[Closed] HIT THE NORTH - UNDER THREAT

This year the BBB will have insurance and possibly army cadet marshalls.

HTN team - I am not back in the UK until the weekend but will try to get the BBB website updated then.

Hi,

Hopefully we want to enter as a team of 3, but we need confirmation from the final member. If they don't confirm we'll enter as a pair. Can we change the entry once it's placed ?

just been spamming bikeradar 🙂 hope you get the entries guys

Website back up.

RobinL - Member
Hi,

Hopefully we want to enter as a team of 3, but we need confirmation from the final member. If they don't confirm we'll enter as a pair. Can we change the entry once it's placed ?

Yes, we'll sort it.

Got it on Dashers site. I'll put it on the FRA site when I get home if Vince hasn't already done it.

Good man!

Posted up on Snowheads too, there are a few riders on there

If I remember rightly it was the scout group pulling out that left BBB without marshalls last year.

Nowt wrong with our Scouts. It's their campsite.

You should have a shed load of Manchester Mountain Biker members signing up over the next few days as we've bigged it up, err Big style. We're coming to take over the beer tent. 🙂

dot - might be doing it with BigDummy of this parish (his bro has dropped out).

Or I might be silly and do it solo veeeeeeeeeeerry slowly.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

No marshals, no first aid, no insurance!

Not with the first section of singletrack that we've got. It makes the bombhole look like a speed hump.

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now. 🙁

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

OMITN - i'm doing it solo. I reckon i'll get about 5 laps in max!

Looks like you may get a few through snowheads too

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=64829

seriously though, wonder if the Brownbacks events have cannibalised the NW racing scene a bit? TBH the riding conditions there are much more to my liking.

no, HTN are dfferent events to ours and we make sure we deconflicit

if they would like to get in contact we can discuss "mutual aid", it would be peferable to picking up their flyers from our car park again 😉

race 2 of our series is on the 27th June www.brownbacksracing.co.uk

Posted on the Lavatrax FB page. Hope it helps.

it would be peferable to picking up their flyers from our car park again

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now.

I lied.

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

If you mean Hurst Woods then yes.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now.

I lied.

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

If you mean Hurst Woods then yes.

Oh Good..

Entry tomorrow

Have we got enough entries yet?

No.

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

How far away Meester Spider?

How are you doing for marshalls?

Have spoken to everyone we can, some who definitely won't ride say they might be able to marshall if required.

Just passed the link on to one of the Blackburn and District bike club.

Hi i have entered a team of 3. Any more preview rides planned or a rough route map on the website?

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

Excellent. Race ya!

How far away Meester Spider?

Thirty days...

[i]How far away Meester Spider?[|i] from being viable?

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

Good man

[i]How far away Meester Spider?[|i] from being viable?

bloody miles off yet. About 50% of break even currently.
I said it was under threat...

everyone's efforts are making a difference, it just needs to continue.

Thanks.

Excellent. Race ya!

Careful, or I might just put Robinsons Unicorn in your bidons.... 😉

bloody miles off yet. About 50% of break even currently.

OK. What can you ditch to lower costs? Howabout you turn it into a summer version of the Winter Sprinter with a couple of extras?

As omitn says - Time to slash costs. What is essential and what can you do without or reduce.

I'm going for a bike race, not a pop concert.
Cancel the band if the saving means the race goes ahead.

I know what you're saying, we're well aware of the priorities and will make decisions next week.
We will probably do the winter race once a year though rather than trot out the same thing twice a year.

We'll see where we are next week.

Terra - seen my email?

Funnily, the winter race worked really well because of the first summerrace, but I suspect that the winter race is now the one people really want.

Indeed, I wonder if the smmer race now seems to some like a bigger version of the winter one, and so has found iself with a slightly odd identity.

Shame, as I think it has the makings of similar levels of fun... 🙂

Many friends who would normally race are expecting children. Some are on holiday and the rest are short of cash.

I've done everything I can to push it.

Maybe it'll end up with huge rush at the end.

Actually, what would be ace would be a short summer series (say, three) of winter sprinter-lite races. Same format - MTB and CX (cos no-one else does that, unless we're talking cross racing but YKWIM). An hour.

Then pints of ale afterwards. 😀

Anyway, fingers crossed this one goes off as planned.

I see a few problems here:

1) Most STWers are sad, Billy no mates types, who sit in their little box room/office and are internerd warriors, who don't actually ride a bike.

2) The above who do ride a bike.

May I suggest that - if you would like to join in the race and maybe not run 'solo', that you post up for a couple of strangers to make up a double or a team from this here website.

3) Oh and maybe there are 'others' who are too scared to leave the safety of the beautiful south 😉

We Northerners won't eat you, however we may drink you under the table 🙂

Disclaimer 'Some of the above may not be true' disclaimer

Good move, Bunnyhop, mild goading is sure to work. 😉

Don't forget also, a lot of STWers won't want to enter a race for fear of being beaten by...
a kid
an old bloke
a woman
worst of all, one of the above on a cheaper bike

Put your money where your carbon is. Enter the race.

I think they're scared of being beaten by that bloke what came last in the Kielder 100. That'd be well embarrassing.

miketually - I agree: I think that bloke who came last in the Kielder 100 needs a good beating.... 😉

however we may drink you under the table

You may drink more pints than us but that's because yours has to much head(the beer that is) and we get more beer in the glass with our flat southern stuff

Just been speaking to the guy who runs the beer tent. He wanted to know if you lot were real ale or lager types.

It also gives me another opportunity to post a picture of the bar staff.

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I'm struggling to see what the attraction of a beer tent and a live band is at a bicycle race?

EDIT: I posted this before I'd seen the post above. And I'm still struggling.

The beer tent went down a storm after the first HtN.