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Mick Whyte and Nathan Foster attended the 3rd round of the Pearce DH series at Bucknell, here's Mick's report: It seemed as though The Pearce race team had booked some sunshine for the weekend - nice. I had a reasonable practice day on a track that doesn't really suit me; too short, jumpy and without enough techy rooty sections but it is a good fun ride. I had a bit of a mare on my

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RG Squadron Youth rider Nathan Foster headed up to Fort William for the second round of the British Downhill Series, possibly the best and hardest national series in the world.  Nathan in the Hot Seat during Sunday's race After a long drive arriving at fort William we went up on the gondola to have a track walk. I knew the track was long and hard but it still surprised me, After riding

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With Chaz Owen out due to his wrist injury, last week, Mick Whyte and Nathan Foster attended the second round of the Pearce Cycles DH series at Bala: Mick Whyte After track walking a very dusty and dry course on Friday night I was really looking forward to a very different course to last year. However, the sound of rain on tent all through the night put paid to that! Most of the course was

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A busy weekend for the RG squadron with two races drawing our attention. The cancelling of the first Pearce round due to snow meant it was rescheduled for the same weekend as North West Round 2. Mick Whyte, Nathan Foster and Chaz Owen went to Bringewood for the rescheduled Bringewood race, Mitch Ingley went to NW2. Pearce #1 Bringewood Nathan Foster: 3rd Youth, 2:17.958 "On practice day it

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RG Squadron/Works Components rider Mitch Ingley attended the first round of the British Downhill Series at Combe Sydenham in his first race for the team since rejoining for 2013:  "Saturday practice was awesome and felt really good in the morning and the track was fast! Then by the afternoon with the rain coming down it was start to get tacky and slowing everyone down. I only did three runs

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Squadron junior rider Will Homer attended the first round of the MIJ Summer season at the Forest of Dean, here's his race report: My first race of the season was 7th April at the Forest of Dean. MIJ, the organiser had laid on an awesome event, the track was wide open, flat out with big jumps and was running really fast. The conditions were perfect, dry and dusty with masses of grip but it was

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RG Squadron is a volunteer run team with a mission of growing and developing competitive downhill riders from our region. We're supported by fantastic sponsors Works Components and O'Neal Europe along with Racersguild. who have helped us put together the best support package ever. Riding for RG Squadron this year: Andy Hughes - Expert Chaz Owen - Senior Mitch Ingley - Senior Mick Whyte -

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At the Midlands Championships last year, Jason Brennan of Rave Racing was very badly injured during racing. Due to the efforts of the Extreme Medics, the North Wales Air Ambulance, Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital and his own bloody minded nature, he's making his way towards recovery. Pearce Cycles have helped support Jason since his accident and, for the end of the season, laid on a weekend of

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Three Cannock Racers Guild regulars made the trip ‘oop North’ for the North West MTB rnd 2 event at Farmer John’s; Squadron rider Mick Whyte, Racers Guild Leader and biggest proponent Harry Clark and all round good guy Lee Pettitt. We’d all seen videos and heard it was flat at the top, and it was, but conditions were brilliant and it made for a BMX type top section down to the infamous ‘Hut

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Mick Whyte reports from the second round of the Pearce Cycles Summer series at Hopton Castle:Despite the awful weather forecast me and Declan braved the elements and camped over on both Friday and Saturday, it never rained but Jesus it was damn cold on Friday night! 2 sleeping bags each and still cold!The Saturday practice went well; slightly damp and greasy to start with but the day stayed dry.

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Thanks to Dan Armishaw  ( www.djaphoto.co.uk ) for the photo! 2011's Pearce Cycles Summer Series was a wintery test of resolve, with tyre options ranging from "Do I run full spikes, or just canoe down?", and with the weather man painting a grim picture last thursday, most of us had resigned ourselves to the end of the winter drought being heralded by the start of Britain's finest race

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Extreme's whole aim when getting into organising their own races was to provide fun, affordable racing that'd provide a good way in for entry level riders who don't want the stress of the of one of the big 300+ rider headliner events like Pearce Cycles or the BDS. With Nant G, they delivered that by the bucketload. 12 months after the BDS stopped at Nant G, Extreme Knowhow were back again with

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Good results for Elliot and Andy at Moelfre yesterday. Andy was 6th in a field of 93 Seniors - he had the escape of the year, doing the final jump and compression standing on one pedal!!  Elliot was 4th in Elite - Elliot actually got on the podium as the guy in 3rd place was Welsh. A case of what might have been as he had a mechanical on the fastest part of the track that cost him

