It was tough riding it blind (many dabs) but to nail it clean would be awesome.
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I live less than 30 mins from Kirroughtree and used to ride it many times a week, lap after lap after lap on full auto pilot mode and from leaving the car par to arriving back i never put a foot down – i avoided riding McMoab though as it was too awkward on a rigid SS and the chance of a daft slip and leaving most of my skin on the granite or breaking a wrist was too great and it used to spoil my flow/concentration. Under two hours for my 1st red/black lap was a target every time and subsequent laps after that were usually 5/10 mins slower.
I didn’t really work 8 odd years ago so all i did was ride my bike all the time.
These days i struggle to get round the red (old spinal injury) and i gave up on a lap back in June as i crawled up to the Anniversary cairn in my lowest gear and just thought “****-it, this is crap” so i bailed back to the centre and went out for a pootle with the dog instead.
Tiz’ a cracking course to ride flat out though, one of my fastest ever laps was a spring full moon nightride with a bit of frost in the air – One of those rides where you get back to the car and you are shocked/confused as to how you got back there till you realise that you had just rode the entire 31km on auto-pilot – i used to love those rides.
Don’t worry, i now dab (and usually fall over) before leaving the car park 😀
EDiT : I’m lying…..Thinking back to it i did used to dab on the Judgement Slab after the Stairway to Heaven switchback climb, that slab was just about impossible to climb normally.