This is my new lid which I have givin a new look to, it came up not to bad for a backyard job.

You may not know that I’ve been filming a WA based mountain bike dvd
for
some time now. I’ve been filming street & park stuff, 4X racing, dirt
jumpin, a bit of bmx, been to downhill races at just about every WA
track
except for York & maybe one or two others, state champs (twice), also
filmed
downhil freeriding with Ben & Matt Bell, Joel Bain, Mick Kinunnen,
Daniel
Sprague, Ben Shingler, Mitch Lindshau, The Ranga, The Bitch, Hu Walker,
Deon
Baker, Jack is nimble, Jarrad Lawrance & many others. Got the WA
national 4X
& DH round @ Nannup plus filmed Sam & Tracey’s wins @ the worlds in NZ
&
also the worlds 4X.

Just about got enough to finish it off and I’m not far away from having
something to release. Been busy moving house, working & got number one
on
the way in 10 weeks so it’s taking longer than I hoped but it will be
worth
the wait. We’ve done tv production before but it’s also our first dvd
so you
live & learn. I’m just waiting on some music clearences from records
companys, bit more filmin & a bit more editing and it’ll be done.

I thought that I’d post up a trailer, you can check it out at,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asiKdmj4bao

Apologies for the quality, it’s a bit blocky but youtube don’t allow
any
uploads over 100mb. The uncompressed full screen version is about 750mb
and
I don’t have my own web space to upload it to. If any one out there has
got
some space they would be happy to let me use I’d be happy to upload a
full
res version for ppl to download. Drop me an email if you do.

One small segment from the dvd, Matt Bell’s 35 footer @ tom’s crossing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVo0v03y_Mg

and for the bmx heads…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4IRK54q3M

Ira Fehlberg “Silver Rocket Productions”

MTX National Champs style had it all! A big crowd, a good track,
excellent start gate and best of all, the cream of Australia’s 4X
riders
in one spot all fighting for victory.

The system started with 3 heats which allowed you to score points, with
the top 32 Elite Men going into rounds of deadman finals with the top 2
progressing to the next round. The deadman finals started with 1/8’s,
followed by 1/4’s, 1/2’s and Finals. The finals consisted of 8 men,
with the first final placing 1st-4th and the second final placing
5th-8th.

The usual DH/4X superstars were up front with guys like Rennie,
Cavalier, Kovarik, Atkinson, Graves, Madill, Lloyd, Polc, Strom, Boyer,
Beare, Scar and Rando doing damage. No surprises there. However all
these guys were about to be surprised by 2 WA boys in the form of Ben
“Gritzy” Bell and Daniel “Sproggy” Sprague.

As many of the big names failed to make the cut, Gritzy and Sproggy
battled their way through to birth’s in the 1/8’s with 1st and 2nd
place
and a crash to their names. From this point on the two WA boys stepped
it up a few notches with Sproggy winning his 1/8 and 1/4 and Gritzy
finishing top 2 eliminating some big name riders on the way, including
Boyer, Strom, Polc and Scar.

Come Semi Final time Sproggy and Gritzy lined up in the 2 outside
gates.
Sproggy grabbed a great start an raced into turn one just behind Madill
with Gritzy going for the tight inside line. This wasn’t to pay off as
it pushed Gritzy further back from the front runners. Sproggy however
was giving it and looked like making the transfer to the final 4. He
went for the tight line coming out of turn three and this was all that
was needed for Lloyd to see an opening. Lloyd powered to the outside
and carried a heap of momentum into the rhythm section. Sproggy had no
answer as he couldn’t make up the speed difference to shut the door.
Lloyd and Madill advanced leaving Sproggy and Gritzy to battle it out
for positions 5-8.

Final B (Positions 5-8)
Starting Order was Rando, Beare Gritzy and Sproggy. When the gate went
down, Sproggy sprung out to lead down the first straight. Rando
followed
with Beare and Gritzy battling for 3rd. Sproggy went the outside in
turn 1 with Rando shooting for the inside. This move paid off with
Rando exiting just in front of Sproggy. Gritzy also going for the
inside got shutdown and crashed as both Beare and Rando used the same
line.
Sproggy through everything at Rando but just couldn’t find a was
through
and settled for 2nd. Gritzy dusted himself off and came in for forth.
This result saw Sproggy and Gritzy finish in the top 8 in the MTX. Not
bad for a few guys that don’t really race MTX too often. Yeeeooowww!

