After my training camp with the USA team in Kirchzarten I made my way to Offenberg for the next round of the World Cups.  It was sad not to have Lene on the start line and we all wish her very speedy recovery back to health and ready for Champery.

Susi was back on song in Offenberg and showing all the signs of his aggressive riding style, great ride. It was not Burry’s day and although he was up there at the start he faded and eventually called it a day. Todd fought as usual on his 29r and kept fighting right to the end. 

The day after the race we had a product launch with the press and new bikes about which was nice and we took the expo down on the Monday night and I flew home to Scotland on the Tuesday.

Back home for a few days to get the washing done and garden to look after.  Then to the airport on the Sunday for the flight back to Munich and we sat on the tarmac aboard the plane for more than 2 hours to see if we could fly to Munich but alas no, something wrong with the radar there. Also Claire’s flight from Manchester was cancelled as well so we had to make arrangements to fly the next day.

Next race was theTrans Germany which Susi won in convincing style. I also did customer support at that event where is great to see all these people queuing up at our expo for help and to get there Specialized bikes ready for the next day.

Back to sunny Scotland for 2 weeks then I flew back to Munich to pick up truck then drive to Rotterdam, overnight boat to Hull across England to Holyhead then boat again to Dublin for the European Triathlon Championship at Athlone. Where we had our usual rain and wind in line with Irish weather.  After race I drove back to Munich stayed overnight, and then next day drove down to Kitzbuchel in Austria for dealer launch.

At the moment we are waiting on lots of bikes to arrive so the next few days are going to be very busy.