Dodd rides a perfect race at BMX national series
Elite Men’s winner Kyle Dodd from Alberton is happy with his performance.
KYLE Dodd, from Alberton, was crowned the new track and elite men’s winner during rounds four, five and six of the South African National Age Group (NAG) series.
NAG took place at the brand new X-Stream Balance Adventure Park track, in Krugersdorp, on Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3.
Despite windy conditions, riders thoroughly enjoyed the performance given by Kyle, who was extremely happy with his weekend victories.
“Racing this weekend went perfectly for me,” he said.
”I trained really hard coming up to the race. I wanted to do well and just prove to everyone that sending me to Worlds was the correct decision.” he said.
“After my wins and keeping it all consistent, I felt good and I was really happy with the way I rode. I didn’t put a foot wrong the whole weekend. It was just a really good weekend,” he said.
Although the excitement of a brand new track was evident with Dodd, he did mention the challenges that faced him as an Elite rider: “Most of the track is built more for 13 and under age groups so, as Elites, we struggled with the jumps because they were a bit small and this made it a lot harder for us.
”The corners were very tight as well, so Elites coming into the corner with more than two people abreast kind of made it a bit difficult at times during the racing, which caused a bit of chaos and a few crashes.”
After being aware of the scope of the track, Dodd made a decision to train at 100 per cent.
“I didn’t have any problems with the smaller jumps,” he said.
”Once I had the track dialled it worked out in my favour. I felt comfortable on the track, I didn’t have any issues with it.
”The only thing that was a factor this weekend was the little bit of wind.
”Luckily, the jumps weren’t too crazy so it didn’t catch us too badly.”
Chatting about the venue, Dodd said: “It’s definitely a good facility and obviously going to help the young ones out a lot with learning how to jump, but for Elites it’s more tricky, because it’s a little for us.”
There is one more national event, which will take place at Giba Gorge.
Credit: Cycling SA.
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