BDS Round 2 Fort William

Fort Bill... rocky, gnarly and long. This one sorts the men from the boys, get it wrong here and you're gonna know about it! It's always cool racing here though as pretty much everyone makes a holiday of it, so we all jump in our vans, drive up on Thursday night and prepare for a long weekend of shredding the longest course on not just the BDS calendar but the WC calendar too.

Fort William's dramatic skyline

The week we arrived the Fort was also host to the Scottish Six Day Trial so the town was heaving and every morning hoards of riders were tearing around from the pits on the Lock-front to the venue for the trial, which I think Peaty rode in, as well as racing the BDS on Sunday, what a legend!

Such an amazing venue...

After qualification had finished I had ended up 3rd overall so I was happy with that result but pumped to see if I could go even better with my final run and put together a killer run. The track was getting loose and pretty ruined, not to mention the continued rain throughout race day so it was going to be interesting!

Hooning down the home stretch towards the motorway jumps

My finals run was so much fun, I'd been feeling pretty beaten up after 3 days of training on one of the worlds gnarliest race courses so a  little bit of me of happy to get it over and done with! Coming into the small woods section before the 'Event Scotland' wallride I almost had a race run ending moment dabbing and getting super squirly on a steep chute but luckily this didn't come to anything. 

As I crossed the line I went into 2nd place and this was my overall result at the Fort Bill BDS, and my best BDS result to date so as you can imagine I was over the moon to do so well at that venue.

Podium...

Bring on Innerliethen!