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Thanks Sharki... however wouldn't waste your time didn't do first lap 😳 my first lap was in around the 3rd hour!
I've got absolutely no idea which corner you're all talking about.
Jumping off a kicker? Drifting around the outside? Uh?
Someone's going to need to post a pic.
No I've got no idea either??
whatever it is, it sure sounds exciting 😉
I think I've got an idea but can't remember a kicker!! It was a left hand root infested corner if I'm right but I didn't think it was anything to worry about. I was taking the entrance close to the tree and exiting wide near the fence (if its the same corner we are all on about). I would have only straight lined it when dry TBH.
It won't be a big arse obvious kicker.
Even a small stone/root/small animal can be used to gain a little air time.
Where is it you ask????
After going through the gate(after very short stoney climb..all 8 metres of it) and turning right you ride across the moorland, through dips and hollows in the trail, a few ruts, etc to avoid, as it starts to gently point downwards there's a little corner or straight on for root fest, this took you a little steeper downwards before entering the tree line, a few twists then duck, and cross the stream bed or fall off..
Delete as applicable.
I need to fess up.
I'm one of the LVIS Singlespeed Superstars, and although we are singlespeed superstars, once we saw all the road that was on the course, we decided to ride geared (give everyone else a chance :-).
I tried to get the organisers to change our name, but apparantley it was too difficult, so everytime I went past the timing tent I scribbled out SS and wrote "gears" on the sheet.
oh, that.
Yeh, I did 360 superman seatgrabs at that bit.
Leon, you have trampled roughshod over my tender boyhood dreams.
Fair play though, looks like it was minging. 😉
I remember the corner, I think, well it was raining and I was soaked, and I saw someone on the trail and slowed down because I thought someone had crashed then realised it was a camera man, much like on a night lap, I saw someone in the grass slowed down shouted you alright? Turned out it was a camera man! BOO! Need a Sign before so I can get my racing tuck on!
That corner's been talked up a bit more than it deserves :rolleyes: but it is one of those satisfying technical features that can be ridden *much* faster than you think, when you get it right.
So... who was riding and who was walking on the first Twin Brook crossing (the one with the rocky step-up)? 😉
I'm one of the LVIS Singlespeed Superstars, and although we are singlespeed superstars, once we saw all the road that was on the course, we decided to ride geared (give everyone else a chance :-).
Can't say I blame you - I rode the parade lap SS to see what conditions were like before breaking out the Fullsusser (which I did and it got caked to sh*t anyway as it rained before my first counted lap). I was riding with a geared team mate, pulled a minute or so out on him and then lost a full 5 mins to him just coasting down the road section spinning out.
So... who was riding and who was walking on the first Twin Brook crossing (the one with the rocky step-up)?
Walked the actual stream but cleared the root fest immediately after which everyone seemed to also walk, wasn't nearly as difficult as it actually looked.
With the brook crossing, in my defence, it just looked like a clipped in tumble into the ditch waiting to happen and conditions sucked enough as it was!
I was at that corner for about 2 hrs taking pics and tree felling.
Only saw 3 people clear it, best and fastest effort was Mr curtis, who rammed his ss into the rock and cleared it, but ended up partially in the under growth, lol
Good to see riders knowing their limits and not taking risks, i stalled there 2 years ago and re tore my knee ligaments....
God knows why i attempted it this year given my present condition and attire at the time.....lol, gotta be done though eh??
Yeah I didn't feel any less manly for walking it! Rode the bit right after though! I think the big one is who resorted to using granny ring to ride the final kick in the balls bit after the firetrail uphill? (you know turn right off the firetrail to the moor bit) I forced myself to stay in middle! YEAH THAT's HOW I ROLL!
I think the big one is who resorted to using granny ring to ride the final kick in the balls bit after the firetrail uphill?
Granny every lap baby! And I walked it on my last night lap but then I was yawning and almost nodding off at the bars...
I'm one of the LVIS Singlespeed Superstars, and although we are singlespeed superstars, once we saw all the road that was on the course, we decided to ride geared
You rode GEARED!!! Does Nouveau even have a bike with them? He probably spent 24hrs trying to work out what the flappy things under his brakes were...
I'll have to think of a fitting punishment for sullying your team name 🙂
I was already punished. On the first lap my front derailleur bolt sheared, and I spent 5 minutes faffing around getting half a bolt out and replacing it with one of my bottle cage bolts.
stupid gears.
I tried different lines on every lap over those roots. I managed straight over/nearly hit the fence, stay as far outside as I dare/nearly hit the fence, follow a guy slipping about with his back light flashing/nearly ran him over, etc, etc.
Still the lines grooved in on the last descent and the lovely rocky descent about 1/3 of the way round, I much preferred to go down the middle rather than near the side. No point hauling a 5in travel hardtail round and then taking the non rocky route!
I'm averagely useless but a refusal to accept my riding limits, I rode the stream twice. First time was great and managed to get up on the left afterwards and clear the whole section. I was so insanely pleased with myself, I thought my new found riding skills would put let me glide over this trail obstacle every lap.
Next time, I *nearly* fell in after stalling on a rock mid stream and then rode the roots like a drunkard, eventually shoulder butting a tree as I span out.
After that I walked it 🙂
All my shots here, i would've got alot more if didn't get ran over..... 😉
http://shane.photos.fotopic.net/c1698721_1.html
And check out the power going through that rear wheel.....
