MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Has anyone seen the course map for Mayhem? I can't find it.
i have the course profile
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i have the course profile
I shouldn't laugh, but that was actually quite funny 🙂
I don't think you will need a map, you just follow everyone... 😀
The river jump is back for this year!
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Thanks for posting that, Oggles. Any chance you could do it in red so it's easier to see ?
Counting some of the marshalling points twice because they look like they are between where the course doubles back on its self, I take it the route is;
From bottom left
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M12
M11
M7
M11
M10
M9
M7
M8
M7
M6
Is that right ?
It's not my map 😉 I just got the link in an email this morning! I was thinking the same thing though, why is it blue? 😯
if its wet, this is a reasonable approximation of the course.
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hth.
That course goes from m1 -> m12 in order. If you zoom in you can see (ctrl and mouse wheel)
I thought that would be more logical.
So what happens at M6 then, is there a bridge ?
Gap jump.
That map is wrong. M1 is half way up a hill. It can't be the start.
The start is usually around M6.
It looks more or less like last year other than some odd stuff going on. The labels look wrong though.
^ start usually round M5 I'd have thought.
No, the wiggle bit (M1 mark at the top) is the time trial thing (the first climb). You get to that after a long straight run down the valley from the start.
M5 is where you come back into the infield part way through the lap (after the loop around the tree with the lake to your left).
M1 is not the start, it's just the first remote marshal point.
Start is usually in the field at the bottom right. There is a gap in the course marking line there which makes sense. That's also where the arena is this year.
If you download / open the image in a new tab you can see it full size...
u mean bottom left
last time I went, start was nearer the lake/pond. was a few years ago though
Bottom left is the start/finish line and by looks of it they have changed the course again
bottom left, u can see where the timing beam tent will be, start is just up from that (well has been the last two years)
That's an odd course. First half looks a doodle, second half looks an utter swine. Are they running it backwards or did I get my lines crossed.
Arse - I'm not riding this year....
we have more marshal points than that and our courses are <5 Km 😉
What did I say? 😉 Yes bottom left. 😳 long day...u mean bottom left
we have more marshal points than that and our courses are <5 Km
You must get a lot of laps in in 24 hrs.
we will not run a night event, too much risk of a "touching the void" moment on the night laps 😉
M6 to M7 is all up hill, getting gradually steeper and steeeper as I remember, was the way back in to the start/finish arena last year as I remember, looks like a fairly good course, too flat for many of the people on here but plenty hilly enough for the rest of us. Will be fitting the Razers this weekend as it's going to be dry and dusty 😀
Actually more like M5 to M7 all uphill as its a gentle climb through the campsite
too flat for many of the people on here but plenty hilly enough for the rest of us
Something like 1500' feet a lap wasn't it? The only people it is too flat for are people who don't actually ride a mtb, just pretend they do on the internet 😉
Crossing point at M6!!! That could get interesting with riders haring down the hill to the start / finish....
No prizes for guessing the places where people will be cutting the course this year then 🙁
Will be fitting the Razers this weekend as it's going to be dry and dusty
Not seen the forecast then? I've dug out the 1.5" Black Sharks 🙁
There'll be a bridge if there's a crossing point, it's not actually going to be a flat crossing, although that would be funny!
There'll be a bridge if there's a crossing point, it's not actually going to be a flat crossing,
hmmm, I'll believe that when i see it!
Since Eastnor is right on my doorstep, im going to try this out secretly. I'm doing solo this year.
The course looks easier as I know the gradient around eastor. The climb from M6 to M7 should be the hardest part.
The course is interesting.
It appears to be:
Same start as last year - along the river then up the hill.
Along fire road to where the gorilla was a couple of years ago.
Turn back into Singletrack and continue to the gravelly death slide fire road out onto another climb
The new super boggy and twisty bit that was in last year
Climb up to end of woods across grassy field
Down rocky/slippy fire road alongside fence
Down to arena, across bridge and up to the opposite corner of the field.
