Went to Matt Eaton Training at Bath track tonight and decided to ride the jump bike as I needed to get it home after training as it has been living in the container since I built it up and I need to use it to ride to work on as I have built up the Chase frame with all the parts from the Dialled 24″ that I was using to ride to work!
During the warm up I practiced doing manuals on the jump bike and I am getting the first jump really clean now. the gearing on the jump bike is still too high so my knee was feeling it but its fun to ride none the less!
We did a few games to work on endurance without knowing it and then moved on to bunny hops and Matt got me to relax and stop to muscle my bunny ops and it really works, I went from struggling to get in the air to easily bunnyhopping over a 1-1.5 foot bar easily 🙂 I was even starting to style it out and get steezy by the time the bar maxed out 🙂
I did hurt my wrist again at the start of the session as I had forgotten to put my wrist support on which was stupid but once i had the support on it was fine.
At the end of the session we played foot down and I managed to blow my knee out which was annoying! But it seems to be OK now.
When I got home I ordered a 33T Profile Imperial Sprocket from Cruical BMX which will be here Thursday so that I can build up the Octane One frame over the weekend. I decided that using my race cranks was going to be a real ball ache so I will use the bmx 3 piece cranks on it with a sprocket instead. To be honest they are probably better anyway as they are super strong and should last forever! It also means that I can get the Speedco Cruiser up and running and use the 170mm DXR’s on it and sell it as a complete with my Profile Elite wheels on it and clear a load bike bits from my flat at the same time! Once it is sold I may use some of the money to get a profile elite or Onyx rear wheel built up too 🙂 (Or just pay the money off of my credit card bill 🙂