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Is Pikey Wearing body armour?!!
My van I still loaded to the gills with tents, a knackered gazebo, 2 filthy bikes and all sorts of other stuff that will probably necer clean.
Great event, I really enjoyed keeping the pressure on the bloke who won by one lap in the end. Fair play to him, he was consistent for most of the race. Anyone know him?
Anyone got a photo of 388?
Just uploading my pics now - wish I'd taken more now as I'm pretty pleased with the few I have.
Anyone snap rider 95?
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does anyone know the geeky stats of the course - how long, total climb?
some more un numbered rider pics
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That is some *textbook* dabbing by un-numbered rider in Pic 2 ;O)
Wasn't competing hence lack of numberboard - just rode out to do Neil's Tribute lap, and then did my own tribute lap. Then rode home.
terrahawk - Member
My van I still loaded to the gills with tents, a knackered gazebo, 2 filthy bikes and all sorts of other stuff that will probably necer clean.
Great event, I really enjoyed keeping the pressure on the bloke who won by one lap in the end. Fair play to him, he was consistent for most of the race. Anyone know him?
Yes, it's Chris Cooknell, he was riding for Bike City, he was part of the original 4 man team who have won for the last 3 years and decided to go solo this year and do his first 24hr!
This was a good move as not only did Bike City get the solo 'win' they also got the team 'win' again makining it 4 years in a row!
Jase - IIRC, course is just under 10miles round, with 1000ft of climbing*.
Sounds like you did the best part of 200miles and 20,000ft of climbing then.
*doffs cap*
(*Could be wrong, mind).
Thurman Merman - Member
Jase - IIRC, course is just under 10miles round, with 1000ft of climbing*.
Sounds like you did the best part of 200miles and 20,000ft of climbing then.
*doffs cap*
(*Could be wrong, mind).
The course is a tad under 9 miles from memory!
The first set of images are now live.
This takes us up to 08:00
I was only taking pictures on the Sunday & between the mast and the rock garden / the blue bells, which I guess is the first 1/5th of the circuit.
This will help you locate yourselves as there are several pages of pictures, each with 30 imgaes per page.
The rest of the images will be live in probably 2x installments, mid day and later this evening.
Tim
Nice picture of my tent slugwash. Did you get any shots of me actually on my bike?
Si, where were you, can you not see what you missed out on?
Scienceofficer - Yes Pikey is in body armour, we all wear it now as we've noticed it takes much longer to heal as we get older and we all have jobs to do, WAGs to keep and children to support when we are not riding.
Loved the event even though the weather was rather Grimy! My team gave up combined with the weather and the long drive well 2hours on no sleep forced me to give up after 6 laps! boo team did 22!
Loved the course my small block 8's were such good fun to ride on especially the bluebell section some good sideways action!
I took some photos but only in the arena:
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Jason - how many laps did Chris do?
Couple of snaps from the day...
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Blimey. 😯
I definitely have to sign up for this event next year, it's due some nice weather! Chapeau to all the chaps and chapesses riding, and particularly the LVIS lot, it sounds like the SS supersquad did good again!
I wonder how much it's raised for Clic-Sargent. The only reason I do ANY of this type of event is for the charity, and I think that's what makes it such a laid back weekend. Lots of riders who probably wouldn't do SITS or MM.
I was interested in an earlier comment that it wasn't very busy, as Neil told me it was full which is 500 riders isn't it?
Certainly didn't seem to be as busy on the course. Beer tent was full tho!
Riding my first lap (straight after the mass rolling tribute), I dropped into the singletrack - the sun was out, the bluebells were looking gorgeous and the trail was drying out nicely - and I thought... [i]maybe it will be ok...[/i]
Great event, though - and a fantastic cause.
Any photos of Rider 129 welcome.
noteeth, if you want it, my addy is in profile
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Ah, cheers mate!
Was going nicely at that point - till I stacked at the stream crossing... 😳
I used to clear it all the time as a kid, honest.
lol..
There was a couple taking pics down at the crossing..one was doing it (iirc) for bike city!
Oo me knees; feeling those laps this morning. Good job we've got one of these to get up to the office!
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I've now ridden two single-speeds in just over a weekend, Sharki's Santa Cruz and a Stannah stair-lift. I can confirm the Santa Cruz on the Mendips was more fun.
