We are all probably getting ready for 2012 racing season, but I'm coming back to show you a bit of my 2011 racing.
I've been racing for Banshee Bikes Factory team with my team mate Adam Brayton and we had an awesome time. I spent almost all weekends of the season at the races. I did whole World Cup except South Africa, most of IXS European DH Cup, a few other races plus a lot of training and riding. It was simply fun with some solid results.
First of all, there is a video footage which hasn't been released yet. It shows some Worldcups, Dirt Jumps, MX and World Champs of 2011.
I was a bit unlucky this season in WC qualis. I was really confident when the season started, as I qualified myself for all races back in 2010. But I put myself under a little stress too. Here is the spot in La Bresse, where I crashed in Qualification. I was simply too fast and landed too far, a little bit nosedived for sure, haha.
Another missed finals - Fort William. I was really enjoying the course this year. I was training with Brayton all the week, having fun. I had really good run in the qualis, but slipped a bit off the line at the bottom, missed the bridge and fell into the stream...a minute from the finishline, haha. At least, I was happy to get 6th at first split.
We also had some fun at Brayton's - Keswick, UK. Lovely place, really. As Adam said: "The best place in the world".
One of the races of IXS EDC also visited my home country, Czech Republic. I think everybody was loving the track, except the pissing rain following us for whole weekend. I finished 3rd in the end.
I was also having fun on Worlds in Champery. The track is one of my favorites and I enjoyed a whole week of training. I also had a solid run in qualis, finishing 21st. BUT!!, the mud on Sunday was a thing. I was really looking forward to that, because I like mud and I've been racing there all World Cups before.. But this was crazy, again. I was feeling good until I crashed for the first time...after that I crashed 3 more times. Really wild run, who has not seen this in real, can't understand how massive this is.
I didn't ride my MX bike through the season too often. I had no time. Here is one of the autumn rides.
If you are interested in more pictures from 2011, you can see the whole album at my profile.
I would like to thanks to my 2011 sponsors, which helped me a lot to make this happened. *Banshee Bikes *Alpine-pro *Hant *Maxxis *RaceFace *Elka *WTB *e*13 *HT *Cane Creek *Crank Brothers *Ultim8shop.cz *Gravitymag.com *Krabcycles *Bluegrass Eagle *Inkospor *Framewrap *GoPro *Five.Ten
And another special thanks to Gravitymag.com's Patrik Prochazka, who traveled with me to some races and made the most of the pictures above, the first one is by Ken81.
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