[Closed] SSEC 2010 Weekend

Fantastic weekend, gorgeous weather, superb singletrack, excellent atmosphere. Just a really good laugh. Was sorry to miss Dr Jon today but had to get back, lawnmower was so good dunno how much better that trail could be...?
Big thanks to Sheldon and the knights for arranging and everyone there for making it so much fun.

EDIT just waiting for someone to post pics now.

Dalby's "Pink Crew" all home safely 🙂

Thanks for an excellent event Kights, excellent course and really good atmosphere, what more could you want 😀

That was a great weekend! I hope the Knights are going to be organising more events there in the future. Lovely weather, course was tough but fun, nutty Belgians gave everyone beer, more great singletrack than you can shake a stick at, and lovely ale at the beer stop.

One bit of the weekend that I maybe wasn't feeling was the bloke at the prizegiving wrecking his perfectly good frame with a hacksaw. They should have given it to the girl who won Gil's cracked frame in the raffle, she doesn't actually have an MTB and was just borrowing one for the weekend.

Oh and I seem to have come away with lots of left-over crackers and cheese, plus a titanium Spork. Email in my profile if it's yours.

Any pics yet?

Absolutely cracking. I stayed for todays rides, just got back tired and happy. Brilliant organisation, except veggies like to eat in the morning (what no eggs..................)

top event, lovely weather and monster hangovers. A Big thank you to the knights of niche and all the silly buggers that went to play in the woods. It was my first single speed event and it's put me right off all the more serious race/event stuff. Now all I need to do is get a beer belly and I can fit right in 😀

loads of pics but having family time. will post tomorrow.

A few here before I fell asleep.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49043847@N03/sets/72157623758470485/

A massive massive "Yarkshire" thanks to the K of N, top blokes BRILLIANT weekend and well managed. New niche to be formed ? a race sorry, ride weekend for ex SS management crews? It was nice meeting your mum Sheldon :wink:& see you all in wales. Top job well done. Cheers Stumpy.

Thanks to all for a great weekend and also to the weather gods. I have tagged a bunch of photo's 'ESSC2010' on Flickr.

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Bring on Belgium 2011....

"the belgian bar is open !"

and "otri du otri du " - which is apparently something to do with see you later allegator" ...

My alarm clock for the 2 days from those crazy belgians - they know how to party !

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Brilliant weekend, thanks to all for organising and thanks to Mandy for guiding us back from the pub today. Now at home feeling very knackered and sunburnt.

i feel like i've been run over by a stampeding herd of wild whore 😯

A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

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well hello Sweedie .........

the swede misunderstood the invite to come camping for the weekend 😳

It wasn't a dream I'm in picture 3 of Blackhound's pics

Some pics:

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Help yourself to anything you want for personal use.

I've included dud photos on the basis that if it's the only photo of you at an event, it's better than no photo at all 🙂

My first singlespeed event looking forward to many more, well done Sheldon, well worth all the hard work!

who wants an on-one ?

i seem to have come home with an extra bike ... its yellow with surly forks and has a racenumber attatched - if the owner doesnt come for it by the end of the week ill auction it off for cookies !

What a great weekend!

Good to see people I haven't seen for a while.

Still think I could have done with a bit more suspension.

Top weekend. Thanks Sheldon and K of N
...Oh and I'm still waiting for the chillies 2nd appearance 😕

**** off the lot of you! You shagged up our quiet weekend away 🙂

Oh and thanks soooooo much from all of us for making it special!
Ps that's it we've retired, may see you all soon at other events although loom out for nichfest!

knights of niche [u]race[/u] team did I hear you mutter drunkenly last night 😆

Thanks Knights (and most importantly Dames) of Niche.

Tippety top weekend and come away with the usual smattering of new friends. Real shame I had to head for home once we reached the pub but the stand in guide did a fine job of showing us the Dr singletrack.

Spiedo is hugely jealous he didn't come to sunny UK - the italian Cremona 24 got cancelled after 12 hours due to torrential rain bogfest 🙂

Mick & Alison

If the On One is SS and 16 or 18", I do...........

Had a crackin weekend. First ss event, loved every bit of it!

Highlights were:
-freindly people
-quality of trails
-beer and cheese
-beer and cheese
-bike throwing
-crazy europeans!

defo going to belgium next year. i'm giggling at the thought of it.

Excellent weekend (though I'd swear some people were treying on Saturday's ride).

My wife is insisting we go to Belgium (I think she means all of us).

Nice one Knights.

(Bet it's more relaxed in Sheldon's house next week)

couldn't agree more with all the comments above. What a wicked weekend, weather couldn't have been better, cheers to the belgians for the free bar - helped me to win the fifteen g cranks i think...

what a great weekend! thanks sheldon et al

btw, does anyone want to buy some pace RC41s and a surly chainring? great condition 😆

Ah leggyblonde you must be phil with the ****ed pace stantion then .....oops !

