David quickly put himself in front and stayed there all weekend, but there was some great racing in other classes. I have put up a small collection of images, from a much, much larger collection. Enjoy…

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Britain’s finest Enduro riders headed to the very first official Sprint Championship.

Some great racing was on show and ‘Knighter’ showed why he has a couple of World titles to his name, by putting minutes between him and the rest of the field.

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I was joined on the Journalistic front this week by the  intrepid JB. Working for several magazines whilst in Portugal including Motorcycle Sport and Leisure (UK) and Australasian  Dirt Bike, we spent much of the week wishing the sun would come out to play and river would stop threatening to remove our precious cameras form our hands.

The swelled rivers left for some serious navigational improvisation by Simon Pavey and it was then that we really began to see the wonders of Portugal. Everything about this place is bike heaven. I hope the pictures provide a flavour of that!

www.offroadskills.com

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BMW Off Road Skills headed to the Algarve for winter sun and dry riding. And it rained loads.

Sporting a fleet of bikes, and two groups of ten customers joined them for a various adventures. Mixed weather has been rife,  so I left my camera home on those rainy days. It was a fantastic weeks riding and the rain kept the dust without being too horrid. Check back next week for some Images from week two.

www.offroadskills.com

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I was on the ‘ol dog an bone to Moto X magazine Ed, Ben in the middle of January when he asked me to do the pics for their upcoming 450 MX shootout. A quick reshuffle here and there and I made sure I could say yes. Set to be my first ever mulit-bike shootout of any description I was excited to say the least.

Pulling myself out of bed for a nice half six start and, as is typical of our delightful winter, the weather was on the grimmer side of shite… As my darling Father and I rocked into the car park of Apex MX following our two hour trek across the heads of the valleys, the grey skies hung still low and the wind cut me deep. Sporting a stolen “dappy hat” and some rather audacious trainers, I set to work trying to figure out how this MX lark worked (I have never even shot at and MX track…)

The remainder  of Worcester’s snow fall lay frozen on the corner of the car park and what resulted was some rather bright static photo’s of this year’s big boy line up. This was about the only time all day I had any light to work with and the only period I managed to retain any body heat. Beyond the ever fading light, and onslaught of bikes left right and centre, the day didn’t turn out so badly and out it has come my first magazine cover! Not so bad if I say so myself.

You can catch Ben and the team’s review of this years 450 weapons now or check out www.motoxmag.co.uk

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Welcome to my blog. I do a lot of travelling with my work and with that comes an awful lot of adventure and mishaps. Keep your eyes on this section of my site, to see my latest images and hear some of the bizarre happening I encounter…

So I headed to Denmark for the world’s first ever Electric Enduro. Run mostly using Quantya bikes, and run in conjunction with the slightly controversial Eco conference, I feel this was by far the best thing that happened in Copenhagen over the two weeks…

As my road trips go this is by far the least eventful. Choosing to drive the 1600km journey to the flatlands of Denmark due to my lack of ability to hire a car and my limited funds, to contemplate doing so any way we managed to get to my friends house in Veijle without drama. The next day we headed over to Faxe, Sjælland we did manage to find our campsite based accommodation despite some rather spurious Danish directions. From here we followed some equally dodgy directions to try and find the main base for the race. My aim was to not try and find this place in the dark, because not being Danish or being able to read Danish it was not going to make life easy. But between my accomplice Simon, his flat Blackberry and my slightly knackered phone, we managed to call and ask our way to the correct place. 

Following the race around Sjælland for the next three days was still remarkably uneventfull, my only gripe being the desperately cold weather and black skies. All it amounted to was a breaking out of the 16-35mm and my trusty 580 Speedlight. Damn I need another of those!

We had opted to spend a few days back in Veijle with our friend Mette, whom I was best mates with back in college. We didn’t really have much planed but it turned out to be a fantastic few days, made none the less more awesome by the 30cm+ of snow the happened to drop over northern Europe over night. Being British based we assumed it’d be gone after a day or two. WRONG. Like seriously wrong. In-fact I feel wrong may be doing the snow fall an injustice. Come leaving day we scraped the 15cm of fresh over night snow fall off the car, defrosted her and headed off into the abyss pretending to some kind of dodgy anglo-australian-gangstar rendition of Marcus Gronholm. We rounded most bends side ways and “in-control” for the two days previous and it was until I buried my precious 306 in a snow drift I decided to calm it and just get home.

The next 1,000km went by without issue, other than some black ice in Belgium which made me go all six pence-half a crown and caused Si to do some shouting. The problems with roadways really only seem to happen in the UK, in fact the only traffic jam in two weeks we were away happened when a truck didn’t like his side of the French motoway. But that was understandable. Back on the M20 toward London however and the snow had put the country in reverse. An 8 truck crash going th other way, somehow brought the North bound to a standstill and as the regular travel report riled me all the more by assuring me my side of the road was moving at normal speed. I contemplate the sanity of British folk sometimes…

I hope you like the images too…!

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This week I headed to Dunkerque and what ensued has to be one of the funniest/most disastrous trips ever. It almost dwarfed the calamity of Canada’s travel arrangements. Some seriously bad planning on everyone’s part meant some slightly not so legal riding had to be indulged in, but it didn’t come after, some very last minute bike building, an awful lot of driving, accidentally entering Belgium, deliberately entering Belgium, spending two hours lost in Lille, finding a BMW track, missing a Ferry, being robbed by a gas station and a broken drivers seat. These are the Images that occurred. I feel it was not a bad job considering…

Read my review of Tamsin’s Bike in the January issue of MotoX magazine!

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So this week I went to Quebec, Canada to ride bikes with the team from Quebec Moto Loisirs. And damn what a fine week it was!! Great riding, Great food, fantastic scenery and wildlife topped off with French people! It was ace, I couldn’t recommend it more to anyone!!! Read my review in the October issue of TBM.

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I got asked to work as the official photographer for the UK’s first ever sprint enduro. The weather was rough, but the racing didn’t suffer, far from it. I cursed the dreadful light but I did what I could and the boss was happy.

Watch out for the Sprint Enduro in 2010. For more info check out www.enduro-sprint.com

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