[Closed] Hit t'North

Rusty Spanner - Member

Ha, a steady 227th for team Spanner

Whooooooohooooo, SEVENTH FROM LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 'cos yo pushed past in the "hiding in the woods at the end" queue

I think the lurkers should have been decimated, in the Roman sense just before the 2 hour mark.

Edit - on second reading, that sounds somewhat harsh, maybe just disqualify every 10th one, not actually execute. 😳

158th for me!

I'm wondering if I lost a load of time in the traffic jam of the first lap - but doubt whether it made much difference overall!

I've never lurked in my life, it's just not the done thing. 🙂
Anyway, I thought it was the old folks queueing for the toilets.

Many thanks to the organisers and marshalls, It was the best one yet, without doubt.

Great to see everyone from here as well.
Hope WCA's feeling ok this morning - it was like watching Boris Johnson on ketamine in the pub last night 😀

I'm pleased to say, WCA's breakfast remained completely in his stomach on the drive back this morning!!!

DrP

(who doesn't appear on the finishers list..... I promise I finished!)

how did Guy Martin do?

was a great event, finished 57th. which i am happy with!

guy was 59th!

Starting grid was interesting. Ended up getting shoved back to not very fast and managed to finish 50th. My camelbak was definitely flapping all the way round

ps can we have a tubeless kit for the gritting wheelbarrow next year, my arms are killing today 😯
Thanks again for another great event

Something funny with the results My stoker appears to be 3 places ahead and a lap ahead of me

"Something funny with the results My stoker appears to be 3 places ahead and a lap ahead of me"

I'll call it respect for the elderly, a time and lappage bonus. I'm happy to accept it.

92nd I only got lapped once and considering my bike weighed in at 42lbs I'm chuffed.

165th, started near the back, cx bike was superb though, no off's and no mechanicals - need a bigger cassette next time though!

superb!

Hi John thanks for the trail banter/ abuse and 'rolling the trail flat for the cx ers' 😀

In the event didn't do too badly by walking - proud of 154th on my skinny bike and, thanks to turning 40 last week, 2nd vet woman 😛

Passed TJ and Slow old git and waved but I think you'd pulled up for a mo, if you remember a blonde on
a cx shrieking 'hurray for tandems', that was me. He wouldn't let me bring ours and forced me to struggle round on
my own 😥

I'm happy with my result, 217th, on me SS my aim was not to finish last and I didn't. Think I'd of been in the top 10 if I had a full set of gears and a two stroke engine. 😉

Well done to everyone that entered and the DNF's too!

Something funny with the results My stoker appears to be 3 places ahead and a lap ahead of me

I expect his number was counted more than yours - the girl taking the numbers down was using rear numbers mainly.

perhaps a tandem in the race wasn't a great idea if we're looking for results perfection :-/

LOL@ terrahawk - actually I didn't put my number on to avoid confusion. 🙂

Clover - Member

Passed TJ and Slow old git and waved but I think you'd pulled up for a mo, if you remember a blonde on
a cx shrieking 'hurray for tandems', that was me. He wouldn't let me bring ours and forced me to struggle round on
my own

I remember that. We got a lot of encouragement from folk which was nice

Is anyone on here going to own up to riding up all the steps? Somebody did it. I saw it.

In 15 years of riding round here I have never seen it, but I do ride with some complete stiffs 😉 .

How did they get up onto and over the raised wooden sided steps part, just after the steep bit eases off a bit?
Getting to that bit is doable but not over that step I reccon

They did it. Straight up the steps. It looked like he took the right hand line and missed the run to the left completely.

Don't ask me, I prolly had my eyes shut.

Not me, had enough of a job pushing up them, but on my second to last lap one of the leaders shouted 'rider riding!' at the bottom of the steps and just flew up them.

Very impressive and nearly caused me to turn round, lob my 120mm skills compensator in the stream and retire.