Crikey! Is it just me or is anyone else passing pale, creamy coloured stools a couple of days on from Friday's mega cheese chomping fest? 😯

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mmmmmmmmm cheeese!

🙂 wow, thanks i've no words left!

Massive thanks to everybody who left the campsite, it is tidied than we found it!

Hotel is happy, just had the debrief etc.

Still got dome numbers to sort out but be proud of the fact that you lot drank 134 gallons of local ale:-) plus what ever lagers etc

Crikey! Is it just me or is anyone else passing pale, creamy coloured stools a couple of days on from Friday's mega cheese chomping fest?

yup! stank too! excellent combonation of still organic cider, belgian beer and 3 heaped plates of cheese. i think it was sweating the cheese out of my skin in my sleeping bag too. brilliant.

Yep.. as above, cracking weekend, really enjoyed the 'race'

Cracking work on organising everything Sheldon.. great job all round, and Mrs Sheldon and Sheldon's mum and dad were absolute stars!!

😉

Eating your own body weight in cheese one night then significant quantities of swine flesh and beer the next can wreak havoc on the strongest of stomachs 😯

Great event, top job Sheldon and gang.

Loved the course, proper hard work and much longer than I was expecting.
See you all at SSUK I hope!

I'd like to say thanks from all the LVIS riders - we all had a brilliant time - Beer, cheese, bikes and sun - How could it not have been excellent.

The course was really good too (if only I'd had the legs for the climbs) and Sunday's ride was spot on.

I was robbed on the bike throwing though 🙂

Sheldon, we'll consider you an honorary member (though I did hear several people say you were a member already 😉 )

Yeah,just got back,need to say mahooseeve thanks to ALL involved,but special(needs)ly to Sheldon,for making us welcome and organizing the whole ridiculous affair !!! and also to Mandy for the guided ride home from the pub.
And of course the Belgians.....
bestest ever mtb thingy.....

Had a great laugh with the LVIS boys and girls. Couldn't ride because of an injury I picked up the week before but I loved the bits of the course I saw and the organisation was spot on.

Prize giving was brilliant fun although I am still feeling sad for the perfectly usable Fire mtn frame that got sawn in half. I am still shedding tears now.

Thanks to Sheldon et al for a great event.

I have about 2gb of photos uploading to Flikr of riders and I'll post a link once its uploaded. Currently around half way through.

Maybe I'll make Belgium as I couldn't ride this one.

I'll sort thing out later when I'm home guys but there's a Flickr group I started a wee while back.
TF tuned will give the 2 best photos a free fork tine and service. Link somewhere on the ssec10 site or find it through my Flickr site.

Oh and a change of plan with the cheese board!

We've already made £216 with the raffle for the air ambulane we're going to chop the cheese board up all the KON will have a bit then the 7th bit will be ebayed and all money will be added to thefund.

Details to come.

Just uploaded the rest of my photos...

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TF tuned will give the 2 best photos a free fork tine

Wow.. that's like, a whole quarter of one end of a fork!

Thanks for a great weekend of nichedom and amusement and a truly awesome course.

[Edit].. I think I've found some strange calling in Singlespeed "riding fast around a course" events now. See you all at SSUK! (And thanks to Charlie for reminding us not to search for SSUK in Google images...)

 

Finally finished uploading. All pics can be downloaded. Soem good some bad. If you use them then can you donate some money to the charity the SSEC is supporting. Sheldon can you drop the details on the forum just in case?

Enjoy.

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Here are some of my fav's.

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Everything unloaded and sorted into various piles now after the long journey home 😉

Thanks to everyone that came to the event; commiserations to those who couldn't fly to the event; and best wishes to those finding alternate ways home from the event. There are some great stories to be told! The event is made by the people that attend and this was a great event. Cheers... hic 8)

Glad you could all make it and had a good time so did we 🙂

We were of course 'contracted' to use the saw in order to present the beautiful 2010 Kona Explosif frame !

The first in the UK a worthy winner dont you think didn't see him crying too much tho.

If you won a prize and you liked it then let the lovely people who donated it know then hopefully they will be as generous to other events help and help make them happen

Again thanks to everyone participants and helpers alike without them it wouldn't be possible

KoS

That bloke eating the chillies was so funny I can't remember what he won(because of all the beer) he really went for it

Guys add your pics in [url= http://www.flickr.com/groups/1328358@N20/pool/ ]here[/url] to be in with chance to win a fork tune with TF Tuned.

1 tune for best photo representing Singlespeed
1 tune for best photo representing the need for suspension!

