KHS Factory Racing Team at the USAC National Champs 1

We want to start by saying that the team is deeply saddened by the passing of Scott Huntley, thoughts are with his close ones. Ride In Peace Scott.

The team headed to North Carolina this past week for USACycling National Championship’s at Ride Rock Creek bike park. Check out the team video recap below, and some words from Bella!

The week for me started Friday with Dual Slalom! Practice was in the morning followed by qualifying. I was having a lot of learning the track and I qualified 3rd. I made it through the round of 8 and 4 but got knocked out in the final round and finished 4th. I have really been enjoying learning the ropes to dual slalom racing and look forward to doing more!

Next up was enduro, a 5am wake up call for a 7:30 stage 1 start on Saturday. I knew it was going to be a tough day after racing slalom with it being hot and humid and quite a bit of pedaling in between stages but I was excited!

6 stages total with 4 on the back side that were slower speed with tight turns and janky rock gardens. The last two were back in the bike park a bit higher speeds, stage 5 was my favorite of the day. 

After all was said and done I ended up 4th for Pro women. 

Overall it was another great weekend with the whole team and excited to get back at it this next weekend in Tamarack, Idaho for the last round of the Big Mountain Enduro Series.

 -Bella Naughton