Vallelujah! Not the cry of slightly thawed out mountain bikers on seeing this past weekend’s weather, but the Enduro race up in the Tweed Valley, kicking off the 2017 Tweedlove Triple Crown. We’ll have a full race report up soon (EDIT: Here’s Andi’s report, with full podium results and many more photos), but for now provisional results are up on Sportident, showing our very own columnist Rachel Sokal as first place in the women’s veteran category. Congrats Rachel!
Go Rachel!
Follow the link above to poke through the full results, but here are the first place standings:
Junior Women: Abigale Lawton
Senior Women: Janey Kennedy
Vet Women: Rachel Sokal
Junior Men: Corey Watson
Senior Men: Kelan Grant
Master Men: Gary Forrest
Vet Men: Chris Buchan
Super Vet Men: Steve Deas
Fact: When a British mountain biker sees dust, they’re too overwhelmed with positive emotion to do the kind of graffiti you’d normally expect to see on a dirty van.
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
