[Closed] HIT THE NORTH 2 UPDATE....HIT THE NORTH 2 UPDATE.....HIT THE NORTH 2 UPDATE

We're not full, BTW. We still need a load more entries for a 'proper' race.

TFFT

Still places left. A lot of them.

www.hitthenorth.net

Application for beer tent license has just gone in too!

Brill news. Looking forward to it. Any chance of an evening preview ride at some point? Need to scout out photo locations (although to be fair I've a couple in mind already)

Very glad to hear it chaps, excellent stuff.

I shall be there with bells on. 😀

🙂 [homer]Woo hoo.[/homer]

I'm sorry, you booked a mountain bike race [i]before[/i] you got the beer license?

😉

Hope to see you there - sorry I will be a last minuter if I can make it.

Ace, we can start with the "What tyres?" threads now!

nice swan 🙂

Good work all 🙂 more spaming needed hehe

A busy old day in Hit the North land.

This morning we had nothing.

This evening we have:

An event.
Foothpath closures.
A license application for the beer tent.
And we've just had a meeting with the campsite warden and their head marshal.

We are still 20 places short of breaking even and a further 40 or so short of having a ska band in the beer tent.

There is also a chance that this could be the final HtN (for me anyway) so sign up and let's finish in style.

So made up 🙂 I'm still trying to get folk on it but I reckon no band wouldn't be the end of the world.

Excellent news - will keep plugging HTN2.

Harry/Spider. Is this definitely the last - no Winter Sprinter next Feb then - I thought you'd have plenty of entries for that after the last one?

when will you close for new entries?

I'm not doing it this year, but i did do HTN 1 and 1.5, and I can honestly say it was some of the most fun I've had on a bike.

I wasn't saying that at the time, but after, well, it leaves a little warm feeling in my heart.

SIGN UP PEOPLE. IT'S RIGHT GOOD.

HTN 1 and 1.5v2 were great. Really looking forward to number 2.

Anyone else over thinking strategies?

Anyone else over thinking strategies?

Yep, I'm really struggling to decide which beer to bring, but I'm making progress in other areas as I've borrowed a UWA lens (thanks Saumri!) and am working on Crazylegs to borrow his 50D body

I'm not bringing any beer down.

I'm going to the local Asda to stock up once I'm there 🙂

I'm going to the local Asda to stock up once I'm there

Don't cave into The Man! Support your local independent beer store! I'll be using the local off-licence and buying a crate, but then I'll be driving 🙂

But I know how to get the the Asda near the campsite - two years ago, I bought ten pairs of dry socks from there 🙂

If someone wants to guide me toward the nearest independent ale seller, I'll happily buy there instead. Actually, if you're driving, you could bring me beer 😉

Can do 🙂

I'll bring cake.

Excellent; there's the two most important aspects of my race preparation/strategy sorted.

Hit the North - Blimey… Things are progressing.

Today we’ve been put in touch with a potential sponsor (a big one too). So thanks for the introduction Mr Richards.

We’ve informed the Police about the event. We didn’t at the first one and I had a very uncomfortable few minutes being talked at in a panda car, but at least it was dry. Whilst I was getting my friendly telling off I couldn’t take my eyes off all the additional policey buttons that had been stuck on the dashboard in a most haphazard manner. I had to fight the urge to try and straighten them up a bit. A load of coppers and PCSOs actually turned up on their baldy tired bikes at the last race but we wouldn’t let them on the course because we didn’t want our medical staff to be pulling them out of the first ditch. Their sergeant looked most upset. I think he wanted to see a few of them take a dive in the dirt.

Phone call to the caterers in 45 minutes to confirm all of that stuff.

We’ve got to sort out a skip next. At the previous event it was paid for by the campsite, but as their payment will be reduced it falls to us to sort out. So if anybody has a skip that they want to lend us just let me know 😉

The new toilet block at the campsite is almost finished so none of those hideous building site chemi-khazis. Proper flushing sit-down jobs and new showers too. The Queen Mum herself would be happy to go in there and nip one off… if she wasn’t dead that is.

