Road trip with the Polish and Bike Radar

What a hectic week Last week, Caught the train to DMR HQ on monday, had a chat with everyone packed up the DMR team van and headed off to the airport to pick new DMR team rider Kevin Katinas. Picked him up and headed to Milton Keynes to stay with Szymon and meet up with the other Polish boys.
Tuesday we left early morning for Swansea to ride Moo's and Clyne trails with Adam Williams. finally got there after 5 hour drive first stop was Moo's trails and they were stupidly steep landings but really fun to ride met up with Chris Smith, the polish Godziek bro's were killing it tricking everything. then went down the road to clyne trails which had much better landings and you could land on them but the wind was pretty gusty so went back up to Moo's to end the day.

Wednesday and Kevin and i drove to our step up Famous which luckily was in Wales near Scotland and not to far from London. The polish guys came aswell met Blake and Chops there and had a sick sesh and again the Polish Bro's were sending it and Blake was throwing down to.

Chilled thursday showed Kevin where i lived on the Isle Of Wight then met up with Sam (Manwell) Reynolds, Sam, Ollie, Seb and surprisingly Andreu Lacon at Gosport BMX track had a little ride. then headed back to Manwell's for a BBQ. Friday we went back to DMR fixed up Ollie's 4X bike then headed for Brands Hatch for Bike Radar Live.

Got there and tried to sort out the Hotel but there was more people than were booked so we had to wait till they cleaned another room.

Saturday and we woke up early to get some practise in. the jumps looked good a nice size. rode them for a bit and they felt good Andreau did 2 runs and was over it haha, rode the quali's in jam format and they had two jams, they went well had fun and there were a few big crashes by the other riders. had a little walk around the show checked out some stuff all pretty same same but met some cool people. that night Madison had a party with FREE drinks which was awesome had some good laughs but went to bed early because of Finals in the morning and KOD really early.

Sunday and i got down to the track really early and ready for KOD Pig which was fun, i got paired with Daryl Brown. we made it to the finals and we were up against Chris Smith and Ryan Nangle it started well a 360 tail wip was pulled out of the bag and Chris droped in but crashed, Daryl and i had a talk about who was better at that trick in the end i said ill try it, droped in got to the last jump and went for it landed it clean and rode away with a BIG smile. unfortunalty the other tricks pulled out the bag were a wild card and a Barspin so we got kicked out and came second but was not all bad.

FINALS and it was going so well dialled my runs but when it came to my run i cased a little because the wind had picked up so couldnt finish the run same with my second run and it was 2 runs count so i wasn't going to place anywhere so i chilled on my third run ended up crashing on the last jump anyway but it was a super fun comp and weekend. Sam Manwell rode really well but Sam Pilgrim did the usual thing and shut down. Daryl also rode well and took third with Mawell in second and Pilgs in first.

fun week and hope Kevin gets better with his shoulder.