July, 25 2010, Palmerton, PA. is where the racers gathered for this past weekends DH race. Blue Mountain Pa. held its 2nd DH race this year and it was a GOOD one! It had rained on Friday night and soaked the course nicely throughout Saturdays practice and remained greasy for Sundays race... MINT! Mihalick and Moschitti were rippin Saturdays practice while Yuroshek was on his way out late in the evening. With Memmelaar out in Colorado getting in some Mid season training after the US Nationals, and Vaughan setting his sights on the overall for the GES finals (currently tied for 1st) he was staying local and practicing the sugar bush race course for this weekends race. Short showing for Giant/HBG but we held it down in the pits and on the slopes! Yuroshek and Hayes Bicycle Group (HBG) teamed up and donated a pair of Answer Pedals to be raffled off to help Kathy Pruitt in her road to recovery after crashing hard at nationals and being in the hospital for the past 2 weeks. Together with other sponsors Dan at Blue Mountain gathered 600 dollars for Kathy! Get well soon!
Sundays practice was MINT, the riders were loving it, fast, loose, off camber, rocky, drops, roots, greasy, sick turns and steep.... what more can you ask for on a DH course?? Yuroshek crashed hard in his last practice run, luckily his face broke his fall, Thanks TLD for making amazing helmets!!! Come race time and our very own Moschitti was the first Pro rider on course setting the time to beat with a 3:01.... which didnt hold for long he later took a 5th. Geritt Beytagh was soon the next pace setter and would remain throughout the pro field. Yuroshek bumped a tree in his race run and went down again. He crossed the line with a 3:11 which put him in 8th, not very happy with that but he had fun regardless. Mihalick didn't play his cards right and was to conservative during his run which didn't place him on the Cat1 podium. Bummer for the boys this weekend, no podiums for Giant/HBG but as a family we had lots of fun!
