Matt Harrington and we're in the Arimba State Forest, just up by Central Coast, New South Wales.
It's just a classic kind of flying single track really. I've never raced it as a cross country race, but we've made for one hell of a track.
Pinchy climbs, technical descents, rock gardens, steps, lots to have fun with really on the small wheels and nice poppy bikes.
It carries speed really well, you can pump it, you can pick it up. We were just shutting down the riders on the big wheels all day.
It's a perfect bike, despite what people might think. It's kind of a heavy hitting kind of free ride bike.
I think we showed today what it's capable of, we really can kind of do it all and down.
It's all a bit wrong to muster feeling in the sleep that hurts. And so castles made of sand, melts into the sea.
Definitely when you're coming into the roughest stuff, you can sort of see guys getting jittery on your bike and you can just come up sort of
moving up behind them and just sit there waiting for them to get out of the way pretty much. And then on the climbs I was finding you can really
carry your speed and switch backs and stuff, so people you'd see them shifting down and kind of creeping into these rocky
sort of switch back uphill corners and stuff, but on the bigger bike you can just hit it. It's still pretty quick uphill, you can maintain on it a bit.
In first place, and the team of two elite 14 laps champion, Sue Bell Racing, Matt Harrington and Richard Napar.
It's versatile I guess, and the Australian mate team is really cool, you know, it's good to support a local guy.
If you have any questions about the bike, you just talk to the designer or the owner, it's not some faceless guy ever sees you have to deal with or whatever.
I reckon if Ned Kelly rode a bike, he'd ride a Duke Bell.
