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Mates Race Conisborough 2: Race Review

2010-01-19T03:56:00.004Z

Nice to see the lads being featured at www.dirtmountainbike.com. Click HERE to read the race review.

Riders ready 3,2,1 - GO!

2009-04-15T23:10:00.003+01:00

Last weekend was the start of the race season, Steetly DH / BMX Nationals / UCI World Cup.

Steetly DH was awsome a great turnout and loads of fun. The track had been around for months and was riding very good on saturday, too good infact with 3 hospital visits within a week, 1 - Broken nose 1 - Broken leg 1 - Broken vertebrae and ribs get well soon people. The race it self went ahead with a few last minute changes to make the track safer an more enjoyable, loads of people turned up to race and probably more people turned up to watch. The race was well organised and fast racing against the clock makes the track ace and with everyone cheering it feels like a mini world cup. Ripper roberts lived up to his name by ripping two rear mechs off within half hour, unlucky DNF!!!!!!!!!
Alex Rolls made the trip down from sheffield and raced without even seeing the track navigating his way down the new track in 1:12 and improving by 10 seconds in his second run. We all knew batey would take the fastest time and he made it look easy. Mayes raced and posted a time of 53.82, my fastest time was a 51.31.

Derby BMX national - The 1st BMX national for DBMX riders, not sure what happened as i wasnt there but the team did well for their first outing. Jonny's category was the most stacked with 20+ riders in his group which made racing really hardwork for the youth. Carr had a busy category with Dale holmes racing in his category the lad did ok though, more road miles for you!!! Grant beat Dom which is always good haha, he did well in most of his races.

The UCI DH and 4X race took place in RSA, and it was good to watch all the pro's back on form and doing what they do best all the action can be watched at www.freecaster.tv

Next month is another busy one - Rotherham, Peterbough, Rebel Racing round 2, Burnham National BMX and the MBUK live Dual Slalom event!!!

Busy weekend

2009-04-10T14:03:00.004+01:00

Well theres shit loads of stuff happening this weekend. 1st off its the 1st 2 rounds of the 2009 BMX national series at Derby, the DBMX crew will be represented by:

Adam Carr: 19+ men
John Woodward: Junior men
Grant Hill: 15+ men
Jordan Smith: 15+ men
Brad: 15+ men
Carl Dixon: 16+ Cruiser

All of them will be camping it up in the DBMX caravan, Good luck to you guys.

Next up its the 1st ever DH race at Steetly woods, hosted by Rebel Racing. This is set to be wicked DBMX will also be represented in this event by:

Alex Rolls
Chris Mayes
Chris Kellett

Another major event that is happening this weekend is the 1st round of the UCI DH/4X world cup in south africa, this is watchable on FREECASTER.TV this is the best and only place to watch all the action from the start of the 2009 season, its gonna be ace can't wait.

Also on TV tonight about 9pm is new episodes of Red Dwarf :D

Oh yea n sunday its easter.

Recent riding

2009-04-04T22:32:00.003+01:00

Riding recently has been great. For the 1st time since when I started riding I have ridden my bike for 8 days in a row.

TEAM EXTREME were down at the hexthorpe track to create awarness about the track and hopefuly get more people riding, all that I noticed was more chavvy kids eyeing everyones bikes up. Was a good day and hopefully the track changes will take place.

As the DBMX crew has been riding alot recently this has resulted in some crashes none too serious but could of been a lot worse all I can say is please wear your helmet especially when riding big FUCKING trails and DH tracks.

Cheers

Kellett

Are you ready to STEP UP???

2009-03-22T20:11:00.005Z

God i'm tired, another great days racing.

New track this week well for the most of the DBMX crew, the previous reports that we'd heard about the track been big and lengthy were correct although the track dosnt look that long when your riding/racing it felt endless.

With the event been an inter-regional and the only time to race Derby before the national next month all of the categories were stacked well apart from the 3 man MTB category haha.

Grant Hill - Fresh from a mid week training session was looking very fast although turning up late, his category was stacked with 2 full gates worth of riders. I think he took every race with a nice victory. The racing was close between him and Dom in the final with Grant making a good move on the last berm.

