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riiiight so it's a figure of 8 not a loop, that did have me a little confused when I was exploring 🙂This is the bike map.
riiiight so it's a figure of 8 not a loop, that did have me a little confused when I was exploring
yeah! the bit in the race is the first half(ish) of the trail; instead of diverting to the right up that steepish muddy climb to the field behind where the finish line was, you continue on until the trail gets back to the road, then ride up to the top of the hill where the start of the second "loop" goes off to your left (just down past the entrance to the kids' play area/car park). then that loops you round back to a similar area at the road (near the back end of the race car park from saturday) it's fun!
What a day out 🙂
5 years since the first winter race and still an ace event. Well done lads, as usual I'll be back for the next one.
Also..can we have the summer race back now?
*runs and hides*
Also..can we have the summer race back now?
no
[quote=Harry_the_Spider ]
>>Also..can we have the summer race back now?
no
Yay, Mrs NBT remains reigning champ (mixed teams). Along with teammate Binners, funnily enough he's not mentioned that fact that a reigning HTN champ finished in last place this year 😉
I'm afraid that its indicative of the way most things have been heading generally nbt. Has it really come to this?
It's a brave new world, binners
booooooono
Cheers guys I'll give that a run this weekend coming 🙂
nbt I did not attend the race meet hence the question 😳
Also..can we have the summer race back now?
no
Ahh go on... you know you want to*
How can it possibly be any harder 😉
*this may be a lie.
very, very hard to sell tickets for a race in the summer. the 8 hour race we did a bit back made about £2.50 profit because only a quarter of the number of people we'd budgeted for actually paid to enter.
We learned (the hard and very stressful way) back then that the UK race calendar doesn't need another large cycle event in the summer. For organisers the potential for a financial kicking is quite high.
a bigger event in the winter though.....
A bigger winter event you say.... why that sounds perfectly good to me 🙂
Mancpuffer?
a bigger event in the winter though.....
What about spring or autumn? Bit more daylight, bit less liquid in the [s]Swamp[/s] Field of Despair? I'd definitely be up for a longer Hit The North though, whenever you do it.
A longer event in the winter, you say? Won't somebody think of the [s]children[/s] marshals??!!
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What about spring or autumn? Bit more daylight, bit less liquid in the Swamp Field of Despair?
You didn't ride the first summer one then? You'd assume it may be drier in August, wouldn't you? But remember, this is Manchester.....
my bike needs to go on a biiig diet before HTN5, my god it was heavy on the carry sections..
BTW, I think there should be another summer HTN...
BTW, I think there should be another summer HTN...
Email me if you want to borrow some tape and a staple gun.
Is there a map of the course used on Saturday?
It can’t be ridden because it uses some footpaths that we had closed and sections of the MTB trail that we ran in the in the wrong direction.
Also, there may be cows in the field. The big orange hairy ones.
Haha, I wouldn't be touching that field again!! Not until next year at least! Especially with orange hairy cows!
Thanks anyway and again thank you for the amazing morning, cannot wait for next year already.
Did anyone else get any pictures of the youth racing? I took a few but getting asked for others.
This is my personal favourite that I think sums up the Field of Despair quite nicely!
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Pah, i dunno why they're looking like they're suffering through there, its not even that muddy there! 😀
Harry's write up of the event is a good read, for those who haven't spotted it here's the link
http://singletrackworld.com/?p=46226
Edit - They're youths? They're bigger than me! They're on bloody 29ers!
Edit - They're youths? They're bigger than me! They're on bloody 29ers!
[url= http://bit.ly/Y2DlRb ]Did anyone notice Tom Craig practicing his no-handed track stands - boy got skills![/url]
Nick Craig for a dad. Sponsored by Scott. Able to do a no handed track stand. Some kids have it all!
I suspect that those things may be linked in some way 😀
Do you know anything about the pump track and skills area talked about in this article...
[url= http://www.nationalcyclingcentre.com/p/mtb-trails-2 ]MTB Trails[/url]
Anybody get a pic of my 'witty' signs that I can use for me blog? Ta.
Mr Sparkle (saddo)
Do you know anything about the pump track and skills area talked about in this article...
Different Phillips Park.
@hallz I must say I thought that was the same Phillips Park as well. In fact the guys at the cycling car-boot style thing at the velodrome last month led me to believe it was the same park.
I was excited, now I'm a bit confused!
The other Phillips Park is somewhere near the Velodrome.
They're building a trail and pumptrack in Clayton vale. There are photos of progress somewhere on Facebook, its looking pretty good so far.
Il try find the link.
Edit.
Mate I would of been thinking the same if I wouldn't have heard and looked into it a couple of months back. Doesn't seem right having two parks named the same within the same city tbh.
Then again..it is Manchester.. 🙂
HTN is in Bury.
Great news about Clayton Vale, that means some man made ST in some of the Manc Madness rounds hopefully. 😀
Good point harry..
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/65229856@N08/sets/72157632799279912/ ]More pics[/url] by my mate, including (by the look of the bike) a not very [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/65229856@N08/8486552182/in/photostream ]flattering one[/url] of phil56, sorry phil.
Hilarious! I’d hoped it might look good on the video, but in truth it’s just a limp flop into the bushes!
Heh, [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/65229856@N08/8485416619/in/set-72157632799279912/ ]he got a nice comedy shot of me crashing[/url] too. 😀
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BTW, I think there should be another summer HTN...
Email me if you want to borrow some tape and a staple gun.
perhaps I should have phrased that better...