Well we had a wonderful day for the February Racers Guild fund raiser for fallen Rave Racing rider Jason Brennan – beginning with a fresh covering of snow to start things off then pretty much pure sun for the rest of the day.

Alot of action was taking place on the chosen line of Little Bringe – a Stile Cop classic which has a quick swoopy top to technical lower through the tight and twisty trees, perfect for this particular event with some of the riders that turned up.

Plenty of faces turned up to support Jason, and Rave Racing came in force – it was a pleasure to be a part of.

Results etc will be up on the Racers Guild website but I have the duty of supplying a photo blog of some of the days events.

All of the days images can be seen on my pinkbike account here: http://djaphoto.pinkbike.com/album/Racers-Guild-February-2012/

Sorry to anyone that doesn’t have a photo, I do try but it’s not always possible to snap everyone and i did do some riding myself. Also big thanks to the Rave Racing crew that came along and made the day extra special, I do hope I managed to get some photos of your guys that opted to ride.

Hope you enjoy

Plenty turned up ready for sign on

Mick Whyte looking after the number boards. Mick did well to make this event happen. Hats off!

 The result of melting snow

A great line choice meant for some testing conditions

 New faces for the new year too

Catching riders out left right and center today

Time to dust yourself down and crack on at times like this

Full credit to Harry Clark too of the Racers Guild for his part in making the day happen

 Mick getting some practice in for a full Pearce Cycles round of DH races

Some big numbers meant for an experiment with 30 second gaps in some riders start times

Scruff getting out of the trails what he puts in! One of the main faces of the trail building team

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Quick blast down the Red Run towards the end of the day following my efforts taking photos.

Link to HD version: http://vimeo.com/37131218

Racers Guild at Stile Cop Cannock Chase this month will be held on Sunday 19th February in aid of Jason Brennan who is part of the Rave Racing Dowhill team.

Unfortunately Jason broke his back in October of last year and is still in the same hospital where he weas taken in.

The Rave Racers guys are a great bunch and have agreed to come over and take part in our monthly timed practice at Stile Cop in aid of Jason, and funds/donations will be taken towards helping the fallen rider. A raffle will take place after some very kind donations from well known bike shops, so it all looks to be the recipe for a great day of riding and all for a very worthy cause.

Get yourself up to Stile Cop and see what we are all about!

Photos and report will follow the event.

Testing a new plugin from JW Player which offers a bigger player for hd videos and also runs files directly from my server and not a limited bandwidth one like Kaltura.

Files is 65mb so may take a moment to buffer. Try it see what you think!

Will be working on better compression for this new player to try and keep file sizes down.

Struggling with some video hosting websites and their encoding, I decided to try and find a good player at a decent size to play my hd helmet cam videos.

JW Player came up and here is the test using a 10mb snippet from one of my helmet cam clips.

Finally managed to get round to trying the new mount out on the Drift HD170, MUCH better!