Hit the North 4
Although it is actually the 7th, but our numbering system has included a couple of 0.5s and a "Resurrection" so it has all gone to sh!t.
I'll be there again hopefully - excellent event - thanks for continuing to put it on!
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop.
(I'll never tire of my htn woopery)
mini pook is due so I'll sadly(ish) be absent.
Sweeeeet!
I'll be there (again)
I'll be back for more Cross bike fun !
good man and well done for doing it again
Yay! Thanks for all this!
Ta, but this is a (very small) team effort. Terrahawk held it together when I minced off a couple of years back.good man
Blimey that's miles away AND on the wrong side of the pennines for a Yorkshireman, but got a a cross bike now so might as well add 'northern mincing' to my masterclass of rubbish riding. I shall go and dig out my cloth cap and detailed geographical map of West Riding to ensure I fit right in.
No doubt there will be the traditional post race piss up too.
I'll be there.
My take on the last one (my first 'race').
[url= http://crankedupreallyhigh.com/?p=18 ]Hit The North[/url]
Cracking day.
SS29ers allowed?
SS29ers allowed?
is it a bike?
excellent 🙂 I shall be there and tthew will be staying at ours so he'll be able to come to the pub
are fat blokes on leccy assist bikes allowed to ride?
Oh yes. 😀
ace...........i promise i wont win 😆
Count me in, love this race, can we have snow again please 😆
are fat blokes on leccy assist bikes allowed to ride?
it will be a nice change watching you ride, rather than taking the p!$$ out of folk trying to get down that slippery hill 😀
I hope not. We'll have grit dumps, wheel barrows and shovels at various spots on the road but I don't fancy having to do it again.
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Slippery Hill is out this year. We've swapped it for 1000m of berms and jumps!
eh?
We've swapped it for 1000m of berms and jumps!
Sounds great, do we get points for style and technical content? 😉
oh look what you have gone and done Harry, Ton's all miserable now
What was that vertical wall of mud called, near the end of the lap, b***ard it was?
And can we have the samba band back?
eh?
They've gone and built 3km of red grade trails in the park.
The B@stard is still there and the samba band have been booked.
Count me in 🙂
so are you using some of the new stuff after all then?
I reckon some Dutch 'Gabber' DJ would go a bomb on the b***ard.
so are you using some of the new stuff after all then?
Yep. The first 1000m of the clockwise.
Sign me up, but which bike to bring? I don't want to finish 2nd again
but which bike to bring
Same as last year?
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Has someone started a 'which tyres' (to get out of the car park) thread yet?
Is the "Field of Destiny",still in? I rode through that on every lap...not sure if it was any quicker than walking....but it gave me a misplaced feeling of superiority over those that were pushing......at exactly the same speed..
Yep, The Field of Despair is still in and so is MTFU Hill.
The Chin is also still around somewhere, but we will have to dig out the strimmers to find it.
I'm only coming if my requests for fire and claymore mines have been incorporated into the field of despair.
also, is there random drug testing? I'm getting pretty good at telling the difference....
The drip feed of information continues…
Entry fee will be £19 and we will be making a donation towards the maintenance of the new trails. Money well spent I hope you will agree. The rest of the profit will be donated to medequip4kids.
http://www.medequip4kids.org.uk/
In other news our Minister of Corporate Image, Warren, is doing some T Shirts. They will be on a limited run and I don’t know how or when we’ll be selling them but they will look mint.
Entry will be opening as soon as we’ve crossed all the Is and dropped all the Es.
Speaking of E's, could we have an unashamed dopers race, where we al neck pills and snort a few lines before we set off?
I'm guessing it'd be probably be the lardier amongst us that'd indulge. So our drug-addled unpredictability would add an extra frisson of excitement as the CX bike-mounted race whippets try to lap us. Would we jump off and try to give them a big hug
woop! should be up this - I'll start at the back with all the other STW Peaks Pootlers like I did last time
(and then make a tit of myself every lap when I try to get up that near vertical mud bank)
Well I suppose I MIGHT turn up. Hopefully the club dinner won't coincide with the after party again this year, in fact if it doesn't this is likely to be the Weaver Valley MTB trophy race again!
Oooohhh forgot to add something very important!
The winner will be crowned [b][i][u]MTB/CX 2 HOUR CHAMPION OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE![/b][/i][/u]
This is official as we have a note book with Champions of The Known Universe written on the front of it. There will even be a trophy.
we MIGHT be doing t shirts and I HOPE the entry fee is £19.
ballpark figure innit. The Forestry Commission have yet to show their cards...
Sorry. I posted before I read your email 😳
that's ok, cos we MIGHT be doing badges as well.
and slippers.
with this on them
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may also not be true?The winner will be crowned MTB/CX 2 HOUR CHAMPION OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE!
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that bit is true, however if we find that the champion was assisted and/or supported in ANY WAY the title will be demoted to a galactic level.
After reading about it last year, I'd promised myself I'd give it a go. Sadly, with mrs deadly due around Christmas, I doubt I could justify pissing off to do it. But good luck with it. 🙂
The more I read, the more I'm intreged.
You actually sound half human and I can see the early signs of humour.
T'is in my diary.
I'm intreged too. Or something. Does the Head Marshal get a big hat?
I'm so excited,I could burst!
"two wheels...one rider...."
I know why that's there 😉
DrP
I will be there for the after party again 😀
"two wheels...one rider...."
I know why that's there
Actually, You-Know-Who came last year on his tandem and he was a top bloke!
The rule is actually to stop unicyclists. We can't be doing with all of the beards and juggling that goes on when they are about.
Im in as Ive found my snow chains (good weather now guaranteed)
Can you ask the landlord if we can order in curry?
Save a lot of faffage & probably frostbite.
It's going to be ace.
Again 😀
Can you ask the landlord if we can order in curry?
You could always go to The Chew & Spew at the top of Church Lane.
Good news. Thanks you two for running it again.
Small request, more pressure in wheelbarrow tyre this time. My arms were dead for a few days after dragging it around on the rim..
See you there
50/50 for the race but 100% for the post ride curry
hopefully wont have to dash off half way through the meal this time due to the arctic conditions !
IME: HTN is the only way to keep the xmas Quality Street consumption under 2kg.
You could always go to The Chew & Spew at the top of Church Lane.
it's actually very nice these days, I think under new management. good point though, we could go there to save getting weird orange fluid all over the tables in the pub.
Or, we could go to the Michelin starred place next door for a sugar lump and half a shallot in aspic. Better start saving up now though.