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| Scottish DH Series Rd 1,
Innerleithen and San Remo, Italy– Tracy Moseley report |
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Having only had one chance to ride my new downhill bike I decided
to head up to Scotland to get some downhill practice in. Innerleithen
is one of my favourite venues as I have been racing there since
1997. New trails are being built all the time and the standard of
tracks just keep evolving with development of the sport. You also
get a good work out at Innerleithen as you have to ride 2 miles
along the road from the bottom of the course to the entrance to
the fireroad where the uplift begins ! Well uplift is quite a loose
description as it’s a big sheep transporter that is used here
for loading bikes and people. You rattle in the darkness of the
truck along with 40 other people and bikes for about 15 mins until
you reach the top of the hill, hopefully with your breakfast still
inside you !! Still I am not complaining as we used to have to push
to the top, which used to take me an hour !
The race track had some new sections mixed in with some old tracks,
which made for a great course. Lots of roots and off camber and
very tight gaps between trees ! It was a real old school downhill
track which I loved. The weather was great and it stayed dry for
almost the entire weekend, only to give in just before the second
runs.
There were very few girls, so I did not have a great field of competition,
so I took the win with ease, but this weekend was more about training
than the racing so it was definitely a very worthwhile trip. It
was also great to see that the sport is certainly thriving in Scotland
as the entire summer series if full already ! It’s great to
see a such passion for the sport at the grass roots level with most
of the organisational crew consisting of riders mum’s and
dad’s ! This led to a great atmosphere which I enjoyed being
part of. I am hoping to take part in the final round of the series
in September.
Result
1st Tracy Moseley – 3.46
2nd Jaymie Mart – 4.51
3rd Wendy Chambers – 5.05
I then spent a couple of days riding xc with a friend from university.
I can never come and visit the Scotland without stopping to ride
some of the 7stanes trails. We did the black trail at Glentress
on Monday morning and then drove down to Ae Forest and did that
trail in the afternoon. So that was a good workout, about 50km offroad.
Then the following day we travelled to Kirroughtree to do the black
trail there which I still think is my favourite of the 7 stanes
trails. There is so much twisting singletrack that you do not really
realise that you are climbing !!
Then straight to Liverpool airport to catch a flight out to Nice
to race an Italian National at San Remo. The downhill course at
San Remo is often used for suspension testing by Fox in Europe as
it is one of the roughest tracks about. Its 5 minutes of bike and
body beating ! Again this was just an opportunity to get some more
testing with the new bikes and more downhill training before the
first world cup in Vigo in 2 weeks time.
We had 3 days of training on the course before the race which was
great, although my hands were starting to give up on me by day 3
! We had the chance to do some work with Fox Europe and definitely
came up with a great set up for out rear shock for this track. By
the time the race came I was pretty tired and really didn’t
race well. I made a lot of mistakes at the bottom of the course
which cost me valuable time.
Results
1st Sabrina Jonnier – 5.21
2nd Emmeline Ragot – 5.26
3rd Tracy Moseley – 5.27
4th Celine Gros – 5.31
Although I was disappointed not to win I was also content with the
fact that the last 2 weeks had been all about training and I was
definitely not fresh for this race ! I now have 10 days at home
to rest and get ready for another assault on the World Cup title.
Tracy
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