West Milford, NJ- May 8th and 9th kicked off Round #1 of the Diablo Gravity Series in Vernon, New Jersey. Saturday morning started off with a 25 minute rain shower which watered the Downhill and Giant Slalom track perfectly for us! Thanks rain! Downhill and GS practice is ripping till about 12:45pm for the GS start.

Our Captain Jason Memmelaar was competing in PRO. Jason had a solid 1st run on his Giant Trance X but wasn't happy with his time. For Jason's 2nd run he opted to give his trusty Giant Glory equipped with his Manitou Dorado a shot at the GS track, bike ripped but still couldn't lay down a top 3 time so Jason took 4th in PRO slalom for the day.

Yuroshek dislocated his thumb during a training accident on thursday evening. Spent friday icing it for the big weekend... Saturday rolled around and he only did about 3 practice runs and was taking it easy, "hurt just holding on to the handle bars" said Yuroshek. No Giant Slalom for him this year, he wants to concentrate on DH instead.

Mihalick showed up a bit late for saturday practice and by the time he showed (1pm) the Winds were so strong they shut the lift down. So no practice for Mihalick on saturday.

Chris Higgerson and Gavin Vaughan spent their weekend up north practicing on local tracks and dialing in their suspension even more for the PRO GRT coming up in the next few weeks at Plattekill Mountain.

Alex Moschitti twisted his right ankle pretty good while doing some DH training runs with Yuroshek on Wednesday afternoon. "My ankle feels pretty good but i want it to be 100% for the PRO GRT and the US Open in a few short weeks" said Moschitti.

Sunday May 9th the riders showed up to a lift that was not running... The Winds were still rippin thru the mountains causing the lift operators to keep the lift off. The parking lots were full of egger bike riders, Diablo's staff told us to sit tight... Around 1pm the winds died and the lift started up. Riders had 2 hours to dial in their race lines since race started at 2:45 sharp! Jason Memmelaar had a clean run and held down another 4th place in PRO. While his Team Manager Dennis Yuroshek came in 9th place PRO. PJ Mihalick got held up in his race run by a lapped rider, luckily the top 5 riders got re-runs. Mihalick took a 5th place and is not to happy about his run, he feels like he should be up on the podium box and not watching from the crowd.