Video of the first BESC at Aldershot courtersey of Digger Offroad Films.

BESC round 1

23rd February

The first two races of the year are done and dusted now, I’ve just about finished cleaning up from them! We couldn’t have had worse weather to deal with and I think the organiser’s done a great job to put the events on, the first BESC round being frozen solid under 3 inches of snow and then the first BEC round in Wales being a mud bath.

Having moved from the 250f to the 350f I didn’t put a lot of pressure on myself to get good results straight away as the last time I changed to a bigger bike the only time I went fast was in the back of the ambulance on the way to hospital!  I wanted to ride well but ride safe. For me the hardest thing was trying to get used to the bike under race conditions, it rides a lot different to the 250f and I think that’s where I was going wrong, trying to hard and making to many mistakes.

Being thrown in at the deep end with the conditions was difficult but I know now what I need to do to move forward and get the bike set for me, so hopefully my riding will improve for the next BESC round at Monmouth and the results will be more like what I should be getting.

See you at the races

Daryl

Hi all, hope your loving the new site as much as I do (thanks Wayne)!

My preperation for 2012 is going well,  just a few meetings to wrap things up and we’re good to go!

I’m pleased to say that most of my sponsors from previous years are continuing their support which I’m so gratefull for and  hopefully a few new sponsors aswell.  I will list all 2012 sponsors when they’re all confirmed.

For now it’s back to testing the new machinery.

Speak soon

Daryl

The first rounds of the sprint went OK for me, after a not so good ride at the muntjack I really wanted to get back to how I should be riding. The first day wasn’t going to bad until a big crash left me seeing stars and I lost 2 minutes in one test, the second day went OK, I had a sore neck from a bit of whiplash but managed to get 4th so it wasn’t to bad.   I felt good at rounds 3 and 4, it was a bit of a shame that the course was so fast in places as I think my pace was good and I was only loosing out on the long straights.

Since the sprints I was lucky enough to find a new practice area which is local to me, it was built and is used by a top MX2 British and World championship rider and with the lighter nights coming in hopefully some speed training is going to benefit me.

I’m feeling good for the next rounds of the British sprint championship so hopefully things will go good and we will get a good results.

See you at Rogershill Raceway in 2 weeks,

Daryl