Thats what we like to hear!

Cool, I heard about a cafe or summit being built at the top, sounds good.  All I really wanted to know is wether the timing equipment has been updated from last season, as the only negative out of the whole event was when the timing messed up at the final race.  Cheers Ben, hopefully I won't be still pi**ed for racing the day after this year, and get some podiums, lol.

Any chance of an uplift day at the end of July/beginning of August? I'm organising my house warming party coupled with hopefully a day at the bike park!

Long shot but worth a try?

Hi Mono - Got a feeling that Ali & me self will be on holiday in France (the only chance we get to ride a bike!) We are offering a private uplift service shortly which will cater for 10 - 16 riders. Check the website for details.

Farmer ash - not sure if there be trophies but they'll be some more useful and cool prizes from Dakine, 661, Uk Bike Park, Torico & Scratch tape.......   

Yeah we looked into it and the cost of BC sanctioning would have to be carried over to the racers. we are trying to keep the racing costs as low as possible and we concluded that the actual amount of people who will be point hunting for the NPS was pretty small( the logical reason for BC points).Its pretty hard to quantify it but locally I have had only 3 requests for BC sanctioning so it seems a shame that everyone would have to pay more just for a small minority who might be able to feed into the NPS races. I would expect there must be more riders out there looking for points and I would be glad for any feedback on this forum to change our minds??

I feel strongly that the regional races should feed into the NPS and the current system doesnt really help this process. It seems to penalise people who want to race regionals and doesnt help buddig NPS races enter into them > if we are trying to encourage grass roots racing then keeping the costs down is important in this but likewise I would love to see budding top class racers feed into the NPS from one of our races. Here lies the conundrum and I think the problem can be solved easily with BC making the regional races affordable and able to feed into the NPS. I like ranking systems, i think they are fun and we are nearer a workable approach to this than at any other time in DH racing history.

For the good of the sport and to prosper racing in the UK I would scrap the levy on BC ranking races and set up regional races series with ranking points . it would be hard to admisnster and of course some of the rankings might be amiss( but this is the same in any sport!) but it would be great to have a system based on data . we could almost copy the road model by having cat 1 cat2  cat3 racers.

great discussion point by the way... lets hear some other views!!!

Cheers for your comments Seb

i agree with seb, the midlands are 5 quid cheaper and same as the dragons with a smaller hill and no bc points 

Well I didn't want to get too involved in this, but for you to argue that their prices are ok since you need to pay £5/£10 to get over the bridge to Wales is ridiculous, what does that have to do with it?!  Very flawed logic there!

And the camping isn't dirt cheap, it's £5.  I normally IIRC pay nothing, or sometimes £3 depending on the venue.  £5 is steep.  A minor point compared to the entry fees though.

"For the size of the hill they do damn good job of making a fun and as lengthy as possible course."

Agreed.  Was never questioning that.