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« Last post by Mikku on August 29, 2025, 08:34 AM »
Last week I visited another of the four Velosolutions-built pump tracks in Japan. That means I've now done three of the four, though the fourth is up in Hokkaido (the northern island), so I won't be going that way any time soon. It's definitely on my riding radar though - may be next year! 
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« Last post by Mikku on August 29, 2025, 08:27 AM »
A used Odyssey EVO II brake caliper was delivered today. I now have no more excuses not to finish off my Sunday park build! 
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« Last post by Mikku on August 26, 2025, 05:34 AM »
Thanks for those Dave! I keep going backwards and forwards with brake options, so the Sunday is still not finished!  I have, however, been continuing to use the Quamen to get my skate park fix and last week took it to a concrete park in Fukushima. The features there were huge, with quarter pipes and halfpipes up to 8ft in height. This was certainly no beginners' playground, and I felt like a little boy whizzing around the place, gawping at the huge concrete faces. I could still have some fun there, practising 180s and fakies. I did scare myself silly a few times though, and with a race scheduled for the weekend, decided to call it a day before injuring myself!
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« Last post by Mikku on August 26, 2025, 05:19 AM »
Was out racing again on Sunday with the 44.2/16 gearing and must admit to liking it. It's not too high for me to get bogged down at the start and not too low to want something more on the straights.
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« Last post by Mikku on August 26, 2025, 05:13 AM »
Went away for a few days last week, taking the recently rebuilt Redline to another Velosolutions pump track in Fukushima before returning via Niigata for Sunday's race at Joetsu. There were 12 riders in the over 30s class including some non-regulars getting a practice race in before the national series visits there in a couple of weeks' time. The 12 of us were split into two racks of six, with the top four from each going through to the main. I finished 4th, 4th and 5th in the motos, just scraping through from my rack. The main went as expected and after a brief dice, or rather, dive for 6th in the first berm, which I failed to pull off, I slotted into 7th place which I held to the line. It was another hot and humid day, so I was happy to make it to the end in one piece. They ran a gate session after lunch, so I fuelled up and stayed on for some much-needed gate practice. Overall, a really fun day and whilst I love the GT, it was good to be out on the Redline again.  The next races at both Joetsu and Oizumi are not until late September, and it's looking likely that I won't be able to make it to either, so I'm going to try at least to get some more pump track action during September. Gotta keep the ol' legs movin'
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« Last post by Taipan on August 07, 2025, 01:28 PM »
Didn't attend myself either but did here from others who did that the Bmx side of things wasn't great and the general opinion was its not that great an event due to organisation and planning?  Only attended two MK's myself but they were the best! bmx events I ever went tooand I'll always have my memories lol
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I really enjoyed the event it's self. I agree, the BMX section on the main Marquee was quite sparse when I went in there. I was lucky enough to get to the camping area on the Thursday so I got a good camping spot. People arriving further in to the weekend struggled to get in. It just needed someone to play adult for a while to get it organised to get people in in an orderly fashion. I'm not sure if these links will work but here are my pictures on Facebook. They're drag racing heavy!.. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EC1yh9CdF/?https://www.facebook.com/share/1MutCr38dt/?
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« Last post by SDF on August 04, 2025, 09:27 PM »
They obviously worked hard to put the event on which I respect. But you walked into the tent, with BMX,s only surrounding the parameter, the rest of the marquee was for cars. I felt like I was doing them a favour to put a few bikes in show and shine, no seating at all, only a roped off are for coolflo, and their crew😅 I didn’t feel welcome at all. Luckily we found the main dance tent with Billy Bunter, which made the weekend.
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« Last post by Mikku on August 03, 2025, 01:29 PM »
2025 World Champion!!! 
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« Last post by HUTCHMAN on August 02, 2025, 06:24 AM »
just sent you a couple of set up pics
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