Final Results from EWS Tweed Valley 2021

 And Jack Menzies

 One week of training in Slovenia did help big time!

 Best finish for the Orebea Fox team in his first year on the EWS? The man is ballin

 Agreed - nice to see his sixth place in the pro the day before, we were all pretty stoked yesterday.

 Yeah boi!

 Who is Sam Dale?

 Redic

 I bet Kasper comes in hot next year. He did phenomenal for his first year on the tour

 @FrothDog: Slawomir as well if he gets a full ride

 @FrothDog: YES! and with a wrist injury this year.

 I wish Reece would have raced. I think he would have won.

 Someone sign him up. I’m assuming since he stopped racing he’s got a regular job yet he’s still banging out top tens at EWS. What a lad.

 @thenotoriousmic: think his like the rat just not that bothered by the racing; just likes riding his bike fast!

 @thenotoriousmic: he rides for SC

 @newbermuda: The man is an animal!

 @thenotoriousmic: His regular job is running 50:01 along with Josh Lewis, as far as I am aware.

 @RBoardman234s: No idea why your are being downvoted for this. I was gutted Reece had to pull out, he'd have been right up there.

 MOTM

 GMBN is one of the title sponsors. Competing website so PB doesn't want to promote it too much. Also feel that coverage has fallen off. For the preview show they are only showing a single stage, etc.

 @salespunk: couldn’t agree more. The coverage has got worse not better

 @salespunk: the rest of the rounds got decent coverage on pinkbike but the coverage of this one has been proper poor.

 @salespunk: absolutely agree the preview now is mediocre, it used to be so complete. I thought it was going to be a killer going GMBN but it not working out.

 It seems EWS is now outside the sphere of interest for this site. Yet another step in the wrong direction.

 I didn't really think the live results worked very well on here, TBH.
Can fans not get more frequently updated live timings from the EWS site?

 All of Canada and Mtn Biking in general; nice guys do (almost) finish first!

 Gowaan!!

 The weather today was fantastic. Sun most of the day.

 @MysticMCyclist: risk though wern it

 See what u did there hahahah

 Upvote for "hoser" :-D

 Damn,nice team!!

 Nicely done, but that means we’d tie as I have the same team. Also, someone probably has Maes instead of Jesse. I believe the math still works for that team.

 @Double-Dee: Yep I got the same team just with Maes. Still not convinced that's enough to win it tho. But can't check atm with the rooster locked.

 I had the same team except instead of Jesse I had.....Richie.....

 @Spitfire111: Same here

 I have the same team but i had Joe Connell instead of Clement

 It looked the same to me. I watched both days on the finish section.

 @MysticMCyclist: they taped off the controversial “outside of the poles and inside of the tape” areas of concern. That’s the only difference. It was after the incident that they must have saw fit to make it obvious that you should be hauling through the poles, like the rules and briefing stated.

 @DHhack: I agree that they’ve actioned something after the event, much like closing the gate, after the horse has bolted.
However if they hadn’t done something, it’s just another situation where people can argue about something that has happened and can no longer be rectified. The two individuals didn’t race today so, even if the decision was reversed, nothing can happen about it.

Time to move on.

 @DHhack: Every time you make something foolproof, the world will come up with a better fool.

 @Ttimer: oh that there is no doubt.

 @2-1RacingUK: who said I hadn’t moved on? To prove their point that the gates within the tape wasn’t ambiguous they should’ve left it alone. Now they’ve given a sliver of credence to the idea that they botched it originally. Honestly if they gave a shit about racer input during the riders brief they would’ve walked the 100m with a roll and taped it that way for Day 1.

I do disagree with the DQ, but that’s probably because I’ve been following F1 car racing since the early ‘90s and they just do time penalties for almost anything. I do feel like a 60 second time penalty would’ve proven their point and ruined his race as intentioned. To be fair, I don’t know if this is a UCI rule or a holdover from when the EWS was independent, but it sure stinks.

 @DHhack: the time to move on wasn’t referenced to you in any way whatsoever my friend. Please don’t feel like that was an attack on your thoughts to the situation. It was merely a reference to the fact that nothing can actually come of a kick back about it now.

I envisage a number of personalities have learnt from the experience and it should be identified as a lesson learnt by both riders as well as event organisers/stakeholders.

 His local trails though

 Hasn’t he already done that?

 Yes

 @jonnybeher: is he out of contract?

 maybe if Sam moves over e-bikes they'll have some $$ spare

 What makes you say that ?

 @Balgaroth: Check the results sheet; on the line below Martin's name it says "-", unlike (for example) Jesse which shows Rocky Mountain. However it says "-" for a lot of other riders (Walker, Callaghan, Kerr), so it probably doesn't mean anything.

 @tbmaddux: ye that's very comon for some reason even at EWS level and top teams they still don't manage to get this right lol

 The rumor is that he's off to Orbea. Maybe the GT deal has expired already and things are already in motion for the next step?? Of course just a rumor....

 @Balgaroth: if it’s anything like the UCI with DH, each team has to pay for the privilege of having an official team. If they don’t pay for the privilege, they can’t see behind the paywa!, sorry I mean; show up as a legitimate EWS factory team.

 He hasn’t raced ews all season, probably a bit gassed.

 He crashed on stage 5 according to his instagram. Was running top 10? before that.

 @wilsonians: he was in 8th but crashed on stage 5 as you say. Tough break, but he was looking great!

 Down in the 70s somewhere