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Is that todays race? Looks different to roots and rain? Quality whatever
Do find these races odd. Ive never raced downhill. But a minute course? Or 40 seconds as above? Seems so short a window. I know its never going to be comparable but the joy of downhill racing professionally as a spectator is the variety within a track. And a long run. For 40 seconds if you are slow out the traps youve lost already. How much variety are in these tracks or are they bike park style runs?
Is that todays race? Looks different to roots and rain? Quality whatever
Dunno why, maybe as mine was cropped from phone, which shows only the fastest not both runs ? errrrm.
Do find these races odd. Ive never raced downhill. But a minute course? Or 40 seconds as above? Seems so short a window. I know its never going to be comparable but the joy of downhill racing professionally as a spectator is the variety within a track. And a long run. For 40 seconds if you are slow out the traps youve lost already. How much variety are in these tracks or are they bike park style runs?
This one is the shortest course by quite a bit we've raced on, but we knew that before we went, you can of course only use what's there and Stile Cop is a short hill. The course though was honestly great and totally different in all sections, fast sweepy start, then into roots, then jumps/gaps for them and then a pedal fest over roots to the line. There were some WC level Juniors there etc and everyone seemed happy. Of course with this type of race they're catered generally towards more of an 'introduction' to racing. But i think those days have gone at the moment as the young racers seem to want every day.. So even these races attract the fairly fast kids. His had 7 racers in who race Nationals, it wouldve been 9 but 1 got injured in practice on Sat and one didn't wanna race y'day. Which does in some way make me feel sorry for the others below who don't get the chances they sometimes would. I'm not sure what the answer is though, 417 races if you are a National racer then the organisers have a quiet word of "are you sure you need to be racing this" type thing, which is IMO 100% fair.. But the Stil Cop race is far more techy than the 417, just shorter.
So that's race season over for us/him. (i know i use 'us' a lot, but we are a team, really really) Next up is onto coaching for the next 2 weekends on the bounce and then some days out at BPW, Hopton, Dyfi and Adrenaline Alley etc. There's not really an off-season these days in youth/junior/juvenile in the same way as there is for the pros. Maybe there should be and maybe we're doing it wrong... Dunno. But the fire/desire to race is there, so we go with it.
We are working on the confidence though and are paying for a sports psychologist for him, which also benefits him as a human as it makes him think about other things like schoolwork etc.
Lots of companies out there , but Chimp Management are one of the best (not cheap though) but they work with elite athletes across many sports, have coaches aimed at younger people etc, and Mrs FD used to know the boss quite well
Agree though it will give him life skills too
we have held off so far as as the natural waves of confidence have got our lad back just at times when it’s been hard for him.
Have you noticed a lack of confidence or a mental block or just is it that he’s quietly confident? Our lad might do one poor pass in a game and then he’s harsh on himself for weeks, and can’t get past the mistake, that’s when sports psychologiy will help, not just if he’s quietly confident
(not cheap though)
Absolutely. Mrs Weeksy picked his from recommendations and no, it's deffo not cheap. But as i say, there's more than just 1 lesson of sports being hopefully worked on.
Have you noticed a lack of confidence or a mental block or just is it that he’s quietly confident? Our lad might do one poor pass in a game and then he’s harsh on himself for weeks, and can’t get past the mistake, that’s when sports psychologiy will help, not just if he’s quietly confident
I honestly wonder if he says it more because of politeness than actual belief he's not fast. He doesn't suffer race nerves, or tension, he's quite relaxed and you'd think by now with his results he'd go into these sort of races beliveing he can hit the higher end. It did sneak out of him yesterday that he felt before run 1 he was in for a top 5... So maybe he's getting it into his head a bit.
The one thing he doesn't do though above is worry about mistakes. He's not upset about yesterday, even though looking at how close the times were 2-4 that if he'd landed the triple better or single/doubled it he'd have got 2nd probably... But he doesn't dwell on it and seems chirpy and happy this morning about it all.
What happens now then, hitting the end of the season? Do you get an “appraisal” of sorts from the sponsors, have they got what they want out of it sort of thing, or is it not just about facts and figures? I’ve dipped in to this a bit so I may have missed it, but how did he get on in Nationals. Is it an overall year end position, or best of three results, or average? I think you missed one in Scotland if I remember, does that spell disaster for overall? <br /><br />I assume your hope for next year is that he gets a DH sponsorship, you can stop buying bikes then! 😂. Have you had any approaches from DH brands looking to sponsor him, give him a bike etc, or are you remaining in the Katy Curd camp for next year? I’m assuming that you need to be at the very pointy end of Nationals to get picked up on a DH contract?
