Welcome to my website! I am currently racing in the Junior category for Team Zerode/Prestige Cycles. Keep an eye on my site for Race reports, photos and videos from all the races that I compete in this year! Cheers, JC.

SDA Rd.1 Innerleithen

On Friday I walked the track for the first Scottish Series race of the year. The organisers did a really good job with taping out the track, they decided to use the gold run, a flat out track with some pretty sick sections, there was were some cool turns, and some good breaking bumps which always make it a bit more fun for riding!

On Saturday morning, I headed up the track for practice. The night before it had been raining quite a lot so the track was quite muddy and slick but it was still running really fast which was good. I did a couple of runs in the morning and then some in the afternoon after the track had roughed up a bit. The track was quite long with a lot of turns to remember but luckily I’ve ridden at Innerleithen quite a bit, so memorising the track wasn’t an issue.

On Saturday night it rained even more but throughout the day the rain held off so the track started to dry out but the mud got thicker and the track was running a little slower. In my first race run I had a pretty smooth run apart from smashing

 

my knee off of my stem right before the pedally section at the bottom!  After the first runs I was sitting in 2^ND with a time of 3.03. My second race run was pretty smooth with just one mistake in the middle section, and I ended up getting the exact same time so I finished in 2^nd Place which was a good solid start to the 2012 Scottish series!  JC

BDS Rd.1- Combe Sydenham

On Thursday morning we left from my house to drive down to the first race of the year in the southwest of England. We finally arrived there in the evening, the weather was beautiful but there were no other racers to be seen! We parked up for the night, Dad made us some dinner and then we headed to bed after a long days travelling.

On Friday the other riders and teams started to show up and the pits started to take shape. I was lucky enough to do a bit of filming and interviewing for ITV West Country with Al Bond and Ronan Taylor which was a good laugh and a good experience. Then right after we finished filming the interviews the rain started and I headed back to the camper for some cover! In the evening when the race stopped for a bit I headed up the hill to walk the track. The track looked like a lot of fun to ride despite there not being too many technical sections and I was looking forward to getting on my Zerode and getting my lines dialled in on Saturday.

Saturdays practice was pretty sweet, there were quite a few slick sections of the track so I threw my Intense Spike tires on and it was all good. The new jumps in the middle section added a bit more fun to practice, it was cool to have some more jumps on track than normal!

On Sunday the track began to dry up and I went back to dry tires for the race to get a bit more speed on the flatter sections of the track. My fresh new POC kit also arrived so I was stoked to bust out the new kit! Qualifying came around and I had pretty smooth run and came in 2^nd which was pretty good as I knew where I could make up some time for finals in the afternoon. In my finals the bike was working great but I made a couple of mistakes that cost me as ended up in 4^th just 1.5 seconds off of winning!  It was a good trip down to the first race of the year and my first race with my new bike and team! JC

Here is the section of the ITV Westcountry which I featured in! - http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2012-04-13/mountain-bike-racers-head-to-exmoor/