Final A (Positions 1-4)
With Madill, Graves, Lloyd and Atkinson lining up, it was always going
to be interesting. However as soon as the gate dropped, the biggest
upset began to unfold. Graves unclipped and shot straight to the back.
Madill to the early lead. Graves got tangled up with Atkinson and went
down by turn 2. Madill then had a pretty cruzy run to the line with
Lloyd following his lead for 2nd.

This capped off a great day of MTX racing. Props has to go out to tall
the WA boys that competed and lets hope we can get a few more MTX races
and tracks organised in WA so the guys can go back bigger and better
next year!

Daniel

Samuel Peter Dobson

Lisa popped this little tacker out on Friday night now Dobbo can go back to work to pay for that new Sunday.

The friendly peoples at CALM have asked if everyone can keep clear of the Marrinup and Scarp Road tracks and surrounding areas because the fire damage has left the area very unstable with trees and other crispy stuff falling and moving.

Thanks
CALM

Under 17 Men

1 244 Peter Andrzejeski 4.07.69 4.13.31 Mandurah’s Bikeman, Utopia Optics*
2 210 Ben Barrett 4.16.05 4.15.35
3 215 Sam Gallagher 4.26.58 4.17.99 Soul-Rideres.com, Mum & Dad
4 209 Michael Bourne 4.16.53 4.21.72
5 225 Aaron Mucha 4.18.12 4.23.40 AAA Accident Repair Centre
6 224 Matthew Currie 4.37.14 4.32.64 Mum & Dad
7 208 Anthony Jones 4.35.35 4.33.10 661, Yarra Valley Cycles, Kona
8 245 Anthony Ghobril 4.37.18 4.44.24
9 221 Nick Jack 4.38.28 4.48.45
10 222 Braedon Wallis 4.33.94 4.57.18

Sports Men

1 659 Matthew Mansheim 4.24.20
2 661 Michael Burgess 4.24.58*
3 672 Derek Yates 4.29.50 Norco, E-13, 661, Mace
4 640 Will Schofield 4.29.87
5 660 Corey House 4.31.11*
6 610 Eenik Sandstrom 4.31.78
7 667 Andrew Sleeman 4.32.22 Sram, Rock Shox, Avid, Truvativ Monza Imports, Super Cycle
8 607 Ben Mulholland 4.34.06
9 675 Trevor Burke 4.37.47
10 620 Michael Sloman 4.37.82

Expert Men

1 56 Michael Watt 4.16.20 4.05.40 Mallard Cycles
2 78 Steve Matthews 4.15.47 4.08.53
3 704 Matthew Trigwell 4.09.61 4.10.56 Malaga Cycles*
4 67 Timothy Jaksch 4.13.17 4.13.30 Gamot, 24 Seven
5 66 Matthew Wise 4.16.89 4.15.94 Protech
6 80 Joel Gablek 4.17.97 4.16.50
7 83 Andrew Miles 4.16.62 4.16.50
8 86 James Perkins 4.17.28 4.17.71
9 713 Andrew Jarvis 4.20.18 4.17.88
10 709 Andrew Martin 4.17.15 4.20.19

Elite Men

1 39 Linciln Verass 3.58.19 3.56.09 Downhill Direct
2 32 Christophe Poupon 3.57.68 3.56.84
3 37 Ben Bell 3.57.34 3.58.60 Reti, Fox, Utopia*
4 42 Isaac Heppell 4.04.47 4.02.26 Mt Buller
5 35 Shane Gayton 4.02.69 4.03.49 BBB (Brewed By Dave)
6 14 Jack Timms 4.02.76 4.03.53 Kona, Mavic, Marzocchi, Adidas
7 11 Ben Reynolds 4.02.01 4.03.81 GT, Fox, Streamlime Cycles, Honda
8 26 Matt Swann 4.05.50 4.03.84 Norco, Yarra Valley Cycles, 661, Blur, EBC, Michelin
9 9 Sam Hocken 4.01.16 4.04.46
10 34 Rhys Atkinson 3.58.83 4.04.62
23 36 Dwayne Purdy 4.13.83 Malaga Cycles*

THREDBO

Our pad was 4 storeys high with 3 bedrooms, lounge, balcony, kitchen, and all the other mod cons including big telly and bare assed hippy.

