Pearce Cycles Midlands Summer Series Round 3 - 17/18 May

Woah! It's May already! Anyway, Round 3 of the Midlands Series was at Bringewood again, on the old track. It was super super slidy (as it always is) in practice on Saturday after a load of rain prior to the race, and I have to say I really didn't feel very fast. I also thought that my bike seemed a bit noisy which was getting on my nerves a bit but it turned out I just had too much air in my tyres - what a fool!



The next day there had been a load more rain in the night and the top of the track was super slippery. I didn't get much more than 50yds from the start line without properly sliding right off about three times which was ridiculously annoying, but I clearly should have changed my tyres. I had a feeling that by the time I got back up the track after sticking a mud tyre on the front, that it would have dried out loads and the High Rollers would've been fine. I wasn't wrong, but I decided not to worry and kept the mud tyre on anyway. By the end of the day the track was much much drier, and in my second run I hit pretty much all my lines perfectly, pedalled loads, and ended up taking the win from Aimee by 5 seconds. Pretty stoked! That also means I'm leading the series!