Simtra at the Jin Mao World BikeTrial Master Cup!

Our team rider Jeff Anderson got invited to the BIU Masters World Bike Trials Master Cup In Shangai China.

Jeff finished 4th on his proto ST-1 frame.

Competition was really stiff! Here is the story from the man himself.

May 1st:

My first day of international competition, the sections were very technical with some big moves and some scary parts.

In the morning Ot Pi managed to beat the world record by climbing the jin mao towers 88 floors in 39 mins !

So the format of the competition was like this. Mod and stock rode together. There were 4 rounds: 6 sections in each round, with the sections getting harder in each round. In the first round the top 20 advance, second the top ten and third the top 4 to the finals.

The first round began and I managed to get a two on section one and got a 1 penalty point for going over the 30 min time limit. So I managed to qualify second behind peter.

May 2nd:

There was three rounds. The first round I started second to last because I qualified second on may 1st.
I was riding behind all the big boys, psychologically intimidating. Through that loop I qualified 7th with 8 points and the top ten got to move on. So next round I started 3rd which I liked more.

For the next round only the top four qualified. I placed third in that round with ten points. So I was in the Finals! So it was Me, Dani Comas, Kazuki, and Peter. lol so the bib numbers were 1 , 2 ,3 and me with bib 16. It was a cool format where we all rode together and rotated through the sections.

Everyone cleaned the first section, the second section was very hard. I went first and fell and twisted my ankle. Peter and kazuki got a one and Dani cleaned it, very impressive. So my ankle was toast but I kept riding. The next section Dani and Kazuki cleaned and Peter got a five, so I have a chance, with Peter with 6 points, to get into 3 place. However I lost concentration and fived it on a balance part. The last three sections were really hard but I managed to clean all of them, however so did Dani, Peter and Kazuki.

So the Final Score was

Dani Comas 0 points
Kazuki 1 point
Peter 6 points
Jeff 10 points

More pics of jeff on this link.
http://www.xbreaker.com/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=2128

Congratulation Jeff!