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technical isn't the word, I'd say it's more relentless - there's nowhere you can just cruise with no real effort. Beggar's bush and the quarry descent are all no-effort from the legs and you can coast them all fast enough if you know the corners, but you are working the upper body.
+1. By the end of a 6hr solo I was struggling with arm and hand fatigue more than my legs (or so I thought, until I tried to get out of the saddle and pedal up one of the climbs on my last lap). My hands still ached when I rested them on the tops riding to work this morning :/
Try 19 laps - the only reason I have working hands are my Jones bars. To make matters worse my forks packed it in with about 3 hours left. Go team.
Big fan of ESI grips to help hand fatigue here, after a nasty broken hand a few years back I can get pain with the constant battering, but the ESIs really help.
IA - Totally agree with you. Running them on my SS, geared bike runs Gripshift so the stubbie ones aren't quite as effective.
How did the Steve Worland cup work? Times show 8/9 hours, but winners on 16/17 laps.
Great effort if they cidered on every lap!
I was riding a 26" fullyrigid skinny tyred aggressive xc setup
Wrist pump was a bitch by the 3rd lap my upper body was punished just from trying to keep on the trail luckily being a local helped in some sections like quarry whare i can loosen up abit and flow through but its still a relentless course that never Lets off and gets harder in the wet
Will be running full sus next year and hopefully faster