Competition Time

Pump Urban Wear comp - Winner #2!

Winner time again in the Pump Urban Wear comp!

This weeks shirt goes to Sam Birch from London.... well done fella. Shirt in the post this week.

2 more to go - click HERE and fill out the form to enter!

http://www.pumpurbanwear.co.uk
http://www.flowbikes.co.uk/

NPS round 2 results

Top stuff this weekend, with the in-form Gee Atherton coming 1st in seeding and in the main race, ahead of Peaty, Minaar and the Honda G-Cross team. Fearingout team rider Matt also nailed a good 5th in Elite, good efforts.

Preps to Justin at Foel DH riders who got a 16th in the seniors with a time of 2:40.78. Good going.

Great to see the Junior riders nailing some top times in with the Elite riders.

Top 10 times...
1 Gee ATHERTON Elite Animal/Commencal 2:11.82
2 Steve PEAT Elite The Syndicate 2:12.54
3 Matti LEHIKOINEN Elite Team G Cross Honda 2:14.29
4 Josh BRYCELAND Junior Royal/Santa Cruz 2:15.72
5 Greg MINNAAR Elite Team G Cross Honda 2:16.06
6 Matt SIMMONDS Elite Ancillotti UK 2:17.21
7 Marc BEAUMONT Elite MBUK/Santa Cruz 2:17.45
8 Sam DALE Junior Solid Electric 2:17.73
9 Joseph SMITH Junior Ancillotti UK 2:17.83
10 Tom BRAITHWAITE Elite Giant 2:17.99


full results on www.npsdh.com and www.mikrotime.com/mtb/

Full write up and interviews with some of the names above in issue 3 of wideopen.

Chain Reaction Cycles NPS Rd 2 at Ae Forest - Heads Up!

This weekend sees round two of the Chain Reaction Cycles British Downhill Series Rd 2 at Ae Forest, Dumfries in Scotland on Saturday 26th and Sunday the 27th of May 2007.

Round 1 was a massive success with huge crowds never seen before at a British National Downhill Race. This weekend will see an even bigger show of riders and team pits with the addition of Nathan Rennie joining his team mate Steve Peat on the Santa Cruz Syndicate.

The impressive Honda G-Cross Team will be in full attendance with their full factory set up so stop by and stare!

The Ae Forest track is ace for spectating, being pretty open up top with fast straights and dangerous off camber sections the riders will be fighting to stay online. The rock garden will claim lives guaranteed as will the finish section which will offer the best views as riders traverse down to the huge step down and the largest berms on a British DH course before the 25ft near vert drop into the finish!

Bring along you XC bike and hit the famous Ae Forest trails, along the route stop by and watch the Worlds top downhill riders hauling! When you get to the bottom fly by the suspension service centres like those of TF Tuned, Stendec or Mojo and chat one to one regards your suspension set up.

Fenwicks the bike cleaner people will be running a bike wash with free use of their jet washes and cleaner. Roger from WheelPro will be on hand to true your wheels along with our two fully trained Park Tool Mechanics, all free of charge!

Schedule:
Saturday
09:00 - 14:30 Open Practise
15:00 - 18:00 Seeding
18:15 Riders meeting
19:00 Sombrio Film Festival
Sunday
09:00 - 12:30
13:00 - 16:00 Racing
16:30 Podium

What more do you need to know? Parking and spectating is free!

Catch you trackside..

Si "Superfly" Paton.

www.Descent-Gear.com
www.Descent-World.co.uk
www.npsdh.com

Pump Urban Wear comp - Winner #1!

We've got our first T-shirt winner in the Pump Urban Wear comp!

We've sorted through the millions(ish) of entries.... put them in to a hat....picked one at random and.....

A shirt will be winging it's way to Chris Mundle of Bath any minute now. Well done squire. No doubt we'll sort out a pic of him in his new kit for the news page.

Cheers to everyone who entered and especially to Rick at Pump for making it all happen.

Remember.... 3 more shirts to give away. One a week for the next 3. So get signed up!

www.pumpurbanwear.co.uk

http://www.flowbikes.co.uk/

PUW comp

Folks, as detailed in issue 2 and the post a few down, we're drawing one name from all those who sign up each week for the next 5 weeks. Some people seem to be getting error messages when submitting the form, so as an alternative, email me at.... scott@wideopenmag.co.uk
and send your same details... (Name:Email:Address:Town:County:Postcode:Country:Message)

...and we'll put your name in the hat.

Cheers,
Scott|editor

4X postponed this weekend...

PRESS RELEASE

We have taken the decision to postpone this weekend's 4X event.

The track is very wet and muddy and rather then risk running event on what would be a very wet weekend we have taken the decision to postpone until June 2/3rd

We want everyone to enjoy themselves at our events and feel that spending the weekend in a very wet muddy field is not going to be fun for anyone, least of all the all spectators and riders.

