NSW Police & Emergency Services Games - Gravity Enduro

After an exciting day 1, we headed out to Green Valleys MTB Park again for a day of gravity with the NSW Police & Emergency Services Games. Scheduled was a morning of sighting runs followed by a single race run of each of the courses.

Today's gravity crowd was bigger than yesterdays XC, and so were their bikes. We had a shuttle bus and trailer, so no need for riding to the top.

At the top we were probably three times higher than yesterday's XC course elevation. We were able to sight the trails with some steady roll downs, everyone rolling on just one trail at a time due to a mid-track crossover. Squid City wound its way in an almost gentle manner down the hill. Sections of Squid were machine built, a metre and a half wide and very rolling.

Our other gravity trail to ride was Dirty South, a mixed terrain course that slammed its way down the hill. Dirty had been used in the Block Party a week earlier and was super dusty and blown-out. Between our two sighting laps on this trail it only got dustier and slipperier in sections.

But first and after the mandatory briefing was the Straight race run. This was more a BMX or dirt jump course and the lads with the best times were able to manual and pop their way along. The manuals and subsequent speed helped with the rhythm and gap jump 2/3rds of the way along.

We then piled onto the bus for a timed run down Squid. There weren't to many issues on Squid and it was very much a brake a least as possible for a smooth run down.

While the remainder of the last Squid descenders were on track we all piled back into the bus for the ride to the top. We had pulled on our new 661 full-face helmet from JetBlack for both Squid and now for Dirty South. When we attacked the Dirty South trail it was a matter of holding on as long as possible. We didn't have a good run and found ourselves over-cooking sections and not holding the right lines but we did get down in one piece, probably not as fast as we could have though.

It was again a reminder to ride the appropriate tyre for the style of riding, our slim XC tread didn't hold up as well as the Mitas Kratos has in the past. Of course we were on our XC bike, just with the seat slammed and pro-pedal off. 

We had a great day out with the guys representing the mix of services at the Games. We managed a 3rd for our age-group across the three trails. Thanks to the Games and the small team of event organisers for hosting. It was great to ride Green Valley too. We'll be sharing the images from this event on our Instagram and Facebook page when they become available.

**Edit** On receiving the results for the GE we can also claim on overall 5th place as well.

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