Whilst better cyclists than me are battling it out in the Frozen North I’ll be following events back home with a nice coffee and the TV on in the background.
I’ll be looking out for :-
Jason Miles (Terrahawk) Team JMC – Solo – 1st single speed last year, 5th overall. Podium finish in the past. SS again and hoping for minging weather so that other people suffer transmission freeze.
David Powell (Twinklydave) Team JMC – Solo – Only person to have done every ‘Puffer (IIRC) and crashed out whilst in the lead last year. Multiple podiums, never won it. Gone up early to film some stuff with The Adventure Show.
Guy Martin – Hairy TT Legend and tea drinker. Sharing a pit with Jason and Dave because he is bringing a big generator (a petrol driven beauty according to him).
Phil Simcock and Andrew Burgess Team JMC – (Pairs) - Phil won the solo last year and smashed the West Highland Way double a couple of months back.
Brant and Shaggy – (Pairs) - Shaggy knows what he is doing, Brant has bought some new tyres and is trying to get hold of a bike.
Entry list here
https://www.sientries.co.uk/list.php?event_id=868&id=956
Who are you looking out for?
Ill mostly be looking out for my team mates to hand them the dibber 😉 while shouting obscenitys at dave and jase !
Where can I watch this ?
all good, i like to keep check on the folk off here.
Where can I watch this ?
You can follow the lap times live from the SiEntries website. It'll be on TV in a few weeks.
Ok thanks
Huw, Oli (simply_oli_y) and Luke (Munrobiker) racing as Team Chris Bell Racing and Chris Bell Racing 2.
I'd follow them and wish them well anyway, but it's all the emotional after the tragic events last weekend.
May they fly like the wind.
Whatnobeer +1
Will be following Brant and Shaggy cos Brant just collected a couple of Spidereyes
on hismway up norther
I'll be watching the Chris Bell Racing guys and the I-cycles team (if only to find out if it'll be safe to go in the shop next week). But good to know who the other forumists are! All absolutely nuts.
terry, is that singlespeeddan in your group?
As well as the Chris Bell Racing guys I'll also be watching this pair of retrobates as one of them is a cosin of mine - Team Shaky Allstars
I'll be following Mojo Chillin' and the teams from Alpine and i-cycles.
Good luck chaps.
the mlehworld boys, nobody else matters.
Getting to the race is the first step. Drumochter is starting to fill in so getting up and over this part of the A9 is something you might want to think about doing a little sooner than later. Once past Drumochter the road is pretty clear all the way to Strathpeffer/Contin.
I'll be keeping an eye on the Muckyriderz from Glenrothes in the fours. Gronk did really well in the solos last years as endurance race virgin, as a foursome they should be pretty strong. My local riding buddy Murr is riding in the pairs too, nae idea of what his team name is though.
Go on Phil and Andrew! Lets see if that training I set you pays off 🙂
Guy Martins doin it!.
The a9 was a lot of fun. Left Hebden at 930, went via trouties and rolled into pufferville at 5pm.
I've signed on. Shaggy and Mel are in a camper with shaggys dad below Perth doing 30mph so I'm off to find my tea.
You'll be able to see mine and shaggys lap times and though there is no indication whose is which it should be quite easy to spot.
Oh. Shaggy is riding an on-one Fatty. I'm on a Lurcher with a 2deg slackset, 100mm rebas, spikey schwalbes, singlespeeded 32:19.
go Shaggy.............
Maris, Luigi and Bowser. Alpine. Scottish Youth Team . I Cycles and the above I guess. Makes for a good night in hehe.
BTW Keith Forsyth (I Cycles) gets to compete whilst his son Ben Forsyth (Scottish Youth Riders) competes too - how cool is that 😀
To be honest it doesn't really matter how Huw, Oli, Luke and Pete get on. They've won their race by what they've done this week.
I'll keep any eye on the usual suspects though.
I'm heading up tomorrow with the camera, I'll mostly be with the Mleh boys & girls, Luke, Oli, Devs, Roberta & co.
