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[i]Also, I would imagine you are a lot more likely to get a race ruining pinch flat on a hardtail. [/i]
Tubeless is your friend.
That CANFIELD frame on here is screaming for the Mega. Buy it please please pleas!
you will be fine on HT. tho you might not win.
also using two bikes (one for quali and one for race) is cheating.
fact*
*probably not fact but it should be ya cheeky basterwds!
*Update*
Turns out you can Mega on a hardtail and not die.
I was pretty chuffed with a 1hr 35 in the Challenger. Who else was there? How was it for you?
I was there, it was my first and what a week! Now I've rid my body of (most) of the pain, I'm counting down the days until next year!
Had an absolutely shite qualifier and scraped in to the Megachallenger in last place to start on the not ideal Row Z, but I had a great upper section on the snow and finished on 1:32 in 117th (although clock said 1:29 - anyone know if there was a timing problem? I think the race was just late starting.)
Can't recommend it enough to anyone who's swithering.
've rid my body of (most) of the pain
I woke up this morning with my hands in a 'tightly wrapped around the bars' type position...
"The claw" we were calling it, defo feel your pain. Calves are in tatters from pedal bites on the snow.
i did a 1:52 on a (6 day old) broken hand. would probably do it again, but don't have a burning desire to yet. Doing it on a broken hand isn't reccomended
didn't get a single pedal bite on the snow - one foot on pedal, one out wide as a stabiliser.
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Christ it were good. Very much hardtail able- there's nothing scary on it at all.
I got 301st in the Mega but had to stop for 10 minutes to help a bloke in front of me who'd ripped all the ligaments out of his left knee. God it looked sore. Aiming for 250th next year.
Massive thanks to Rockshox too who replaced the lowers on my 3 year old 2nd hand Lyrics which cracked around the base nut for free. Very, very impressive stuff.