Mount Saint Anne / Windham Worldcups Recap.

After picking up Claire and Chris Kovarik from Montreal airport. We all made the drive up to Mount Saint Anne for our first world cup of the season.
The track was riding really well and was again unlike anything i have ridding in Australia.
So high speed and wide open and demanding on the bikes and body.
After having a ruff few days I was ready to almost sit out Qualifying but pushed on anyways coming down out side the top 110th.
Bummed but still stoked just to be able to attend the world cup.

few pics.

http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/member/Mont-Sainte-Anne-Gets-Roosted,3897/Mathew-Dodd,37477/davetrumpore,1982

http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/Calm-Before-the-Storm-MSA-Saturday,3905/Slideshow,0/sspomer,2?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fb_like

epic edit.

http://vimeo.com/44579507

Then it was off to Windham for our second stop in our world cup campaign.
track was ruff and super fast with times in the speed trap reaching over 64km per hr.
Blown out and dusty with a mixture of large rocks and mega kickers, to sum it up, THIS TRACK IS EPIC.

A massive thanks must go to Nigel from NSDYNAMICS and Shaun from Yeti for all the support and help and also again a massive thanks to Evan from SRAM for all the race support. With out these guys at the world cups i would not of even got the chance to do more then 1 or 2 practice runs.
THANKS GUYS


practice was going well and the bike was holding up well.
i put in a solid conservative run and then squared up a key left hand corner that carries speed all the way over there last 30 seconds of track and this seen me just missing out on qualifying and placing me into 98th.
stoked on cracking the top 100 at my 2nd world cup and having a hell of a time.

Few pics

http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/What-Are-They-Riding-Windham,3931/Matt-Dodds-Santa-Cruz-V10-Carbon,37912/davetrumpore,1982?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=addthis#.T-xL750gdew.facebook

http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/2012-UCI-World-Cup-Windham-New-York-Day-1,3883/Kovarik-and-Doddy-Checking-the-Dirt-at-Windham,37935/sspomer,2?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=addthis#.T-zEPDq7xRE.facebook

Epic edit

http://vimeo.com/44984985




With my trip over here in America now starting to come to a end.
I now have bench marks and new training goals set to work towards for the up coming season back home in Australia.
THEN BACK TO THE WORLD CUPS CHASING THE DREAM.

Thanks to all the guys that have help me out along with this trip, I have meet so many rad people that have helped out so much and this trip would not of been the same with out you guys.

Was so amped to be able to race the Eastern States Cup series and meet and even stay with George and Geoff Ulmer, thanks guys. I will see you next season for more.

Thanks to

Adidas Eyewear
NsDynamics
Kovarik Racing
Fortheriders
All the guys at Yeti racing and Sram for all your help.