Mr Sparkle just Tweeted a link to this!

Happy days… a long time ago.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLX9170KhxY&feature=youtu.be[/video]

Then there was 2010 when it was in the CX/MTB Death Match format.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZND8nbU4s[/video]

3 men with a plan…

Took me ages to capture that from the first video!

2:19 we lugging my bike up the mound!

bloody hell I can’t believe how long that 2008 lap was. It took a week to set up.

10 miles. 10 frigging miles!

Two local authorities, four land owners, 250 arrows, 6km of tape.

Not bad considering we were making it up as we went along. 😀

rare footage of the infamous 10k “Le Mans” run to start the 8 hour “it nearly didn’t happen” event

Was that 2008??!!! Crikey, happy times 🙂

That 2008 one? Fantastic day out..
Loved it.

Shame we can’t do a “big one” again. I suspect the bureaucracy would be probative. The irony being that when we didn’t know what we were doing they let us do it!

“Hi, can we close 10 miles of footpath for a bike race?”
“Yeah, sure.”

2012.

A good year for pain.

That flipping run in 2010 was hell. Even if it did get me up the front early 🙂

I bloody well miss the race lads.

I was trying to see me in the video, but I had forgotten quite how many blummin’ white inbreds there were back then, every other rider had one!

I had to replace nearly every bit of my bike after that, the grit killed everything… :-\