We have got most of our 2012 demo bikes through now (just waiting on a Giant Anthem and a Giant Trance).
So if your looking for a new full suspension trail bike we will have the bike for you!
Take a bike away for the weekend for just £50.00 (refundable if a bike is purchased) professionally set up for your weight and height.
Bikes in stock to choose from are as follows:

Trek EX 8 – we have 2 of these in a 17.5″ frame and also a 19.5″ frame
Cracking bike to ride xc with a 120mm of travel.
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/mountain/singletrack_trail/fuel_ex/

Trek ex 8

Lapierre Zesty 314 – Medium (46cm), 140mm of travel. Excellent xc bike which fly’s on the descents. Take this bike out and you wont be disappointed.
http://www.lapierre-bikes.co.uk/mtb/all-mountain/zesty

Lapierre 314 medium

Trek Remedy 8 – 17.5″ frame, Fancy a bike to ride our local lee and cragg quarry this is the bike for you. 150mm of travel.
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/mountain/technical_trail/remedy/

Remedy 8 17.5

Trek garyfisher Superfly 100 – 17.5″ frame. Take a spin on our 100mm travel 29er and you’ll love it, xc riding, super smooth, fast, long distance machine.

http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/collections/gary_fisher/mountain/cross_country/superfly_100/

Garyfisher superfly 100 17.5"

Back again to defend our title?

I didn’t feel like we’d done half as much training as we should have, both Shaun and i had been ill for a couple of weeks in December and back on the bike with 2 weeks to go before  the event we both felt slow. We hammered it for those 2 weeks and hoped we’d be fine on the day.

In the caravan Friday night it was grim, the wind was howling and the rain came down yet come 1 hour before the start it brightened up and cleared up. Shaun did the starting lap and after the run he was 3rd person on the bike, he flew round his lap and came in 1st with 2 other riders. I set off and took the lead, i didn’t feel to great but held onto 1st overall as i came in off my lap.

Chris heading out on 1st lap

Shaun final descent

Everyone goes through bad patch’s in 24 hour races, mine just came on lap 3 which had me pretty worried. I was lapping 2 mins slower than Shaun and not feeling great.  I had a major ill moment like i never had before in a race and was sick for a good 5 mins while riding, I thought i was going to lose our 1st place but somehow managed to  come through still leading. After being sick i felt brand new and my lap times showed,  we kept gaining time on 2nd and come half way through the race lapped them.  We just settled down into a rhythm and plodded on from there still gaining time.

1st proper night lap

The weather held off and it turned out to be a very mild strathpuffer race, no snow, ice, sleet or rain. The course was running quick and there really wasn’t much in the way of mud.

Come dawn we were 3 laps up and had the race in the bag, we were pretty worn out and really tired. We called it a day knowing we couldn’t be beaten and had a shower and watched the final 2 hours of the race as a spectator.  Phil a friend of ours won the overall solo and also Jason took 1st place for solo singlspeed. The podium had a very north Manchester feel to it!

Paired podium

A big thank you to Mike and Liz who came up to look after us both while racing, cleaning bikes, cooking food, making drinks, keeping me awake ect. Couldn’t of done it without you.

Just arrived in store is the 2012 Lapierre Zesty 714, full carbon frame with internal cables, and  an xt groupset  £3599.99. This model has had a few upgrades (Easton wheels, XTR shifters and mech)

Zesty 714