Thursday July 28, 2011 at 11:27am
It is now less than a week before the ACU British ISDE teams leave for Finland, the Trophy team of Paul Edmondson, Tom Sagar, Si Wakely, Jordon Rose, Greg Evans and Ash Wood and the Junior team of Alex Rockwell, Danny McCanney, Jonny Walker and Jack Rowland are all geared up and ready to go, all arrive in Helsinki on Monday 1st August before a 120km drive east to the event venue in Hamina/Kotka in anticipation of walking the first of the tests on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile the bikes will be en route, after loading our Rygor Commercial trucks at Bordon courtesy of Dave May Miller and the Army MCA team lads.
The team have been given their helmets sprayed in team colours by Lee at dzign, and the team shirts have arrived and are looking good, we expect delivery of our Kriega equipment by tomorrow. The loss of Arron Poolman from the team due to injury has opened the door for Dusty to now take a pre-rider/out rider and this job was keenly taken up by Justin Wilson who from previous form will certainly raise the teams morale! A more than able paddock support crew of Carl Bale, Julian Stevens and Leo will be on hand to help with any last minute prep problems and tech support throughout the event. Thanks to Ted Bartlett we have a hotel booked for the whole British contingent most will have arrived by next weekend, Ted will also be our Jury Delegate, we are hoping that all will run smoothly and we will not have to use him for too much. For those of you on facebook please follow our progress on ACU British ISDE Team page, or www.enduronews.com where we hope to post photos and general day to day updates of our progress.
The whole effort could not take place without out the ACU and our sponsors and partners, www.enduronews.com, Kriega www.kriega.com Rygor Commercials www.rygor.co.uk Lee at www.dzign-uk.com and Sean at www.pro-shirts.co.uk