Wonderful Oxymoron in the two posts above... Either you can be impressed with your performance or you can accept that performance isn't an issue for you 
Fun can come from all sorts of things, including - dare I say it - riding quickly. That's. erm. why. CX. bikes. can. also. be. fun.
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Hit the North - The show's over love, go home.
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But why do they never smile?
That's what i want to know - them CXers don't half look miserable considering they're having so much fun.
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Rusty Spanner said:
Nah, come back in the summer, it might be even muddier and even more fun!
I've done all three of the HTN races. Loathed the first one, liked the second (though undiagnosed asthma somewhat hampered my performance), and was flying at the start of this one, when disaster struck.
An addition to the North household is due in August, so I reckon I'll just about get away with it if there's another race in July.
What bike were you riding OMITN?
Black Cotic Soul with rigid forks and 26" CX tyres.
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Black Cotic Soul with rigid forks and 26" CX tyres.
Apart from the punctures, how did the tyres work?
I'll give proper mud tyres a go next time, but not sure even they would work properly given the amount and consistency of the gloop.Didn't notice any difference in the friendliness of crossers Vs mtb's. The vast majority were all very polite as they passed.
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Hi Pook.
"But why do they never smile?
That's what i want to know - them CXers don't half look miserable considering they're having so much fun"I rode on a cx and if you'd seen me on a flat section I was smiling/chatting ! The rest of the time I was either in pain or in fear !! But I class that as part of having fun!!!
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I didn't say they weren't friendly; just ever so serious! I guess they were focussed....
I rode on a cx and if you'd seen me on a flat section I was smiling/chatting
alright then, I'll let you offThe guy on the CX bike who retired hurt by the way is a mate of mine. He had to go to A&E to have a stick removed from his lip. He did smile though
Anyway,
Pan fire XCs were rubbish for the mud. Just sucked it up and plonked it around the claggy parts of my bike. I was scooping it out at one point near the raised wooden bits
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Here's Miketually checking his brakes are working properly
Note to self: keep your arms bent!
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My very limited experience of riding my cross bike round that course is of either terrifying speed or terrifying terror. No time to smile. Doesn’t stop me from doing it though.
Let’s not start a debate on who is the happiest breed of cyclist or I’ll let unicyclists in next time and we all know what a wacky bunch of beardy-weirdy bast***s they are with their funny woolly hats and all of that juggling nonsense.
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We were discussing borrowing a tandem for the next one......
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Did anyone blat down the trails on them four wheeled efforts?
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Apart from the punctures, how did the tyres work?
Great. Perfect for the conditions, except I evidently ran them a little soft (no more than 40 psi - prob should have had 45 in them and ridden more smoothly). Schwalbe CX Pro 1.35".
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Pook - Member
Did anyone blat down the trails on them four wheeled efforts?
I think that those "four wheeled efforts" would struggle to blat if you dropped one out of a plane.
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First time doing this and came in 62nd!
Was 7th at the end of lap 1 and top 10 end of lap 2...then punctures
for the next 2 laps (Partly my fault for not getting a thorn out, then a pinch flat) Ran out of tubes and air so was running round the course-thanks to No 61 who gave me a tube and air after I'd run for about 1/2 mile(really pleased as I thought I was going to have to run for the best part of an hour). Managed to break the end of the valve off as I inflated it! enough to get going though and then found another tube back at the car-took me nearly an hour to do those 2 laps as a result! - plain sailing after that. Good fun on the CX bike although brakes didn't really work on the last lap...wasn't able to smile down the descents as I was trying not to crash!Posted 2 years ago # -
Pics now mostly up.
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I can be as miserable as fook on a CX and an MTB, so think yourselves lucky I was busy organising an' ting and not racing eh?
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you seemed cheery enough when i saw you terrahawk - and anyway, having seen the HtN pics where I'm grinning like a loon, I'm reconsidering the sultry look for my next race....
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He wasn't racing hence no serial killer like '1000 yard Gurn'...
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can anyone recommend any other races around the north in the near future?
as wardon mentioned there's the Nutcracker XC series in the NE/Yorkshire - http://www.nutcrackermtb.co.uk
Thanks all the organisers/marshalls for a great race. I really enjoyed it despite slowing to a crawl in the last half hour. The mud was tough but good fun on the downhill bits.
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There's also a 1-2-1 race at Hamsterley at the end of September: http://hamsterley-trailblazers.co.uk/one2oneRS.htm
Cross-Country race on Saturday 25th September 2010 and a Downhill on Sunday the 26th - you have to use the same bike for both races.
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More photos on another STW thread: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/hit-the-north-2010-65-photos-to-view-and-have-for-free-if-you-like-them-
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I've seen a few hill names popping up on these threads... what were they all?
From the start?Posted 2 years ago # -
Rather boringly we refer to them by numbers. In brackets are some of the names that we have used or heard other people using.
#1 was the hill in the field (Hamburger Hill/Heartbreak Ridge/Hill of Despair)
#2-3 was the descent down to the bottom track
#4 was the steps
#5 was the steep hill where Brant and Ed Oxley were fooling about (Rooley’s Chin/False Teeth)
#6 was the long gravel climb
#7 was the steep descent with the step in it (Preparation H)
#10 was the climb back into the car park (The hill that the Forestry Commission have effed up)
#11 was the carry out of the car park
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Embryonic thoughts for the next one…
July 2010
CX/MTB
5 mile lap
8 hours
Solo, pairs 3s, or 4s
Noon – 8:00pm
Camping/beer tent/bands/DJPosted 2 years ago # -
Do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it.
I'd even marshal to fill up the karma bank.....that, and I'm having knee surgery in july so have a bit of downtime!!!Posted 2 years ago # -
Sounds like a good format to me Harry! Dates??
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Yes - agree with Peachos - it should be Camping/beer tent/bands/DJ/Dates
Dried fruit always a bonus.
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Seperate classes OR split timing on some of the sections so that my downhill prowess can be shown to my mrs!
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We'll just settle for timing that works!
If you want Pook I'll make a you an official HtN certificate of awesomeness to show the wife.
July 17th.
Same venue as the first HtN bit with 150 less people so that the campsite atmosphere will be better.
The key to it is having people stay over for the party/entertainment. It'll be crap if 75% go home after the race.
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If you want Pook I'll make a you an official HtN certificate of awesomeness to show the wife.
I'd love that!
And if you get the details up once more I'll enter again! And be as rubbish.
I've already started rounding up a 4some....Posted 2 years ago # -
I'm in.
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It'll be crap if 75% go home after the race.
Not if the right 25% stay
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I will have a word with the Sparkle clan re filming and marshalling if that'd be any use.
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ooh ooh me please for the summer one
I promise to be there afterwards getting leathered and making an idiot of myself...
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