years series. With Trek, Specialized and Giant already on board we can now confirm Santa Cruz, Genesis, Gary Fisher, Merida and Yeti will be joining them at all 6 events beginning with the demo only event at Glentress on March 6. In addition to the bike brands each event will also feature the chance to sample the full range of Accelerade nutrition and the new range of hydraulics backpacks from Osprey.
The Series now consists of 6 demo events, 5 rounds of the British XC series and 3 challenge events, so race, ride, watch or demo….or all of those.
James Olsen from Genesis was keen to jump on board
”Genesis is pleased to announce that we’ve signed up for the demo events at each round of the 2010 British MTB Race series. It’s the ideal place for us to give you a chance to ride a 2010 Genesis bike, or just come over and say hi if you’re there. The main attraction of this series as a demo event was that the organisers have pulled together the UK XC race scene by hosting XC and Enduro events in the same weekend. We think this will mean more appeal to spectators and riders and hopefully it’ll be a return to the race weekend atmosphere of the early days – we’re looking forward to it.”
Santa Cruz
“Santa Cruz is very excited at being involved in such a high profile demo series which will enable more people than ever before the chance to ride some of the best bikes at the best venues across the country. Demo-ing bikes is a crucial part of what we do, and combined with the British XC race series, this not only offers more riders the chance to try before they buy – it also gives them the whole weekend package of riding, racing and spectating.”
Dickon Hepworth
MD Jungle Products / Santa Cruz UK
DATES AND VENUES:
Demo only
Mar 6 Glentress
Race, Ride and Demo weekends…
Round 1 – Mar 27/28 Sherwood Pines, + night demo saturday
Round 2 – May 8/9 Wasing Park (note venue change)
Round 3 – May 29/30 Margam Park, + Big Welsh Weekend enduro
Round 4 – July 3/4 Dalby Forest, + Great Yorkshire enduro
Round 5 – Sep 25/26 Newnham Park, + Newnham 60 enduro
More information about each weekend, demo details and online race entry are all available at www.britishxc.com
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So the manufactures are prepared to advertise at Glentress but British Cycling/British Mountain bike series organisers aren’t prepared to stage a race there? Weird…
Aye – it’s a very limited definition of the word “British”
Issues with insurance, trail closures and space more than “no desire” to stage a race there.
Glentress being the only trail centre in Scotland….
the DH series is as silly – nothing in england. though of course, the mountains are mostly found in scotland and wales 😛
Glentress being the only trail centre in Scotland….
If you look at the visitor numbers you’d be forgiven for thinking it *was* the only trail centre – even Innerleithen 4 miles down the road gets nowhere near the numbers that Glentress manages. And there’s the crux of it – it’s a perfect place for sponsors to go and advertise/demo but if you tried to close half the trails just so a few hundred people can race on it you’ll upset a lot of regular trail riders who just want a day out.
I don’t know what they’re like now but Forestry Commission have in the past tended to be quite anti-racing as well which lead to the insurance issues.
Are they still builing the new visitor centre/car park there? Cos that would create carnage with all the extra cars/truck etc trying to park up on race day. It’s just the logistics of it, not a case of not wanting to hold a race there.
Crazy-legs
You seem to not have noticed;
NoFuss Kiry 10 takes place at Kirry.
The Hardrock Challenge takes place at Dalbeattie.
Mabie had a round of the orienteering MTBO last year
GT holds regular Scottish champs races
Ae will be holding the student DH & XC races in March this year
Having raced several times at GT and Kirroughtree myself I *had* noticed it. But the BMBS is much bigger, a huge amount more infrastructure to move in, far more people and (for whatever reason) it’s simply proved a bit too much this time round. I don’t know the full ins and outs of it, hopefully one day there will be a round there cos it would be fantastic.
All comes down to money, and the fact that a round in Scotland = £loss. Don’t get me wrong, I love racing and am prepared to travel (from Hants) to Scotland BUT the last national series round in 2008 at Drumlanrig had a low turnout from ‘English/Welsh’ riders but even most of those who race SXC didn’t seem to turn up either. Even the National Champs at Inners in 2009 was also a low turnout in all categories, again the thinking that being in Scotland would mean more Scottish riders which would therefore balance those ‘English/Welsh’ riders who didn’t travel. This ‘balance’ however doesn’t seem to happen, it’s like SXC riders don’t want to do a National Series round. Moan all you want, but to make a Scottish round viable requires more people to attend when its on.
Maybe to get the numbers to the races, you would have to race one in England, Scotland and Wales to qualify a series win?
To be honest, if you Turn right or go straight on into the lakes at carlisle the distance to Drumlanrig is not that much differant, Plus the roads are better to Drumalanrig that getting into the lakes