Bagging points… #MakingUpTheNumbers at the HSBC National Champs 2018 – Glencoe

George Thompson has sent this picture-heavy epic report from the other weekend’s National DH champs up at Glencoe… Sit back and enjoy! “Oh, so you’re still going to Glencoe then?”...

It’s coming home! – #MakingUpTheNumbers at Masters Worlds 2018 – Vallnord, Andorra

“It’s an honour to ride this track in these conditions!” It’s 11am on Monday morning and Mark Weightman is eulogising. Mark’s one of a kind, like a Graeme Obree of…

Making It Out Alive – National Downhill Series Rd 3: #MakingUpTheNumbers at Rheola

“Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more” Ami Grindley’s fluoro kit pops in the woods. 2nd 19+Women. It’s not often that you hear a bit of Shakespeare in…

Eating Dust With #MakingUpTheNumbers – Pearce Cycles Rd 3: Bala

They say, ‘if you want to get faster, ride with faster people’ and Lord knows I’m trying. As I sit on the start line for the first of my two…

Bad Luck And Trouble In #MakingUpTheNumbers: Gravity Events DH Series Rd 3 – Llangollen

“Rachel” “Rachel” She can’t hear me can she? I’m locked in the bloody garage. “Oh ******* hell”. It’s 6:15 on Saturday morning. The van’s outside with the doors wide open,...

Fort William: All the stars, plus #MakingUpTheNumbers – HSBC British Cycling DH Series Rd 2

Rather strangely, the story of Round 2 of the National Downhill Series begins roughly one week earlier, some 300 miles from Fort William on an uplift in Llangollen, Wales. “I...

The Coronation Street Of Race Reports – Cwmcarn: #MakingUpTheNumbers

“I like Making Up The Numbers; it’s funny. It’s like a soap opera. Not like EastEnders though as there’s no arguments. It’s like Coronation Street. It’s the Corrie of race...

MakingUpTheNumbers – Gravity Events Round 1: The Race That Didn’t Happen

George Thompson, our regular reporter of mid pack (if he’s doing well) downhill action, is back in action. Well, sort of. He’s got a new team, a new fan club...

MakingUpTheNumbers – BDS Round 5, Hopton

*Sniff* It\'s the final #MakingUpTheNumbers report from the final BDS. Get your tissues out

#MakingUpTheNumbers: Borderline Rd 4 – Revolution Bike Park

George is feeling less than race fit, but that doesn\'t stop him racing

#making up the numbers - George Thompson - BDS 2017 Round four, Llangollen

BDS Round 4, Llangollen – #makingupthenumbers

George Thompson reports from Llangollen

Borderline Events National DHl Championships 2017, Bala

#MakingUpTheNumbers: DH National Champs in Bala

George and Rachel Thompson bring us a report from the DH National Championships

Vallnord, Andora - #makingupthenumbers

Masters World Championships, Vallnord – #MakingUpTheNumbers

Downhill ain\'t easy: Broken bikes, broken vans, and broken bones in Vallnord last week. George Thompson was our man on the ground.

SDA Rd 3 Glencoe – #MakingUpTheNumbers

Would you go Downhill racing on a notoriously difficult course just before your holidays? Our George did

BDS Round 2 Fort William – #MakingUpTheNumbers

While the pros fettled their 29ers, George was racing downhill on a trail bike

BDS Rd 1: Nant Gwrtheyrn – #MakingUpTheNumbers

George \'give up? never!\' Thompson fills us in on his less than jubilant weekend

BDS Round 1 Track Preview With Danny Hart

Helmet cam footage from the Champion of The World.

Ae Forest Downhill – #MakingUpTheNumbers

It was great weather for hippos in Scotland this weekend

Video: Ae Forest Downhill Course Preview

It\'s been wet and wild up at Ae Forest today. Will it dry out before racing starts?

Portuguese National DH Round 1 – #MakingUpTheNumbers

George Thompson reports from his first DH race of the season - in Portugal. It\'s a hard life...

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Downhill For Normal Humans: #MakingUpTheNumbers

With the Downhill season kicking off soon, meet our mid-pack man on the ground