Write Up - Saturday 24th October

Yet again, sorry to have kept you hanging on for this, but its been a manic week and I hope you all appreciate me typing this out at 7am on my saturday off before going for a shred round the local!

For those who couldn't make it to the Guild, the trail this month was Wanderland, this time with no bus stops! So in the words of Andy. H of the Squadron "Its flat out from the Gas line right down to the last corner"... Well maybe for you and a select few mate, but the rest of us had at least a little scrub of the brakes before we got there!

Andy dropping into the start of the 'flat out' section.

This month again saw big numbers in the youth category, 20 riders this month... However, due to a number board shortage some riders signing i for the event had to use the numbers of the Youth section, I'm sure our strict 'I.D. if you look OVER age' policy got these riders correctly listed in senior, maybe a couple of youthful child like faces went undetected into the wrong category, only honesty will tell now! As for the times, Alistair May, Sam Dale and Mitch Ingley made the top 3 times respectively, with only 2.7 seconds separating the op 3. The kind of close result we're coming to expect at the Guild.

Mitch airing onto the fireroad on his way to 3rd fastest youth.

This month saw smaller turnouts in both the Masters and Women's categories, Becky. H was there, but not feeling to well spent the day marshaling for us, thanks to Stu and Becky who came along to help out even tho they we're too unwell to ride! Jo Perkins was the only entrant for the women's category and put in a time of 1:31.5 and Mick Whyte was the fastest of 4 Masters with a time of 1:07.7!

Fastest Master, Mick throwing it down!

Well, well... As usual , last but not least the Seniors category. 58 seniors this time around made it to the hill and as usual it came down to the wire! Early on Adam Halling set a fastest time of 1:00.1, which was then matched by Lee Gratton with an identical 1:00.1... Andy Hughes of the Squadron was waiting at the top of the hill tho and came down like greased lightening with what would stick as the fastest time of the day, the only rider under a minute, 0:58.6. Adam and Lee would both try again to beat Andy with no success. The only change to the top 3 being Lee beating his 1:00.1 with a 1:00.0 to just pip Adam back to 3rd. So to re-cap - Andy Hughes fastest, Lee Gratton 2nd and Adam Halling 3rd.

Lee, close but no cigar... on his way to second fastest.

Those of you with eagle eyes may have noticed the massive Descent Gear stand at the top of the hill with Si Paton, Son and dog there to do you some great deals on all sorts of kit. It was great to have 'Mr NPS' back on the hill, but better than that Si and Descent Gear will be sponsoring the guild next year with a generous donation of new number boards for next year, for those of you that don't know this may not sound like a lot, but those boards are chuffing expensive and this is a fantastic boost for the Guild! Check out www.descent-gear.com for Si's great prices, don't forget Racers Guild members are entitled to discount at Descent Gear, which makes the UKs cheapest even cheaper! You can also expect fast and friendly service... go on you'd be a fool not to. More on this coming soon.

Now over to the media! This time all the pictures used in the write up are curtacy of Paul (SXbegins), have a look through his pinkbike album and i'm sure you'll find one of yourself! Thanks Paul!

http://sxbegins.pinkbike.com/album/Racers-Guild-Stile-Cop-241009/

As usual Ian from Team Boon was there filming away and John Lee (Jumble) from the 52 week project was there riding and filming, check out both of their videos here:

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/106484/

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/106249/

5 points or a punch on the nose to the first smarty pants to point out my spelling errors and now i'm off for a ride! See you all next time!

-Rich