SCUK Summer Bash Review
I had a good time last night, although it would have been better if they had more kit out for novice-intermediate skilled riders (they did last year).
What I like most about Tamworth is seeing advanced riders perform there – doing forward flips, clever things on rails and the quarter pipe.
I got pretty far up the quarter pipe last night, but I think I need some tuition on what to do once I get to the top. I don’t know the technique for doing a 180 and coming down face first, so I just reverse down it!
It was good seeing some of the usual SCUK’ers there (although there weren’t very many!) and meeting a couple of SCUK’ers who I have seen and/or chatted to over the Internet, but not met in person before.
I don’t think I’ll bother with a hotel again as with a heavy right foot I got there in around 40-45 mins 
With a slight mix-up over transportation Martin missed his lift to the campsite, so I offered to help out. We ended up going to the wrong place initially (entered incorrect postcode into TomTom – doh!) then we found the campsite; so my 15 minute drive back to my hotel ended up being a 1 hour drive (so I could have been home sooner!), oh well At least the hotel (Travelodge) was comfortable.
One of the highlights of the night for me was a mini-competition where all the riders had to start at the top of the slope from a sitting position, then 3, 2, 1… we had to get up and make our way down the slop as fast as we could to a box of goodies at the bottom. Somehow I chose a good line, got to the bottom, unclipped my board and grabbed a baseball cap from the box