Loved it! Though apparently I may have a broken collarbone (A&E today weren't too sure due to the mess of previous breaks, fracture clinic tomorrow to confirm / deny!). Well impressed with the attitude of the cadets and general feel of the event.
Despite having borked my shoulder, that was probably the best endurance course I've ridden. Nice and technical in the singletrack, a proper mountain bike race rather than mincing around jey-pride style....
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Anybody know what distance a lap was at Bristol Bikefest? Oh and wasn't it GREAT
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Well done Thurman and co, not bad for a bunch of roadies!
This from a man who rides round in a faux-wheelbarrow...
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My Garmin Edge 705 logged 116.6 miles, for 25 laps. This averages out at 4.664 miles per lap and the tracklog looked pretty sensible when I imported the GPS into Memory Map. I was riding with a powertap so logging interval was every second.
That said, with a lot of the course in the trees and being twisty singletrack, I think there is potential for a GPS based system to underestimate in these circumstances, even when on a 1 second resolution.
If anyone has a definitive answer on this, please post it here!
Event photos for Saturday are up on http://www.photo-it.com already. Not sure if any other photography companies were operating, but there seemed to be lots of photographers out and about.
However, as other have said, great event!
Kev
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About 8.1km per lap according to my Garmin, I think. I'll check when I get home.
The battery went flat part way through the day, but it showed me using 8000 Kcal in the first 8.5 hours, so probably close to 11000 after 18 laps.
7th Old Git, or I would have been 23rd in the open class.The marshals were great. They were shouting "Go Vegan !" at me every time I rode past, then radioing on ahead to the next marshal post to tell them I was coming, so they'd all be shouting as soon as I came in to view.
I've never seen so many punctures at an event. No one can accuse me of pushing the cakes out of the way to get to the salad, but I managed to avoid pinch flats. Inner tubes are just so last year.
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Enjoyed myself yesterday, shame two nice slightly techy bits have been chopped out, making the fireroad descent just to go back up a fireroad climb kinda pointless. Hoping Paul can talk estates round by next year.
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I doubt that the rollercoaster bit down to the bottom of the zigzags will be added again - loads of accidents there when it was in, particulary as it got chewed up and got deeper.
As to the rutted section, I do quite like that bit but I can't say that I missed the climb afterward much...
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The pink suit was revenge for a stag weekend prank. You reap what you sow.
@MilitantKev - I was running small block 8's, with maxxis fetherweight tubes, no heavier than tubeless, easier to change if I had punctured, (Must go and sacrifice another goat to the puncture fairies). Think I spoke to you briefly in the 'solo pit' which didn't quite work as it was full of team people waiting to go out.
@anotherdeadhero - I quite enjoyed the fireroad descent. Little bit of a jump halfway down. Followed by a test of late breaking to get round the corner carrying as much speed as possible onto the next bit, which was just nice and flowy and fast.
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I prefer the course without the bottom section as although I like the technical descent I hate being knackered before reaching the bottom of the zig-zag climb :p
I think the bridge was a bit dodgy to (although at least it wasn't slippy from rain this year), not really sure where else they could stick it though. I guess you could make a case for going down the zig-zag and up the straight bit of fireroad (and therefore not need a bridge), could cause as many accidents though as the zig-zag at speed could be hairy.
One other thing that needs sorting is the transition area. It could work how it is set out now but there are a lot of muppets racing/spectating that want to stop and chat in the area and cause extra congestion or come to a skidding emergency stop right on the track and cause problem for riders behind. I'm sure they could change the layout of the finish area a bit though to help things.
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+1 sorting is the transition area.
+1 for not using the crossing as a transition area just adding to confusion
+1 sort clear exit from transition.but hey I still enjoyed it.
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@anotherdeadhero - I quite enjoyed the fireroad descent. Little bit of a jump halfway down. Followed by a test of late breaking to get round the corner carrying as much speed as possible onto the next bit, which was just nice and flowy and fast.
You'd still get that, but you also get a bit of warp speed singletrack added into the bargin. I never mind horrendous climbs out provided there is a reason to be doing them ...
They tried to sort the transition out with those cones, so it worked better, but I agree the transition needs to be bigger and the crossing kept as a crossing.
I thought the bridge was fine this year, works much better in that setup.
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I thought the pink gimp suit was a charity thing - breast cancer - because the guy's wife had had it. Well, that's what the commentator said.
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Will pass on the compliments to the marshalls: Brislington 2146 ATC,
(Air Cadets). Cheers, SamPosted 1 year ago # -
Was a great event as always.
I was initailly disappointed at the cuts to the course but on the day I think it worked very well indeed.
The bridge exit does need some work. First time I pedalled accross the top and did not touch the brakes through the exit. Cue fork bottom out and near crash. It was fine at slower speeds though or if you manualled at the bottom.
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Paul has mentioned on fb that there will be 24hr security and a bike movement curfew next year. Shame it's come to that.
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The bridge exit does need some work. First time I pedalled accross the top and did not touch the brakes through the exit. Cue fork bottom out and near crash. It was fine at slower speeds though or if you manualled at the bottom
That was my mistake first time - didn't touch the brakes and my forks rebounded making the front end go light as I was making the turn and me hitting the deck. No major harm done but as I was picking myself up I they were calling a ambulance for someone who wasn't so lucky.
FuzzyWuzzy - Your suggestion is as the course used to be before the bridge and TBH without the bit they missed out this year there isn't much point having a the bridge.Posted 1 year ago #
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