Wow... so much to answer there mate.
We've already had a 2 hour sit-down with the Coach/Boss and we've gone through everything for next year. That was put in place a little while ago. So yes as long as it's not top secret and i don't think it is, we'll still be racing for Katys team next year. We don't deal with any of the sponsors at all (apart from DMR) and i just leave that to the boss as to who the team rides for next season in terms of kit, helmets, shoes, pedals etc... It's her team, we're just a bit-part within it.
In Nationals you get an overall championship position but that is also integrated into 'all' races, well, all ranked races anyway.
You can flatter your position in the overall rankings a bit with picking smaller events and picking up points, but whilst we've not targetted that (yet) it's a by-product of the racing we do of course. In Nationals he was getting 30-35th in the races, which as a first year Youth and first time in Nationals we were more than happy with. His overall championship position was i think 41st. Which was pretty fair in a representation of where he's been this season. Not at the pointy end in the big boys, but somewhere around mid-pack.
2nd Season in Youth results go some way towards where he ends up in Junior in terms of chances of getting an entry to a Junior WCDH race and whilst he's not 'there' yet, of course the hope is that he keeps on improving and gets to the positions where he gets considered in 2025. But at this moment in time, he's not quick enough to get there.
Next year we're planning a full season of Nationals, Pearce and of course a few FoD smaller type races. But we're also lining up 1 or 2 races in France in the French DH cup. Which for example the 1 that's a main goal is at the course where last years European Champs was held. It'll be a massive thing for us/him and i think it'll really help him along.
The only downside to this of course is funding.. I still have no idea how my bank account isn't crippled each and every month, well, in truth it IS crippled... But we still bumble our way along and sort of make things happen. I'd love to do MORE where we're at Dyfi every weekend, BPW every weekend, etc but you know what, this even as a parent is REALLY hard. In terms of time, effort, money, cleaning, sorting, prepping, driving, it's really bloody tough. No tougher for me than it is for another 100 parents out doing the same thing of course.. But still it's hard.
Anyway... enough babbling..
Attack position engaged
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Onto something slightly different anyway.
We were chatting in the paddock yesterday with a stupid-fast kid and his dad. Brandon Turner is his name. Anyway, he also rides and races a Session like ours. He was chatting with another mate about the bike and how the only issue they've had is with dropping chains. It doesn't happen until you're getting into the proper sharp end of speed/tech, but people like Tom Elsmore who has been racing a Session has also experienced it (he's a mate of a mate too).
Bloke had designed and 3D printed a new upper guide on the high pivot which stops this. Basically (as i was discussing with the mum of the Trailrippers yesterday about her GT) the chain drops/skips off the top of the idler pulley and then drops off the chainring from there. On the GT Fury you can buy different sized sprocket/wheels. I'm not aware of that as an option on the Session. So was straight in with "where i can get one mate"... "£20, i've got some in the van"
That’s cool they shared that for so cheap. I’ve been looking at high pivots with idlers recently and a few have had a similar issue. Forbidden Druid v1 / Dreadnought can get it with the standard top guide over the pulley and you can buy a ‘race’ version that more thoroughly holds the chain on
As you'd expect, it wasn't a taxing lunchtime quick job
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fod, coaching/riding for the lad and playtime for me.
After we'd finished riding I sent him out on the DH bike. He comes down holding the chain! It'd snapped. I'd just been discussing it a few days ago on here and ordered him 2 new chains, but didn't fit yesterday when it arrived. We decided to bail and get home handy. I could've fixed it in the car-park, but he was getting tired anyway from the mornings ride.
Then the fun started as after fitting the chain I did the gear cable, which started as a five minute job inner and ended 90 mins later with an Impossible routing outer (but inner through chainstay).
Jeepers it's bloody terrible for routing in the chainstay, no guides at all, just 2 holes at the ends, took me and the boy forever! Done now, but need to finish it off tomorrow with a new inner and put everything back on that we had to remove. Madness.<br />Set up gears, regressed all the pivots, re-torqued everything and it's all finished, not the best fun, but it's sweet again now.
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Both the gear cabling and brake are now routed externally
The lad needs to work on his fitness as we've been doing a bit too much DH and not enough miles/training so we'll get cracking on that next. It's hard to find the time to do it outside on the bike though, he's working on his strength but he does need to get the Z2 longer pedals (indoors) or a bit more running going on.
