Gorrick 100 – Is it a toughie? – Page 2 – Bike Forum

matthewspb · 2013-05-01T09:51:38Z

Morning All Does anyone know much about the Gorrick 100 course this year? I'm tempted to go for the 5 lapper but wondered whether it's a tough 10 mile lap or a fairly gentle one. By way of context I'm mid-training for Bontrager 24/12 and long-ride wise, I can do c100 miles on the road around the Mendips (c2,100 mtrs of climbing) without feeling like I want to die and, offroad wise, last week did W2 plus another loop of White's Level without my legs giving out (I appreciate that is far less than 50 off-road miles but it does involve a fair bit of climbing). If the Gorrick lap involves mahoosive amounts of climbing / leg-sapping bone jarring sections I might rethink my weekend strategy. On the other hand I see that pre-entry has closed. If on the day spaces fill this might all be academic. In which case, apologies for wasting your time in reading this! Cheers M

adsh

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That race was mental!

I woulda done better if I'd not crashed in the typical You've Been Framed over-the-bars stylee.

Not sure 30+mph downhill trails should be millimetres from a fence
(That's not where I crashed though.)

Still, attempted a wheelie over the finish line

You wouldn't have been riding a Lynskey would you?

The descent was proper scary. My Garmin said 30.6mph at the point my right bar was about 6" or less from the fence 😯 As I got tired my lines got ragged so I wimped out

Posted : 07/05/2013 10:13 pm

6079smithw

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You wouldn't have been riding a Lynskey would you?

No, not me. Would love one though

Posted : 09/05/2013 1:36 am

njee20

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I think the bigger problem with Fenceline is the uphill bits - there's not really anywhere for people to go, so it causes loads of bunching. Was interesting when we rode it the other way round in AYTE last year, I thought that was quite good!

Posted : 09/05/2013 8:54 am

charliemort

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ermm fenceline.......... pretty good advert for not using 750mm bars! Had to ride with bike slightly leaning over!

re: bunching - yup, I just about rode the first couple of laps but resorted to a short push after that - opportunity to stretch me old back as much as anything

Posted : 09/05/2013 9:25 am

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