It’s come and gone for another… well few months in anyway. Another successful, if I may say so myself, 5D Event.

This time around we ran the 12 Hours OF not so much Darkness, a first as it seems we seem to have developed a fetish for doing things at night! Anyway, numbers were up, down considering the pull outs due to change of dates, but still up. I think next year it will be 200 easy and the event series should be full.

As usual there were a range of highlights that always make running the events such a joy. Smiles all round and ‘Tripples’ from the Sydney Single speed Society courier crowd topping it out by nabbing not one but near all the treasures on the track AND still riding 15 or so laps solo AND having been hit by a van at work in Sydney’s CBD!!! Bloody hell.

The crew from the Hunter Valley Mountain Bike Association as usual ponied up a brilliant track…. apparently (this is the first course I have not ridden) and the timing and the rest went flawlessly. it’s amazing what can be achieved by doing things simply!

In all though, as a pre run to the 2008 5D ‘..OF..’ Race series, I gotta say we are all convinced there will be great times to be had. Of course being true to 5D form, there will be a bunch of new features coming up that will make the events a better and funner (is that a word?) experience. What’s best though it that it has rebirthed my love of the sport and that has to be a good thing!