“HEY GUYS, ANY CHANCE OF MOVING THE LOCATION TO CHICKSANDS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS MASSIVE HERE?!”
I sent this email while standing nervously at the top of the mini dirt jump line at Woburn Bike Park, in Bedfordshire. Looking down the trail, I could see a proper-sized double, with a flimsy plank carelessly filling the central part of the gap, as if the builders had said, “Here, it’s a tabletop now!” It’s not the same, though, is it? In a couple of days I was due to meet up with Saracen’s dirt jump ace, Alex Cahill, for some tips on adding some style and height to my jumping, and I was feeling anxious.
Rigidly full-sus
As long as I’ve been riding mountain bikes (four years), it’s always been on a full-sus. I’ve had no interest in hardtails, being of the opinion that suspension massively improves your experience on a bike, so why go without? When Saracen said they wanted to challenge us, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to work on my jumping, figuring that my latest accomplishment – hitting the red line at Wind Hill B1kepark in Wiltshire – would make me a good candidate. But then I found out I wouldn’t be doing it on my normal trail bike, but on a dirt jump bike.