Jonny Woodward - A STUPIDLY stacked junior men category for jonny to contend with and damm them kids are fast, most would do well in the 19+ category. A mixed batch of results for him mainly the top 3 I think with a 4th place finish in the A - Final

Chabz Woodward - Not even phased by the fact that she was totally in the wrong category a 10 year old girl racing against 10-13 year old lads, although saying that she still beat some of the lads in a few races, I think she needs to move into the girls expert category. She also got to meet her hero who scribbled on her hoody, the bloke from Blue Peter - I reckon she'd beat him in a race.

Carl Dixon - Cruiser Carl stepping it up in yet another stacked category another 2 gates worth of riders made for interesting racing. The gates where good from Carl but a lack of jumping confidence ment the lead was lost come the 1st jump - Think me and Carl need to hit some trails - a 2nd 3rd 4th and a 4th in the final for Carl put an end to a long race day.

Adam Carr - Man of the day me thinks, for once he wasn't taking it easy he had to work for his dinner, the 19+ cat was stacked with elite riders, fast junior men and the regular fast riders from the 19+ category. It was time for racing national style. Everyone is this category had the snap Kelvin was stupidly fast off the gate but closley followed by the rest of the crew. Every moto was stacked for 19+ Adam did well thou getting - 1st 2nd 3rd in his motos and a 3rd in his pointless semi final - most of the riders went home - This just left 8 riders for the final!!! NO HOLDING BACK, although it was just A inter regional all of the riders left the gate flat out, Adam got snapped like a KitKat but did amazingly well to get back to 4th place in the 1st berm a few more roadd miles and some gate practice he will be perfect in the ELITE CATEGORY.

Me - Chris Kellett!!! - After an early start 8:00 thats early for me, we made our way to Derby via Mal G's van. Getting there about half 8 we saw Blue Peter snapping some gates which ment the track was closed till gone half ten. I liked the 1st and last straight but the second one was just stupidly TECH even the pro's were struggling the head wind didn't thou. The MTB category was the most stacked category of the day with a whole THREE riders o well at least the worst I could do was 3rd. ME and my new arch rival Kriss Brown where on the gate and it was the exact repeat of harwoth although Kriss' gates have improved all 2nds for me, and a good days racing was had. Maybe next time Kriss haha.

Overall another good days racing for the DBMX crew, most of us didn't like the track maybe because we are unfit haha.

Derby national next month

ADAM CARR MUST RACE ELITE

EDIT: I've just had some bad news about Jordan who crashed in the junior men A final unfortunatly he is currently in intensive care - Heeling vibes from the DBMX crew.

Racing is Back!!!!

2009-03-18T20:16:00.002Z

The winter is over and the 2009 race season has started, the start of a busy 2009 season was started with a Midlands regional race at local track Harwoth.

The track had recently been resurfaced and was riding amazingly fast and the weather was rather good.

The majority of the DBMX crew arrived, Brad was otherwise occupied, and Ginner was on holiday again.

Once everybody had arrived and eventually woke up, we all sessioned the gate to see if we still had the snap and we did, Grant Hill's winter training seems to of worked that kid was flying arch rival Dom from rotherham seemed to be his only threat haha. Adam Carr was up to his normal routine of pulling silly tricks over the jumps even with his quick release front wheel.Tommy Lee was around and made an appearence every hour not sure how his races went. Mr Dixon who had been doing some winter training was hard to spot in his new white racegear, people was use to seeing him in the good old blue and orange.

Racing was started after all 155 riders where entered into the computer system which took sometime. Jonny was put in Adams race group although Jonny would race under the junior category. Throughout the motos it was mainly Mr Carr taking the wins in the 19+ category, Jonny and Vinyard where busy battling throughout the motos. Adam took the 19+ final and overall points and Jonny took the overall points in junior men.

Grant Hill was on fire in the motos, mainly battling against Kelvin Bateys apprentice Dom from rotherham. It made for some good cheering from the DBMX camp. Grant did well and won the final without much trouble after Dom became trapped in the group shortly after the gate.

