…third place actually. Yay, I didn’t come dead last for once. I’ve not come last in open race motos before, but to not come last on the day based on points…well that is something to get excited about in my world.

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Hmmm…it appears they want that Olympic gold. In fact the mighty USA want to pick up the BMX Olympic gold medal so much, they built a replica of the Beijing SX BMX track at their training centre. Well hopefully the Aussies, or any other nation for that matter, can knock them off their perch. I wonder how much of the money for the track came from GT, Red Bull or other interested private entities??

I am thinking about racing a few rounds of Track Attack, but it is still up in the air. Since the things between my legs shrivel up every time I get on the gate, and I have not raced an open before, I am in two minds. I guess at the end of the day, someone has to come last though!

So, I have a poll on the BMX Ultra Forums. Let me know which round you see as a must race!

OK, so I rode my first BMX race on the trusty 20″ Kuwahara on Saturday. I paid my year’s licence money (without bothering to try a race on a day licence first) and got out in the ‘Dads’ class at the Park Orchards clubbie. I’d done gates and ridden around on the track during warm-up and practice previously, but racing is a completely different experience.

Basically, it was a full gate (8 riders) of dads who should know better than to ride little bikes up steep embankments and fling themselves into the air. This is a bunch of blokes who know the old rule “what goes up must come down”, and should also realise that is goes hand in hand with “the bigger they are, the harder they fall”.

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