2018 has been an awesome year for the Rose Bikes Dirt Wars FMB Bronze Series, we started off the series at Chicksands Bike Park back in May and since then we have been to Radical Bike Park in Essex, The Mighty NASS Festival aswel as the two new courses we had built at Ramps SkatePark in Llanelli and at RocketWorld in Somerset and then we got to finish the year with the final on the largest SlopeStyle course in the UK at Freddy Pulmans Yard in East Devon.
We’ve seen Banshee/Gusset rider Alex Cahill take first place in Pro for the first two rounds, Then Muc-Off/Hope Tech rider Tom Reynolds take the big win at the NASS Festival for round 3, GT Bikes rider Tom Isted cleared up the win for round 4, Then Ex/Smuggling Duds rider Freddy Pulman take the win at Rocket World and take the overall Pro Title before he’s even rode at his own yard for Round 6 (Due to his 2nd and 3rd place results through out the series, also making Freddy the first person to win 1 Open Overall Title and 2 Pro Overall Titles). We’ve also had to lower the entry level to 9 years of age (It will be going up to 10yrs next year) due to the little ripper Finlay Davies joining the series and making waves in the Open ranks. With 2019 being the 10th Year Anniversary for Dirt Wars 2018 really has been an awesome build up to next years coming antics and madness on the UK Dirt Jump scene.
On to the FINAL…..
After 5 rounds of Dirt Jump madness it was time for the final round of the series and what better place to hold it than at Freddy’s Yard in Devon. The Slope style course consists of a 4m Drop into a huge step up followed by back to back berms then a canon jump into a huge money booter for the last jump, the course really is huge.
With only a handful of Open Class riders stepping up to the challenge (Including 9yr old Finlay Davies) it was time to kick the final off to see who would take round 6 and who would take the overall title. Practice went off from 10am to 12pm then we got the riders lined up for their seeding runs.
The Open riders started things off and it was all about tucks, tyre grabs and X-ups. Larn Baldwin (Although not getting scored for the drop) decided to throw tuck’s off the drop followed by tucks on the step up whilst Harry Bolton was throwing out the combo of Tyre Grab to X-up.
Little Finlay Davies followed on Harry with the Tyre Grab to X-up on the first and huge Steezy Nacs on the last, not to be out done with the combo’s Finlay Evans started to chuck out X-Ups to Tabletops then huge Tucks on the last.
Aidan McMillan didnt put on the show he normal throws down as the jumps were so huge, Normally you would see Aidan putting down flips and 360s but with the jumps being so huge he stuck to the Tucks and X-ups for seeding.
So with the scores for round 6 in and tallied up it was time to see who took the Overall Title in both Open and Pro Class.
Open
1st Place Overall Champion Aidan McMillan
2nd Place Overall Larn Baldwin
3rd Place Overall Finlay Davies
Pro
1st Place Overall Champion Freddy Pulman (Ex/Smuggling Duds)
2nd Place Overall Alex Cahill (Banshee/Gusset)
3rd Place Overall Sam Hodgson (Saracen/Animal)
What an awesome display of amazing riding to finish the 2018 Rose Bikes Dirt Wars FMB Series, The level of riding has gone through the roof over the last 9 years. In 2010 when we started out the banger tricks like Flipwhips were being thrown on the last jump now 9 years later their being thrown out on the first jump as set up tricks it really is insane to see how the riding has progressed. Roll on 2019 for the 10th Year Anniversary.
Photos By Hugh Wycherly and Archie Bromfield
Video Filmed By Henry Aggar and Ryan Nangle Edited By Henry Aggar.
Dirt Wars UK would like to say a massive thank you to all our Sponsors Rose Bikes, Praiseworthy Clothing, Muc-Off, Smuggling Duds, Melon Optics, Gusset Components, Go-Pro Worldwide, Worx Tools, Spear & Jackson, Triple8 NYC and Pinkbike.com for their support, Thank You to all at Chicksands Bike Park, Radical Bike Park, NASS Festival, Ramps Skatepark, Rocket World and Freddy’s Yard for allowing us to hold DWUK at your amazing venues, Huge Thank you to Dylan Stone (DWUK MC), Adam Willams (Head Judge), Brett Cooke (1st Aid and Ground Crew), Tom Reynolds (Rider Representative) Henry Aggar and Ryan Nangle (Video Edits), Archie Bromfield Hugh Wycherly Matt Aldridge Terry Stagg and Jacob Dear (Photographers) and all the others who have helped out over this season.
We will be back for 2019 for our 10th Year Anniversary but we will also be organising a few little events this winter so keep your eyes peeled on our insta, FB and website for more news of this.
See you all in 2019