I'm planning on spending quit a bit of time getting photo's as I've got an all day pass and no O/H moaning about cold feet 😉
Im following brant and epicyclo as dawn breaks. I'll be expecting the dueling pistols to be drawn over 'dissectiongate' 😉
I'd love to catch up with Epi and explain (again) what I meant when I said I found it odd.
I'll be following the guy in front.
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I'd love to catch up with Epi ...[/i]"
No need, it's ok, but say g'day anyway.
I'll be on a Pug with huge red mudguards so I'll be easy to spot, especially as I'll be living up to the team name "Square Wheels Bike Walking Club".
what time does it start?
When is it on TV?
what time does it start?
Started at 10am.
Looking out for the Chris Bell Racing/mleh/moray mbc people's.
They are lucky as they have Roberta as pit queen looking after them. This is my first year not doing it apart from the inaugural puffer, so feeling a bit... Left out.
Ho hum, ride like the wind people!!! X
3 hours in
Solo
1st Dave Powell 6 laps
3rd Jason Miles 6 laps
5th Guy Martin 5 laps
Pairs
3rd Andrew & Phil 6 laps
10th Brant & Shaggy 5 laps
Twitter updates from Brant, Phil and Andrew
@shedfire
@spillippe
@Budge_Team_JMC
what happened to solo 2nd and 4th?^ and all the other placing in between for that matter? lol
Well I am watching out for Chris Pitblado and Alek Rozin in the solo's. Riding it together right now but I'd expect them to eventually catch up with the likes of Guy by the end of the race. (someone tell him to ease off a bit!)
Also keeping an eye on Epicyclo and locals to Strathpeffer, Andrew & Ross both riding solo.
Basically all the soloists. The 24hr racers.
How long are the laps? Looks maybe 8km from the map.
what happened to solo 2nd and 4th?^ and all the other placing in between for that matter?
I'm not following them. Feel free to post up whatever you like.
7 hours in
Solo
1st Dave
2nd Jason
3rd Tim Mackley (just for you 😉 )
4th Guy Martin
Pairs
4th Phil/Budge
8th Brant/Shaggy
Jase is very close to 2nd.
Shaggy is out now. I have the honour of our teams fastest and slowest laps so far 🙂
Just had two pot noodles and a big handful of pills and am off out with Trouties spidereyes shortly.
Matt Martindale SS solo
Cyclewise quad
Both in 5th at moment. Confident Matt won't slow down - watch out Guy (gears or not)
😯and a big handful of pills
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Watching pretty much the same as you HtS!
Go Twinkly Dave. Seriously, if he can make it to a 24hrSolo without being either ill (like at relentless) or injured (like now, at puffer) and not crash during (like at the worlds or puffer last year) he would not just beat, but destroy just about everyone!
Not sure he was at the first in 06 mind, won by Jean-Claude VanDerveken on a SS, I was supporting that year and was bloody freezing for the most part. Was helping support two soloers and remember a kid coming up and asking whether we were a sweet shop due to the fine array of good nutrition to keep them going! ha.
Also, Jase on a SS, hope he makes it through with his back dying again, looking good so far!
Love this live updates jazz!
Shaggy has hauled us up to 7th. JMC pairs gang back up to 3rd.
I'm off out shortly so lord knows what'll happen.
What's the weather like now up there? it's raining and 5 degrees down near your home(ish) #Slushy
Andrew H in 8th is doing well considering he's been studying and not really ridden a bike in ages.
I'm thinking of you all, but I'm off out on the lash now.
Keep up the good work fellas.
The weather is very civilised just now. Temp around zero, calm and no precipitation...
I'm thinking of you all, but I'm off out on the lash now.
Me too, but I'm staying in with a few beers, The Funk Show on 6Music and a rather good mushroom tagliatelli with a chilled chardonnay.
Just had two pot noodles and a big handful of pills
Turn the sound system up and share some of that with Steve MacDonald,race organizer.It's his birthday today.
Oops!
Dave from Jason by about 20 minutes in 1st and 2nd.
Guy Martin in 4th in his first solo 24 hour!
