The track was a 1.7km parkinson inducing ride ! :) If you want to test ya handling skills or rather if you can hold on to the handlebars.. this track would be it.
Straight forward and simple (understatement).. no gaps, and eye candy in this track.. everything was totally nature.. berms, rock gardens.. never ending and some pedalling. Afterall this is an MTB event.
Practice day (24th July 2010) was awesome.. the track was dry and tacky excellent for the minions that the team used. We hoped that this would continue but every local guy was like.. its gonna rain.. walked through the track checking up the possible lines and also assist riders with uplifts.
Thanks to Nissan for lending us the 5 Nissan Terrano's for the event. Greatly assisted the uplifts.
Race Day -
With minimal hiccup's the race start at 9.30 with race boy timing tagging all the bikes. Hardtails, Junior, Women , Masters, Open, Expert and Elite went down the ideal track .. in blistering speeds ! The fastest time recorded was by Popo from indonesia at 3 mins 33 secs. A good 14 seconds a head of the rival at 3mins 51 - Adam.
Everyone was wondering , if there is a possibility that popo can be beaten in the form that he is in. Everyone was talking.. riders and spectators.. if the finals going to be close or already won !
Well as expected, in the finals the clouds came in.. after the masters went down.. its started raining cats and dogs.. the timing went from super fast to and ok speed. However, that didnt deter the experts and elites from battling out for the champions prize !
Malaysia's Aim and Adam came in first and second respectively in the elite category.
Some pics from the race
Element Cycle Booth at the race with NEW Deity Products
Master Category Riders getting ready to board the uplift vehicles & Azhman screaming through banshee
Killswitch ! Its Malaysia First !
Riders :
Herman Arsek (Elite)
Azhman Ismail (Master)
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