Carl was in a highly competative cruiser class with the majority of the MTB crew having bought cruisers over the winter this would. Ryan vinyard was also racing in this category so the cruiser class was sent down shortly after the novices had finished. The racing was fast and relitivley close, not sure how Carl did in his motos 3rds 4ths and 5ths I think finishing 5th overall in the points.

The MTB category was revived this season which was good news for me, the usual MTB crew turned up. Me, Kriss Brown, Callam Baines and 3 others. After a winter of riding DH I was feeling confident about finishing the race in one piece. All of my races followed the same pattern me getting the snap and powering down to the 3rd double into the berm only to be jumped over by Mr brown, really need to get that jump done. With 2nds throughout all my races I was happy.

Overall A good days racing for DBMX

Next race Derby this weekend

THE FUTURES BRIGHT, THE FUTURES FREERIDE!!!!

2008-11-17T22:57:00.003Z

AS THE TRACK IS TO WET OR WINDY TO RIDE ATM, SO THE PLAN IS TO MOVE TOWARDS THE PLAYGROUND THAT IS KNOW AS STEETLY QUARRY :D

MANY NEW RIDERS HAVE DISCOVERED THE FREERIDE PARIDISE THANKS TO THE FACEBOOK GROUP. THE WEEKEND JUST GONE MORE THAN 20 FREERIDERS HIT THE QUARRY FOR GOOD DH AND FREERIDE SESSIONS.

I WILL SOON BE PURCHASING MYSELF A LOVLEY KONA STINKY 2008 FOR SOME FREERIDE FUN DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. ( NO HANDERS WILL BE LEARNT ;)) MAYES HAS ALSO MENTIONED GETTING A FULL SUS BUT CURRENTLY OWES MONEY OUT, SO WILL BE A WHILE.

ADAM AND TEETH ARE UP FOR THE MISSIONS AS WELL AS SHEFFIELD BASED LEX WILL BE COMING DOWN TOO.

GET YOUR WATERPROOFS AND FULL FACE READY, ITS GONNA GET MESSY !!!! :]

CLUB AND TRACK INFO

2008-11-17T22:53:00.002Z

CLUB BANK ACCOUNT IS ALL SET UP AND OFFICIAL NOW SO WILL BE COLLECTING FUNDS FOR CLUB MEMBERSHIP SHORTLY!!!!

THERE HAS BEEN SOME COMPLICATIONS WITH THE REBUILD, DUE TO US NOT HAVING MUCH MONEY ANOTHER CONTRACTER HAS BEEN CALLED IN TO GIVE ANOTHER QUOTE. IDEA IS TO DO AWAY WITH THE PRO/SHIT DIVIDE AND JUST BUILD A SUPER SWEET PRO STRAIGHT FOR THE SECOND TO LAST STRAIGHT.

WILL BE ALL GOOD THOUGH :D

NO MORE RACING TILL MARCH 2009 NOW :( ALTHOUGH THE DONCASTER TRACK HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD AS A POTENTIAL TRACK FOR RACING NEXT YEAR.

Fat Face urban downhill nite race report.

2008-10-07T00:49:00.010+01:00

Credit to www.olivercoatsphotography.co.uk for this picture.

What an event this was!! Adam and I went up to race in Scarborough last weekend and had an incredible time. The track was right in the centre of Scarborough town riding downhill from the castle and in to the marina at the bottom of the hill. The course was brilliant compromising of lots of steps, some manmade wooden jumps, a mega-fast tarmac section followed by more steps and a drop to the finish.

Adam at full knacker!

How did we do? Well I took 20th in hardtail (no training, no fitness, no crashes, I am happy) and Adam took none other than 1st place in hardtail. Impressive stuff, especially when you consider that there was a large collection of sponsored and even professional riders who he beat in the process to his winning time of 1:21.833. There should be a lot of team managers scratching their heads as to how an unsponsored rider has beaten their entire race team who ride downhill for a living on their expensive factory bikes whilst Adam made do with a Trek bruiser with Max Daddy 1.85" tyres!! Also a big shout out to Rich Batey who took the Senior 19-29 win with a time of 1:16.751 on his Orange 224 evo.

