Archive for May 31st, 2010

It’s a few days now until we are on the road to the UCI world cup in Fort William/ Scotland. On the way we passed a couple of very nice spots like Amsterdam were we did some sightseeing and racing thru the city with our bikes (by the way the Evil Resident is a really nice bike for “in city shredding”).

 

Right now we are in Innerleithen and taking part of the European IXS cup. Even Innerleithen is in the middle of nowhere of Scotland, it is the home of our young gun Lewis Buchanan and so it is special for the team to be here. There isn’t a lot to do in Innerleithen, but they have an awesome bike park, even it is without a lift.

 

Innerleithen built a whole new track for the IXS cup round and so it was also brand new for Lewis and even here are a couple of the top guild of the UCI mountain bike world cup, he was able to win the qualifying by 1.1 sec ahead of Nick Beer from Scott 11 and Ben Reid of the Norco Dirt team. Filip ended up 14th and Brook qualified on 98th place as a result of 3 crashed in his seeding run.

 

On race day Lewis was able to survive the pressure of a home race and got 2nd right behind Cathro Ben and ahead of some big names out of the UCI mountain bike world cup such as Nick Beer or Cameron Cole. Filip became 10th and Brook finished 53rd.

 

Get here for the full results.

 

 

 

Now we are on the way to Fort William passing Glasgow for picking up Steve and Luke. Stay tuned for more news of our UK trip…