I know some would of you would love the race in the rain, but with this being a new track we really want to save it and for it to be an amazing weekend on racing on a really dry and sunny June 3rd!

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and will transfer or refund any entries already received.

Best Regards
Chris
Europes Biggest 4X Series
Freerange Sports Optics National 4X Series 2007

Series Co-Sponsors
MARZOCCHI - HALO - ODI - BRITISH CYCLING - THE PPC IMAGELAB-DIRT BIKE SUPPLY- RIMOR DIRECT
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Chris Roberts NPS4X 25 Wrekin Walk Stourport-on-Severn
WORCS DY13 0LR UK Direct M 07702 826260 www.nps4x.com

Win PUW Gear!

Good news - We've hooked up with Pump Urban Wear and we've got 5 shirts to give away to readers.

Click 'Contact' on the right and fill out your details. We'll then pick a random winner every week for the next 5 weeks... It's quick and easy so get on it!

(Don't panic if the comments form gives you any funny messages... we're definately getting all your entries!)

Pump are a South West based lifestyle brand. They're all about quality, lifespan, value and choice. Exactly the sort of company we want to work with in the mag.

They work closely with the guys at Flow Bikes and have a real solid line up of team riders. On dirt there’s Rob Newman(team manager), Tom Gethin and Dylan Stone. Also, Kris Janczuk on Wakeboard and a new BMX rider coming soon. They'll be on the road this summer on a shooting their first DVD... we'll definately be all over that. Stay tuned...

Check out the links :

http://www.pumpurbanwear.co.uk

http://www.flowbikes.co.uk/

http://myspace.com/tom_gethin

Freelap at the NPS

Read the latest Dirt?
Seen those fancy Freelap timing devices that Stanny is using...?

Well.... at every round of the NPS in 07 Freelap will be on hand to let riders check out their times.

SPS Events will ensure at the start and finish line of each race one of the Freelap Transmitter Poles will be located as well as an obvious mid-way point for your split times!

Tim Williams from Freelap has also promised one lucky racer at the final of the Chain Reaction Cycles NPS at Caersws a complete Freelap kit of watch and two poles!

Si Paton of SPS Events says, “The Freelap system is the most innovative product of 2007 and will turn every ride into a race. Whenever you start measuring something, it improves, this will be the same for your riding, guaranteed”.

www.npsdh.com
www.freelap.co.uk

Foel-king hell

Headed up to Foel gasnach today for an uplift day with Justin and the boys. See Fearingout report fearingout.co.uk, but photo below says it all really...loving it.

Wideopen Issue 2 - out now!

Yup its out - click on the link to the left to get to the download page. Feedback as usual on the Comments page more than welcome.

PUW competion - you need to click on the 'Contact' link on the right and fill that in for a chance to win a free T-shirt!

Chain Reaction Cycles NPS - Venue Change

News just in from Paton :

Round 4 of the NPS on the 11th and 12th of August 2007 has changed from Kinnerton to Moelfre. Make a note in your diary!

The line up now is: Inners, Ae, Rugog, Moelfre, Caersws. Not bad at all.

TF Tuned Fast Track to summer

Just got an email update from Caroline at TF... good news for folks wanting their shox fettled.

"We are currently booking about a week ahead, and so we have re-introduced the Fast Track service for the summer. There will be a few spaces available for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week where, for an additional charge of 25GBP, you can effectively queue-jumpa nd get any ultra-urgent jobs turned around quickly, ready for theweekend.

I'd also urge you to plan ahead - those of you lucky enough to be off tothe mountains on holiday, don't leave it to the last minute to get yoursuspension serviced and tuned - book it in well ahead of time please.

On the stock front, we have PUSH parts available for all Fox products,and we have a few RockShox Revelation 426 U-turn Coil forks back instock. We think that these are the best value fork available at themoment at 280GBP, and it seems like the public agree as RockShox have been struggling to meet demand."

tftunedshox.com for more

Issue 2.... SOON!!

Inundated with questions of when Issue 2 is out, all I can do is say SOON!
Its in final proofing now - so I expect we'll have it online on Friday.

Trust me - its worth the wait!

I'm back...

Just back from a weeks holiday - Wideopen Issue 2 is nearing completion, and it'll be worth the wait. Sign up to the mailing list (using the Contact link) and we'll let you know before its publicised elsewhere when the next issue is ready for download.

Dragon Rd2 Mt Ash

Dragon time again this weekend at Mt Ash.... Weathers looking good so should be a fast one. ... don't forget to pack your pedalling legs for that bottom section!

Stay tuned to http://www.dragondownhill.co.uk/ for results next week and repo in WO.

PS.... Do the Dragon Team a favour and car share as much as you can. Parking is a big issue at Mountain Ash that needs your help! Share vehicles, park tidy and try not to roll up in an enormous van! See the site for more info.