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Race Report 6

hey everyone im back in pasadena now starting to pack up my stuff for my flight home, ive had 2 races lately last weekend we drove up to whilster for
a week, the place was orsome we rode till we were to tired to ride anymoreeach day.

There were tracks everywhere, lauren had been there for a month so she showed us around which was cool. We were there for the crankworks festival and we had a race on the wednesday which was good i ended up 17th out of about 75pros which i was pretty happy with and i managed to beat my teammate by 7 sec which was good. After that we drove 25hours non stop
back to pasadena, worked on our bike then drove 10 hours the next day to the
Brian Head Norba.

This Race was really high up 11000 feet at the start of the
downhill, ive been mostly converted to miles and feet now, because
otherwise no one understands what im talking about over here. The track was really
good lots of rocks everywhere and a pretty hard rock garden in the middle.

It was pretty hard to race because there was a big pedal in the middle and
because of the altitude i got tired quick. I quailified 27th and went 5
sec faster in my race and finished 25th. i was pretty happy, ive managed to
stay on my bike for all my race runs since ive been over here which is alot
better than i normally do. I fly out tomorrow back to nz which im looking
fowerad to, Ive managed to by a Rx7 and i cant wait to get home and play
with it!

Thanks for all your Support
See ya al soon
Tim


Final Race 6th August 2006
Norba 6 at Brian Head Resort, Utah.

Crankworx – Whistler Canada July 28th
- Jim Beam Downhill.
Finished 17th - 4 seconds down on Justin Leov who was 11th . The whole Crankworx festival week was great, so may tracks to ride and good to catch up with Lauren.

Norba 5 – Sonoma 16th July .
Finished 19th on same second as team mate Kieran

JK only 3 second up in 12th .
Weekend of USA Nationals –
short track but really fun .

10th July 2006 I made 1st reserve for the New Zealand team at the Worlds in Rotorua.

Brazil World Cup 2nd July
Qualified 49th , finished 44th .
Brazil is a very interesting place. We had many travel problems – it was also during World Cup (soccer) fever.


Race Report 5

Hey everyone, we had a race at sonoma at the weekend, about 45min from San Francisco.
The race was the the US nationals. The Tracks
were at a car racing track, they had road races
on the car track then downhill on the small
mountain behind. They track looked pretty
average the first day but as more people rode
it the track got pretty good apart from a couple
of small sections that were really narrow traversing across the hill. It was really dusty and the corners got pretty loose. I was quite enjoying it.
It was pretty short you could see 90% of the track sitting in the pits. My race went ok my time was 1 min 58 the winning time was 1 min 52. Keiran and i were on the same second but we didnt see the split times so we dont know who was fastest. As it was the us nationals the organisers didnt put any overseas riders in the results so i dont no how i finished. On fri there were single seater race cars out on the track that sounded pretty cool, so i went and looked at them and they had 13b rotary engines in them out of maxda RX8s which was pretty exciting, The cars cost about 120000usd to build and 40000 to run for the season! Im back in pasadena now for a week before i head to canada for a week and Whislter for Crankworks. Its a 25 hour drive so will be pretty boring

Cya Tim



Race Report 4

Hey i made it to brazil, it seems pretty cool no one speaks any english my french is prob better than most peoples english. it ended up taking 7 flights and we flew to sau paulo twice which was weird. the hotel seems good we might move closer to the track tomorrow though. most things are really expensive which is dumb. weather is ok not as warm as usa but it is winter here, all the workers are wearing jackets and jerseys. lauren made it to whilster ok which is good. thats about all for now

cya tim



Race Report 3

Hey everyone,
Just finished my 3rd race, the world cup at mount saint anne in canada. The track was really cool, fast and rough it was about 5min long, so was pretty hard work, thurs practice was really wet i did a couple of runs and managed to wreck a derailer.

Fri was much better weather the track was still wet but starting to dry out. I some how managed to twist my fork guard which made the brake hose go into the rotor and cut it in half on my first run which was pretty annoying.

Raceday was pretty hot, i got pretty lucky in quailifing, there was about 160 riders and only the top 80 make it throughto start the final. i quailified 79th! with less than half a second spare.

My race went pretty good i went 10sec faster than before and finished 63rd.
I was pretty happy especially with the problems i had during practice.
Tomorrow i fly out to brazil for my next race which will be pretty fun.

Cya
Tim


Race Report 2
Hey everyone, i had my second norba last weekend at mount snow, vermont. The track was realy fast and open and pretty rough, lots of big fast turns

down the main ski runs. i really liked it my foes was working really good, you could watch other bikes from the lift and you could see they werent working
aswell as mine, i had a couple of puntures during practice and put a few dings in my back wheel.

The weather was pretty good there was rain on and
off during the week, but it never really got the track wet. Seeding went ok,
About 1/3 down my race run my derailer broke, sending it into the wheel
and a had to DNF. It wasnt the result i was looking for.

The other kiwis hadbad luck aswell with Kieran getting a front flat tire, and justin peelling his tire of the rim in seeding, which meant he didnt make the top 70 for the final. Im in mont saint anne now, getting ready for the world cup. which starts on thurs.

Tim


Race Report 1

Hey everyone,
We just had our first race of the season, it was at sugar mountain in north carolina. I had my new bike which was pretty good.

We didnt get to spend much time on it before the race, but i learnt alot about how to set it up which was good. The track was pretty technical lots of rocks and roots
then a fair bit of peddaling at the bottom.

The weather was not to good, it rained on wednesday then again on sat night before the race. Race day was sunny but still wet and muddy in the trees. I managed to stay on my bike and ended up 26th.

Beating my seeding time by 24sec, which i was happy with. Sam hill one by 13sec, with justin leov second. On wednesday we head to Mt snow, Vermont for our second norba.

Tim

Oceania Champs Australia 3rd April 2005.
It was a long way to go for this International race at Mt.Buller, a ski area some 4 hours from Melbourne. Practice days were hard ( fast and dusty) but come race day it all turned to custard. It was stormy with rain, fog and cold for both seeding run and the race. The track was a river and you couldn’t see. Despite this I came away with 10th overall and 75 UCI points.

National Championships Rotorua
26th February 2005.
My new 2005 Giant turned up the day after I went to Auckland finals so was ready for action for Rotorua the next weekend. The new model has some subtle differences and felt good straight out of the box. The Rotorua track is World champs in 2006 - It was brand new. It is challenging all over but a bit peddly for me. Practice went well and I managed 15th Pro-elite in the final to secure the last UCUI point on offer.

Finals Auckland 19th February 2005
Travelled to Auckland Series final only to have a hard landing during practice, cracking head tube of the bike. In order to get series placing I rolled the start of race 2 and ended up 11th overall for the championship.

Treble Cone 9th January:
Practised well during the week and managed 3rd Elite in seeding run. Sunday race day was disappointingly wet – finished 5th in Race one and 9th, after crash, in Race two. Pleased with result in race one.

Christchurch15th January:
It couldn’t have been more different weather wise. Felt okay during practice but on race day couldn’t overcome the extreme heat and dust. Finished 15th Elite in both races. Just want to put this weekend behind me.

Dunedin 22nd January:
Practice went well – always good to be on the home track. On race day the weather was fickle. Some Elite got a clear first run but others affected by a rain shower. I struck the rain and had an off for the 12th Elite. Went better in race two but had mud tyres on and rode too conservatively for 10th.

Blenheim 29th January:
A new track is always a challenge. Felt pretty good and happy with the track, despite rain overnight before the track track dried out. Happy with 8th in the first race followed by 11th in race two .

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