Balaton Bike fest and Budapest

WOW! This is going to be a long one,

Well flew to Budapest in Hungary last week Wednesday for Balaton Bike Fest, arrived at the Festival after bieng picked up by someone that no one knew which was random.
Anyway got there about 9 at night met up with Andras who invited me. then went to the house and met up with Kevin Katinas who decided it would be better to wake up at 4 in the morning to ride the jumps because it was so hot during the day.

We woke up at 4 went up to the jumps had a walk round the course and watched the sun come up had a pretty good sesh even though it was hot by 5:30. met up with Kelly Mcgarry, Shanine and Niki and chilled at the lake the rest of the day until it cooled down a bit rode a little more in the evening then partied and watched the sun come up did that for 4 days straight rode quali's on Friday and got 8th which was ok. went to a little party in the hills which Andras told us was 10min away turned out it was 1 hour ride. prob not worth it but the way home Kelly smashed the window of a car that pulled out when he was overtaking it they called the police we rode away pretty quick then the police happened to come up the rode we went down and so we flew off passed them Kelly disappeared down a bank, Kevin hid behind a car and we got caught nothing happened they took our details and wanted to arrest Niki for not having any ID then told us to walk which of course as soon as they were out of sight we jumped on the bikes and rode away fast. lost Kelly and Kevin, Kevin turned up with Andras after about 30min but no Kelly so Andras and Shanine went to look for him and found him in the back of the police car, he had been caught hiding in a tree in some ones garde. Fun Times haha. rode finals on Saturday and got 8th again so wasn't to bad. But Mr Katinas rode after a nasty smash trying to three the really small drop messed his shoulder pretty bad got it strapped up just in time for finals and killed it came away with first which was amazing. that night was quite a big party in the Monster tent with FREE drinks, AMAZING. and another night we stayed up all night and watched the sun rise.

Sunday we tried to sleep but it was so hot around 35c so we went for a walk in town and sampled Cocktails and went swimming. Drove back to Budapest with Andras in the Monster Chevy everyone knackered from a very Hectic weekend.

Budapest is a Beautiful city with all the old buildings and architecture. Did a day of sight seeing on Monday and chilling out. Then just happened to miss my flight oops but rebooked for friday.
Tuesday we went and rode Peters place, Patakhegy Trails which were cool had a wooden feature step up step down only good thing i did was wip up the step up and no foot can off. but got some sweet photos with Norbert Szász and did a little bike check for Stand Mag should be in the next issue check out www.standmag.hu
Went out to a club where its in a little park which was full of people chilling and dancing never watched the sun rise this time though.
Wednesday it rained all day which sucked so no riding and nothing really happened.
Thursday Keven had to fly back to Holland and almost missed his flight. I went with Peter and Andras to ride Golden Mountain Trails which we amazing the most fun i had riding the whole trip never wanted to leave but Andras had a Monster meeting anyway filmed a few runs but the camera died so had a photo shoot with Peter was sick got a few things dialled. That night we went out for the last time kinda partied all night, tried to sneak into a hotel pool but kept getting busted by security funny story. had about 30 min sleep and caught a taxi to the airport.

Hungary is amazing the people are amazing and I cant wait till next year. Thanks Andras for inviting us and crashing at your place. PEACE