Thredbo village as you drive in our room was straight ahead right at the bottom of the chairlift.

The room had a nice big telly good for watching mtb dvd’s.

Bergo and the Gritz on their girly drinks Midori, Southern Comfort and lemonade.

Triggaz giving Lairdy the word on the street as you can see he was struggling.

I had to put this in it was so relaxing!

Jindabyne watering hole.

Poor little Fat So!

The fire damage was a long way from the town this was all we could see and it was about 20k’s away at Khancoban.
MT BULLER

The view from our room was sweet, the fire damage here was about 20 metres away from our balcony!

Chrisso is just something else.

Big Bad Draino a mixture of Uncle Chopper and Eazy-E.

G-Ritzy Strictly O.G.

Dont be messing with this crazy cat.

Colouring in time.

Choko toughened up by hanging with the big boys.

West Coast Play-R.

Choko and Gritzy good buddys.

G-Ritzy stylin.

The team about to hit the town.

Triggaz looking for a stubbie to place in the hole.

G-Ritz sipping on the potion.

Looking down at the start gate and pit area.

Looking back at the town.

That little umbrella is where Chrisso spent his days gooning and hooning.

On the chairlift.

More to come

This track was pedally full stop but mostly near the end where it hurts most! When you drive into Canberra it is dead set weird all the buildings in the city have tiny signs or none at all so it makes it damn hard to find anything but we did discover the suburbs of Mitchell and Fyshwick a must see if you are heading to our capital. Mt Stromlo Forrest Park is about 15 to 20 k’s out of town, when you get close to the Hill which is what it really is it looks like someone has dropped an A-Bomb on it there is no trees nothing just desert so it doesnt really get your juices flowing upon first glance, I suppose you cant really expect much when 3 years ago one of the biggest fires canberra has ever seen ripped through full on pine plantations leaving nothing. We drove straight to the top which is a sealled road right to the top so shuttles should be a quick process if we had enough shuttle buses to get us up so be prepared to wait for up to an hour + to get to the top and with four small tents top keep us out of the blazing sun!!

Up on the hill the wind was like no other and it would not go away for the whole time we were at Stromlo. We walked down the track on the Tuesday before Wednesdays practise it was put together nicely, there was a cool start ramp made of scaffolding so you could get into a descent gear straight up for your run. First up there is a little kicker which took out a few guys 5 seconds into their run ouch! followed by a couple of descent drops leading up to a wide open rock garden with heaps of different line but all equally punishing, thats where my brake lever waved goodbye. after that a blown out right habder with a double that I ate shit on with the crazy side wind, then you come to a rock garden with 2 lines outside smooth but heaps slower inside quick but you could get busted up easilly which is what I did and put a crazy gouge in my Boxxer stanchion, couple more turns here and there past the ridiculous 10 foot drop to flat which they bunted of because someone was going to get airlifted if they didnt, into a big well groomed berm of to the right bit of this and that over the road flat out into some of camber hit 2 turns dead straight then over a slab step down into a boulder berm which I ate it twice on then into this off camber turn that you could take up high to miss out on all the messy shit down low then berm, berm, berm of to the right into some rocks beside a huge step down which was shutdown also because of the wind and x factor, down the rocks pump a double or if you was a Madcat double it then over the blind hip with the huge rock sticking up (this jump took out I think 24 or more people of to the Ambo for a little tlc) through another rock garden which a few guys cleared including G-Ritzy into a loose berm and on your way to the harshest road jump I have ever seen you could hit the A-line B-line any line and your bike was going to get hurt either way, followed by a low berm or high double, most riders went the berm because it was faster and set you up way nicer for the next berm which was falling to bits, few more turns then a berm to double then start pedally your worn out booty like you have never done before, drop onto the road then pedal like a freak to make the step up then ski jump then your on the home straight of about 300 meters be prepared to bleed through your mouth mmmm!

