To celebrate the UCI Mountain Bike World Series visiting the area, the community group behind Fort William Bike Park hosted a Spring Jam fun social evening on Friday May 3.
Members of the community and event visitors were invited to come together to ride the facilities at the bike park with more than 500 people joining in with fantastic weather keeping the fun going throughout the evening.
Scottish professional BMX rider Kriss Kyle joined the event as special guest, wowing the crowd with his incredible tricks and helping to inspire the locals who regularly ride the park.
Gregor Muir, chairman of the Fort William Bike Park, was delighted with the event.
He said: "What an evening!"
"Blue sky, good tunes good food and great fun had by all.
"We had some fantastic riding from all the riders and especially a few top names who enjoyed the pump track and the bmx bowl. The highlight of the evening was Kriss Kyle with some incredible tricks.
"Thank you to everyone who helped out – event volunteers, the committed team being the ongoing running of the Bike Park, Off Beat Bikes and Nevis Cycles for providing the prizes, Nevis Medics and An Cafaidh Mara who did a smashing job on the catering.
"Also Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland and Whoop UCI Mountain Bike Series for helping organise and fund the event."
The next event will be a pumptrackathon – a 10 hours of sponsored ride at the Bike Park.
This a fundraiser to help cover the ongoing running costs of the Bike Park such as insurance and equipment to help run more events. Watch out on social media for more information.
Last Friday’s event was supported by Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland, and the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series, with practical local guidance and support coming from Highland Council, Highlife Highland, Off Beat Bikes, Nevis Cycles, Lochaber Environmental Group and the West Highland Wheelers cycling club.
Over the weekend the first Elite Downhill World Cup of the year provided some incredible scenes as the classic Fort William course delivered great racing.
After falling behind in split two Austrian rider Vali Höll stormed through the final two track sectors to match her World Championship winning result while Loic Bruni (France) was dominant on the Fort William course, leading from top to bottom to finally secure an elite win.
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