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Well, after a good few years of riding I have to say racing has never appealed to me, probably due to the bad experience I got when I once entered a Moto x race. The other thing that didn't help was I hated the race organiser where I used to live and refused to pay him a penny. I also just prefer the relaxed atmosphere and fun of freeriding.
Then the other day I was surfing the bike sites as usual when I noticed a front page ad for a downhill race of a different kind, a street race like the Red Bull Lisboa downtown. This type of race has appealed to me for a long time but there's very few like it, infact there's never been anything like it in the UK. So I found out a little more information, a set of 80 steps, cobbled alley ways, Extreme sports channel and Ex medics, lots of spectators lining the course then the final straw, the company I used to work for are sponsoring the whole event....without even thinking I entered, then the realisation of what I'd just done hit home, in at the deep end, I have a tendancy for throwing myself in at the deep end, usually with my speedo's wedgied up as far as my nose.
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.thumbnail.jpg "My 1995 Specialized M2 Stumpjumper FS")
