Name: Warren Bates

Age: 26

Job: Design Engineer

Background: I first took up mountain biking as a way to keep fit for Kart racing. After quitting from kart racing and concentrating on my education I still needed to get the competition kick, so tried mountain bike racing in local Gorrick events. Girls, beer and University caused a short 5-6 year break before I started competing again in 2003. First in local events and then onto my first NPS in 2004. 2005 has been my first full year of NPS races in the Sport category along with various other local and national events.

 

Major Results & Achievements:

2005:

6 th in open senior category at National MTB champs.

28 th in sport category NPS after four rounds.

80 th out of 260 teams with Mountain Trax team at Mountain Mayhem 24 hour.

3 rd open category at Southern XC, Deepcut.

 

2004:

11 th overall sport category, Southern XC championship.