Up the mega long climb all the way to the obelisk - we last went up here in 2006.
Over the back, round a few fire roads and trails, then up to the house at the top of the land rover climb
Down through Somme woods and nice Singletrack
Climb back up to obelisk on grassy fire road
Descend all the way down, partly on grass partly on trails.
Looks bloody hilly.
GB
I've just checked the weather forecast. 🙁
Plenty of time for that to change. I hope.
I'm going to die!
Hmmm...the op is called 'shortcut' & they are asking for the MM course map........
**Strokes chin knowingly***
😉
Looks bloody hilly.
Yes, it is. But it appears that the steepest climb to the obilisk (the firetrack down the centre) is not in the course, or at least very little of it.
The M6 to M7 trail is actually not to bad, apart from the last 100 yards.
The M6 to M7 trail is actually not to bad, apart from the last 100 yards.
That 100 yards really is quite bad after a few laps 😆
Keep the 36t single ring, or fit a double then!? Weather dependant I guess!
Double. Definitely.
WHAT TYRES FOR MM 2011?
Just bought a pair of Schwalbe CycloCross Pro 26x1.35... just in case 😉
Mud x 29er style for me. Could take cx tyres too!
Racing ralph 2.4s and black shark mud 1.5s for me. That pretty much guaranties I'll have completely the wrong tyres on at some point...
taking anything but mud tires is fools folly.
Mud X's will be taken and the bike currently has NN front & RR rear, can't be that muddy 😆
Single - you'll just get chainsuck on a double.
Single Speed, you'll wreck your mech if you've got one 😆
Rohloff. Best of both worlds. 😉
RRs on at the moment, but I've invested in a pair of Black Shark 1.5s
Last time I did it (2005 I think) Trailrakers were de riguer.
Has anyone found a shop that still has the mud sharks in stock?
Plenty enough climbing there for me. I hate that climb up out of the campsite, it has been ace the last couple of years (when we've been coming down it)!
Proper drag on wet grass that will be.
Double. Definitely.
You pessimist! I think Gee's right, my bike gets chainsuck in the dry! If it's dry the single will be fine, if it's wet I'll be walking regardless!
Has anyone found a shop that still has the mud sharks in stock?
Petra Cycles claim to. I could be wrong, but I think Beyond had a pair at one point too, may have been Freds, they had some silly tyres, just forget which extreme!
Very different course this year then. Am I the only cynical one that thinks the op might have been bored on fri afternoon and had some fun with us? There's no sign of this on the website.
If it is right then it's a shame that the route misses the bit over by the duck pond as it was quite technical relative to most of the rest.
Pedlad, that perma-wet section down through the woods to the pond? Looks like they're giving it a rest this year.
Just spotted Pat heading to the local Chinese take away here in Malvern. Just to emphasise that they're all here now setting up!
Nothing on any MM course has ever been technical 😆
the entrance to the showers at the end is a technical dismount once your clean at the end to avoid getting clorty again ! thats all i remember !
Should the event be renamed Muddy Mayhem? Thinking that name would be a bit more accurate seeing as it's pretty much always muddy and there are sure as hell no mountains.
I got the Black Sharks from nextdaytyres about three weeks ago - today the 1.5s are showing as out of stock, due in 1-2 days but they still have 2.1s
New version of the map.
Ooh... that is different. And there is a bridge... 🙂
Starting the sacrifices to the sun gods now.
What would MetCheck know anyway?
Last year the forecast was exactly what it is this year. This was Friday night:
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So... it might be nice again.
I'll sacrifice a few chickens just in case.
Looks good and the marshalling point numbers make sense now there's a bridge.
I still haven't sorted out getting gears on either of my bikes. I really don't think I could last 24 hours of those climbs on a single speed.
Looks like the bombholes might be in (muc-Off take off) so the marshalls at M12 will be busy, seem to remember quite a few incidents when they were in before, will guarentee a crowd of spectators egging you on to get some air 😀