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2014 UKGE Round 2. Innerleithen, Scotland 8:55. Excellent, time to fit in a brew before Ross arrives to load the van. Matt’s at the shop early to swap his Maxxis tyres. Weather forecast’s looking grim, go for the Minion mate. Get that Ardent Race outta there. Packed and rolling, round two here we come. Apparently Russ and Co arrived yesterday and set the pits up, all Ross and I need to do today is turn up and ride bikes. In the mean time, the traffics flowing nicely so lets kick back, tune in to Radio Two and get up to speed with the local election results. Rock and roll baby. 13:30. Twelve50 towers is standing proud but looking quiet as we roll in to the arena. Time to relax and realign my life with pushbikes for another weekend of racing. The usual friendly faces are floating around, busying themselves setting up gazebos and living quarters for the next three days. The cogs of the UKGE machine, quiet since Ae last month, are whirring back to life.  No pts ar...

More barbecues than you can shake a stick at, freshly shot, plucked (that’s with a ‘P’ Mr Read!) and butchered goose, stargazing to shame Sir Patrick Moore, a midnight birthday count down and some of The Midlands finest trails. It could only mean one thing, team Twelve50 were back in town for the fifth and final round of the 2013 UK Gravity Enduro Series. With an unavoidable mid season venue change, Eastridge once again answered the call and rounded out what can only be described as an awesome seasons racing. Stretching the format with an additional sixth stage come race day Sunday, we faced old favourites, some with freshly cut corners to keep us on our toes. Saturdays seeding stage was repeated twice on Sunday, prompting extra attention paid to the stage that would bring nearly half the weekends racing. With a good mix of fast, loose, tight, technical, rocky and rooty trails, the woods lived up to their reputation and seemed to please everyone who came down the hill. C...

Round 4 of the UKGE race series saw us take a trip down to Dyfi Forest in Wales, with torrential rain and a land slide to navigate through on the way, it promised to be a damp affair......   If it's variation in trail types people wanted at this round, that's what the organizers gave us!! Team Twelve50 looked a bit thin on the ground at this round, with Rick out (recovering from a dislocated shoulder) and Cheri out with a recovering "Snapped humerous" it was down to the rest of the team to slug it out. We were also a major part of the team missing, our chef Dez... also out of action after Russ broke him on the local trails (Another dislocated shoulder) On the Friday with Russ and Ross (With Nikki helping) setting up the pits, Dave and Nicole went to ride the tracks to see what it was all about.   While we filled our faces with some of Russ's BBQ feed, Reedy was very descriptive of the tracks...... in a Northern no messing about kind of way Stage ...

The Gravity Enduro circus parked up in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders for  Round 2 of the series. Team Twelve50 Bikes went racing... Since braving sub-zero temperatures and axle deep mud last time out, spring has sprung so surely we were due for some sunshine and dust, right? No such luck. We were treated to wind, rain, sleet and snow. The pits flooded while we were setting up and we had to cut drainage channels into the pits, but hey, this is racing in the UK and we had our trusty Webber grills and a new fire pit to keep warm, so all was good. Anyway, what did we expect? The hill at Inners is legendary for the web of  technical trails that criss-cross it and has seen many a downhill race. It's a big loop too, with riders taking around five hours to get around the stages. These are tough tracks, and if Round 1 favoured those who could pedal the hardest, then this time out riders would have to be on top of their technical game too. So, the stages... Stage On...