Rumour has it that Biff from the Outcast completed it on a SS cross bike.

Why? I’ve no idea!

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Why? I’ve no idea!

I did it on a single speed Pompino today. 4hrs:24mins was quite happy with that but another SS that I met earlier was at least 15 minutes ahead of me I think.

Who won?

The Nicest Man in MTB™

Nicest man in MTB+1
He’s briefly looked after the twins on some demo days while I tried out some bikes, lovely man.

Or is that the most stupid bastard?

Your mate Andy might have to share that award with Dave Haygarth who did 4 20 something with a broken collar bone. Completely outrageous. The whole thing. But some things are more outrageous than others.

Well you’ve still got to get off the hill anyway. Then it’s just a couple of miles one handed. Not to me obviously.

paul4stones I remember you, I think you might have passed me and gone up the road at the end. I just couldn’t get the cadence on that last stretch and lost a few places.

Surely the midge bars count as drops, more chance of DQing me for mincing on descents I reckon.

It’s to do with the width of the bars. I’ve seen a chap checking with a tape measure at the finish before now.

I was only spectating on pen y Ghent but have to say it looked bonkers and brilliant even the mrs enjoyed it

My absolute amiration to you all. Single speed…….bonkers

So do I still hold the fixie record or has Rich snatched it from my grasp?

(I’m hoping the former otherwise I’m going to have to do it next year to snatch it back)

Well that was interesting! Would I do it again?not sure. I have certainly never had cramp quite like that before. Good to meet aP on the start line. 😀

I was on the descent from Whernside and managed a pic of Andy’s face, much respect to the man!

There’s an image gallery on here[/url] and a whernside-centric take on the maddness here

Oh and to the guy who came up behind me pretending to be an aeroplane, you sir are a loon!

Used to be 500mm max. Thought it still was.

A very long day out for me that would have been shortened considerably by at least trying to ride the descents.

I did ****ing own the linking sections though.

I asked the question about bar width – thinking that perhaps these super wide flared bars were maybe not in the ‘spirit’ of the event. John Rawnsley says:

Hi Chris

We did not specify the width of drop handlebars as the standard drop bar is not more than 47cm. You must use the standard type of bars.

Regards

John

So I changed my Bell Laps for something more traditional.