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It's been a busy few months for RGsquadron riders since Mount St Ash! Elliot Machin (Elite) has had some good results and a few instances of plain old bad luck, but his 5th at the Welsh Champs is a podium to be proud of! Getting out to Pila for the IXS cup was a real highlight for Elliot and is the first of a proper international career for Elliot. Elliot picked a fight with a tree at the final

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Last weekend RG Squadron riders Adam Halling and Elliot Machin took the long trip down to South Wales for round 3 of the Welsh Downhill Mountainbike Accociation's summer series. This series is a fantastically well organised collection of races at the tracks that used to be raced by the Dragon Downhill Series. The Mountain Ash venue is a long but seriously old-school track. It's a series of bus

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RGsquadron/Readytoridecycles rider Andy Hughes raced Kill the Bill 2 at Fort William on the 3rd of July. Here's his Victory weekend in his own words: The track was the normal Fort William track, the same as will be used for BDS round 5 in September. It's super rough, the longest track in the UK and amongst the longest in the world. It had a tight line in to the woods which was a bit

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A wet and slick, super steep Llangollen open track was presented to riders on Saturday, but it slowly dried out meaning by the end of it, it was running a damn sight faster than the uplift was. We woke up Sunday to blissful sunshine, and hot heat by 8am! With the uplift running better than the previous day and shifting 220 an hour, our boys got on the practice train. Mick Whyte was attending

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Seb Frost at Rootsandrain.co.uk has drawn up the seeded start list for this weekend's BDS Round 3 at Llangollen. Seb uses clever maths and bases the seed on not only the current series standings, but on every downhill race you have ever done. That means that your place in the seeded start list ought to be a fair reflection of where you *should* be in your race run, a good day will see you

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Jim Lycett, Adam Halling and Mick Whyte hit Round 3 of the Pearce Cycles series this weekend. Saturday's conditions were dry and fast, with a few red flags pausing practice, and a spot of rain in the afternoon to keep the dust down. Sunday's conditions however were not so cheery. Driving up to the venue, rain clouds were unloading as soon as we passed through Shrewsbury and that stuck with us all

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High winds forced the organisers to abandon the meeting at the Halo BDS Rd3 Glencoe. Adam, Andy and Elliot travelled the 350+ miles up and rode well on the Saturday, despite appalling conditions. Sadly, the weather deteriorated further on Sunday and the chairlift was closed, forcing the race to be abandoned. Speaking late Sunday night Elliot said "I'm gutted that the race

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First off, well done to Elliot Machin, who travelled to Ireland to compete in the Irish NPS, you can read about it here: http://www.southerndownhill.com/racing/reports/elliot-and-sams-big-irish-adventure.html A good result against Ben Reid's regular riding buddies! Action all over this weekend: Mick Whyte, Andy Hughes and Alex Thompson attended Racersguild on Saturday: Photo credit:

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Mick Whyte and Jim Lycett attended round 2 of the Pearce Cycles series at Bringewood on the 8th May. Saturday practice was so wet, rainy and slippy/unrideable at the top that they had to cut a completely new line in during practice - the old school way.  We simply moved any big logs and debris and rode it in through the mulch.  Sweet.  This new line was not exactly easy in the

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Last weekend four members of the RG Squadron/Ready to Ride team hit Moelfre for Round 2 of the British Downhill Series. Mick Whyte rails the final berm The track was classic Moelfre, down the ridge, fighting the grass turns over divots, over the quarry, over last year's bombhole and then steam down the hill through the berms and into the big stepdowns, that done, riders attacked the gorse

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Hopton is a familiar sight to any experienced downhill racer in the UK, but presented a fresh challenge to RGsquadron newbies MickWhyte and Jim Lycett. Pearce Cycles Round 1 is their first major event, a real baptism of fire on a track that's hosted the NPS and national champs in the past. Jim Lycett during practice Practice on Saturday went well for both riders, with RGsquadron old-boy Greg

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Nant G is a North Wales venue that's new to the BDS calender this year. The track is a tale of two opposites Out of the gate, it's straight in with steepness, roots, rocks and mud, following a stream for a ways. As it makes its way down the hill, the steepness sticks round and the rocks get bigger. Some sections really wouldn't look out of place at a World Cup. Half way down it's all change, as

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