Tell us you've binned the chain and aren't going to use it as a spare. 🤣🤣
I hate frames that just have a hole at each end for ‘internal routing’. A right pain - usually do it with the frame stripped down so you can spin it round easily on a workstand and then fishing around through the small holes provided with a spoke/ 2 spokes trying to grab the end of the cable outer. I should probably buy one of those proper kits that are meant to make it easier - but I don’t have to do new routing very often.
Tell us you’ve binned the chain and aren’t going to use it as a spare.
Oh yes... I've got 2 11 speed spares, so this one was REALLY not needed. I found it quite funny though as we were ust discussing it the other day.
I should probably buy one of those proper kits that are meant to make it easier – but I don’t have to do new routing very often.
About 6 mins in, this was very very much my thoughts. I was happy in the end to go external (mostly, part of gear cable still in chainstay) just in case of crashes etc, it's quicker and easier to just fit a whole new brake to get him out and then sort later etc.
Ah, the brake is internal too 🤮
Im glad all my mtb frames have had the rear brake external (even if gear / dropper cables internal) as it’s then so easy to change out a brake. Plus less bleeding.
Brake was internal in the top tube. My confusion was, how on earth you re-fit one though. All you've got at the headtube is a tiny hole the size of the cable, so you can't go that way, but as the caliper is on the other end, you can't start from that end either... So was happy to now have it completely external. It did mean a quick bleed yesterday evening, but that's OK.
With the brake don't you go from the caliper end and route upwards (remove the fork to get to the down tube?) To the smaller hole at the top of the down tube
With the gears can't you get a bit of inner sheath over the old cable at the derailleur end and pull out through the chain stay to route the new cable through it is the exit hole too small
With the brake don’t you go from the caliper end and route upwards (remove the fork to get to the down tube?) To the smaller hole at the top of the down tube
Good thought/plan
With the gears can’t you get a bit of inner sheath over the old cable at the derailleur end and pull out through the chain stay to route the new cable through it is the exit hole too small
That was kinda how we did it, but it often got caught up and it's not a very straight routing. Hopefully we won't be doing it anytime again soon.
Push don't pull
Cotton and a vacuum cleaner.
Cotton and a vacuum cleaner.
The amount of effort to get the sodding thing through i think the cotton would snap as i try. But as i say, it doesn't matter now as it's external. Which i planned on doing over winter anyway.
We’ve devised a few plans to put in place to try and keep him somewhat warm before his runs
Have a look at some of the CX riders or XC skiers, i've seen these massive long waterproof puffer trenchcoats that come apart into pieces, a hooded gilet, pair of sleeves and a massive long extension skirt with a big buttonable split front and rear (wouldn't be surprised if it's from a horseriding background!)
But you can imagine how useful it is.
I had a waterproof fleece poncho when i moved here to keep warm and dry before and after races. That's long since gone in the bin though. Easy to pop on before and after the race. Easy to roll up too.
You can flatter your position in the overall rankings a bit with picking smaller events and picking up points
Yeah, i feel that pain, i spent 3 seasons finishing on the podium in everything i entered, against, 50-60 rider fields, but because i wasn't willing to drive to norfolk, cornwall, scotland, wales and then spend an entire weekend pre-riding and then racing against a field less then half the size (as some of the people i was finishing 15 places in front of locally were) i didn't get promoted. So i took a step up off my own back, started on the last row, finished just outside the top 15.
Are you heading back north for Fort William SDA/National next year?
Yeah mate, we're doing Fort William and Glencoe Nationals. We've booked accomodation for FW the same one as last year.
Obviously we've not booked anything yet as it's not out yet to book.
We may do Inners SDA so we can come see BASE college as that's likely where he'll end up after A levels.
End of year montage/write up time i guess.
It's been a somewhat incredible year for the boy and for me and the wife. It's interesting to see how he's progressed in 2023. For example race 1 of the year was a 100% at Forest of Dean, the boy came in with 26/52. Which to be honest at the time we were not excited with, but not exactly disappointed. In the last race in the series a couple of weeks ago, he claimed 6/63 finishers and only just off the podium.
In Feb the new Privateer 141 arrived along with 2 video/photo shoots... weirdly nothing ever came of either of them hahaha.
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But the bike came and was ridden, raced and thrashed all year.
We then went to his first National DH race at Rheola....
