[Closed] Hit the North - Entry is open

i like the sound of this....

*ponders*

This one?

Edit - too slow!

i like the sound of this....

*ponders*

Get in! It is quite silly and/or tough depending how hard you want to try. Chipps managed to somehow snap a shoe at the last one. 😐

Yay! I can come up in the vayn with Bully! Keep him company on the long drive up!

Arse. Elf, put the picture up please. You know the one.

Any chance you could book the Stone Roses to play the finishers across the line? (I'd not want them to usurp the brass band at the start, and chances are they'd not be out of bed in time for that anyhow)

In like flynn....WOOOOOOO.Can I have 69 please? 😛
Only 109 days to go!!......must calm down 😳

if i cant ride, i will man the bottom of the downhill again.
it was fun to watch the comedy get offs and crashes......... 😀

I thought you were fixificated now Mr The Ton? 😕

Elfin gets no.666 . Its the law ( well bbb law anyroad )

This one, Bully? 😀

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BOOYAKA !!!

Just hope i don't crack my frame this year 😥

I'm in! Will I get a prize for being last.

PS whats this mean

i. Unsporting impedance

PS whats this mean
i. Unsporting impedance

stopping someone else getting past on purpose/lying down on the course

I think.

Ton, if you are at the bottom of that hill again, the least you can do is walk up and carry the bikes down for us.

you should be able to carry 1/2 doz a time. 😆

That way it will save me falling off. 😳

Great! Can I enter category (i) and be an 'unsporting impedance' please 🙂

(Might happen anyway due to remarkable ability to fall off ...)

Unsporting impedance

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Sporting impedance 😉

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I've entered.

I don't know why.

Is that you on the crosser?

Good effort if it is, that post scares the crap out of me as I've hit it too many times.

No no - I was one of the frustrated MTBers trying to get past the crossers on that bit.

I did hit the post once though.

Maybe you should change the event name to 'Hit the Post'

Mrs TJ said no to a tandem entry. 🙂

Just entered my first event, wayooo.

I've still not quite got over Frank Sidebottom not turning up the other year.

He's missed his chance now, he really has.

Mrs TJ said no to a tandem entry

where to start with that one.....

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_rollason/5439179734/ ]HitTheNorth_CX_055[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ed_rollason/ ]Ed Rollason Photography[/url], on Flickr

Good luck, hope it goes well (again)

Get in! It is quite silly and/or tough depending how hard you want to try. [b]Chipps[/b] managed to somehow snap a shoe at the last one.

at least he enters your event, we've done 16 and have yet to see a soul from STW towers and we are 10 miles closer 🙂

Am I missing something, is this just a two hour race over 3.5mile loop? If so I assume the loop is challenging/ good fun. Will check work diary tomorrow and hopefully be free to enter, the banter looks good.

I'm entered. Looking forward to it

If so I assume the loop is challenging/ good fun.

Bull's Eye.

It's either a not too serious event for the have a laugh brigade or a 2 hours flogging for the 24 hour / 3 Peaks CX podium botherers.

'is this just a 3.5 mile loop'

ooh get her!

still not quite got over Frank Sidebottom not turning up the other year.

He's missed his chance now, he really has.

His presence was felt at HtN2010. 🙁

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I'm in and bringing the steam roller to flatten out the CX boys groves ready for their 2nd lap.

"Am I missing something, is this just a two hour race over 3.5mile loop?". There's a bit more to it than just riding in circles for 2 hours.Those who know,know ;0)

Entered. Blimey, British Cycling have a mighty painful entry process...

Woohoo finally got my arse into gear and entered another HtN race. Not done any since the inaugural one.

Mud, sweat and gears.

HtN's winter sprinter is the funniest, gloopiest most unpretentious event in the calander. Come on down. Have a two hour blast round a sticky tricky trail then have a bacon butty and a few pints afterwards.

Looking forward to it already.

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"You seen a yellow cross bike anywhere?"

Due to us having to buy an Entertainments License so the brass band can play (yes, really 🙄 , just in case a euphonium explodes or something) we are now going to make the most of it and try to book a Samba band to play at the top of the hideous grass climb.

Our previous idea was to have a sample of Jeremy Paxman shouting “COME ON, GET ON WITH IT!” looped over and over again.

having not stopped for a pint after I'm determined to this time.

8:30 in The Church Inn, Prestwich*. They also have rooms and secure bike storage if anybody wants to stay over. The pub is about a mile away if you follow the trails or 3 miles if you are driving.

Those parking at Sedgley Park Rugby Club will have access to their bar (and showers) straight after the event.

*Probably. It usually is.

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don't worry I'll be entering as well as our kid - and tthew is threatening to stay over at our house and come to the pub in the evening

Oh yeah! And I'm even worse at drinking than Our Kid!

It was all a bit of a blur/mess for me last time too (the pub bit, not the race).

Lack of sleep, too much coffee, hard graft, pre event nerves and general knackeredness.

In other news. Entries are streaming in at a phenominal rate. Get in fast or miss out.

Helmet cam footage from near the front of the last race. It shows the first 3rd of the lap before the lens gets splattered.

Whoever shot it does some pretty nifty overtaking down to Ton’s marshal position (4m17s)

We don’t use “The Field of Despair” or “MTFU Hill” on lap one but you can see it to the right of the tarmac section.

I'm considering doing it on an even more unsuitable bike than last time. Can someone lend me a Demo Nine?

want a shot on a tandem binners?