The team are currently at http://www.winterandsummer.com in Morzine, France for another week before we head over to Alpe d’Huez for the crazy Mega week and race the Mega Avalanche. This will be the first time most of the team have competed in the race with everyone being both excited and nervous at the same time. We will be using our super trick Intense Tracers for the race, which will be a great bikes for this really long course.
Milka Wheels of Speed World Downhill challenge, powered by Shimano. The race is held on the track they used for the World Cup races a few years ago and is part of the Sympatex Bike Festival, a huge event like the German equivalent of Sea Otter. The race itself is well organized with some great prize money - they even provide accommodation for the invited pro riders!
Lucas Mechura made his first ever 4X World Cup Final on Saturday night and finished in 3rd place.
The 4X racing was fast and action packed. Our 2 4X riders Lewis Lacey
and Lucas Mechura rode great all night. Lewis made it through to the
1/4 finals and then lined up on the gate for the semi final as current
world champion Rafael Alvarez who was disqualified for running over a
corner flag which you have to go inside of. Then after some confusion
and complaining from the Alvarez team Lewis was taken off the gate and
Alvarez was reinstated into the race. The UCI chief later told us that
after studying the video footage, Alvarez did not ride through the flag
as it had looked to the marshal stood right there! So anyway it was too
late to look into this at the time as the semi finals were run and
Lewis was out of the competition. He rode really well but it put a bit of
a downer on our night.
