Qualifying wasnt so flash for me......it rained pretty hard for half an hour just before we started, and i made 2 huge mistakes in the really slick clay mud, and as soon as our qualifying started the rain stopped so a fair few guys who came down later and had a drier track went faster, and i ended up in 7th, not very good but also could have been a lot worse, my gates were going good in practice, as long as i relax a bit more on the gate and wait for the beeps rather than try and anticipate them like i was doing at Vigo it'll be sweet, there was definately a few stetchy moves happening in the

well it has been an interesting day......Dh is very very....very steep, and filled with a bunch of mega tight, offcamber, rooted and muddy turns, this is by far the hardest dh track ive ever ridden....its real good fun when you get bits right, but it will be very hard to have a clean race run, its not really my style of track, ive never ridden anything like it.....possibly one good thing about it is its very tight and slow so when you do crash its more or less just a plop off the bike, but there are some reasonably fast sections still....

RESULTS:

1. Filip Polc 1:58.01 (SVK)
2. Greg Minnaar 1:58.03 (RSA)
3. Steve Peat 1:58.45 (GBR)
4. Sam Blenkinsop 1:58.74 (NZL)
5. Andrew Neethling 1:58.91 (RSA)
6. Bryn Atkinson 1:58.92 (AUS)
7. Jared Graves 1:59.23 (AUS)
8. Marc Beaumont 1:59.38 (GBR)
9. Sam Hill 2:00.34 (AUS)
10. Nico Vink 2:01.16 (BEL)

So the Wheels of Sped Festival in Willingen Germany was held last weekend, and despite it

im slowly getting to know whats goin on with this site, i plan on having regular updates, as soon as something interesting happens.... especially reports from all the world cups and any other races i do as well, maybe some special info on my bikes and setups and stuff, still gotta work it all out, i hate websites that are never updated so im gonna work hard on not having a crap site like that........

heres something to watch for now...go to www.yeticycles.com and check out clay porters latest team yeti videos, or an old one from any major race in the last 2 years.....

Jared

So im here in Morzine in France just next to where the 2004 worlds were in Les Gets, staying in the super nice "Chalet Adonis" Im here with my team mate Justin Leov and team manager Damion Smith as well as photographer Gary Perkin and Video Bandit Clay "video will be out in 1 week" Porter. So we are here to shoot photo and video, train, and just relax a bit, some more updates soon.