We set off on Thursday evening from Glastonbury ‘West Central’ hauling our usual through the night 10hr drive to arrive looking like zombies at the foot of the Bill. Ben took Easyjet turning up in the pits on Friday morning looking well slept and waiting for his bike to plop out the back of the van.
Friday practice went fine – Ben was feeling smooth and the bike was working as it should. Come Saturday and qualifying all was looking in shape. Unfortunately Ben missed out by a second or two on the qualifying time so that kind of ended our race weekend early. Finding ourselves left with a few spare hours, we managed to slip in some fully rigid singletrack before loading the van up and tearing back to cider country.
Note: Zero bike mechanicals for Astrix all weekend! No bust rims, no flats, no bent bikes, no hangers. Thanks to our sponsors Spank, RockShox, Funn and Shimano. Kinda makes it a bit easier!
Ben went to the Shambala open race in Bulgaria last weekend and came away with 1st place by a 7 second margin. Serving as a good proving ground for Havoc R the track was 5 minutes long, steep and rocky. Check out the vid below from Dirt and a couple of pics from Jacob Gibbins.
Our first production frame is available now and it’s cool to see Havoc R bikes tearing up trails in UK and Europe already. Thanks to all who have helped make this happen. We hope you enjoy the bikes as much as we do.
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