Fort William World Cup

Fort William World Cup

We headed up to the big fort William with dirty milk man + milkshake = milky who had stayed at mine after the isx. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough room for him in the factory mythdog team bus civdog, so he grabbed a lift with my Romanian gypsy mate Marv in his pimp van that only runs on special fluid.

Big Brett my mechanic for the weekend was over as well for some training as he one of the posse now, so we headed to some mx on the Monday were I rocked the big 250 2 smoker in the b’s for some hard pack action.  It was a mega day, team eskin street was on the pipe along with enduro champ jonny balls walker who took top honours although he said he was tired for the 3^rd Moto so when the gate dropped me and jonny had a joint hole shot and he pushed hard in the 1^st turn I was right up his arse and I thought I would pass him so I did it was quite a clean move for me and a set about bashing on as I was hungry to take the win,  as the final lap was coming round I could still hear jonny so I kept pushing then on the final lap I slid right out on a off chamber turn and threw away it all I was devvoed. I ended up 2^nd overall which wasn’t bad considering I hadn’t rode for about 2 months. Jonny won and big Ben brayton was 4^th.

Anyhow back to the fort we got there Thursday morning and got signed on, I was well stoat when I blagged Brett mechanical a pass and a nice p sticker for the civdog so I could drive right in. We then headed up to check the track and see the new changes, I had rode the national there but there was even more changes which was sick, it was on with the mega track walk, Tom was still pretty rough from the radio 1 big weekend after a hards night Dee jaying but he still bought his sense of humour keeping the track walk alive.

Once that was out of the way I waited till it was online so I could see how funny I was and if it could beat the Maribor debut fortunately it did as the ending was mega.

We went to the digs for the weekend it was a tidy little bandb in the fort just for me and tom but where was Brett mechanical going to sleep? I was laughing my head off because I thought he was going to sleep in my car then I told him to go ask lasso if he could stay I didn’t actually think he would but he did and he did alright out of it 1^st night he spent on the floor, 2^nd night on a airbed and the final night on a bed! But I will explain that one later and all for 15 quid! 5er a night what a gypo.

Practice went good got a good 5 runs in I think, the track was so sick loads of lines and in and out of the woods which was good then the lower section was pretty much the same but was carrying good speed in the dry. Not being top 80 I was gutted I couldn’t put a timed practice run in but that would be sorted come Sunday.

Saturday the day of the dreaded qualifying loads of people had came to support me and with it being the home race so to speak I was feeling a little bit of pressure. I did 3 practice runs and was feeling good.

Brett mechanical came up to the top so we could get psyched we headed to the gate it was time I put my lid on then my goggles , it was all good, just needed a quick drink as my mouth was a little dry I turned round and Brett mechanical was already on the lift wtf like he wasn’t hanging about so I had to bosh out the gate with a dry mouth, it was a good steady run and I came across the line in 44^th after setting off 131^st so it was all good I knew I was in, it was such a relief, I ended up 46^th in qualifying, buzzing! Gutted for meat ball who didn’t get in and that’s how Brett ended up with a bed as tom made a quick get away and headed home.

That night me and mechanical headed out for a nice meal with my girlfriend and her family in a nice little pub after that I headed for a early nights sleep to prepare for tomorrow.

It came around fast, we had a lot to do though as the mytho was in bits, no tires on her no forks! What was going on. I went over to sram and picked my forks up after some loving they were feeling sweet then it got some fresh rubber on her it was ready, big shout out to Ralph malph for sorting me with some Allen keys. 3 more practice runs under my belt and I was ready for it.

Heading up the hill was unreal the atmosphere was something else, its always great at the fort but this time it was different it was tense up at the top with all the euro boys on turbos and shit getting in the zone I just did my own thing got the tunes banged on and kept myself to myself until it was time.

Before I knew it I was in the gate and I was on a charge my run was good I pedalled well up top and hit every section strong I just haven’t felt how I used to feel on the bike yet and that’s out of control wild speed but its coming! Coming into the motor way I could hear the crowd going wild team Cumbria were there I could still hear them at the bottom. I felt real fit right into the finish now it was just the waiting game to see where I would end up, in the end it was 45^th I was a little disappointed but I’ve made some changes to my set up this week and it has transformed the bike so we will see what round 3 in Leogang brings!