Saturday 3rd Feb, 533 Galpins Road, Marton
I haven’t been to a XC in a while. Usually I don’t have much fun, mostly due to having to ride the KDX which is big and heavy and I’m always a bit nervous on. This time, though, I was feeling a lot more comfortable on the bike. I don’t know whether it was me just finally getting used to the bike or if it was the track, or a bit of both, but I had an awesome time.
The track was mostly on farmland, with a few bits in the trees. It was good that I was tryi9ng to go a bit faster becuase the ground was very bumpy and hard but it got smoother the faster I went.
There was nothing that was hard but it wasn’t boringly easy either, and there were a few bits that were really cool to ride.
One bit was a few metres of trees in the middle of a paddock so you could come towards the trees fairly fast, then pull the clutch in, and coast through the chicane of trees, then open ther throttle on the other side. It was pretty fun.
We also rode a bit on the motocross track. I wasn’t looking forward to it. Mostly because, if I fell off, everyone would see, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It was still my least favourite part of the track but the rest of the track was pretty awesome so I can’t complain.
There were quite a few injuries in the senior race and they even had to get a helicopter in for one guy but the junior race that I was in didn’t have any problems and I had a great day.