[Closed] Battle On The Beach

I'll be there 🙂

Done. It's not an easy process to enter multiple teams.

Boom! I'm in

I'm in!

I'm in, hoping to improve a bit from last year.

in

anyone know a decent holiday park in the area? mrs and kids coming for the weekend, but theres no way in hell im camping with a 5,3 and 1yo 😆

Bluestone is about 45 mins away

I'm in!

In. I really like this event....

I'm in, only 10 min from my house as well ?

Entered.. hopefully some motivation to ride a bit harder the next few months

Loads of the singlespeed tribe in so it will be beer carnage the night before and comedy hyper spinny legs down the beach followed by more beer. You can tell the cx boys as theyre all tucked up in bed with a cocoa by 7:30 after the event. 😀

What do singlespeed cx boys do? ok I'm a cocoa drinker I confess 🙂

I thought you might have gone fat for this one Benji!

Don't worry benji we'll keep you from straying too far to the darkside

Flat course then?

@Stiggy, thought about fat, but have been loving spinning my little singlespeed along in the local cross leagues, so fancied a change. Been looking at singlespeeding the fatboy.

@Taz, thank you don't want to become too at one with the darkside, I'll eat some skittles with my cocoa 🙂

In again

Enjoyed it last time but felt it was too far for too short an event this year.

Entered. Now the bike dilemma. Thinking XC hard tail at the moment.

Well just under two weeks now, how's everyones preparations going?

Had a good tinker with the SS MTB today, thunder burts front and back, bigger discs, and the old discs onto spare cross wheels. Training could have been better, been suffering with a cough/chest infection for the past month, just when I think it's gone it comes back for another chunk.

Going well, nailed a double decker burger last night and pizza tonight. What do you mean that's not how to go fat?
On the cx bike this year after ss last year. Should be interesting.

Well just under two weeks now, how's everyones preparations going?

I've lost 3/4 of a stone! 😀

Because of food poisoning. 😥 (Now in its eighth day....)

Pizza training going well.. Managed 2 this week. Done quite a lot of road riding and absolutely nothing off road. What's the single track sections like on a CX bike?

Fine cloudnine. Nothing so techy that I can't manage on mine. The only concession I've made over the last two years is a 35mm knobby tyre on the front, semi-slick on the back.

Hmmm I've got some 40c wtb nano races.. Should I get something slicker on the back?

You'll die if you use those. 😆

Honestly, you'll be fine. I don't know whether I'll even fiddle with my tyres this year..

I have watched a few you tube clips and decided I need a much bigger chainring else I'm going to spin the fatty out I would suggest! Also need to sort a faster rolling rear tyre!

I'll be riding my 96 islabike 531 cx with 40c xplor tyres. Training? Ah. Oops. What to bbq the night before?

Got my entry (including camping) going spare, but think it's too late to transfer to somebody else?

I might know someone who's interested in that.

^ e-mail in my profile if you need it.

@IdleJon sorry to hear about the bad guts, truly an excellent way to crash diet though.
I've gone for 34mm file treads this year after 2.4 nobby nics last year. Granted the bike is different too...
I've got a week in Lanzarote training just beforehand, by training I mean all-inclusive.

From memory CX tyres will be a problem in some of the deeper sandy bits after the single track on the way back to the start area, plus the transition from land to beach and beach to land areas.

MTB tyres or Fat bike tyres are the answer if you don't want to get on and off in places.

Entered on SS Fat, but that seems rather silly as I've also got a cross-type thing with Thunder Burts. And gears. And a working freehub.

From memory CX tyres will be a problem in some of the deeper sandy bits after the single track on the way back to the start area,

Beg to differ, but I didn't find a problem there at all. You just blast through the softer bits.

11 days in. Will my weight drop below 80kg for the first time in 10+ years? Will I be riding?

I tend to do it on a SS Fat. The result depends on the wind direction on the beach, the fierce headwind (first year) was hard work but the comedy tail wind (last year) meant everyone whizzed past....Still I'm not going to win, so I'm happy to ride that.

Still I'm not going to win

Well yes, there's that. I'm beginning to let go of my podium hopes. I don't think I started tapering early enough.

3 X Manx fatties arriving Thursday night, and we want to do a little explore ride on Friday (not the course,of course)....can anyone give us an idea where's best for a,3-4 hour,little bimble?

Brechfa is perfect so long as you don't mind a little extra driving.

Oooh! That's a great shout.

I've been umming and ahhing about driving Friday night or Saturday. I think Friday night and a day trip to Brechfa is on the cards!

can anyone give us an idea where's best for a,3-4 hour,little bimble?

Come down to Swansea and ride Kilvey and/or Clyne. Waymarked tracks on both. You can connect them via the seafront cycle path and spend hours on either. If you're interested I can show you around. (I'm assuming I'll be healthy by then!)

Same invite for you as well nedrapier.

Or you could take an OS map and have a ride around the Gower?

Cheers Jon, that's very good of you. and shedbrewed - good idea too.

Although I've just checked the surf forecast for Llangennith and it's not looking too shabby at the moment.

Think that's option 1 at the moment - surf, than a frantic spin around the dunes to warm up!

Edit: Balls. Overexcited. I was looking at this weekend, not next. Fingers crossed for next...