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Entries...are Not open today! There is a good reason for this, a lot is going on behind the scenes with possible expansion of the series. I don't want to promise anything here as there are lots of things that need to fall into place, venues, clubs etc. I have 6 dates approved for 2025 at Potash, but I want to hold back on announcing these to give us flexibility with accommodating other events. I can't put a firm date for opening entries other than saying it won't be later than the 1st Jan 2025. It has been nice seeing so many riders from the series at the CX races, especially in a more relaxed atmosphere without my organiser hat on. 
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What a fantastic series of events this year at the Travers MTB Series. Again it has been great to have the opportunity to give you the general safety briefing before the start of each race. I have had some excellent feedback from many of the riders about how their fellow competitors have been supportive and encouraging. In a couple of my pre race chats I did feel like I was giving you a telling off and if this was the case please accept my apologies. Being a Commissaire the balance of giving safety advice and moaning is a difficult task and I hope I got the balance right. Over the few years I’ve been your Comm at the Travers races I’ve seen many riders go through the age categories and many first timers progress through the ranks coming back year after year. The youngest riders were a pleasure to talk to and watch them compete with each other and I do believe they all abided the first rule of racing - to have fun. Some of the best feedback I’ve received is from the women who have been racing at the same time as the youth and juvenile riders. These young riders are a credit to the sport and they have been very supportive and polite to the women riders many of whom have never raced before. Many people congratulated me on the course design which is actually all down to Michael Travers I just approve it. Thank you for being good sports, good listeners and thanks for the banter. Kevin  U7/9/12 Series prize giving will be at 10:30, parents you have time to do a lap before we hand out the awards. We would like all of the helmet tags back, you can keep the number boards. Hand them in after the U7/9/12 prize-giving in exchange for one of these sweet treats. Please check with parents/guardians if it's okay.  Entries close at midnight Wednesday, Whoop Whoop, last time I have to say that this year! The course will as usual switch in direction from round 5, so both of the A/B lines are going up. The photos are from the A/B line near the start, the A-line remains almost the same (there is a slightly easier run-in) The B line is completely different, it's now on the left-hand side of the A-line and is longer and feeds back in at the top of the hill. The A/B line in the middle of the course is almost identical just reversed. The A-line has an easier step to the left of the jump at the top of the hill, The B-line has been made longer to make the A-line the quickest track. A few other alterations on the course to make the course flow better run in this direction. Little experiment, we are still having the odd issue with adults getting in the way of riders in the U7 category, I have considered a number of options but I think the best solution is an adult cut-through. This will be from the top to the bottom of the hill (adults miss out the downhill section). Adults can help going up but then cut through off the track to catch up with their rider at the bottom of the hill. This should stop any rider/parent interaction on the faster sections of the course. I am not going to make it compulsory for adults to take the cut-through as I realise some younger/less confident riders might need help on the way down but please adults if you do continue down, can you be extra careful of riders on the course.  Round 6 Race day timings. I have added 5 minutes between each of the U7/9/12 races, so hopefully we can get them away on time and not have a knock-on effect during the day. The prize presentation for the U7/9/12 is at 10:30, this is to allow us time to work out the overall standing and allow Youth/Juv and adult riders to get a lap in and still see the prize presentation. Youth, Juvenile and Adult prize presentation will be around 15:45 or as close to the end of the final L2/Fun race as we can once we have worked out all the results.  We have made the results for round 5 final and updated the series standing. Don't forget it's your best 5 of 6 results, so if you have had a bad round due to illness or mechanical you can drop that and leap up the standings with a good result at round 6. Link to Series Standing  Thanks to our amazing sponsor MT ZOOM Racing we have lots of prizes for the final round raffle, for those who have not ridden before, you put your helmet tag into the bucket and its drawn out at random. Anyone who riders, marshals or helps will be entered. This is just a small selection of items, they have sent. There are also vouchers for £100, 75, 50 and 25. So if you don't see something you want here you can choose from their site. https://mtzoom.com/ The series trophies have arrived, thanks to Hadleigh MTB Club who have sponsored them. With just 2 rounds left in the series are you still in with a shout for the top 3? Don't forget if you have a bad round due to illness or mechanical or miss a round only your best 5 of 6 races count.
Thanks to our amazing sponsors Squirt Cycling Products UK the Series prizes and lottery prizes have arrived. No more excuses not to have a spotless, perfectly lubed bike! |
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