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dave, are there any summer series races planned/thought of yet???
tis that time of the year to look forward to summer riding! yay ;D
cheers

Remember, Summer doesn't exist, it's just a warm Spring!

I'm sure Dave has got some/a track/s or venue/s in the pipeline eh Dave? ;)

Haha.

indeed!

should be back up to race speed then ;D

combe and avill are good in summer. any other venues being considered??

just don't go breaking more bones Darth the air ambulance is not cheap
to run  :D :D :D :D
J

There is an answer in there somewhere.

no way.

Remember mono, theres no hills in the southwest ;)
so theres defiantly no new tracks

honestly, podcast it any more! keep it down till its out eh? gonna be awesome though

im quite excited that a track i built/designed the majority of will be used in a series... ;) ;D

Hang on... I thought Rowan Sorrell built and designed the majority of it!?

Haha just joking AJ, you've all done a good job.

is it still aiming for an opening in march/easter time? heard about the catch netting.. sounds mental!

ah well that was the main track but i hear the natural one is being favoured.
me and rowan designed that one together and me and mike built most of it, so teeeeechnically i had most involvement with it  :P

spring time roughly yeh, work still needs to be completed on the tracks which wont be done until march earliest but hopefully things will start to fall into place pretty soon...

iv heard rhumors of a track that may be used for

N ewbies

P utting

S eaweed

in their pants?!?   Theres a meaning in that somewhere.....
if you dont see it your a fool and should be subject to darwinism! ;)

iv heard where it is/may be...   im not saying anything...

the seaweed people want to use it but the logistics of it all arent possible at the mo...

indeed, iv got a mate who lives near by, mono might know him... dating his cousin i hear ;)

any word from Dave

No more gossip about the track that doesn't exist please. ;)

ah i was meaning the track at cann.... ::)

indeed--------woodbury forever! ::)

I thought you were, just making sure... ;)

the new track at cann is actually really good, super steep super tech and super hard!

Where abouts aj?
I was out yesterday and going again tomorow....

I may be completley wrong here, but if you read a few posts before james, i think you will understand what he is talking about.. although i probably am wrong...haha

trust me, he knows what we were talking about.


James, the track at cann aj is on about is secret for the time being, up to him to tell you. Though it is rather amazing....

its pretty nuts! and riding down it is really hard too

indeed jon, its basically finished now (added the last bit yesturday although its abit silly... it gets stupidly more steep the further down you get, i rode it with will soffe yesturday and he recons its pretty similar to granmas track which is saying something...

any news on a summer series??

when i walked it wasn't that steep  ::) ::)
J

when you walked what? you would have had trouble walking the bottom bit of the track we are on about...

anyways, how many rounds are planned for the summer series? will it be one a month?

Yeh, its pretty fooking steep.

I sruggled to get up without a bike...

i do know the track that you guys are on about and other
the that steep bottom shoot it ain't that bad .
J

yeh, we aint on about that any mores  :)

ok im lost now

your always lost.

got my 15quid????

yeh, you not been out in aggges though....

any news on dates yet, or if it will definitely be on?

Is there going to be a summer series??

Would be a real shame if there wasn't....

will we ever get the answer

hopefully some day. i would love it if there was a summer series, i can't wait to ride combe again as it's such a great track. I'm just annoyed i couldn't go on the uplift day there.
Also when we be able to race on this new track I've been hearing about?

dont go looking about till it comes looking for you

darth smells b*lls**t...                                   ::)

There is no summer series.  :-[

officially?

Spoke to Dave a couple of days ago.

gash!

ahh crap! thats a bummer, hopefully winter series might start a little early. :D

According to the website, first race should be in november.

so whats the reasons this summer then???

its hard not to get angry...

what right do you to have to get angry???

If your that fussed why don't you organise a race series?

if your so concerned with racing in the south west why do you say we are all c**ts...
and what right do you have??? free speach suposedly.

the world these days hugh... :-[

Don't be a prat, South West c**nts is what we called ourselves in Morzine last year as a joke.

As for DM, he has other things as priorities now, we either need a new race organiser or just go to the Dragons, they're better!

now now children, lets not get into a fight. I can appreciate how much work goes into organising a series, however what i think garth (and i) are trying to say is that  we are a little diappointed. But these things happen, so hey. All it means is that we get to go 'shred' our own trails...WOOO!  ;D

better be up woodbury soon then henry... ;)
its all good.

not easy to got do the dragons when your a student with no money. if i had a van and time i probably would.

as henry said, it would be nice to actually have a proper series in the summer for once.
and i do appreciate that dave is a busy chap and credit to him for what he does, but wy cant there be a summer series??? surely its no different to getting a winter series running. :-\

Did you enter the summer uplifts?

Maybe, just maybe, if more people did, he would see more need to do a race...

i pay to enter a race to compete, not to go for a days riding. if i want that i go to my locals and have a shred. uplifts cost too much in my opimion, i know that it has to pay for the tractors, facilities etc, but the buzz for me comes from competing.

maybe, just maybe if a series was organised i would enter. i dont know anyone that wouldnt enter a sw summer series...

 ;)

last years summer series had a pretty poor attendance i seem to remember.

i'm guessing that Dave isn't a charity and doesn't run races out of the kindness of his heart....

a summer series would be no different to a winter series. i raced last year, and there was a pretty good number there also. plus the tracks are ten times better in the dry.

the difference in the summer is there is a lot more choice. NPS's, dragons, UK Bike park series, Midlands, Alps. 

A LOT more competition and seeing as most of the entrants aren't students without money, most are going to choose Dragons over the summer series meaning less entries for Dave.

He is at the end of the day trying to make money out of these races. Also, it's not like he HAS to organise a race just because you want him to!

If you look at the race calender there are very few free weekends to stage another race series, without clashing.

At the end of the day Dave runs a business, its down to him whether its viable and if he is willing to take the risk.

I would love to have a summer race series, but then I'm also happy enough to travel an extra hour or two to go to the Dragons, which lets face it, are staged on considerably better tracks....

for me it says october -- English Championships  Avill Ball

Keep an eye on the site for events though...