After the Wharncliffe Weekender I gave away a days riding with me, and it was Little Billy Matthews that won the prize.

It has taken me this long to go out with Billy cos I have been busy filming and travelling since the World Cup season finished, but finally we got to ride together last Saturday.

We started off in Grenoside woods doing a few jumps and drop offs, I was blown away at how good Billy is for only being 13 years old, we went over to this North Shore type drop off which had a nice steep long landing. I hit it a couple of times showing Billy how to do it but he said he wouldn’t do it this week. As we were about to leave he just rolled up to it and Launched himself off, he took us all by surprise and landed perfect. It was cool to see him do that drop, I wish I was doing stuff like that when I was his age.

After there we moved over to Wharncliffe woods for a bit of DownHill riding, Little Billy lives up to his name “by being ‘Little’ that is” so it was hard for him to carry his speed being so light. Instead he just used the ground and pumped his way along picking lines putting the odd pedal stroke in and keeping his speed.

We had a good fun days riding and hanging out, Billy also brought along his mates Anthony and Josh and his Dad Graham, His Uncle Martin was chief photo guy too. They were all good riders, even his Dad!!!!

Congratulations Billy ………… Steve

Now we have finally got all the funds together from our Wharncliffe Weekender Fancy Dress charity race that we held in the summer it was time to present the cheque to our Charity “The Weston Park Cancer Appeal“.

It was a tremendous feeling to be handing over £5800.00 as the total amount and an even better feeling to be shown around the hospital and see where our money will help the people suffering. There are some amazing facilities at the hospital and charity money has been a key player in making it a better place for patients.

We could not have done the event without our sponsors so a huge thanks goes out to TRC Truck Rentals, Siemens, Nick Firth Tiles, Man Trucks, Royal Racing, Six Six one , Joe Whitaker signs, Source Sounds, North West MTB Center, WD Bathrooms.

Cheers………………..Steve

I have had a trials bike for a few years now and don’t realy get out on it much, so i thought that if i treated myself to a new Beta it would probably make me ride a little more.
This thing is trick and fun to ride, Me and Marc Beaumont did my local Christmas trial last weekend and dared each other to do the hard route “we are dumb asses, it was definitley hard”.
It was cool to see James Dabill at the trial showing everyone how it’s done right too.
I went for the 270 Beta and couldn’t believe how good it looks straight from the box, John Lampkin (pictured with me and Jake) who imports Beta handed over this little beauty to me last week.

Cheers John.
Go get yourself one at www.beta-uk.com

Cheers…Steve

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