Hi

Just wondering how many of the lovely 14km laps we’ll be doing? The more the merrier as it’s a bloody long way up from London!

It’s odd – I’m looking forward to this event more than any other this year. Top stuff.

GB

We’ll be lucky to get one in if the beer is flowing 🙂

I will probably be shot down in flames for this but would it not have made more sense to have had the race on the Saturday if there is drinking involved? We could have then carried on into the night, woke up hung over, had a bit of a ‘recovery ride’ on Sunday morning and driven home in the afternoon.

I will probably be shot down in flames for this but would it not have made more sense to have had the race on the Saturday if there is drinking involved? We could have then carried on into the night, woke up hung over, had a bit of a ‘recovery ride’ on Sunday morning and driven home in the afternoon.

Indeed, thats why the Knights of Niche are camping off site so we can do just that 🙂

We could have then carried on into the night, woke up hung over, had a bit of a ‘recovery ride’ on Sunday morning and driven home in the afternoon.

That’s the plan anyway, isn’t it? 🙂

10 laps + to give me a slight chance of beating GB 🙂

er, there’s a race?!

In 2006 at Hamsterley I did two of the three laps.
In 2007 at Bristol I did about 1/3 of a lap before I broke my bike and learned why you should loctite chainring bolts.

Extrapolating, I should be doing about 2.5 km of the first lap on Sunday 🙂

Mr Sparkle: I made this exact point a few weeks back, but the Minds Are Made Up. Silly to have the event on the Sunday if you ask me, but as it is we’re making a long-weekend of it and heading to the 7 stanes on the Sunday.

Cheers, al.

mike.. loctite on chainring bolts? You gotta be kiddinf surely as they are a bugger to get off anyway, with loctite I’d have no knuckles left!

mike.. loctite on chainring bolts? You gotta be kiddinf surely as they are a bugger to get off anyway, with loctite I’d have no knuckles left!

Just a dot on each bolt. I took them back out of my old chainring recently and they weren’t too bad – a fairly long allen key helps, as does a proper chainring nut tool and wrapping a tea towel round your knuckles.

Wrecking a virtually brand new Surly chainring, travelling all the way to Bristol to ride 1/3 of a lap and having to freewheel all the way back to the station afterwards sucks much more than taking a bit of time to remove some bolts 🙂

It’s been said before but…

The reason the race is on the Sunday is because we can only have one night’s camping on site (too expensive to have the site for a second night) and we can’t really expect people to travel from all over the country in the morning to race in the afternoon.

Also, in my experience, the best parties are always the night before the race.

Also, I like to see people racing with a hangover.

🙂

Oh and it’s 5 laps… or was it 4 hours plus a lap.. can’t remember.

😉

or was it 4 hours plus a lap

I’d better put some more beer in my pack then.

4 hours? I’d need a trailer with a keg on it for that!!

Anyone got a trailer I can borrow?

Managed to ride two slowlaps laps at Hamsterley, after spending most of the previous week walking round the course trimming trees.

Last year got as far as the beer stop on lap one and bailed out.

No problems driving home after the race. Number one son doesn’t drink

4 hours sat in the woods with a bike and some beer? Bring it on!!

Fours hours? I’ve 70 miles to ride home on the Yuba Mundo beast of burden, so I’m fairly certain I won’t be finishing the race 🙂

The beer stop is at the 6km point on lap one so could all riders/racers pace themselves to manage 6km as it would be a shame not to get that far. We have beer,beer or beer and a range of sun loungers,deck chairs etc etc. i.e 6km, race done, party starts again.

so its a race to the sun loungers then,
can we sneak out for a night lap and get our towels in place to beat the germans ?

5laps of 14km, so its an enduro now…… ;0)

4 hours! Cool. Sounds excellent.

GB

depends on how much ale is forced on you…… ;0)

race will be good, but im looking forward to the rollapaluza, after smashing the “penny farthing world champs of scotland” last year, i wanna win the “other” event again………

Trust me, having ridden one lap of what we think is the course last night, you wont want to ride more than two. Vertigo sufferers, stay at home! But a great course to look forward to!

After all the work the organisers have done, I reckon it would be rude not to ride/walk all the way round at least once 🙂

Besides what if there are beer stashes?

Stop press news, Beer stop to supply carry outs. Race first 6km to beer stop, drink beer,race a further 14km lap back to beer stop, obtain carry out beer and off you go. 8)

Stumpy, Have you got a strategy for getting rid of Lee if he makes the 6km point?

The ride from our campsite a mile or so away will be hard enough without being made to ride a lap once we get there! FFS what do you think this is a race or something?

The ride from our campsite a mile or so away will be hard enough

Martin didn’t tell me it was that far from the main site!

😉

Bungie….Lee might make the 6km mark just, but after 16pints, a BBQ and dancing all of the previous night with Charlie the B M ,he will go no further. Trust me I know these things. Besides the party at the beer stop is “The main event” and he will throw the bike away and get the tabs out !!!! beer, fags and sunshine bring it on.

Please note racing is not allowed, its a group ride out 😉

i think Lees tabs should get nicked and see how angry and dangerous he actually gets when hungover, no fags, the prospect of riding up a hill, on an SS with no “megadrive” for nothing more than, lets be honest here, our own amusement!

Don’t think I’ve ever ridden more than 2 laps of any SSUK/WC. Think I did 3 at Hamsterley, but there was a quite a bit of hillwalking involved….

6Km to the beer and sun loungers? Aye, that’ll do nicely 🙂