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Strathpuffer 2010 and all this snow
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Posted 2 years ago #
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1st puffer this year and looking forward to it, might even bring different tyres from my usual Nobby Nics after looking at those pics
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dont worry about the winter midges. they shouldnt be too bad.
Its the snow badger after sunset you have to be aware of.dont turn yer back on them and you should be fine.
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if the snow hasn't melted before the puffer then were taking shovels, Quads and a JCB up to clear it. As Goan said, the only worry is car parking...
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and another update: in the last two days another 4 or 5 inches has fallen up on the course... this is bad, peoples.
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cullenbay - you will just have to keep on doing laps for us to flatten it all down. Please
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Metcheck changed recently to show a thaw from tues12th. That probably means a course of wet glass!
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woohoo! 4-5 degrees on the run up to the puffer? looks like were in for a lot of mud.... NOOO!
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cullen-bay - Member
woohoo! 4-5 degrees on the run up to the puffer? looks like were in for a lot of mud.... NOOO!
Yeah, there's no way we're going to be lucky enough to keep this weather.Mud it is.
Take plenty spare disk pads
(or get a set of drum brakes)
Never seen Metcheck accurate for the 'Puffer though.
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My bet's on wet glass too. Might take my leg armour.
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lucky Epicyclo? how would this weather be better than mud? im presuming you managed a sub-2hour ride on your el pompino or something....
sets of pads- check.
spare brakes- nah!
spare bike- nah!
working bike heading into event- nah!
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cullen-bay - Member
lucky Epicyclo? how would this weather be better than mud?
By the time of the race there would be some nice hard grooves worn into the snow - mainly by yourself - we're relying on you
Mud's fine too.
BTW couldn't fit my Snow Studs onto the Pompino with enough clearance at the rear, so that idea is out. Not willing to risk riding it without them.
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Anyone riding a Pugsley?
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I wouldnt mind a pugsley right now. Only problem would be having to look at it through the rest of the year...
off out to walk the course again, looking forward to the view rock decent, might do it a few times....Posted 2 years ago # -
Couldn't get my car more than 10 metres past the highway at Contin today....
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thats not good. im sure it will be fine on the day....
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When this lot melts it's going to be mental
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EXACTLY! forecast is for 5 degrees the week leading up to the event!!! WOOO!
EDIT: just checked metguess and apparently it will be around -7 to -10 leading up to it... Hah, i love that site. http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp?zipcode=IV14Posted 2 years ago # -
Here are some of my pics from last year.
Looking forward to even more dramatic scenery this time round.
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After a nice 4 hour walk round today, I don't think anything other than full summer temperature rain and wind for the next fortnight is going to make much of a dent on that snow. It's likely to still go sub zero every night so the best we can hope for is icy slush I reckon. It was mental. I couldn't even ride the descents as the front wheel kept digging in and pitching me over the bars.
Whoever is going round the course on XC skis should keep doing it.
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RPRT - those pictures look fantastic.
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So, either it's knee deep snow and we're walking (what's the criteria for a "bike"? Can I carry my 2 y.o's bike round
)OR it thaws and it's MUD. Cold, gritty mud that eats disk pads.
OR it's in the process of thawing and it's a repeat of 2008 - start ice, thaw overnight to provide 24h of the world's slipperiest surface. That was horrible. At least the gales look unlikely.
Last year was perfect. Apart from me breaking my knee at 2AM. Still, I raised £1000 for Sick Kids Hospital.
Say those prayers!
Cheers, al.
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I'm hoping for full blown grim. I want it to turn into a war of attrition.
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I'm with Goan on this one. Last year was too easy, or rather, "insufficiently challenging". And I, like AK also want to know the minimum kit definition of a 'bike'....
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If its currently taking about 4 hours a lap then that's only 1 and a bit laps for a quad team.....great
Does skiing round holding a grip or saddle define a legal lap??
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Dismantle bike, strap it all together, attach to camelbak or similar back pack, XC ski round. Bosh!
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Yesterday the first one pictured there would have been most effective...
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LOL just looked at metguess just now and it shows minus 16C for early hours of Sunday morning - nice!
Pack your goose fat peeps!
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With no sign of a thaw over the next 7-10 days the main question should be ,has the puffer finally fallen to the weather?I know people are getting out there and pushing their bikes around.This will only make the course worse if there is a thaw as the compressed snow will turn to ice which will take even longer to clear.Best to keep of the top rocky section and hope nature takes it course
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I was planning building something like that Moots last year, but commonsense dictated otherwise - why have a snow bike for a few days a year?
That sound effect is me kicking myself....
Like JoJo I found that even where I could ride, there was always a large hole lurking to swallow my front wheel.
I think if it stays like this we need to send out the heavy riders first - a few hundred of them will soon have the track compacted into nice shiny ice
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hah, it wont be melted, but us locals should have ridden a groove that anyone competent on a bike will be able to ride...
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I fully intend to be at the back of the pack allowing all teh young fit keen ones to clear a route for me.
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Hi young cullen when you say ride you actually mean walk.Good idea though turn the course sheet ice,lets see how good you are then
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