Ae Forest SDA Rd4 2010

Round 4 of the SDA was held at Ae Forest near Dumfries at the weekend in the beautiful sunshine, yeah I said sunshine. It’s been a few years since I’d been at a race down here and it hadn’t rained but hey when the suns out it’s a great place to be. The track this weekend was the old top section till you got into the trees, over the wee huck jump and then off to the right through the tight fir trees then out over the stream crossing. Once you were over the first big jump you were off to the left through a small new grassy section to the big hip jump then as you were in the nationals to the rock garden. Down into the trees after that (no coffin jump this weekend) out the fir trees and hard right down the off camber track to a couple of new berms down to the big step down then as you were down through the big berms over the wall and down the walk up path to the finish line rather than the normal elevator finish.

Not much more can be said about Ae that hasn’t been said before so we’ll crack on. Few faces missing this weekend with some folk still chilling out down in the Alps etc.  One young lad Lewis Buchanan isn’t one of them he’s been out in Canada racing his butt off against some tuff competition in the Canadian Open. Lewis managed to put in a stonking 2^nd place behind Gee Atherton – not bad for a young 16 yr old. Good effort and looks like he’s on form for the last WC round then the Worlds.

Peth City Cycles rider Fergus Lamb was the top man today taking the elite win and fastest time of the day in 2.04.4 over Mythics Factory rider Adam Brayton just 4 tenths back, 3^rd place was MTBCut.tv Joe Barnes in a time of 2.05.4

Good day for Perth City Cycles as their Expert rider Ben Hall took the win over James Scott with Andy Phillips getting 3^rd for All Terrain Cycles

Uplift Scotland rider Bex Reilly was 3^rd in the woman’s class today behind a happy Angela Coates who rode the big step down for the first time this weekend, winner today was Sarah Newman with a time of 2.44.4

Glentress riders Neil Wilson continued his winning ways by taking the Veterans win over Kenny Denoon, Pete Hoggan coming back from a knee injury got a good 3^rd place today.

The Whitfield brothers continued their battle in the Masters with Chris getting the better of Jed this weekend by just a tenth of a second to take the win for All Terrain Cycles, Chris Coates was the 3^rd man on the podium.

Seniors next up saw Joe Flanagan riding for All Terrain Cycles take the win over Descent Hamsterley’s Andrew Kipling with High Line Racing’s James Shirley in 3^rd.

Mark Scott completed a treble off wins for All Terrain Cycles this weekend with the junior win over MTBCut’s Greg Williamson; High Line racing’s Ronan Taylor was 3^rd

Joe Connell riding for AlpineBikes took the win today in the youth class to add to his win last weekend in the BDS round down in Wales, 2^nd place was Fraser McGlone with 3^rd going to Greg Gilfillan.

Perth City Cycles were another sponsor with 3 winners today with Sam Herd getting the Juvenile win over Zander Fagerson with The Bikeworx rider Innes Graham in 3rd

Final round of the SDA DH series will be held at the famous Fort William track on the 11^th and 12^th September.

Full results here

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