Judging will take place in a week or so when I wake up!

awesome pics so far!

did anyone get any pics of the bunny hop competition outside the belgians tent?

i got a few pics of the bunny hop as well as some photo's some people might not want reminding of. will get them up on flickr tomorrow

That bloke eating the chillies was so funny I can't remember what he won(because of all the beer) he really went for it

That bloke was my mate Tim, AKA Captain Tangfastic. He failed in the Tangtastic eating comp at last years SSUK so was determined to win this time. I was the big jess who took one bite and ran out screaming, big up to the fellow rider who donated his beer to me. Tim won some Salsa carbon forks and has pestered me ever since for the matching Salsa stem I won. He ain't getting it. Great event and great company!!

Tim won some Salsa carbon forks and has pestered me ever since for the matching Salsa stem I won. He ain't getting it. Great event and great company!!

Carbon Bars donated by Pat from Ison distribution, not forks!

someone from 221 squadron in the RAF won the niner forks for playing air guitar to Whole Lot of Rosie 😉

Just to repeat what the other KoN's have already said.
Thanks to everyone that helped out with the event, thanks to you atheletes for turning up and creating a great atmosphere and thanks for leaving the campsite in such a clean condition this morning.

Roll on next year when we can sample the hospitality of our Belgian friends.

Roll on next year when we can sample the hospitality of our Belgian friends.

Amen

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Someone had too much to drink on Sat night. [b]GHEYER[/b]

Someone had too much to drink on Sat night. GHEYER

I think you'll find it was friday night. 🙄

Well done Knights and Dames,will get some Conga and Wok bashing photos up later. 😆

Yeah OK Stu it was a long weekend it started Wed at 21:30 when those mad Dutch arrived at my gaf and wanted to party as they'd only been up for 44 hours by then!

Looking forward to them Dave

excellent event, well done to KoD, everyone has been asking me if im alright today i look so gubbed

um Sheldon your mum said to let you know if we were interested in a tee and you might get some more? im interested (i completely forgot to order one)

and also if anyone has more pics of the **** in the kilt let me know, ive tagged the ones ive found so far 😀

Righty, don't know where my post went from the top of this thread but hey ho,

Here's a cracking shot of the tandem coming off the singletrack on Sundays social ride. Loving the tandem riders expression, she looked a little worried. 😉

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here's the URL for the large version.

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Here's one of the robots, boy these guys were daft, it was hot as hell out on that course.

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Sorry Matt, you can kill me next time you see me for this 😉

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Here's Sams bike after his little accident.

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Of course there's the obligatory cheese board photo.

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Kilted rider 🙂

And more

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Lovely camper van even thats niche

Gutted i didn't go 🙁

fontmoss- were you one of the axis of weasel? if so I was well impressed with sponsors on your tops (gary fister still makes me giggle) and you should definitely go with c*ntinental for the next ones 😀

thanks a lot Rich. i owe you one 👿

Mat will call you in the morning with details all will be cool

Jase

Sorry I hadn't realised your pose until looking through the photos afterwards. 😀

Pepper.

that picture of Matt needs to go up here too.

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cheers King!

glad you liked em Tazzy-just emailed thecyclejersey about prices for another run of shirts, c*ntinental should be on there 😉

(if anyone has any more sponsors to add to: Gary Fister and Bumrager then let me know)

Fontmoss, I'm sure charlie the bike monger will let you have "specialneeds" as well (the stumpf*cker and Hardcock T shirts were genius)

Taz, saved you a headbadge!

What's that on your shoe Sofaking?

Those guys in robots should have been mentioned in the prizegiving, really sorry guys my mind wasn't on the job. Respect for dressing up!

cheers ayatollah, It gives me an excuse to catch up for a ride soon and give you money, rather than just going "oooh nasty stump, eek pointy branch, oh my a wibbly bit!" in the pissing rain 😀

Jolly good effort matey, but you have now ruined my events calender as I really can't be bothered with all the more serious events now. I'll just have to give up mincing a speed and become a beer swilling attention monkey 😉

If there's another order going in for a T shirt, make sure ones a big un for me 😉

oh and I'd just like to take the opportunity to apologise to any one I had a very drunken conversation with whilst offering them a hip flask filled with green evil, can't remember much but I think everyone was lovely . Much cheese and absinthe gave me mental dreams 😳

I'll sort out tees later in the week and email everyone.

I'm all done with looking at spreadsheets right now 🙂

EDIT: anytime Taz and really looking forward to our half othe mayhem team we're in! I think mrtrickydisco may regret offering us booze to join the team!

Just had a flashback too! Respect to everybody who had a bang on that Polish Moonshine I had 🙂

Just wanted to add my thank you to all for a great weekend and all the support, oh and Sheldon, NO it does not mean I'm a convert to SS.....

...yet?! 😯

That polish moonshine was definitely an acquired taste 😀

ive just found out someone where i live was at the SSEC! wayyyy another niche whore nearby 🙂