Brant still hanging on in 7th place in the pairs despite his team mate being out for a few hours now.
Don't know what was in his pills.
Warm here infront of our jet incinerator 🙂
Tracks chewing up nasty on the fireroads being a slog
Spent most of the day on 700c x 35 wintermarathon spikes
Raining an ablut 4 degrees
Well done all!
Guy Martin certainly doing very well ! Good luck to all through the night
Night battles.....guy up to 3rd.
jase in 1st place...........hard little bastid 8)
Shaggy just tore past me onna flier there on the fatty
Ive just finished a doubler and am off for 3 hours kip while the night shift take over . Its raining alot now ! Only oneset of brake pads in 6 laps so far and one set of kit thanks to the incinerator jet !
Well done all, i'm thinking of you's up there as i sit here wi a whisky in front of a roaring fire 😀 , done it once before on rigid ss and it almost reduced me to tears, in fact it would have but my tear ducts froze solid for the entire race.
Guy up to second now, one lap down though on Jason in first place riding a rigid SS - fantastic effort!.
I hope it isn't as windy there as it is in Edinburgh. Wishing I'd done this now... next year...
bigjim - Member
I hope it isn't as windy there as it is in Edinburgh. Wishing I'd done this now... next year...
Not much wind. Been raining on and off for the last 8hrs or so. Best weather at a puffer in a long time, if not ever.
Aye if we discount the original puffer and 2008 ( post friday night storm)
Can also report that at 6am the track was slippier than a teflon coated icy fire road even with ice spikes i had to tripod down the hill fire road descent
2 hours to go.
1st Jason - 2 laps clear
2nd Tim Mackley - 20 minutes clear
3rd Dave Powell
4th Guy Martin in his first solo
Pairs
3rd Budge & Phil
4th Team Chris Bell Racing
7th Brant & Shaggy
9th Chris Bell Racing 2
Its looking like a tight race between on one and profile racing
Brant and Shaggy have dragged back a 25 minute deficit to a couple of mins
Yep, just looking at it now. After my nice warm sleep in a comfy bed. 😉
Big respect to everyone doing it, looks marginally less insane than normal weatherwise but still proper hardcore. Great to see the two Chris Bell teams going so well too.
Jason is late in for this lap. Hopefully a calculated slow down and not some 11th hour issues. 😕
[edit]He's through![/edit]
Don't think he can be beaten now!
I see On One have sneaked into 6 th
what about the young lady in 6th, she must be a tough hombre....
just reading her blog, which is pretty good.
http://rickshawlady.wordpress.com/
Dave is gaining on Tim in 2nd.
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Now that's what soloing is all about!
Taken from Budges twitter feed (who along with Phil finished 3rd in the pairs!)
That a north Manchester IT company has such an amazing bunch of talent is wonderful.
Mega props to Team JMC and all it's many riders that utterly dominated puffer.
I've been following Dave and Jase's amazing training programme, fitted in around full time jobs. Early morning and late night rides, and Dave could barely walk earlier this week.
And thanks from me to Shaggy (and his wife and Dad) for putting up with me.
ace well done to them all! glad to see Jase managed "ok" on the SS! i wonder if he lasted on the huge gear he blogged about
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Shaggy?
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I have a "live update" for you-
OOOOOWWWW!
My bike is probably saying something similar.
Shaggy
I have absolutely no idea where that Shaggy pic is taken. Inspite of being able to visualise almost every rock and root on the course.
On the last descent somewhere 😉
Ah yes! That makes sense. There was a *brilliant* corner at the top.
Was that the left hander whenyou realised there was no more uphill for a long time 🙂
Yip, just after that.
I rode the first few laps in daylight and it was all totally alien. In my head the course is always dark!
Just back home after my 4th Puffer. Have to say that apart from all the ice (nothing can be done about that, all part of the Puffer fun) that was the best condition I've ever seen the course in. Big congrats to all those involved in setting up and running it. Mega friendly event as ever.
Warm batch, cold beer and comfy bed await.
wish id taken monday off now.......