Andorra world cup,Day one,three runs into practise,I clip my pedal on a rock and get pitched over the bars of a drop and land on the ugliest rock i have ever seen,Game over.I was fairly sure something was nackered but tryed to ride down,mainly to escape the eager pramedic who would not listen to me that the lump on my collerbone was the old break and was all ready with the morphine and ambulance ride to hospital.After getting a safe distance away Gee pulled me over and gave my bike to a photographer to walk down with.Cheers to that Dude.

I made it back to the pits and after the fastest hospital session ever (Thanks to Cedrics Girl Nuria for hooking that up) they told me nothing was broken and i needed to have a scan to see what the ligement damage was.Not what i wanted to hear.A break is simple,lazer,rest,done but now i have know idea….

Today we hooked up with Dakar Rally winner Cyril Despres,The original plan was to just get some lifestyle shots with Cyril and check out his set up.

However things got a little more intense,we arrived in the pouring rain and went straight down to his work shop to check out his Rally bikes wich vary from The 650 Bike we were going to ride that day to the smaller 250f and 300xc to the Bigger 700 Dakar Bike,It was nuts to see just how big those bikes are they ride.

After checking everything out we kitted up and got the bikes out,it was real welsh Enduro weather,the type of conditions that only Steve Irland gets when ever he puts on a Wirral Offroad,We have spent our fair share of time on Enduro rides in the pissing rain so we were itching to get out and stuck in a bog.

We headed up the mountain with Clay Filming for the ATHERTON PROJECT in the Polaris Buggy,The river you see behind Rach was the first task,Cyril Barreled in there and went up it like it was nothing,It was rad to get just a few basic tips, We ride alot of Moto but to get advice from someone so rad reminded me of how fast you learn when you first start a sport.

www.cyrildespres.com

Thanks alot to Alex and Cyril for letting us cane the bikes,Cyril is opening the World Cup in Andorra,Best of luck Mate.

We Trucked from Llangynog to the second round of the World cup 4x in Houfalize,then hit the road again to Le Breese…..

Top of the mountain pass before droping down into Andorra,There is so much snow around and more forcast for the Weekend of the race,

The view from the pass on the way up to Font-Romeu,after riding Montpellier BMX track we drove up through the cloud into clear Blue skys.

Stevie knows a Leprechaun when he sees one,However,He is not sure about this one.