Get Yours At Malaga Cycles
Frame- 2007 spec Intense M3 medium with 83mm BB (pumpkin orange)
Fork- RockShox World Cup Air
Rear Shock- 07 Fox Dhx5, 500lb Titanium Spring
Brakes- Avid Juicy 7 carbon’s with 8″ rotors standard hoses
Hubs- front Hadley, rear Hadley with Ti freebody
Rims- Mavic Ex 823 tubeless
Spokes- stainless Dt
Headset- Chris King
Bars- Funn Full On’s 710mm wide, 25.4 diameter
Stem- Funn direct mount
Grips- Odi Ruffian lock on half waffle
Shifter- Sram Xo
Rear Mech- Sram Xo short cage
Cassette- Sram Pg970 12-26
Chain- Sram Pc991 hollow pin
Seatpost- Thomson Elite
Seat- The-industries Xc Ti rails
Pedals- Crankbrothers Mallets (magnesium)
Cranks- Truvativ OCT 170mm
BB- Truvativ Howitzer Team
Chain Device- E-thirteen Srs 44t, Trans Red bash ring
Chainring- E-thirteen Guide Ring 38t
Tyres- Maxxis fr Minion ST Silkworm, r Highroller ST Silkworm
Very Nice Indeed! If Anyone Can Beat This Pimped Out Ride Send Me A Pic And Spec List And I Will Bang It Up.
Draino, dwaynepurdy@yahoo.com.au
WAMBA & Perth MTB Club Presentations
This Saturday at the Perth & Tatterstals Bowling Club in Plain Street East Perth.
The night will get underway at 7pm and we will also supply some food and possibly drinks (to be confirmed).
Also on show will be a video from local film maker Ira Fehlberg.
Come down for a great night to finish off the racing year.
Western Australian Elite Downhill State Champion What A Machine!
Bellerina And His Buddys
Pisstool And Bellerina Reprezentin
Alright Sportz Fans it that time of the year again when the racing is over but the party is only just getting started. The venue is “The MTB Room” at the Rockingham Hotel, 11th of November starting at 4 pm Trophy presentations will also take place after the meeting, we need all committee and finacial members to be there because the following positions are up for nomination. Club President, Club Secretary, Club Development Officer and Club Registrar and we need them to be filled for Peel to survive.
Ok, Drink vouchers and food will be supplied for financial members only, you can invite a few friends along for a $10 entry fee and there will be a full bar available for you to poor down your neck at a small fee$$$ and soft drinks for the little tackers. Booking accomadation is recommended if you want to get bladdered and also ambulance cover if you plan on going to the “Liquid” night club later on.
Draino
The 2006 Hi-Way Cycles State Downhill Championships have been run and
won at
WA’s all new, and first ever, designated mountain bike park, The Goat
Farm.
The Goat Farm’s reputation as a free ride area far exceeds its
reputation
for its downhill courses and with a brand new, yet untested, downhill
course
completed for the 2006 WA WAMBA State Mountain Bike Championships, it
was
with some trepidation that the weekend started. Whispers throughout the
paddock had some riders questioning what the quality of the course
would be
like.
They needn’t have worried though because no rain on the new course left
the
surface dry, dusty and loose and by the completion of the weekend even
2006 UCI World Cup and World Champion, Ironhorse rider Sam Hill, would fall
victim to what proved to be a challenging surface.
A small hill the Goat Farm might be but by the end of the weekend
barely a
rider would lay down two clean runs on what ultimately proved to be a
course
truly worthy of the state title crown.
In practice front wheel washouts were par for the course and even early
favourites Ben Bell, Joel Bain and Mitch Delfs all tasted the dirt as
all
riders struggled to come to terms with the loose slippery conditions.
