Ruaridh Cunningham at Innerleithen (Pic: Jon-e Beckett/Descent-World

SPS Events has announced the dates for the 2008 Alpine Bikes Winter DH Series, sponsored by (as you may have guessed) Alpine Bikes. The leading Scots bike shop chain, now with eight stores, is supporting the three-weekend series at Innerleithen.

The planned schedule for each weekend is a day of practise on the Saturday, more practise on Sunday morning and then a single race run on Sunday afternoon. The dates are:

• 26/27 January
• 23/24 February
• 22/23 March

Entry forms will be available from any Alpine Bikes stores from 1 December – visit www.alpinebikes.com to find out where they are, or head to www.npsdh.com for further event details.