The  2010 Nsw  state series kicked off nicely with the first round held at Thredbo national park on the last week end of February. Despite a seriously damaged national track South East MTB co. and Kt did an amazing job at restoring what was a skeleton of a track due to the relentless downpour over the three days of racing two weeks prior.
The week end paned out without any glitches (Threats of thunderstorm were looming ) with two glorious sunny days of practise on friday and Saturday. Sunday however was overcast with some serious chances of rain and possible thunderstorm : we all kept our fingers and our spokes crossed for a dry race!

Come qualifying, a couple of rain drops threatened the race but the whole field managed to get down dry with the exception of the last 10 Elite riders who seriously coped a downpour and a half ! We just scraped it and managed to have a near dry week end with some awesome riding, thrills and spills!

And when we say spills we mean nasty ones, eject button type of crashes. See for yourself the state of my saddle. I had to do 3/4 of the run with rails for a seat and a big hole in my thigh from the stabbing i endured. Not pretty!

On the flip side, who cares about my result. What counts is that our sponsored riders all did extremely well:

Thomas Crimmins managed to pull the second fastest time of the day  with a win in under 19′s in a 6min22s. I keep reminding myself that this kid is only 14 for another 4 months and is riding as fast as some of the top ten Elite nationally.

Always in the shadow of his brother but a glowing star nonetheless Andrew Crimmins at the age of 12 took out the field in under 15′s with 6min47s. Andrew is displaying amazing riding skills whilst riding and confidence that would scare a lion away .

A new Comer onboard the Rouler imports team is Kent Hamilton with his brand spanking new white makulu managed to qualify despite a wash out in front of me (as i was gathering my thoughts after my crash) that put him into last qualified. IN his final race run Kent took an honourable 8th place in Elite with a time of 6min30s.

And finally least but not last, one of our co-factory bos riders Brendan Moon blew the field with an amazing 5th place in Elite with a time of 6min27s.

We can call that a very successful week end for Rouler Imports riders with their top notch equipment performing at a high level of performance.

We will create a 2010 state series album in our gallery of our riders. SO keep checking.

Bring on the last national round and the rest of the state series.