From Charlie Hatton taking the Elite DH win, Tom Pidcock powering to gold in the Elite XCO and Jack Carthy taking his 11th World Championship in the 26-inch wheeled Trials comp there’s been no shortage of top performances from UK MTBers up in Scotland.
They didn’t have it easy either. Charlie managed to go faster than the dry race runs of preceding riders in suddenly very Scottish conditions on Aonoch Mòr. Tom Pidcock had to nurse loose and slipping gears around the last three laps to stay ahead of a charging Sam Gaze. Jack only clinched another Rainbow jersey on the very last, insanely tight, edge of cable bobbin obstacle in the closing seconds of the fifth and final round of the trials competition after an uncharacteristic slip-up in Round 1.
