[Closed] How many FAST racers are there on here...

4 Times British Trailquest Champ. Once in under 40 Solo Class, Once in Vet Solo Class and twice in Mixed Team Class.
Not exactly XC racing but hard work when all the events were 5 hours long and ranged from the West of Scotland to the Isle of Wight.
Entry numbers were also bigger then with 2-300 riders per event.

I won the dance off at SSEC 2010, does that count for anything?

Jason Plato revealed himself after some disgruntled poster moaned about the treatment he gave him when he bumped into him outside a shop. It was hilarious!

In similar vain - look at the review of the Boardman roadbike on the BikeRadar home page currently, they made some comment about the geometry not being ideal for crit and bunch racing, the first comment is from Chris Boardman!

I have held the 3 peaks CX fixie record for a number of years now despite some attempts by big names to try and take it off me.

I might enter next year and smash it myself to make sure I die with the title.

"I have held the 3 peaks CX fixie record for a number of years"

Did you just make a bike out of polystyrene and just run round 🙂

I won a Tim Gould autographed crash helmet at the Grundig World Cup race raffle at Aviemore in 1990.

I beat EVERONE on my commute home yesterday. Everyone. Fast as. 🙂

(I think [url= http://www.stratobiker.com/ ]Stratobiker[/url]'s already been mentioned - but he's done, and still does, lots at a properly high level)

as per njee's post 🙂

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/road/product/review-boardman-team-carbon-12-45675

chrisbl4
BikeRadar

User
User review of Boardman Team Carbon (12)
I don't normally comment but this was just a bit silly:

Someone should let Nicole Cooke and Rob Hayles know about the handling 'not being ideal for bunch racing' This frame design AND GEOMETRY won National, World and Olympic Gold.....so I'd say it's not too shabby.

Pro riders quite like comfort and 'stability' so they can cape up on descents, take a feed bag with confidence and ride smoothly over cobbles. We didn't just pull the geometry out of thin air......

Chris Boardman

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Lordy. That's a pwning and no mistake.

Bike journo vs World and Olympic Champignon, and World Record Holder.

😆

TandemJeremy - Member

I still [s]hold[/s] share the tandem record at ten under the ben as far as I know

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pjt201 - Member
I won the dance off at SSEC 2010, does that count for anything?

That's nearly as impressive as my 4th equal... 🙂

to be fair to the br guys, this was their response to the thread which does clarify the comment a bit

Warren Rossiter
BikeRadar

User
User review of Boardman Team Carbon (12)
This review was part of a test in Cycling Plus, As is the nature of those some comparisons are made to the other bikes featured. When it has arrived on here - as the reviews are put up singularly some of the comparisons are lost or edited, the paragraph about the handling was as such -

"The handling all-round doesn’t have the out and out sharpness of the Cannondale Super Six (also in the test). It’s a 'little' less competent in fast direction changes and hustling through the tight stuff. But for an all rounder it’s difficult to beat. Especially at this price"

and

"Everything about the Team Carbon from the quality of the frame to the level of components, to its sheer ride ability would have us believe that this was a bike with a price tag of £1000 more than the modest £1599 it retails for"

So with the original review being edited I can see that the comment about handling could come across as a bigger criticism than it actually was. It's something I'll bring up with the online guys

Warren

That [url= http://www.twinklydave.com/ ]twinklydave[/url] geezer has been racing bikes a long time. He's faster than most.

SB

UK Emergency Services U30 XC Champion...

He's faster than most.

But not as fast as many judging by the raft of second places. 😉

There seem to be a lot more people who do well in 'endurance' events (12s/24s etc) than straight XC racers. I think Ben Thomas is a registered user here, but he doesn't actually post owt. And to think... in 2007 I was the same speed as him 🙁