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Hey Sharki - that's me 🙂
Check out the horrific gillet - €6 from Go Sport in Paris!
But at least it matches the kit 🙂
I thought it was you leon, but i got a mail of some bloke Lynam.....i think i've sent to many off and got confuzzled. 😕
They've been sent to the LVIS addy for sure though..
Yeah, I've got them all, thanks Sharki 🙂
Sometimes I look at you Leon and wonder how you don't snap in half.
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The rest of the images are now live.
5 orders thus far!
I was in the bushes on that corner at 11:00-11:15 on Sunday only.
Cheers
Tim
I'm not sure that's power Sharki. He seems to be applying the brakes...
:o~
BOOOO! 15plus pages of images and not a single one of me! BAH! I'm defiantly a ghost! anyone 103?
steve 103, were you in a blue and red, baggy looking tor, sort of a cross thing going on with the pattern, dark greyish E5 lid and white flat bars???
Sometimes I look at you Leon and wonder how you don't snap in half.
I wonder the same thing when I see pictures. There's one of me on Nouveau's Facebook CLIC gallery, and with armwarmers on it looks like two sticks of liquorice poking out of my jersey!
Gosh Iv'e never managed crossing East Twin, only tried it twice full-on - the first time I fell down the stream bed and hurt my arm. The second time I smashed my right knee into the stem. Both injuries took a boring amount of time to heal, so I always push that bit. "Well done" to everyone who can ride it.
The mildy rooty left corner by the fence-line is a larf because the trail steepens just before it and if you stay off the brakes you hit it at mental speed. I tend to approach right-ish, brake late, turn, then aim to hit the root bundle in the middle nice and square with a light front wheel. The immediate right is where you maintain speed and it's slightly banked/rutted which you can use. It is a bit blind and occasionally used by walkers! It's a nice bit tho.
Wish I'd done the event now. Maybe next year I'll find some other xcjeys to join.
Sharki this is my bike:
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No joy here then, i'd of remembered a purdy looking bike like that.....
I guess around that time i was trying to kick a wheel straight :wink:...errrrm pushing a bike back down the course after it and rider got intimate with me in the blue bells..
My next photo session was interrupted by me not stopping to take any pics as i was caught up in the naughtiness/excitement of riding off road for the first time in 8 or 9 weeks..
In 2005 and 2006 I could cross East Twin Brook at will. These days its 50/50 at best.
Penalty for failure is rather high.
Either the stream crossing has got worse, or I have...
I was beaten by the weather. Went to bed after 8 laps, there are only so many times that you can get soaked through and freezing cold before deciding that it's no fun any more. Got up and headed out again just after 6am, freezing torrential rain and gales started again about 3/4 of the way around the lap. Went and hid in a tent for 90 mins. Put full winter kit on and headed out again. Punctured on first descent, took ages to mend it as my hands didn't work, finished lap and called it a day. Bah. Still, I raised over £800 so not all bad.
The event itself was properly ace. Really chilled out. Fantastic course that was still 100% rideable despite the conditions (and the cheeky bluebell singletrack was fantastic for the first couple of laps until the heavens opened again), live music, good food, lovely beer and no cocks barging past people on the course unlike at most of the other 24H events 🙂
I see Terrahawk managed a fantastic 20 laps. That nearly didn't happen as he came very close to riding head on into a moving car near the end of his 5th lap. Muppet 🙂
Good work Simon, however I wish you hadn't mentioned sleep when I met you on our eighth lap, needed sleep....
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Hey Sharki, you can't have kicked that wheel too hard! A happy bike mech' in Johns Bikes said he'd be able to sort it out for a few quid! Not sure if I'll trust it, we'll see.
I see Terrahawk managed a fantastic 20 laps. That nearly didn't happen as he came very close to riding head on into a moving car near the end of his 5th lap. Muppet
Ha!
He didn't mention THAT bit when I spoke to him! I'm sure he said he nearly fell asleep on the bike while riding along that road last time...
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looked like your nipples pulled through your rim.......so either your holes are made bigger or your nipple were too soft....
simon, you saved my life. you're a lovely lovely man...
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steve when u say you didnt have any pictures taken was that because you actually didnt ride? i wondered why you didnt complain enough about riding with slick tyres on your bike...
in other news although my uphill skills arent upto much the speed or lack of on the downhills that i saw out there was just shocking! get a cyclocross bike people this isnt road riding!!
im no dh racer but come on people wheres your skills!
(puts flame suit on)
Lights match.
It was for charity, therefore for fun, so alot of riders weren't experienced, some i chatted to had never been off road before.
Given the amount of entrants who didn't turn up, some i guess are experiened riders, these slower riders put those others to shame..
Less criticism and more encouragement.
All events have such a great range in abilities and i for one enjoy seeing people of all abilities just out there, having fun, riding bikes.
Unlike the miserable sod who bitched and moaned at me, for making sure he was ok, after he rode head first into THAT tree....
I stopped on a lap and helped 2 ladies who were stuck with no pump (although they had a spare tube) and had a puncture.
So many people just rode past without asking if they needed help.
I swapped the tube and used one of my co2 cartridges and fixed it for them in about 2 mins. Made their day and I rode off feeling good for helping them. People forget it is for charity and charity is helping those in need!