The whole thing was well organised except for the shuttles and car park number 2 being a kilometre away, and the track was good if the bottom was removed and they smoothed out some of the landings and opened up the second big double which I dont think the wind would have made much of a difference.

Results

Elite Men

1 Jared Graves 3.20.26
2 Nathan Rennie 1.39
3 Jared Rando 3.55
4 Filip Polc 4.30
5 Amiel Cavalier 5.07
6 Ben Cory 4.49
7 Dave West 5.47
8 Sam Hill 6.38
9 Ivan Oulego Moreno 7.36
10 Adam Smithson 7.48
11 Brad Kelly 9.04
12 Timothy Eaton 9.02
13 Ryan Norton 9.07
14 Darren Pokoj 9.30
15 Adam Dossetor 9.45
16 Benjamin Bell 10.17
17 Deon Baker 10.25
18 Ricky Lee 10.36
19 Brock Newling 10.55
20 Rick Boyer 10.43
21 Gareth Paton 11.19
22 Jon Odams 12.04
23 Michael Kearton 11.43
24 Lindsay Klein 12.29
25 Lincoln Verass 12.41
26 Cody Eichhorn 12.49
27 Alan Crisp 13.27
28 Evan Winton 13.42
29 Stephen Foley 13.35
30 Steve Marsh 14.38
31 Alex Swann 14.34
32 Dennis Beare 14.40
33 Christophe Poupon 14.53
34 Tim Nelson 16.12
35 Bryn Atkinson 15.55
36 Rhys Atkinson 16.06
37 Ayden Eves 16.10
38 Ryan Walsch 17.35
39 Harry Armstrong 17.41
40 Dean Robson 17.59
41 Tim Richmond 18.39
42 Miles Mead 18.46
43 Glen Adams 20.44
44 Andrew Maxwell 20.51
45 Ken Ballhause 21.23
46 David Bowden 21.29
47 Trevwah Burke 21.37
48 Cillian Kennedy 21.47
49 Ben Goff 22.51
50 Ben Morrison 23.02
51 Jason Blackmore 23.07
52 Jamie Green 23.43
53 Ben Tregoweth 23.54
54 Michael Manning 24.06
55 Tom Richards 24.26
56 James French 24.57
57 Hamish Armstrong 24.43
58 Ben Mundy 25.26
59 Timothy McCullough 25.43
60 Andrew Eckett 26.04
61 Adam Kessler 26.07
62 Scott Grundy 25.42
63 Kaine Cannan 27.00
64 James McMillan 27.17
65 Murray Dickson 27.59
66 Thomas Kerney 27.41
67 Geoff Grennan 28.14
68 Reece Kyte 29.19
69 Regan Arthur 29.43
70 Shane Gayton 29.44
71 John Campbell 31.03
72 Craig Fisher 32.04
73 Joe Mullan 32.01
74 Dwayne Purdy 32.55
75 Damien Bogatek 33.58
76 Nick Rudzki 33.35
77 Simon Ballard 34.23
78 Thomas Rose 34.39
79 Daniel Sprague 35.42
80 Matthew Wilson 35.49
81 Tim Cox 35.55
82 Jay Taylor 36.03
83 Dean Davies 36.16
84 Brenden Wood 37.57
85 Jake Pendleton 39.50
86 William Cookesley 40.07
87 Thomas Cranston 40.08
88 Clement Jente 42.02
89 Stewart Bruce 42.21
90 Kye Hore 59.02
91 Angus Coombe 1.00.43
92 Dan McEwan 1.11.29
93 Martin FLANAGAN 1.11.59
94 Matt Swann 1.14.08
95 Chris Kovarik 1.28.47
96 Shane Wode 1.47.08
97 James Bashford 2.31.43
98 Llewellyn Cameron 3.46.35
99 Christopher Panozzo 4.19.12
DNF Craig Yates
DNS Liam Panozzo
DNS Ryan Lennox
DNS David Howse
DNS Luke Gowen
DNS John Farrow
DNS Oliver Kristevic
DNS Scott Graham
DNS Aaron Bashford
DNS Brett Pengelley