And finally we’ve also discussed making a shrine to dear (and tragically not so old) Frank Sidebottom. A true Manchester legend. They should put a statue up for him and Tony Wilson. Perhaps next to Abe Lincoln or the giant Vimto bottle.

2 days ago this race organising thing was really getting me down. Today I’m all excited again. Doing this is either really sh1t or really ace. I’d be happy for somewhere in the middle TBH.

Sign up. There’s still places left

www.hitthenorth.net

2 days ago this race organising thing was really getting me down

really? Was it? I can't say that I noticed. Not at all...

if you're driving, you could bring me beer

Another pint of Unicorn, Mr McT? 😀

Today I’m all excited again.

Ace. I've already forgotten how much I loathed the mud of the first HtN, almost selling my MTB as a result. Now I'm really rather looking forward to it.. 8)

really? Was it? I can't say that I noticed. Not at all...

and I thought I hid it well. 😀

peachos - Member
when will you close for new entries?

When there are no more left. However, if you do it sooner the money will go to reinstating some of the stuff that we've dropped.

I'm doing a lap on Sunday at about 3:00pm if anyone fancies have a look at the course.

ourmaninthenorth - Member

if you're driving, you could bring me beer

Another pint of Unicorn, Mr McT?

hahahaha!
nooo, it was definitely the dodgy KFC from piccadilly station what did it...

lol

Beer - check
Cake - check
Bike - check

What have I missed?

What have I missed?

You, Mrs Tually, Junior Tuallys, tent, chickens. You know, the usual stuff..! 😀

You pay the bands????

You guys seem to spend an awful lot of money!

cant make it this year, but defo next

soma_rich - Member
You pay the bands????

You guys seem to spend an awful lot of money!

It was billed as a race with a party attached. It still will be but the DJ is going to have to work a little harder.

You, Mrs Tually, Junior Tuallys, tent, chickens. You know, the usual stuff..!

I'm not bringing them, but will bring a tent. And myself.

You pay the bands????

Today's update.

HOTLINES have offered us a load of goodies to give away - Thanks Andy and Brant. Info sent over to them and they'll put something in their blog.

Caterers now up to speed. Bacon barms and tea for the marshals - they will have to pay for anything else. Caterer coordinating with the beer tent people. Which is nice.

Seating for the beer tent and catering area sorted (60ft of benches)

Marshal maps almost finished.

Some of the band are turning up anyway if they can have a free entry as a pair, so there may be a spot of busking in the beer tent.

Is there a solo tent again? I think I had it to myself last time as no-one else found it. I used it to hang up all my wet clothes to dry.

HOTLINES have offered us a load of goodies to give away - Thanks Andy and Brant. Info sent over to them and they'll put something in their blog.

Hotlines - Andy and Brant - are ace 🙂

Why not have a big karaoke machine?

No need for a band then and very amusing.

Is there a solo tent again?

No solo tent. All the camping is within 50m of the start/finish straight.

Great to see the '2nd' HTN is going ahead and looking forward to a preview ride. However, the timing of your next preview ride is not so great as the once dormant England team awaken from their slumber to take on ???????????? at 15:00 this Sunday ! (Hope its not Germany, extra time, then penalties, then........).

Any chance of an evening ride during the week ? Please.

FFS - we didn't know that England were gonna get through the groups never mind that they'd be playing their next game at 15:00 on Sunday. Shit man.

You takes your choice. HtN preview is happening. If you want to ride it, miss the game.

MTB vs football. Pah.

I did say please !

As for those of you who doubted England shame on you. You obviously have not learnt the joy of hope, expectation, followed by the crushing blow of reality. Then up pops the fairy godmother - well Defoe will do.

World Cup once every 4 years - sorry as good (and wet) as HTN 1 was I'll have to miss this preview ride and hope for another.

Sad to see talk that Harry might be organising his last HTN. I thought HTN 1 was well organised despite the atrocious conditions. Does this mean the HTN 1 'T' shirt I bought in 2008 will be a collectors item? Odd there was no date on it - wonder if there will be a few (boxes of) for sale at HTN 2 ?

No solo tent. All the camping is within 50m of the start/finish straight.

Fairy nuff.