Monday, November 7th 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
February 2011 saw the unveiling of the Madison Saracen downhill team. With a squad of six young riders, this development-team style approach was intended to nurture this collection of young, British talent into the World Cup stars of tomorrow. No-one could have foreseen how successful the team would be in its inaugural season; From the jaw-dropping results of Manon Carpenter, who ended the ..
Thursday, October 20th 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
Another succesful weekend of racing for the Madison Saracen downhill team at the English Champs. The race took place at the popular Moelfre venue and proved to be a much drier weekend than the final round of the British Downhill Series that took place the previous week - much to the relief of the riders. In the Elite Men's category it was Madison Saracen rider Harry Molloy walk..
Tuesday, October 18th 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
Final round of the BDS series at Caersws; It has been an awesome weekend. The whole atmosphere of it seemed way more relaxed and fun. Josh and I took a step back from the usual Premier Inn or B&B and camped over for a couple of nights. The whole team did loads of runs together on Saturdays practise. Everyone loved it, the sun was out, the track was dry and dusty and smiles were all arou..
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
Bucknell – final round of the infamous Pearce DH series I was travelling up with good friends Brad and Jack. Brad lives in Horsham in West Sussex so on the way for me. We went out for a curry that night to start the weekend off and went for a quick tear around in his Evo. Brad competes in some sprint races and his car goes 0-60 in under 3.5 seconds; a bit different to my fiesta but no..
Monday, September 12th 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
What amazing season. UK National champ, JNR World Cup series winner and now a World Champion!! Well done Team Madison Saracen. But Champery. What an epic race. Time for Manon to shine. We rocked up at 3:30am and had a few hours kip in the Transporter, all four of us. A little too cosy for my liking... We hooked up with Andy at around 7:30 at the race rig for a brew and to ..
Wednesday, September 7th 2011 CATEGORY: Team 0 COMMENT(S)
Aston Hill - Eastern and Central Championships Noshy and I went up to Aston hill this weekend just gone for the Eastern and Central Championships. It was a wicked weekend in all. We got there for a bit of practise on Saturday to replenish last year’s memories of the course. Noshy was no different to his normal self, 9,999 runs down the hill and displaying his big grin all the way. It ..