Elite Women

1 Julia Boer 4.12.23
2 Joanne Fox 0.51
3 Claire Whiteman 5.49
4 Cara Smith 6.16
5 Julia Martin 16.57
6 Jayne Randall 22.58
7 Sheryl Field 2.02.14
DNS Sarsha Huntington
DNS Sarah Booth
DNS Emma McNaughton

Under 19 Women

1 Caroline Buchanan 4.18.09

Under 19 Men

1 Mitchell Delfs 3.26.17
2 Will Rischbieth 2.23
3 Joshua Button 4.16
4 James Maltman 6.21
5 Tom Patton 6.40
6 James Brodie 7.44
7 Samuel Ward 9.46
8 David Hetherington 12.20
9 Murray Stephens 12.43
10 Cameron Allonby
11 James Taormina 13.02
12 Michael Jobson 13.58
13 Chris Coombe 14.00
14 Lee Wallace 15.09
15 Clark Hawke 15.29
16 Dale Grixti 17.06
17 David Maud 17.16
18 Todd Robertson
19 Oscar Buckle 17.19
20 Tom Brodie 18.04
21 Liam Paiaro 18.08
22 Lucas Kuncewicz 17.57
23 Llewellyn Griffith 19.05
24 David Habicht 19.07
25 Mark Beeksma 19.49
26 Jack Bellotti 25.47
27 Brenton Gowen 26.43
28 David Gnany 29.49
29 Jack Wilson 29.58
30 Patrick Young 30.14
31 Charlie Barratt 33.06
32 Ben Thomas 33.22
33 Alex Wruck 34.16
34 Callan Ridge 36.09
35 Tom Mallett 38.17
36 Jared Blay 38.30
37 Andrew Karas
38 Tyson Jones 39.18
39 Michael Dart 40.21
40 Mitchell McKinlay 40.39
41 Branden Taylor 41.17
42 Rhys Collins 43.36
43 Jonathan Archibald 45.56
44 Jared Gill 47.51
45 Adam Rostron 49.42
46 Mitchell Boyd 49.55
47 Rowan Saunders 52.51
48 Scott Parsons 53.52
49 Tom Lewis 55.57
50 Timothy Harrington 59.12
51 Jake Pamment 1.00.55
52 Thomas Osborne 1.01.19
53 Toby Breheny 1.28.15
54 Tim Windshuttle 1.30.01
DNF Lachlan Paton
DNS Matthew Vincent
DNS Hugh Jackson
DNS Brodie Sturgess
DNS Lachlan Gardiner
DNS Travis Phillips-Johnson
DNS Ben Leaper
DNS Dylan Prohm
DNS Jake Lecluse
DNS Ryan Meader

Triggaz qualified 1st in Expert but a small of on turn 2 in his race run moved him into 3rd position overall

Little Choko qualified 1st in under 17’s with a time that was in the top 20 overall, he crashed in his race run but it was still enough to give him the win

G-Ritzy went hard in his qualifier placing 1st on the same second as Christoph PouPon, but a few mistakes on his race run saw him just scrape into 3rd with local rider Lincoln Verass going 1 second faster than G-Ritzy’s qualifier to take the win and PouPon pulled 2nd and the Gritz only just making 3rd in Elite

We all got back last night safely and most of us had some bling to show for our efforts except me of course. Just a quick round up and over the next few days i will start putting up some more detailled info. At Mt Stromlo Benny Bell seeded 12th but ended up 16th in his race run with a few mistakes and just to let you know Jared Graves won and Sam Hill crashed about 3 or 4 turns from the final straight he was flying! I crashed all day every day and ended with heaps of body damage and bike damage like snapped Juicy Carbon brake lever, bent cranks and chain ring, big ding in my World Cup stanchions, bent brake rotor, 2 tubless tyres one run old, destroyed a brand new pair of Oakley Wrench Spd’s, dented my V10 and I let Triggaz beat me!! More good news with Matt Trigwell sand bagging his way to a 2nd place in Expert $100 bucks and few trinkets helped to pay for the big night in Mitchell, Pete Andzreski was hauling in practise but had an of in the race run.

We did even better at the Mt Buller Stae Round but you will have to wait for that, any way it was an awesome 2 weeks so I will get some more gorry stories up soon.

Draino