Sharki any ideas how ADH got on? he was showing 11 laps at 7am this morning and it appeared he was having a kip.
I stacked it. I was on my 11th lap about midnight, felt good and strong, just settling into my night laps when that rooty corner on the first bit of the descent that I'd been straight lining all event bit back. Front caught a root wrong, flicked me straight over the front. I was pretty shaken becuase I was tanking along a fair bit, and initially thought I'd got away with it as the bike looked OK, then noticed the mech had bent, so roughly bent it back into shape.
Got about 300 yards and the mech snapped, disappearing into my rear wheel. Took about 10 mins to extract it. Managed to singlespeed bodge it and rode back gingerly. My heel of my left hand was pretty bruised and could not find a comfortable position to put it in. Thought a bit of ibuprofen and a kip would help, so went to sleep with the intention of doing some token laps in the morning. Woke up, took the singlepeed as far as the transmitters up the road, could not hold the bar properly, or at all really, so turned round and we packed up and left.
Gutted as I was equal first with another two riders, felt good and strong, felt like I could have kept that pace up for another 12 hrs no problem, but that's bike racing, it can all be over in a flash.
Ho hum. Was having fun up to that point.
Sorry to hear that ADH you were going well, have you had that hand checked for possible scaphiod fractures?
Gutted for you mate.
The only time i road the course, i imagined a few riders having moments on that corner, straight lining it was an option but for the sake of seconds on a solo 24hr, railing the corner close to the fence line wouldn't of been much different..you'll learn.
Hope it's just bruising Andy.
Keep smiling.
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Sorry Andy!!! What a pain...
Still bloody brave of you to a) finish the lap and b) even try another in the morning.
I reckon I'd have cried, packed up and gone home there and then... :'(
Nightmare Andy - top work though up to that point. Hope it's just bruising.
straight lining it was an option but for the sake of seconds on a solo 24hr, railing the corner close to the fence line wouldn't of been much different..you'll learn.
I tried that on one lap to get round a slower rider. It was so soft my tyres were not having it, serious sideways action - it was actually safer to straight line it. I wasn't straight lining it for speed, and I wasn't tanking it along thinking of my lap time, far from it, I just didn't want to drag my brakes, or my pads would never last the duration.
Cherrs for the concern kingtut, Andy Boyd gave it a good prodding (ouch!) and we're both pretty happy that is just deep tissue bruising to the heel of my hand. If it still hurts in a week I'll get it x-rayed for a scaphoid break. Hopefully I'll be OK for the 12. I have an exciting collection of purple LVIS style bruises coming up to show off ...
Get a photo of it! 🙂
straight lining it was an option but for the sake of seconds on a solo 24hr, railing the corner close to the fence line wouldn't of been much different..you'll learn
I tried that on one lap to get round a slower rider. It was so soft my tyres were not having it, serious sideways action - it was actually safer to straight line it..Take the left 10 yards before the roots it takes you up slightly behind the tree/bush and then drops you back down just after the roots. It is 1 or 2 seconds slower but much safer when its greasy.
Team Results:
Team Name Laps
Bike City 31
Cheddar Cycle Store 30
LVIS Singlespeed Superstars 29
Preston Tyre Kickers 28
Lard Racing 27
The Cheesy Riders - Stilton 25
Hydrock & Dyson 25
Bournemouth University 24
Yogi One 24
The Real Bike City 23
Pablo's Piledrivers Part Deux 23
MTB Wales/AWE MTB 23
Team Bomb A 22
Phasenineclothing.co.uk 22
Mud, Sweat and Gears 21
The Four Riders of the Achypolyps 21
Yogi Two 21
The Jolly Jibber 20
AOAC 20
Disk Brake Divas 19
Saddle on Tight 19
Equally Bonkers 19
Extra STDs 18
Bonkers 18
The Wheel Deal 18
Village Bike 18
Lunar Loonies 17
Wii Not So Fit 17
Team Bomb B 16
Rock + Rouleur 16
Team Last Trail to Transcentral 16
Team Gravy Racing 16
Clitheroe Bike Club 16
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 16
Mahle Muppets 16
Mud Chucking for Mr Phelps 16
Bungle in the Jungle 16
Phelpsy Dirt Busters 15
Amazing Spokers 2 15
The Stabilisers 15
The Alpine (Gear) Shifters 14
Two Tyred 14
Amazing Spokers 1 14
AWEsome Bikers 14
Biker Bum's 14
STDs 14
Numb Nuts 13
Hardcore Loafing 12
Team Two Tyred 1 12
Team 9 12
Tafia 12
Black Sheep 10
Leisure Wheels Lads on Tour 10
Lapp Riders 10
Dolly Mixtures 9
Leisure Wheels Lovettes 9
Crazy Crankheads 9
Ragin Saddles 9
Team Yellow Belly Bikers 9
The Spokes 9
Leisure Wheels Dandy's 8
24 Hour Biking People 8
BBC1 8
BBC2 8
Muckfly 6
The Insomniacs 6
BBC3 6
Slack, Back, Crack and Botox 2
Norfolk 'n Chance 2
Gang Green 0
Dynamo Pugwash 0
I have an exciting collection of purple LVIS style bruises coming up to show off ...
