This last weekend was the second time the whole SPS team had got together and it was pretty cool to catch up with everyone and see how their winter riding and training had been going. Also had some extra big time pro's and friends of the SPS came along for the weekend by the names of Josh Bryceland and Marc Beaumont. It was ace to catch up, hang and ride with these guys.
The whole team were lucky enough to be staying at http://www.blazingbikes.co.uk/links, these guys have got an amazing set up going on with the new bike shop, camping pods and the awesome Station Inn pub next door. Big props to Richard the owner who
is a top fella along with all the staff especially Will and Mike who got things sorted for us all. Be sure to check the facilities out if your over that way!
We were blessed with some dusty trails at Hopton on the Saturday and the excellent Pearce Cycles team took care of the uplifts. We got a few runs in to loosen up, Ratboy loosened right up and had a biggie early on, hit his head hard along with splitting his eye open so decided to rest up for the rest of the day... The rest of us then did a load of sections with Peaty and Marc which was ace, Marc sent a huge gap off the back of a berm which looked insane. Both Steve and Marc shared some lines with us and pretty certain everyone came away all the faster for it.
We all headed back to Blazing Bikes HQ to get cleaned up and check the bikes over, then hit the pub for some much needed dinner and of course some hydration...
Steve and Tristan surprised us all with some goodies from new sponsors http://www.evocsports.com/ and http://www.smugglingduds.com/ which basically comprised of a sweet new trail riding pack from Evoc that that was rammed full of new boxer shorts. Loosedog Lewis managed to slip in to a little posing pouch for us all and wowed the restaurant guests by getting jiggy, Sheffields answer to the mankini, good work pal.
Sunday morning started pretty wet under foot after heavy rain during the night, we all had some breaky together and then headed off to Hopton again for another awesome day on the bikes. My boy Josh tagged along and was more than stoked to ride with the likes of Steve and J Bryce. Cheers boys for helping him out and looking after him, he was made up to say the least especially with Steve following him down and Bryceland helping him out on sections.
The weekend was soon coming to an end before we knew it so it was time to pack up say our farewells and hit the road home.
So, everyone is heading to the first round of The BDS next week at Nant G, the bikes are being built as we speak so look out for us all next weekend we'll be on the spanking Santa Cruz V10's and sporting some fresh togs from Royal Racing and looking the
That's it for now
Catch you all soon
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