Saw people get very close. Managed to ride out of the stream on ym 2nd and 3rd laps which I was happy enough with, only failed on the 1st lap because there was someone infront of me.

fantastic event… snow, mulled wine and a brass band should be renamed “The Xmas Hit the North” !

massive thank you to all the organisers, marshalls and people who helped push the cars out

thanks to Rusty for arranging the post ride curry, it was nice to meet a few peeps. I’m sure WCA mentioned that he organised an event but I didn’t quite catch the name of it. 😉 Sorry I had to dash off and not go on to the 2nd pub but I needed to attempt to get home.

Roll on next year…

I reckon we skip the race bit and just go back for the curry! 😀

Shame I missed out on the curry but it was good to manage to catchup in the pub and have a bit of a blether. Nice to meet some more folk for real.

It does amuse me how little people look like I imagine them.

You'll have to qualify that TJ - did my rugged good looks match my online persona?

you were so good looking my legs were weak for the entire race

I’m sure WCA mentioned that he organised an event but I didn’t quite catch the name of it

If WCA is the guy that i meandered across the field of despair chatting to, then i think its called the 'Big Bike Bash' and its held down in the New Forest. I dont have any other info though!

The Big Bike Bash you say? What's that then?

Junkyard - I have that effect on people. Having looked in a mirror that morning, my legs were weak all race too.

In 15 years of riding round here I have never seen it,

Nice to meet everyone and finally get a glimpse of Hora's famous wallet:
I've never seen a 10 shilling note in real life before. 🙂

Glad that Mark & Dave got home safely, was looking a bit dodgy at one point.

We'll definitely have to do the [s]cruet throwing contest[/s] curry again next year, once they've forgotten who we are. 😀

Did anyone else manage to fall into the stream, btw?
I made Shaun from Cooksons laugh so hard I think he lost a place.

Big bike what? Never heard of it

Big bike what? Never heard of it

If i misheard whilst puffing and chugging across the Field of Despair then i sincerely apologise! I will try and listen better next time 🙄

Pook - Member

You'll have to qualify that TJ - did my rugged good looks match my online persona?

I was expecting somone chunky and hairy - more like this but no engine
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I am sorry - My imagination is a very odd thing. DrP should have been twenty years older and more tweedy

Nice to meet everyone and finally get a glimpse of Hora's famous wallet:

**** me, did Hora turn up then?

Many thanks to all the organisers and my fellow riders for making my first race the most fun two hours riding i've ever done! I finished 182nd.

Was brilliant and I want to do it all over again tomorrow morning. Who's up for it?

Warwick (Riding the white Fuel Ex 9.8)

Hallz, that was sarcasm 🙂

Anyone know what the unbadged on-one was? Prototype? Looked abit like a carbon 456 but dropouts were not bolt ons, either carbon or heavily shaped ali, black on-one wheels could have been a 29er only got a quick look.

ah, i've said it once already but so what- it was an absolutely brilliant day, and andrew (HtS) and jason (terrahawk) should be very proud of this institution they've created!
would have been nice to try to put a few more faces to names though; a few of you would have seen me on car park directing duties from first thing in the morning and then marshalling up next to the footbridge over the motorway.

and which one of you asked me if i was binners please?!

would have been nice to try to put a few more faces to names though;

a few of you would have seen me on car park directing duties from first thing in the morning and then marshalling up next to the footbridge over the motorway.

and then marshalling up next to the footbridge over the motorway.

haha was it you marshalling the bridge when the fella slipped past you on lap 1 and followed some random bikers over the bridge?

Bet he still finished ahead of me!

Herbivore That was me, I think you've trimmed ur beard since I met u at an STW ride a while back. I recognised the face but wasn't sure, only briefly seen binners before but remembered him mentioning doing htn on a big bouncy FSer jumped to wrong conclusion.

hallz, that fella was a member of this very forum too! i won't name him though in case he doesn't want it to be brought up, that's up to him! he came back after 5 minutes or so though.

D0NK- ah, yes mate! the beard comes and goes; mostly it's gone these days though. binners is much fruitier than i am (and was riding a lasses bike yesterday, as it happens!)