devo rider photo update

Our young gun development rider James shreds his local in the spring sun shine. James gets skills and fitness coaching from Trail Head ( https://www.facebook.com/TrailHeadcoaching ) and support from Rider Run Company.

Boys gear up for some Enduro racing

Team Riders Oli and Dom prepare for the first round of the Fetish Bikes UK Gravity Enduro Series at Innerleithen, Scotland.

After a healthy 26th overall at the Frostbite 40 enduro at Brechfa, a race that Oli missed due to illness, this year Dom and Oli decided to take on the full UK Gravity Enduro calendar.
With the likes of UK Champion Rob Cooksley, World Cup Champion Tracey Mosely and multi Megavalanche winner Jerome Clementz taking part at a great line up of venues in some seriously far flung parts of the UK this represents a real challenge and a big commitment to the westcountry riders!
Round one on the 24/25 March is now just round the corner and Dom and Oli have been stepping their preparation up a gear in anticipation.

Dom: It's a long way to Scotland from Cornwall so we're planning to break up the journey by leaving early and taking in some of the countries best trails along the way! Hopefully we won't be too busy enjoying ourselves to make the most of saturday practice and make our final tyre choices depending on the weather.

Bike wise Doms Devinci Hectik has remained reasonably unchanged from the Brechfa Enduro, sticking with a 160mm suspension set up, 32t single ring and dropper seatpost, the only changes being a freshly mojo'd Fox 36 Talas fork and stiffer E thirteen DH cranks.
Oli's Proflex on the other hand has been seriously beefed up with the addition of some 170mm Rockshox Lyric air forks and a new Rockshox Vivid air shock as well as a new dropper seatpost.
Both bikes will be sporting Sensus Salmon Hook grips.

Find out how the boys do as soon as we get the news!

XC race report : woodbury rd1

After a week of dry weather the rain came over night and the track was a mud fest, Elbry was first of the team to turn up and it was clear his aspen dry hard pack tyres were not the one, dom and Oli soon turned up, Dom had no cash and miles from a cash point they hunted deep in the vans to find some race entry money for him and it was all go.

Dom and Oli would race sport and 2 mins later the stacked Masters class set off with Elbry getting a good jump in the first group in masters, Oli and Dom let the barging go on before cranking out a fast second lap, as for Elbry his fast start was the best part the race as he hit the mud of the singletrack and shot out the back from the lead group down to 15th. Lap 3 and Oli and Dom were past by a charging Elbry that was doing his thing, finding lines and being smooth, Elbry made a wrong turn and dropped to 16th while oli was killin it on the dh and saving his energy on the flats, Elbry made his way back to 15th on the steep drop dh section on the last lap but was past back on the short up hill when he was foced to get off thanks to a lack of grip, Sitting in elbry was game for a sprint finish, Last climbs in 2 parts before the finish, but as they hit the climb a large section of tree went in to his wheel and mech, getting it out and away Elbry had dropped 30 seconds, pushing hard on the last climb but finished less than a second short of 15th.. Oli and dom rolled in for some solid points thanks to a great 7th and 8th in our first xc race for the Ride- All team, Elbry put his bike in the van and was off to pack a landing down for a new huck, Oli and Dom had a pasty,beer and a smoke before heading home.

Boys will be back in xc and enduro action in a few weeks time.

Team supported by Rider Run Company , Freestyle Xtreme.com and Trail Head skills coaching.

xc woodbury, full sus rd 1

above : Dom 8th in sport, time of 1 hour 53.46
above: Elbry 16th in Masters, 1 hour 48.02

below : oli 7th in sport, 1 hour 50.00
thanks to snapper chick for the photos.

full race report up later this week.

Rider Run Company: Ride - All team, supported by Trail Head coaching and Freestyle Xtreme.com .

James Davey Rides XC