You should see my leg looks like a cat scratching post, I had to fall into the only thorn bush on the course. 🙄
Just got the final lap count. 3rd solo so I'm well chuffed with that.
Great course. It held up well considering all the rain. The food on all weekend was fantastic (especially on Friday night with the hog roast). I couldn't believe the amount of beer that was drunk on the Friday night!!
Any photos of rider 103? Or have I managed the cameras again... I'm beginning to worry that I'm actually a ghost!
ADH, ouch! Heal up soon mate. I tell you what would be good therapy - come digging with me the week after next. 😉
Mike, was Debbie not pit crewing for you? Divorce her this instant!
I'll be there mr a 🙂
Got any one-handed barrows? 😉
I have been looking at this corner and the images in some detail with my assistant this morning.
It's enormously telling when you look at them. I'll have the full upload shortly so maybe you can check this out too as there are maybe 30 shots taken on the exit.
In essence, the fast riders look up and firstly into and then out of the corner.
The fastest line is to stay out to the right on the approach, but not too wide, then steering close to the apex (the tree), and running wide under power on the exit which is a down-hill, off camber tightening radius with roots - and it's wet. A classic corner to observe the various techniques of the quick and the not-so-quick!
It's at the tree where you see the riders' eye-lines switch with the fast riders who then look at the exit point and then beyond. If you're quick through here, the head & lid are up and over to the left.
More steady riders look down at the ground, and put simply, the brain can't process this macro-vision approach so there's a limit to how quickly you can ride when you look only 2-4ft in front of your front wheel.
The fastest line is to stay out to the right on the approach, but not too wide, then steering close to the apex
Aye, that was pretty much what I was doing - its the line I've taken for the last 3 years without problem anyway 🙂 Bike just seems to ride itself round the corner due to the camber. I dunno what happened, I just ended up on the deck, I just assumed I'd caught a root as it s bit clattery over the apex.
Its a nice section with the run in and and ruts on the way out. Very swoopy.
Any pictures of this corner? I can't really visualise the one you mean.
It's the rooty lefthander that wakes you up halfway down the Postal path (from Gluhwein Corner to the bottom of Ellick Express) 😉
oh. Mostly I've gone high and left at the fork just above that. It certainly wakes one up in the wet though.
Assuming I'm thinking of the same bit, I think I was dropping in to the right and cutting across the roots to the left...
Anyone else doing laps in their sleep last night? 🙄
Pics up in maybe 15 mins, although in its infinate wisdom, Adobe has chosen to omitt a whole host of images (why do I hate Adobe sooooo much!?) , so the whole upload will have to be re-done later this evening.
Meaning: if you're not in this upload and rode on Sunday morning you might still be in the final pictures - so bear with me please.
Tim
Actually one of our faster regulars swears by drifting the outside line next to the fence all the way round, but he's an ex MX rider who also claims not to bother spotting landings for jumps until he's already in the air... 😯
I'm sure theres enough entrance speed to utilize one of the first roots as a kicker, so you can pretty much jump clear of the section....
I think on my one lap, i went round the tree to the left and rode through the blue bells....my walking boots weren't to gripping on my mud covered plactic spd insert jobbies...
Steve, i'll look through mine again and see if there's a 103 lurking in the congested first lap pics