Batey flying.

The final night time runs were eventually cancelled due to the terrible weather and following a big crash in the final set of steps the course was closed due to being considered unsafe to ride. I heard a guy fractured his skull on some metal railings! All in all though, a brilliant event. Good track, good atmosphere dispite the weather, good results for DBMX.co.uk team and a good night out to follow. Definitely one for next year i think!

Gallery coming soon!

Racing, trophies and crashes

2008-10-01T13:03:00.005+01:00

Another good day for the DBMX crew, this time at bulwell the BMX track that has beaches for berms. The track had been recently re-surfaced but without the needed rain it was just like a beachL. 1st straight had been changed with a super huge speed bump. Although I only jumped the 2nd straight completely a couple of times it was ACE, the lips felt mint and just kicked you into space.

As always everyone was flying round the track as that’s all DBMX know how to do, but unfortunately Mr Teeth had a crash during practice done his bicep in and will be out for a couple of weeks even though he still raced 3 motos and didn’t place last in any of them. Diko’s training had paid of as he was placing in each of his motos and also racked up his 1st win. Me, Carr and Woodward were all in the same category 17+, this would be fun although I was a bit nervous you’ve just got to get on with it although when your first gate in 17+ has got, TJ, Yearsley, Raz, Carr, and a few other big names the nerves start to kick in again 7th out of 7 not bothered though. Jonny won his 1st moto and him and adam proceeded to the A final while I enjoyed the B yet again got the holeshot but after that it went tits up.

The youth of DBMX did rather well too, Ginner won all his moto’s and I think his final. Brad, Grant and Davis also did well although brad needs to learn to clip in on the gateJ. Tommy lee was annihilating his competition placing in all of his races including one of his moto’s when he got a puncture going round the track.

The 2008 series trophies were awarded with a free super small tee shirt for me and Adam from route55 bmx training.

Adam Carr: 2008 17+ champion
Jon Woodward: 2008 15+ champion
Chris Kellett: 2008 3rd place cruiser
Carl Dixon: 2008 4th place cruiser

Scarborough Urban Downhill Race

2008-09-19T00:47:00.004+01:00

Looks like a good few of us are heading up to race this event. Adam, Batey and I are all racing with Kellett on the camera. Gonna be a great laugh!

http://www.nps4x.com/joomla/index.php for more info. Tickets now sold out!

JOIN THE CLUB

2008-09-09T19:28:00.007+01:00

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Cheers Chris

LET’S DO THIS!!!!!!

2008-09-03T11:15:00.003+01:00

I have had word from Ian (the man with the money) that the track will be getting done from the 18th of September providing we get the club official, it will cost £8.25 each if 10 of us pay and we know there’s more than 10 people in the club, by getting the club official we get a free race license and insurance for riding on our track. There will be a meeting with Ian, Rich Camm and us sometime after the 18th about 4pm so we can discuss ideas, once the layout has been decided it is final. Also there is some money to hold our 1st race which will be an open event. I will also be asking Kelvin Batey to come down and give his opinion on the design.

SO GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR, AND GET YOUR MONEY TOGETHER.

SNAP N GO

Chris

Sheffield 20/07/08

2008-07-28T23:22:00.005+01:00

Well it was a good day on sunday, well it was hotter than Chezzy and Rotherham and everybody had a great time and had good races. Keep it up DBMX. And also Jordan Smith Fell off and snapped the peak of his helmet but he was ok. There's a gallery HERE with the pictures, Enjoy!

Bring on Harworth its going to be a great last race day, apart from the champs.

- Jordan Latta he had all good most racers apart from slipping on one bit, A final, 3rd 7th 2nd 3rd
- Adam Carr had tough racers but still got, A final 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st
- Jon Woodward Just had some great racers And got A final 1st 1st 2nd 2nd
- Davys Howard davys got tough with brad parnel but still got it (nov) B final
- Chris Kellet Fighting for it with diko but still got, A final 2nd 4th 4th 4th
- Charlotte Woodward She did good well done chabz (nov) B final
- Jordan Smith Had some good stiff racers but he got though the pack

So it was all a good day for DBMX. Lets be ready for Harwoth 03/08/08.

