[Closed] hit the north 2016

Many pictures here and there

https://picasaweb.google.com/115867557921985666080/HITTHENORTH2013#

https://picasaweb.google.com/115867557921985666080/HITTHENORTHMANCHESTER#

Great buzz , muddy and everyone looked reasonably happy even the chap with broken borrowed bike, pity the mayors car got pranged on a rock.

At last!

Where the hell are you going to find a perpetually sodden muddy fields with a taste for footwear and a ruddy steep hill at the end of it?

Well he said it was a locked venue - and it must be [i]near[/i] Prestwich (but my guess is it isn't [i]in[/i] Prestwich ) but I won't confirm my suspicions until HtS gives the all clear in case there are still i's to dot and t's to cross etc...

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Yeah but will they send us up or down the twirly ramp to High Street car park?

Down hopefully. Then back up through Clas Ohlsen. Plenty of distractions for the lurkers on the final lap. They can pretend to be looking at the zip ties.

Well he said it was a locked venue - and it must be near Prestwich (but my guess is it isn't in Prestwich ) but I won't confirm my suspicions until HtS gives the all clear in case there are still i's to dot and t's to cross etc...

Terrahawk will be crossing the i's and dropping the e's. There is tons of other stuff to get lined up as well.

Yes.

I'll give a hand if you need any.

Yes. Deffo. If you want any help with anything (mechanic support/prizes etc) give us a shout ( hello@wearebikehaus.co.uk )

happy to volunteer as marshall, or help in any way I can.

Aye, that'd be great.

What a great thread to see on STW!

Looking forward to it already and I will happily volunteer my services to assist in organising the event if you need anything HtS / Terrahawk?

What was quite a shit day has now ended on a top buzz, get right on one matey 🙂

As I'm a relative newbie or born again mtber would some one like to expand. I'm not a fan of the word sadistic. Reminds me of pe at school.

way I'm in any way as hey I need the motivation

I'm not a fan of the word sadistic

xherbivorex - Member

It's in Winter innit ? Innit ?

kind of, but it's always been glorious sunshine and lovely dry, dusty trails on that particular day somehow...

You obviously didn't do the very 1st 12hr version! 🙂

yes.

Bring it!
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help 🙂

Need a head marshal?

I did buy him a pint afterwards - slightly shifty looking, bit odd, didn't believe a word he said.

I don't remember anyone buying me a pint. That I would remember.

I'd help out with marshalling too.

Yep...I'm in.+2 or 3 I'm sure

...Oh yes!

what will be faster cx or mtb? hahaha

Suspicious number of people volunteering for marshalling instead of racing here, do they know something about the course that we don't? 😐

ooooh, nice one! Bimbling around philip's last week I was wondering if the north would ever rise again.

In.

I missed the other ones so this is great news. Like others I'm quite happy to help in any way that I can. Can you guarantee nice weather though?

Put me in charge of the weather if you like 🙂

kind of, but it's always been glorious sunshine and lovely dry, dusty trails on that particular day somehow..

Bimbling around philip's last week I was wondering if the north would ever rise again.

Not in Philips.

Re: Sadism.

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Not in Philips.

Re: Sadism.

That looks like a good year!

How on earth did you find a picture of the Field of Despair where it doesn't look like the Somme?

was it 2012? I think it was too cold for mud that year 🙂

I remember riding across that field through mud and being overtaken by someone gently pushing their bike [ not running nor trying hard] ...at this point I dismounted all crest fallen with my will sapped

Aw, lookatdalittle hill.
Innit cute?
I miss that hill.

Hora, promise I'll buy you a pint next time.
Honest!

Locked venue, eh?
I hope it's in staggering distance of a boozer and a curry house.

That's me at the front of the line of death. I look like I was totally enjoying it.

That was when it was frozen, just before the snow. Even when it was like concrete or was unrideble.

Suspicious number of people volunteering for marshalling instead of racing here, do they know something about the course that we don't?

I'm not ruling out the possibility of a return to our roots.
(them that know, know.)

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Linford Christie eat your heart out 🙂

terrahawk - Member
I'm not ruling out the possibility of a return to our roots.

New sponsors?
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you're just showing off, Curlytots.

Hell yeah!

Is it going to be one of them new Endurex things?

I don't even LIKE purple anymore - even an unopened tin of Quality Street sets me off these days.

I dont even have a mountain bike and I'm interested....