Yeah,just got back,need to say mahooseeve thanks to ALL involved,but special(needs)ly to Sheldon,for making us welcome and organizing the whole ridiculous affair !!! and also to Mandy for the guided ride home from the pub.
And of course the Belgians…..
bestest ever mtb thingy…..
Had a great laugh with the LVIS boys and girls. Couldn't ride because of an injury I picked up the week before but I loved the bits of the course I saw and the organisation was spot on.
Prize giving was brilliant fun although I am still feeling sad for the perfectly usable Fire mtn frame that got sawn in half. I am still shedding tears now.
Thanks to Sheldon et al for a great event.
I have about 2gb of photos uploading to Flikr of riders and I'll post a link once its uploaded. Currently around half way through.
Maybe I'll make Belgium as I couldn't ride this one.
I'll sort thing out later when I'm home guys but there's a Flickr group I started a wee while back.
TF tuned will give the 2 best photos a free fork tine and service. Link somewhere on the ssec10 site or find it through my Flickr site.
Oh and a change of plan with the cheese board!
We've already made £216 with the raffle for the air ambulane we're going to chop the cheese board up all the KON will have a bit then the 7th bit will be ebayed and all money will be added to thefund.
TF tuned will give the 2 best photos a free fork tine
Wow.. that's like, a whole quarter of one end of a fork!
Thanks for a great weekend of nichedom and amusement and a truly awesome course.
[Edit].. I think I've found some strange calling in Singlespeed "riding fast around a course" events now. See you all at SSUK! (And thanks to Charlie for reminding us not to search for SSUK in Google images…)
Finally finished uploading. All pics can be downloaded. Soem good some bad. If you use them then can you donate some money to the charity the SSEC is supporting. Sheldon can you drop the details on the forum just in case?
Everything unloaded and sorted into various piles now after the long journey home 😉
Thanks to everyone that came to the event; commiserations to those who couldn't fly to the event; and best wishes to those finding alternate ways home from the event. There are some great stories to be told! The event is made by the people that attend and this was a great event. Cheers… hic 8)
Glad you could all make it and had a good time so did we 🙂
We were of course 'contracted' to use the saw in order to present the beautiful 2010 Kona Explosif frame !
The first in the UK a worthy winner dont you think didn't see him crying too much tho.
If you won a prize and you liked it then let the lovely people who donated it know then hopefully they will be as generous to other events help and help make them happen
Again thanks to everyone participants and helpers alike without them it wouldn't be possible
That bloke eating the chillies was so funny I can't remember what he won(because of all the beer) he really went for it
That bloke was my mate Tim, AKA Captain Tangfastic. He failed in the Tangtastic eating comp at last years SSUK so was determined to win this time. I was the big jess who took one bite and ran out screaming, big up to the fellow rider who donated his beer to me. Tim won some Salsa carbon forks and has pestered me ever since for the matching Salsa stem I won. He ain't getting it. Great event and great company!!
Just to repeat what the other KoN's have already said.
Thanks to everyone that helped out with the event, thanks to you atheletes for turning up and creating a great atmosphere and thanks for leaving the campsite in such a clean condition this morning.
Roll on next year when we can sample the hospitality of our Belgian friends.
Yeah OK Stu it was a long weekend it started Wed at 21:30 when those mad Dutch arrived at my gaf and wanted to party as they'd only been up for 44 hours by then!
Righty, don't know where my post went from the top of this thread but hey ho,
Here's a cracking shot of the tandem coming off the singletrack on Sundays social ride. Loving the tandem riders expression, she looked a little worried. 😉
fontmoss- were you one of the axis of weasel? if so I was well impressed with sponsors on your tops (gary fister still makes me giggle) and you should definitely go with c*ntinental for the next ones 😀
cheers ayatollah, It gives me an excuse to catch up for a ride soon and give you money, rather than just going "oooh nasty stump, eek pointy branch, oh my a wibbly bit!" in the pissing rain 😀
Jolly good effort matey, but you have now ruined my events calender as I really can't be bothered with all the more serious events now. I'll just have to give up mincing a speed and become a beer swilling attention monkey 😉
oh and I'd just like to take the opportunity to apologise to any one I had a very drunken conversation with whilst offering them a hip flask filled with green evil, can't remember much but I think everyone was lovely . Much cheese and absinthe gave me mental dreams 😳
I'll sort out tees later in the week and email everyone.
I'm all done with looking at spreadsheets right now 🙂
EDIT: anytime Taz and really looking forward to our half othe mayhem team we're in! I think mrtrickydisco may regret offering us booze to join the team!
Just had a flashback too! Respect to everybody who had a bang on that Polish Moonshine I had 🙂