Winter goes, summer arrives...

While the northern half of the mountain biking world plummets into a 6+ months of wet, dark, dreariness, summer's only just starting down under. Last weekend, summer in New Zealand was kicked off with the Gravity Canterbury Summer series starting its first of 3 rounds to be held over the summer. After a short 5 months of non-riding weather it was awesome to see the trails buzzing with action and riders shredding their lines down the race course. Christchurch kept the weather awesome for practice day and race day which made the track loose, dry, and DUSTY.

Video and Photos inside.
Results:

Junior HT
1st. JD Devlin
2nd. Ben Walker
3rd. Dan Prior

Senior HT
1st. Dillon Burgess
2nd. Kurt Batty

Open Women
1st. Amy Laird
2nd. Pippa Holdom
3rd. Melanie Blomefield
4th. Lani Gielingh

Under 15
1st. Carl Goodwin
2nd. Logan Ness
3rd. Richard Scandrett

Under 17
1st. Harry Chapman
2nd. Hunter Jenkinson
3rd. Reece Potter

Daniel Franks sweeping his class by over 10 seconds

Under 19
1st. Daniel Franks
2nd. George Diver
3rd. Kieran Thompson

Cam Cole going for the win

Open Men
1st. Cam Cole
2nd. Joseph Nation
3rd. Rupert Chapman





Stay tuned for race 2 and 3, and keep shredding!

Photos by Ivan Woods

Video coverage by Tom Cuthbert