Racers Guild Time Practice – June 2012

Having been away from the DH scene for a few weeks I found time to pop along to the monthly timed practice up at Stile Cop on Cannock Chase.

The chosen line was a favourite of mine as a rider and consisted of Ridge Run veering off into a link up to Little Bringe and then veering off to a different ending through the tight trees making for a great mixture of features for the day.

Weather wise well…the forecast showed for some showers and then mainly dry and sunny spells, that certainly wasn’t what we got. Heavy prolonged showers from 10am onwards with the odd spell where it stopped to allow for some windows of good visibility – all made for a good days riding and photographing however.

The results are not yet up so for now I will just share some highlights of the day from the photos – all images of the day can be found here: http://djaphoto.pinkbike.com/album/Racers-Guild-June-2012/

Decent starting conditions soon fizzled out…

Making way for much trickier things to come!

Scott Bird giving it his all on a day where effort and patience were required

Adam Halling making light work of a mid section berm

Riders pushing up amidst the rain showers

 Alex ’pube’ Rigby  hanging on

Birdy ripping mid section against heavy rain

Andy Huges was looking very quick on every run today!

Tom Knight of Identiti Bikes looked the quickest through the mid section to me…

Conditions not being in the riders favour everyone did very well effort wise, hats off