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Willingen Wheels of Speed!
We have just been at the great Wheels of Speed
event in Willingen. It is a huge festival as well as a great Downhill race on
the same course as they held the World Cup round a few years ago. The course is
like a huge BMX track up top with a lot of hard pedalling with massive jumps
then into the woods and over the big hip jump (if you are brave enough) into
some really nasty rocks off a big fade into more rocks and jumps then some high
speed corners down the bottom meadow section with more massive jumps. The bad
wind caused a few casualties over the big jumps in practice and Saturday
qualifying but held off OK for the finals today.
Matt Simmonds rode
amazing to place 4th today and taking a nice 1000 Euros only 1 second behind
winner Gee Atherton and the same second as 3rd. Matt rode his Intense SOCOM
which is possibly the best bike around for this type of track as it sprints so
well like a 4X bike but can take the big hits and rocks well with its VPP 8"
travel.
We have been really busy racing and travelling these last we
weeks and raced the 3rd round of the Nissan UCI World Cup last week in "Sunny"
Fort William and then spent a few days at our sponsors Chain Reaction Cycles in
Northern Ireland which was great.
For a full write up and photos have a
look on our website www.crcintense.com
Willingen Wheels of Speed Results
1. Gee Atherton - Atherton Racing
2. Filip Polc
- Kenda Tomac
3. Andrew Neethling -
Mongoose
4. Matt
Simmonds - Chain Reaction Cycles / Intense
5. JD
Swanguen - MS Intense factory team
Cheers
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Nigel Page
Team Manager - ChainReactionCycles/Intense
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