Mountain Mayhem 2010

Another Mountain Mayhem has come and gone and this year the Chantry team stepped two places higher on the podium coming in 1st place and completing 28 laps in the Mixed Sport category.
An incredible result, beating two well-supported teams, Kinesis Morvelo and Torq of the Devil.

This year the weather was kind on race days but heavy rain on the Friday left 2 of the early singletrack sections a little claggy, the rest of the course was dry and fast.




The order for the Chantry team was Roger Smith (left), Steve Calland, James D'Arcy, Simon McNamara and Emma Craddock. There is a Le Mans style start and Roger was in the mix in the run and came in to the transition area in the top 20. The next twenty three hours were spent defending that lead and, by the time Simon MacNamara started their 28th and last lap at approx 13:15 on Sunday afternoon, Southdown's Bikes held a commanding lead. That was how it finished as Simon crossed the line just after 14:00 on Sunday, approx. 32 minutes ahead of 2nd place Morvelo, to rapturous applause from all his team mates and supporters gathered at the finish.

In the same category Southdown's Kithurst consisting of Alex Davey, Ian Petherbridge, Andy Goodyer (right), Amanda D'Arcy and Billy Turrell had an outstanding weekend riding 25 laps and came in 13th place.

Some really impressive lap times by the guys after Amanda had a serious fall early into her 2nd lap but in true Mayhem spirit brushed herself down and road the next 7 miles to the pass on the baton.









Southdown's Chanctonbury was made up of Alex Taylor, John Davies and 2 guest riders due to all our unfortunate injuries this season, Alex Davey's brother Brian (left) and a good friend of Amanda and James, Steve Mead stepped up to the plate. They gelled into a good 4 man sport team riding 22 laps and finishing 58th no mean feat in a tough category.






Rich Brown came back for some more punishment bringing his unsuspecting mates to 24hrs of hell. They did great, really put their soul into the event and all finished with some great memories.

Toby Franklin, Ben Belassie, Steve Riglar and Ed Walters formed the North End team and rode some impressive times considering this was their first crack at the event cruising home in 119th place and finishing 19 laps. Excellent effort guys.

The Lunatic Asylum was Rich 's posse including Carl Haslam, Kris Aldridge and Tom Ouvry. They came in 157th riding 17 laps which is pretty impressive as most of these guys had never ridden through the night before. Next year guys???

Top l-r:- Roger Smith and Steve Calland,

Bottom l-r :- James D'Arcy,Simon MacNamara and Emma Craddock



Im sure all the above would like to thank Tim our manager who barely slept and clocked up a fair few miles keeping track of times and tactics and feeding vital info to the team and of course our fallen hero Marc who suffered the most being sidelined for the event and summer from a sport he so loves , all i can say is he will be back !


Thanks to Jayne for all her hard work keeping us well fed all the weekend and to Sharon for all her help and support.

Great support from Karen and Rich Dixon also and a pleasant surprise on the arrival of Martin, Megan and Duncan.