Jordy boy

Great weather for ducks, never mind racing

2008-07-10T17:54:00.004+01:00

Rotherham – 6/7/08

While sitting on the gate, normally the old Guinness advert runs through my head "tick followed tock followed tick followed tock followed tick..." But in my final all I could think of was getting my snap right without getting a splash in the face from the puddle that had formed under the gate.

Apart from the rain everyone seemed to have a good race:

- Carl Dixon finally seems to be getting over his fear of the track – 5th in final
- Adam Carr won all of his motos but got some stiff competition in the final – 3rd in final
- I had good event with 3rd 2nd 2nd and 3rd in the final
- Jordan Latta is getting a lot better at racing and moving through the pack really well – 4th overall
- Jordan Smith although suffering a bad back says he should of done better – 6th overall
- Returning racer Grant raced novice and killed it taking 1st place overall

Bring on sheffield

See the Gallery HERE

"Go big or go home"

2008-07-05T23:29:00.007+01:00

Some great summer type shots here of a recent bowl session. Same as usual. Adam doing what he does best. These shots really sum up the scene best at Doncaster I think. Adam flying high out of the hips, and everyone else with there jaw's on the floor not daring to drop in incase of an embarrassment in front of the "master".

What I think people forget is that for every extra drop in to the bowl, every extra jump, its another little bit more practice and another little bit better. There is only one way to end up like this on a bike and that is through lots and lots of practice. Something that I know certain other riders have realised and have embraced. I can only be jealous that I don't have the time to do the same.

The Doncaster track may not be a Chesterfield, Mansfield or Harworth. And the Bowls might not be Devonshire Green or Sprotborough, but it is a decent place to ride for a giggle. I remember back in the day saying..."wouldn't it be mint if they built a bmx track nearby like the one in Harworth" and the reply would be "Yeah, never happen though". How wrong we were.

Does anyone else fancy writing something, I ain't got a clue what i'm talking about.

PICS: C Kellet

Back in my day....

2008-07-03T01:04:00.006+01:00

There comes a time when you have to look back at the past to see where you've got to in life and today is that time. I was speaking to Chris the other day and we were talking about old times and thought we should have an old skool album in the gallery. So click the above image (or HERE) to see the gallery which goes all the way back to 2001. The days when messing on the Alverly steps was all it took to put a smile on your face, until the landlord decided to give chase! I've picked my favorites from the ol' days, ones that I think sum up the era. Enjoy!

DBMX News and Blog.

2008-06-28T03:54:00.005+01:00

Lots of changes happening behind the scenes on the site. If you find anything that doesnt work, post in the forum on the relevant thread. We are now using a blogger site to run the main content (Makes my job a lot easier and also will allow members to post news directly and also remotely by email)

I dunno whats going on BMX wise, no news from Jonny! There's a big ride out planned for this saturday for anyone interested (bmx and mtb). Visit the forum for more information.

Mansfield Report.

2008-06-28T03:52:00.004+01:00

Mansfield! Well the race day has been fun. Lots of riders, seems as though it was a inter regional (midlands/east midlands) and I have to give it to them they were fast. Was a very good day, everyone was a bit tired, seems it was 25 degrees and there was alot of national numbers 1 to 10 in every catagory. Also Jordan Smiths first race in expert and Jordan Lattas first ever and went straight into expert. We have a gallery page up now which you can see by clicking HERE. Every one from the dbmx area did good though:

Carl Dixon, B final, 2nd.
Chris Kellet, A final, 3rd.
Jordan Latt, A final, 6th.
Jordan Smith, B final, 1st.
Adam Carr, B final, 4th.
Charlotte Woodward (nov), A final, 6th.
Jon Woodward, A finals, 2nd.

Overall a very good day, keep it up dbmx :D

lil jon