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This was just a complete mess of rain, mud, more mud and more rain. With the boy finishing 24/49 in Youth we were pretty damn happy. He was still a long way off the fast guys... but less so than the previous year in races.
From there it was a few Enduro races which we enjoyed being part of Katys team and bonding with Drew and Scarlett..
And then onto the biggy.
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Fort William National. With the WCDH being there not long after it was stacked full of talent, he had Bruni, Minaar, Hatton, Daprela etc all behind him in the queue in practice but he took it in his stride. I won't be ashamed to admit, after the track walk i wasn't sure it was even possible to get down.
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But he did...and ended up with 28/55 i think about 70 turned up to race but quite a few either went home injured or broken etc...
National Championships brought more rain... yeah more... and a crash on race run meant he ended up 50/55 which was a tough day for the lad.. but he got his head around it well. He was now scoring around 20th place in Pearce Races generally which was 20+ places higher than the previous year.
The next few races was where he really started getting stronger and picking up speed, with a podium
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The boy then got his new toy the week after, the Trek Session... which was properly painful to purchase, being a crazy amount of money, but i felt he deserved it..
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Antur Stiniog was the last National and that didn't go to plan, lack of course knowledge meant he struggled and despite picking up time over practice he qualified 48/63 which ended up being his final position as bad weather stopped play.
He finished the year strongly with 5th, 6th, 4th, 6th, 4th in the run in, all smaller races than Nationals of course, but still plenty of fast racers in there.
Good year for all of you. Tell him we'll done from us. 👍
Give your self a pat on the back as most people don't understand or appreciate what goes on behind the scenes week in week out to keep the racers racing.
What ever 2024 brings it will all be worth it 😎
Nice one, full commitment there. I hope he realises just how lucky and privileged a position he is in with, it appears, unwavering support and your financial oooomph to allow him to follow his dream.
Onward and upward for ‘24.
Oh, and give him a piece of coal and an orange for Christmas, lucky sod has had gifts all through the year already.
And of course, Merry Christmas.
Oh, and give him a piece of coal and an orange for Christmas, lucky sod has had gifts all through the year already.
thats a bit mean, how about a massive wrapped box thats just full of the year's receipts? 😉
please keep up the updates weeksy - its great to have a behind the scenes look at the world of racing. all the best of luck for the 24 season.
@weeksy
I did the rear hose on a trek slash with the gear cable method, SRAM hose, from the back in the chain stay into the down tube, or by the head tube, less that 2 mins. That's the best method 👍🏻
thats a bit mean, how about a massive wrapped box thats just full of the year’s receipts?
He’s making the boy do zone 2 workouts - isn’t that enough punishment??
I hope he realises just how lucky and privileged a position he is in with, it appears, unwavering support and your financial oooomph to allow him to follow his dream.
Yeah I think so mate, he's a genuinely nice lad and he's not caused up a moment of bother growing up.
It's not just his dream though, it's ours. Well mine and his anyway, his mother's dream is that he'll eventually get some IN the washing basket 😃
My support is unwavering yeah, but financially it's getting harder as we're potentially losing some funding this year. But mentally and physically I'm all in yes. I enjoy it, visiting places, riding places, watching and chatting with parents, sharing beers, BBQ and banter, it's a brilliant time honestly.
At times I'd like a bit more ME time for local rides to the brewery, a few pints and then home, but they're less and less often now. which saddens me and is something I need to address in 2024.
But like all kids, we don't really fully appreciate it until way later in life, I know I didn't. I can wait though
Every day at the moment seems to be a monsoon so the clips are a bit lacking sorry.
I hear you, we've done FoD Afan, BPW and Hopton in the last 7 days, so not a bad haul and good training/practice.
I could do with some dry trails though as could his mother and the washing machine
You just need to migrate south! I picked up our young'un, she's spent the last 3 days doing a mix of Catalan enduro and bike park at Santa Coloma and la Sorerra in the dust, she also caught the sun. Note to self: do not forget the sun block. Whilst she's catching up on her sleep tomorrow, I'm shuttling Millau which is rather oddly bone dry, not even a ground frost forecast.
Lol I hear you but he's in his last year of school doing GCSEs next summer, so simply not an option. Education has to come first. Me, I'd be first in the van moving to Spain, but education and family means that's not possible.
A move to somewhere hillier may happen, but it'll be UK based only.
I'm not sure if it's good or bad being as fussy as i am.... sometimes a little of both i think.
