KNSCX Round 10 Sakai, Osaka

Sunrise over Sakai.

An early start on Sunday morning as we hooked up with F-i-N, Toshio-san and Mike to head out to round 10 of this season's KNSCX in Sakai Osaka...

Essential combini stop.

Arriving at the venue just as the sun was coming up, no real need to state how cold it was...

Reflection of a cx carpark.

Once the sun was up the riders got a chance to test ride the relatively flat course...

Cross is here.

Step up.

Brad and Toshio looking fairly relaxed after their warm up laps...

Do not approach these men.

And then it was race time...

Line up, line up.

F-i-N waiting for the start...

F-i-N.

They're off!

Find your line.

Team Guell doing well out on the technical course...

F-i-N 2.

Toshio #LikeABoss.

Toshio flying.

The sand area was the party pit, causing quite a few difficulties for many riders...

Dig...

Dig...

Dig...

Run...

Dual dismount.

F-i-N in the pits.

Alone.

Cornering.

Once their races were done Team Guell had a chance to get shooting down in the sandpit...

Paps.

Which the C1 riders were making look easy...

Party in the pits.

Nakagawa.

Pro style.

Well, almost easy...

Man down.

Cornering 2.

SBC.

Cornering 3.

Dave Hama was ruling the course as usual...

The Hama man.

A fun day had by all. A very big thank you to Toshio-san for his driving and navigational skills, cheers to Brad, Mike, Yuka and, of course Chiyo&Monika. Expect lots more bike photos from the day to be posted here over the next few weeks.

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