The Sidcup mcc ran a h&h at Canada heights 2day and the opportunity to grab some prize money attracted a top class entry. I had never been to Canada heights before but had heard great things and was very impressed when we turned up. The mx track was prepped perfectly and the woods and field looked awesome.

I got of to a sixth place start out of a 20+ championship class. the start of the track was a full lap of the mx track but I struggled to get round a ktm rider in the dust and the leading four of Paul eddy, Greg Evans, Daryl bolter and Ollie moyce managed to pull away. Once up to fifth I was keeping a reasonable gap to the leaders despite suffering from arm pump. on lap 4 I managed to shake of the arm pump and started to push. A small crash lost me abit of time but i kept 5th place and was feeling good. on lap 5 I came up to lap a back marker who looked behind, slowed up and waved me by. But as I pulled alongside he swerved across pushing me into a tree at a fair pace. After a big impact i was lucky to be ok but my bike wasn’t. It had a broken front number plate, mudguard, side panel and radiator mountings. I cruised back to the pits with the radiator loose. After fixing the bike safe enough to carry on I was a couple of laps down so went out for a couple of laps practice round what was a brilliant track.

I was really disappointed at the end having missed out on a good result ( and prize money!) especially after Greg and Paul failed to finish. But i was thankful to have come out safely and able to look forward to the welsh 2-day at the end of the month.

Also a big thanks to Kurt Pringle and his Sidcup mcc team for putting on such a good event at a awesome venue.

Brad king - enduro and hare scrambles on GAS GAS UK EC250 - www.freewebs.com/bradking25 - supported by K4OFFROAD, TALON, STEVE PLAIN M/CS, MICHELIN, GAERNE, NAU, RENTHAL, MOTUL, KRIEGA, ROGERSHILL RACEWAY AND RUSH RACING.