Highway Cycles and Cannondale rider Joel Bain, fresh from competing on
the
US NORBA circuit and the UCI World MTB Championships said. “It’s dusty
but
its not bad for a Goat Farm track, they definitely made the most of the
hill, using all the berms and adding some good rock gardens along with
flat
and off cambered corners, its quite fast down the bottom so its good
for the
spectators all round.”
Joel said he thought the slippery surface would open the door for other
riders to do well and that it may be closer than some people thought.
“If
you have confidence in your tyres for laying it over on the dusty flat
corners then you’ll do good and if Sam decides to race hard he should
win
but it’s a slippery track so anything can happen.”
When asked for an outside tip Joel said. ”Maybe Ben Bell, Mitch Delfs,
Miikael or myself could go alright. It could be anyone’s game really
like
Sprague as well, I dunno we will have to wait and see.”
Joel’s prediction would hold true as most of the favourites managed to
put
down some sort of a decent time in the first run with just 0.02 of a
second
separating Yeti’s Ben Bell and Ironhorse rider Sam Hill. Both riders
felt they could improve their times after runs littered with small mistakes.
The
pair had a gap on the field of about three seconds but you could have
thrown
a blanket over the next seven riders with Miikael Kinnunen, Daniel
Sprague,
Joel Bain, Ben Shingler, Mitchell Lindschau, Mitchell Delfs and Glen
Ward
covered by about one and a half seconds! The last podium spot would
come
down to one last run.
While the second run would see the local riders earn respect against
the
world class field, the cream would indeed rise to the top as Sam Hill
shaved
three and a half seconds off his time laying down a sizzling 1:32.88.
Sam
had looked sketchy on his first run through the soft loose berms and
said he
had to slow in order to go faster on the second run.
“I just kept it a bit smother on that run and tried not to slide around
too
much.” Sam said.
“I was pushing it too hard on the first run but this dirt is too
slippery to
do that so I had to back it off a bit and that gave me a quicker time.
The
course was fast and slippery with drifty turns so it was good fun.” Sam
concluded.
Reining Australian Junior Champion Ben Bell was on a noticeably faster
second run bombing his way through the big rock garden only to crash on
a
straight section down the bottom of the course.
“Yeah I don’t know what happened.” Ben said. “I think I hit a rock. I
was on
a quicker run but I fell off, I still got second so I’m happy with
that.”
Back to back state champ and Hi-Way Cycles rider Miikael Kinnunen was
the
best of the rest and chased the world-class riders all the way to the
line
and into a very credible third place.
“My second run was quicker, no crashes, two clean, well, upright runs,
which
was good. It was good to get into third in amounst the big names and
keep
ahead of the other guys, I had a good day and I’m pretty happy with
that.”
Mick said.
With the state title decided the Perth Mountain Bike Club had decided
to up
the ante and put well over $2000 in cold hard folding ones on the line
for
the top 25 fastest men and women on the hill for one last run.
The slippery course wasn’t done claiming riders and it soon added
Hi-Way
Cycle’s Miikael Kinnunen and World Champ, Ironhorse rider Sam Hill, to
the
list. Yeti-Fox rider Ben Bell was keen to make amends for his second
run
discretion and make amends he did. He crossed the line taking the
fastest
time with a 1:36:42 and with it a pocket full of cash as Sam Hill took
a
digger on the second last turn of the course.
In the under 19’s junior men the Kalamunda Kid, Deon Baker rode his
trusty
steed off into the dust and straight into a state title win.
“That run was better than the first one, it was a bit cleaner until the
last
corner after the jump, I got a bit of a slide going and got a bit
sketchy
but I managed to dab a foot and get out of it. I did a 1:37 in the
first run
and a 36 in the second run, it’s always good when you get faster during
the
day even though the track is getting harder to ride as the day wears
on. The
track was wicked for the hill, like the hills not huge, it’s the Goat
Farm,
but the course was really well built.” Deon said.
