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  • Hit the North – What bike?!
  • eightyeight
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    Never done this before, so really not sure what bike to use.

    Would it be *absolutely* ridiculous to do this on a road bike (Scott s30)? Given the amount of carrying involved, I’m starting to think this would be preferable to a FS AM MTB.

    I know neither of the bikes are idea, but them be all I got! Thinking I can tweak the road bike.

    Thoughts/shouts of derision welcome

    paul78
    Free Member

    If you have the option take a CX bike and a mountain bike and decide on the day … this year it was rock hard and mountain bikes were killing it on the descents .. year before it was a mud fest and cx bikes were the best choice.

    … whatever the conditions you’ll die on a road bike 🙂

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    Bring the road bike. My e-mail is in profile and I will film it 😀

    NOT THE ROAD BIKE – I would rather ride my kids bike tbh than my road bike round there

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    steveoath
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    First timer here too. I plan on rigid 29er in 1×10 mode. Just got a set of on one newest carbon fork offering, shitt!ngly light! (Instead of the virtually not moving lumps of crap that are on the bike at the moment!).

    Also – spd or not?

    Bregante
    Full Member

    Another HtN first timer. I’m going to use this.


    Untitled by redmancunian69, on Flickr

    Now fitted with an Alfine.

    nikxl
    Free Member

    Rode the old course on my x bike the other week and it was fine, back in feb it was a nightmare. Dave Haygarth rode half on his cross bike and half on his MTB and IIRC said there was next to nothing in it

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Not the road bike.

    eightyeight
    Free Member

    … whatever the conditions you’ll die on a road bike

    Ha! That’s the end of that idea then.

    I know this might seem like a list of the least appropriate bikes, but I’ve got a mate who will lend me a Surly Long Haul Trucker…? No…ok.

    MTB it is – thanks all

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    On the whole lap there is about 20m of carrying. The other 4 miles you can ride.

    D0NK
    Full Member

    Now fitted with an Alfine.

    quitter!

    Last year someone who had presumably done HTN before brought a rigid with some proper skinny tyres, something like 1.5″. Bet his/her hands hurt at the end

    Not the road bike, bring any mountain bike and a sense of humour 🙂

    eightyeight
    Free Member

    Not the road bike, bring any mountain bike and a sense of humour

    Don’t worry, i’ll have that in abundance. Nothing funnier than pretending you don’t care you’re last. A hoot!

    forlodge1
    Free Member

    I’m a HTN first timer as well, i’ll be on MTB, aiming for last place

    ctznsmith
    Free Member

    First timer here too.

    Will be on this with 29er wheels/tyres.

    Sense of humour, check! I’m terrible on a mountain bike and am rapidly running out of time for ‘practice’ before hand.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    If you are aiming to survive rather than win take whatever bike you feel most confident on, but not the road bike. The course is varied and the winner will be the best athlete, not the best bike.

    In my case it would be my 5” travel full susser. I’m quicker on my CX but I’m not the most skilful rider on it and some bits of the course give me “the fear” and I’m not a big fan of some of the climbs on my SS.

    I’m not doing it BTW. I’m not daft.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    I last rode it on this. A 1970s road bike converted to SSCX.


    HitTheNorth_CX_225 by Ed Rollason Photography, on Flickr

    eightyeight
    Free Member

    mis-post

    Bregante
    Full Member

    quitter!

    Yep.

    Got some manitou 29ers in the garage too :mrgreen:

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    SS29er with a spinny gear, thats me that is.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    FWIW – for long and boring reasons, I shan’t be riding this one (but will marshal instead).

    Time to buy some…cowbells..!

    terrahawk
    Free Member

    I’m a HTN first-timer 😉 and I’ll be doing it on a rigid 29er with carbon wheels and 2″ wide tubs…

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    I’m a HTN first-timer

    Double heckling for you then sonny 😆

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    If you can fit the MTB wheels to the road bike it’ll be perfik.
    Or the other way round.
    Doesn’t matter really.

    And all you last place wannabees can go and piss up a rope.
    I OWN last place, alright?

    Can we get a posse together to mock the last lap lurkers?

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    Going for a quick lap tonight actually. 😀

    sambob
    Free Member

    I’ve not ridden my bike properly since September. That last place is MINE.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    Going for a quickmoderatley paced lap tonight actually

    FTFY 😉

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    All this talk of last place isn’t fooling anyone. Come 9:58 on race day you’ll all be like this.

    eightyeight
    Free Member

    I can’t see that pic Harry, but I can only imagine it’s a picture of me shaking like a shi*ing dog?

    Did both my collar bones in mid-November, so HTN might be the firest time I jump on my bike again! Joy!

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    I’ll try again.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    They’ll catch their deaths riding dressed like that.

    The chafing doesn’t bear thinking about.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    That’s the queue for the pre-race porridge. 😀

    simondbarnes
    Full Member

    I’ll be pootling around at the back on this…


    Felt F65x by simondbarnes, on Flickr

    Although maybe with different wheels if I feel like running tubs.

    geordiemick00
    Free Member

    that;s a pretty bike Simon…

    Does anyone have a route map of last year?? Not been and would like to have an explore before Christmas

    sefton
    Free Member

    rigid 26 HT for me!

    154hopperavenue
    Free Member

    If it snows like last year I’d worry more about the car you’re driving than the bike you’re riding…..

    Thanks for starting this thread, another opportunity for shameless self-promotion….
    Not me on the picture BTW

    Looking forward to it.

    h4muf
    Free Member

    I cracked my ‘cross frame in 2011’s race 🙁

    29er FTW this year!

    ComradeD
    Free Member

    im riding a turner 5 spot.

    bring it on

    geordiemick00
    Free Member

    i’ll be on my genesis fortitude but not expecting coming anything but last 😆

    Wozza
    Free Member

    Intense Tracer, I might even up the back end to 160mm just for the hell of it.

    Tyres are more important than the bike. I did it on 2.5 Bonty XR4s last year, I was bloody knackered. They’re coming off and some Mud X are going on.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    The course was brilliant last night.

    If we get a big freeze on race day it wil be as fast as a fast thing. Even if it is wet the new stuff will be epic.

    1000m of unbroken berms and jumps anyone?

    binners
    Full Member

    Can we not have a specific ‘fat bastard on a completely unnecessary full-susser’ category this year Harry?

    I think we need our contribution acknowledging*

    * our contribution obviously being to put large slow-moving obsticles in the way of the race whippets on bloody CX bikes! 😉

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