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Me and my mate managed 10 laps each but I'm sooo full of respect for the people who were riding round in trainers and bikes that most of us on here wouldn't look twice at.

I managed to miss most of the bad weather apart from the rain/hail stuff that drowned me from 7 o'clock on Sunday although thankfully I was hiding back in the tent when it properly came down about 9.

Anyone know the guy with the Rolhoff that I think was on a green bike. He was seriously fast downhill.

Another thank you to Neil for organising something that must have been pretty difficult for him too. Cheers fella.

edd - Member
Jason - how many laps did Chris do?

Hi Edd, Chris done 21 laps, you can check out what his comment on the BC forum http://www.bikecity.biz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1238

Cheer Jas

sharki yes good point my bad. i did have a great laugh though and its nice chatting to loads of people as you ride around. lots of ladies too. not that i noticed

Hi Edd, Chris done 21 laps, you can check out what his comment on the BC forum

Aye, they missed one of mine too, we had to pop into the tent and ask them kindly to sort it 🙂

Name and shame! Judging by how clean he is, this looks like first lap as well... 😉

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Where did that pic come from Gary?

Cant be his first lap, Thats one of my bike city team mates in the red and he was our 3 man out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12002177@N05/sets/72157618739215266/

I'm only teasing btw - I walked up it on one of my night laps lol - no one was looking and I was shagged 😀

Also, when I ride it solo next year, permission granted to mock me for walking that bit...

I really hate pushing so made myself ride up that bit every lap. I did have to resort to granny ring after about lap 7 though - and that was for the whole climb, not just the steeper bit at the end which made for a very long/slow climb!

Thats not me, its Kingtut of this shire. I grannied it each lap, along with the steep bit at the beginning of the climb.

That's one of the photo's taken by the better half who was out snapping most of Saturday - she reckon's she was around the top of that lungturner about 4:30pm. Must've been a slow first lap 😉

Kudos for remaining so clean! 😀

Although to be fair it still looks pretty clean and my first non parade lap would have been around 5pm and it was a total sheet fest by then after the apoco-rain

I'm only teasing btw - I walked up it on one of my night laps lol - no one was looking and I was shagged

Name and shame!Judging by how clean he is, this looks like first lap as well...

That was probably my 5th lap as a solo rider, I trained hard for that race but the day before I came down with a cold, which I'm still suffering with, I woke up Saturday morning feeling bad and I knew it wasn't going to go well but carried on without pit support completely on my own, by 11PM (ish) I was suffering, shivering etc, so I went to sleep in my car covered in spare clothes as I had no preparation for sleeping.

I woke in the morning feeling like shit with the prospect of soaking wet shoes to climb into, that was it for me, end of race.

Name and shame - sure It's me KINGTUT.

Poor Mike 🙂 I don't think you have to justify yourself as a solo rider in those conditions.

Thanks Clubber 🙂 seriously though I had the fitness to do far better than that, I am really quite pissed about it.

Expect a lot of macho gnashing of teeth at the 12, I have something to prove. (to myself if no one else).

I look forward to seeing your power mince gurn at the 12 🙂

I look forward to seeing your power mince gurn at the 12

I've been practising 8)

The evenings must just fly by 😉

🙂

Well done mate! You can destroy me in two weeks at the Bristol 12 as I'll be doing my first big solo then...

I'll be chuffed if I actually finish. 🙂

mattstreet could I have a copy of CLIC24_2009-05-16_136.

Thanks.

I love it when you get all defensive Mike. 😉

I think if you're soloing you can do it two ways. You can go for the glory and mash up all the climbs, then blow up after 4 laps, or you can be canny, conserve your energy and do well just by staying out for the duration. I've seen some really good 24 hour racers pushing up climbs but come the descents they are off the brakes and eking out every bit of momentum from the course.

You can join the CLIC24 2009 sour grapes club with me Mike 🙂

I pushed up that climb a couple of times. Nowt wrong with getting off and stretching the muscles out once in a while.

KINGTUT - sure thing - have you got an e-mail address for me to send it to? I'll dig it out and send the best quality one we've got (without the watermark). Is JPEG ok, or would you prefer RAW?

mattstreet,

JPEG please to miketutton@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks.