Due to the unprecedented number of people paying to embrace the filth this year we’ve had to redesign the start. Now everybody has to do a 600m long gravel climb before hitting the tarmac (first lap only), which should give us about 1000m before the first constriction.
To make it easier riders will be asked to position themselves with the quickest at the front. To make it easier these helpful signs will be erected.
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Which one are you?
everyone's Elite for the first 100m 😉
Will Drac be in attentance for the "will probably die" fraternaty.
We have paramedics.
goes for will probably die for the sense of overtaking folk
I was 11th at the last one....but I suspect I won't be this time.Can I be 'used to be fast(ish)'.
I was 10th last time ... thanks Rorschach 🙂
I bet there will be hundreds of 'Elite' riders and a few more honest souls 🙂
Harry. I think you've missed one:
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Oh... and could I be so bold as to suggest a potential sponsorship opportunity
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Does that mean the slow people have to go further? thats no fair!
You've got bigger fish to fry Uncle Jezza. You're on a tandem. The rider at the front will be in a different class to the rider on't back
It could get confusing 😀
I'll be bottom right..
Fot abour 2hrs I reckon.
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Singlespeeds need their own sign naturally. Something quite large to make sure everyone knows how 'rad to the power of sick' they are.
Thats where I'll be that is
I'll be bottom right..For abour 2hrs I reckon.
If you beg a marshal will finish you off with a shovel.
If you beg a marshal will finish you off with a shovel.
I'll have a chat with Tony... 
If I'm riding - still not certain yet - I'm going straight for the same category as Teeto.
And then into the unspoken "vomit" category. Before then moving into "lie down" territory.
The unspoken "vomit" category? I reckon the top of MTFU hill will look like the 3am pavement outside an Essex 'Nite Spot' after a lap or two 😯
If it's anything like the 3 Peaks, 99% of the entrants will stand around the "Elite" one trying to look good, cause havoc during the first 600m dash, then shout at each other while getting in everyone elses way.
I'll be right next to the "Elite" sign, obviously, with my pointiest elbows and well rehearsed list of excuses 😀
I shall bring my own sign and plant it in a suitable place
We've gone all Big Time Charlie corporate now.
MTFU Hill = The Buff® Bluff
The Chin = The Endura Free Fall
Water splash = Mt Zoom Rapids
Ton's bit = The Hope Thick Ear Corner (if we can find something to hang a banner off near by)
If Brant brings a banner we will stick it on Preparation H (so named because if you get it wrong the impact with your seat will ruin your ass).
after a lap or two
Oh get her she is doing laps, not just one but some
Awww! s'not fair. Mtb gods have 5 signs to choose from. Us mortals only have the one 🙁
If it's anything like the 3 Peaks,
So will we have our normal chat on the road while avoiding all the confused people? I do remember your words of:
'Hope you're UCI points help today' *evil grin*
I hate you Dave 😈
In other news.
The man with the cannon has cancelled so we will have to find an alternative way to start the race. Flag, air horn, trumpet, Ozzy Osborne style mock dwarf hanging... not sure which.
I've consulted Popular culture and it says we can still incorporate the cannon idea, while finding a use for Hora
This is him doing his routine earlier this year
You know the battle scenes in Lord of The Rings, well that just with more mud and uglier participants.
NO cannon? I shall bring my own expolsives
So will we have our normal chat on the road while avoiding all the confused people?
Yup, occasionally shouting "CAR!" while stareing into the eyes of a terrified pensioner who only came out for a quiet drive in the countryside but is now in daner of being drowned under a sea of overly enthusiastic lycra...
The man with the cannon has cancelled so we will have to find an alternative way to start the race
Go to the back of the pack...and start a rumour 😀
<so wishing I wasn't to be holed up in a photo studio that day>
Don't get me wrong, i'll be having fun but HTN, with my camera, putting faces to pen-names...
We have paramedics.
Not enough I fear...
Chris (marsdenman); are you going to be there? I owe you a beer old bean!
Shirley - you've missed out 'I'm only here for the beer and abuse' sign.
Urgh. Laminating signs is destroying my mind. 100 down. 100 to go.
Can I have a "woefully unprepared, unfit and slower than everyone else by a substantial margin" category?
Is there going to be a sign for
No intention of racing
but having a laugh
at those that
choose to race.
Some pictures from last years event.
https://picasaweb.google.com/115867557921985666080/HITTHENORTHMANCHESTER#
I wonder if the guy who did thos will be back?
https://picasaweb.google.com/115867557921985666080/HITTHENORTHMANCHESTER#5572896470837489202
No intention of racing
but having a laugh
at those that
choose to race.
you can do that at the front whilst facing the front row if you like.
You're all ****ing slow. Brake-dragging on the climbs and coasting on the flat sections. Is it a race or a charity fun ride? 😆
you can do that at the front whilst facing the front row if you like.
That will be like facing down this.
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is fancy dress aloud?
hora - MemberYou're all **** slow. Brake-dragging on the climbs and coasting on the flat sections. Is it a race or a charity fun ride?
Well, you'll never find out unless you grow a pair of balls and enter, will you? 🙂
If you are on a fat bike you have to wear these.
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Ok will do
what if you are fat and on a bike?
what if you are fat and on a bike
or have a pony tail? 😉
Pony tails .....its not 1996. FFS !
what if you are fat and on a bike?
or have a pony tail?
Or both? 😀
mmmmmhh snow on it's way next week.
*Is ccertain that TJ will have snow tyres, so that's my excuse stuffed*
mmmmmhh snow on it's way next week.
...and so is rain and sunshine.
http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Manchester-UKXX0092
What tires for Daily Express style hysteria?
We've had snow before and 2 years ago it was -6°C. Not a problem.
What tyres for Hit the North?
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Anyone got an entry, who can't make it??
Would love to give this a go....... but no spare places:(
slowoldgit - Member*Is ccertain that TJ will have snow tyres, so that's my excuse stuffed*
have snow tyres, mud tyres, DH tyres, semi slicks, full knobblies - bound to have the wrong set on with al that choice
the right tread on your boots will be far more important anyway
the right tread on your boots will be far more important anyway
Good point. There is a new foot climb for 2012 that we have wittily christened "The Bastard".
is that its corporate name?
Not yet. Corporate naming depends on whether we can hang a banner there.
It may well end up being The Hope Technology Bastard.
Not yet. Corporate naming depends on whether we can hang a banner there.
It may well end up being The Hope Technology Bastard.
Have you thought of approaching RBS?
No thanks. We only asked people that we like. We're quite fussy in this respect. Ethics and that.
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Isnt COOKSONS CYCLES, just round the corner from the race for any bits you may need to buy.
If you arent going to bother the podium then the best thing to do in a race is start from the very back and see how not last you can make yourself.
I think there are a good few of us who will be competing to start last
I am last and so is my wife
Isnt COOKSONS CYCLES, just round the corner from the race for any bits you may need to buy.
It is, and to make it easier they will have a trade stand at the race so you can buy all your new bits before you chuck your wreckage in the boot of your car.
Are there refreshments on site as well.
There will be. Bacon butt and a brew from a van usually.