I picked up the lads Privateer to put it back up into it's spot on the wall.... 'clunk'... Hmmmm that's not right. Checked all the pivot points, shock mount, headset... Ended up being the wheel bearing on the front (we fitted a spare wheel to check/troubleshoot). Which was slightly weird as when i took them out they felt and seemed lovely. But in the bin they went and fitted (then ordered from Kinetic) 2 new ones.
Wasn't a long or complex job and i made sure the boy watched and followed closely everything i did as i'll make him do them next time with my supervision.
The Trek we've finally silenced with 2 new bearings as well, so both bikes are golden. Which is lucky as he's out with Katy this Friday on one of them and then Antur on the other on Sat. 😀
Nothing too exciting today. We spent the weekend at Dyfi and FoD.
FoD was coaching/riding with Katy and his mate Olly. It was really interesting as we learned a little about 'nutrition' mostly because 2 hours into their blast, the boy absolutely hit the wall. It was 2pm by then and he'd not had anything since the bowl of Cheerios in the morning... He was doing OK with pace and BOOM, wall.... hit... Just dead on his feet. He managed to drag himself back and consumed about 12,000,000 calories and went from looking white and drained, to somewhat normal. There's deffo something we need to learn and consider a bit more on this side of things it seems.
It was then straight up to Dyfi where the boy took this into heart and consumed about 10,000 calories in the morning before Dyfi with the buffet breakfast at Premier Inn 😀 😀
He then spent the day playing with a bunch of mates on the crazy trails of Dyfi bike park. Which according to him is the best place in the UK in terms of training/riding for learning DH... Bit saddening for me as i prefer BPW and it's obviously a lot closer than Dyfi. But i can see Dyfi playing a bit more of a part in things in the coming months in terms of training/riding.
We're off to Bucknell this weekend for a Pearce Uplift.
Pearce have also released dates for this season now.
11th May
6th July
31st Aug
No locations yet, but that's not massively important at the moment. We'll be doing our best though, however a slight complexity with 11th May as that's the start of GCSE's so not sure if he'll be allowed to play for that one, but arguably if he doesn't know it by then, he's not going to know it LOL.
At Dyfi it was interesting chatting with a few parents of racers who we know. It seems a fair few lad/families are concentrating more on IXS/International races this coming season, more than i'd expect in truth. Especially considering the expense of them in terms of driving/tunnel/ferry etc.. I just can't see a realistic way we could jump on that bandwagon at the moment in terms of time and expense, with his exams this year he needs to be at school, but with IXS he'd have to be taking 1-2 days off for it each time, let alone the £1000+ per race weekend.. So i just can't see it at the moment.
James' riding has really come on this year - the changes from the early videos to more recent ones are huge, and you can see that in his results. I feel your pain when it comes to the costs of young people racing.
We've made the tough decision to skip the bmx world championships for my son this year due to the costs - I think it'd be £3k+ for us to go. Coupled with the fact that it's in term time (it's normally in the summer but this is an olympic year) and so we couldn't really turn it into a holiday it just doesn't add up. Just hoping he qualifies next year as it will be in summer, in Copenhagen, which should be a bit more achievable. But I do feel bad that I'm not taking him as we can't guarantee another shot! At least race bmxs are cheap, and if you spend 500-600 quid second hand you've got a bike you can race at the top level.
Thanks for that mate... It's funny when you look back over 12 months ago at the difference... it's HUGE... but of course the difference of many of the others is also huge lol. That's just the place in which he finds himself at the moment.
Chatting to one of the parents, he's selling his house at the end of the year to downsize and free up capital to go to Worlds.. now THAT is impressive dedication. I mentioned that to Mrs Weeksy "Don't be getting any stupid ideas" says she 😀
As always, at the moment that's all pie in the sky... he's not at the level to get to Worlds at the moment.. and may never be so.
Hopefully your dream will potentially happen for Copenhagen then matey... i sure hope it does for both of you.
You coming for the 100% in a few weeks ?
Both the upcoming 100% races clash with bmx races unfortunately and he's in full pre-season mode at the moment, but if things are going well we may skip the feb bmx race and do the 100% one as a last pre-season hit out on the mtb.
He was getting too big for his Aether and I managed to snag his dream bike from a mate before xmas (2022 Nomad 5) for a decent price so he was a very happy lad this xmas!
Oh bloody well done mate..I might have to try that one day 😀
Although i may have a new bike this weekend anyway i think.
Hope to see you soon either way fella.