The event went off without a hitch and spectators were truly treated to
a
world class field! Roll on 07……
2006 Hi-Way Cycles State Downhill Championships Results
Elite Men
1 Sam Hill 01:32.88
2 Benjamin Bell 01:35.30 00:02.42
3 Miikael Kinnunen 01:37.40 00:04.52
4 Daniel Sprague 01:38.19 00:05.31
5 Joel Bain 01:38.77 00:05.89
6 Ben Shingler 01:38.90 00:06.02
7 Mitchell Lindschau 01:39.77 00:06.89
8 Mitchell Delfs 01:40.44 00:07.56
9 Glen Ward 01:41.03 00:08.15
10 Adrian Walsh 01:41.70 00:08.82
11 Derek Price 01:42.79 00:09.91
12 Mathew Trigwell 01:42.82 00:09.94
13 Dwayne Purdy 01:42.97 00:10.09
14 Benjamin Kinnunen 01:43.06 00:10.18
15 Ben Smith 01:43.26 00:10.38
16 Jason Archer 01:44.20 00:11.32
17 Bryn Hawken 01:46.02 00:13.14
18 Trigg Mcauliffe 01:49.43 00:16.55
Elite Women
1 Melanie Mothersole 02:05.65
2 Steff Van Amerong 02:09.87 00:04.22
3 Kerrie Sercombe 02:15.10 00:09.45
4 Pauline Carr 02:18.84 00:13.19
5 Kate Crockett 02:19.64 00:13.99
Junior Men U19
1 Deon Baker 01:36.89
2 Jamie Dunlop 01:41.42 00:04.53
3 Fergus Milne 01:42.18 00:05.29
4 James Ross 01:42.73 00:05.84
5 Murray Dickson 01:45.78 00:08.89
6 Tom Powell 01:45.89 00:09.00
7 Luke Hearne 01:46.31 00:09.42
8 Hamish Burnett 01:58.54 00:21.65
9 Sebastian De Graaf 02:00.60 00:23.71
The boys from Launch Helmut Cams hookin Mitch Delfs up
Sproggys tent got belted
Hi Light Reel
Pics and report copyright 2006 Silver Rocket Productions “Ira Fehlberg”
Just cut and paste it into your address bar.
http://www2.wamba.asn.au/results/2006/dh2006statechamps.htm
Fun Times At Exmouth
Damn Swimwear Is Getting Small
Summer is here girls and boys time to hit the pea gravel and start drifting followed by a coupla quieties and a little bit of action at the beach which is exactly what Chrisso has been doing all year but now we can all join in on the fun. Lots of things have happened over the past few weeks the mighty Eagles laid the smack down on the poor little Swannies, what a day the two Bells and Triggaz came over to my pad for a session and I went from your old mate Draino to a Bulleit Bourbon lunatic the boys took the piss out of me and they kept asking me technical question which I had no idea what they were on about and they videoed it but I cant work out how to get an mp4 onto the site? well thats what 14 Bulleits will do to you 9% of course you know how we roll.
Your Old Mate
Bulleit Looney
Thirzty Gritzy
Lairdette has been on a trip to the Worlds in Rotarua then of to the U.S and Vegas so he will have some stories to tell, apparently they hired a 2005 Charger with a 5.7 Hemi and 22 inch wheels from some prestige car hire over there, he gets back today with piss tremours no doubt.
Chillin
Wardy has cracked the big 30 (poor prick!) and did it in style the whos who of mountain biking walked the red carpet including the crowd favourite Hank The Builder.
Sambus Soaking In The Dust
The Sate Champs has been run and won with Peels own Benny Bell taking home the big bucks with a win in the top 30 after the World Champ parked his Pony just before the last jump right in front of the crowd funny as but he did smoke Bennys race time of a 1.35 by 2 or 3 seconds in the racing and he looked like he was hunting in the top 30 but thats what happens when the big boys play, Ira was right at the jump so he would of got some classic footage no doubt.
Race times and Race report to come stay tuned.
Draino
