What a great weekend to wrap up the 2009 mountain bike race season.

After a week of driving the family mini-van, I was pretty stoked to get my truck back (with a fresh transmission) in time to drive down to the final race of the 2009 Fluidride Cup Downhill series.  Perfect window of nice weather all weekend.

I rolled in to the parking lot of the Ski Bowl resort Saturday around 10:30, so plenty of time to hit the hill and get some practice session shots. Hike, hike hike shoot, shoot, shoot… back to the truck, hit the Iceaxe brew pub for a killer burger, up to the Ratskeller to watch a slideshow by Carl Warren and another premier showing of the Rockstar Energy movie “Barred for Life” ( saw the original movie premier at Sea Otter…. meh… its ok….. at the Sea Otter Premier, where they also premiered Theo Dillworth’s “Days of Dirt” which I thought blew it away).  Anyway missed both the slideshow and the movie, dehydration headache kicked-in, time to head to “bed” (not really thinking about sleeping accommodations before driving down, and being truly happy to have the truck back. I came to realize that the truck back seat was not going to cut it, so ended up crashing in the Project 529 Race van, which was actually quite comfy (as usual, thanks again).

Ok….. cut to an early morning, go bum a continental breakfast, and back up the mountain for the race.

Great weather, a bit dusty, but it actually worked into many of the shots.

All and all, a great end to the season.

Some photos from this weekend……….

All photos from this race can be found here 2009 Fluidride Cup #6 Downhill

Photos from the entire 2009 Fluidride Cup series can be found here Photos By Greg Tubbs / mountain biking photos