Whats all this about then ? One gear eh ? Beards and cheese ? Beer Stops ? Ridding around a course and MOST definitely not actually racing each other ?
Bring it on ? Good on you nich'e boys the “Yarkshire Crew are on their way” and we will be partying hard & ridding pissed.....
What is this riding at speed you speak of? I do not think i will be doing that.
0.5mph is a speed isn't it?
Riding? I thought SSers just whored it up and pushed their bikes at arm length in order not to catch their beards in the front wheel?
Sorry guys we just didn't want to use the "*ace" word . Our crew are well up for a group ride to the beer stop and then we party "in the sunshine"
Beer stop? Party? WTF do you think this is? There's people asking whether they can have 'feeders' passing them bottles as they rrrr** sorry ride past quickly
There's people asking whether they can have 'feeders' passing them bottles
Now that sounds like the perfect oppurtunity for you to flex your organisational muscles, with the answer 'yes, provided the fluid is over 6.0% ABV'
I think it’s a massive excuse to rrrrrrrraaaa (nearly said it) to ride around a bit and MAINLY get pissed, i.e the normal and correct format for a dam fine week end.
I hope our cross dressing habit is acceptable at this event ? Oh and we drink Taboo or Mirage, neat of course 8)
Will there be any night riding to be done there? Preferably alcohol fuelled.
Night ride ! Night ride ! after drinking copious amounts of ale ? Why it would be rude not to . We best do it Friday night as we will be knackered after rrrrrraaaa (whoops nearly) . Meet at the front of the hotel , to avoid confusion we will be the group on single speed cycles.
oh crap, I'm never going to be able to grow a beard in time. Maybe I can find one of these...
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I shall be trackside with chilled beer and anusol, handed to anyone who looks needy
You dispensing with a smile rd?
*practices 'needy' face*
I shall be mainly be lying in a ditch after drinking my absinthe and making possibly the worlds most evil snakebite from barterd booze, leffe and homemade scrumpy! I'm sure at some point I may actual pedal the bike although I'm such a mincer I'll probably just take it for a nice walk. 😀
oh taz, leffe blonde or brune ?
blonde!
Warm Cheese Gels will be force-fed to any rrrrrra...c...e...snakes 😯
Pierre, not sure I like the fixing method for that facial murkin, the ring in the nose.
And anyone wanting to venture into the woods at night does so entirely at their own risk, the Blair Witch thingy has nothing on the FoD. You have been warned... 😯 😯
Anyone wanting to venture into the woods with the "Yarkshire Cross Dressing Crew" will be made most welcome but they do so at their own risk and subject to the sheep running out !!!! Meet outside the hotel at 01.00hrs Saturday, please bring your own gels...
Oh its getting exciting already and we will soon be rrrrraaa....c....e sorry I mean cycling around a lot.
we drink Taboo or Mirage, neat of course
So does the 'tollah.
Only he has his mixed 50/50 with tomato juice. 😆
I love the whole contrived "we're not racing, no really" thing. I look forward to seeing the majority "not racing" off the line and not moaning about being held up on the singletrack 🙂
Based on my fitness and carefully planned training,I'll be racing for a 4th quartile place and have been sharpening my elbows in preparation.
All this talk of rrrraa...c...in..., I've seen the route and it's the only course I've ever seen with more total ascent than descent. I'd be worn out doing it on a MX Bike 😳
Oh, and good luck to everyone...
I love the whole contrived "we're not racing, no really" thing.
Well I won't be r....g as I have a very important job* to do.
*drinking beer and heckling tryhards.
We wont be r....a...ing "Because we are having a large party once we ride quickly to the beer stop/bar cocktail area" but we will be making sure any "RACERS" fuel up with lager/bitter etc... We are bringing cousin Leroy
6ft 6" built like a brick shit house and can hit a moving target with a full can at 100 yards 😉 As at SSUK2009 "drink it or wear it my son"
The Swede-Blonde please as Brun upsets my delicate constitution.
Anyone lobbing beer in the general direction of a taz will discover the joys of forced body piercing using a rusty chain splitter....pereniums and scrotes a speciality 😀
As at SSUK2009 "drink it or wear it my son"
awesome!
marshalls could perhaps have a drink shortcut? and/or a shortcut for those at the back to steam through on the skinsuit* brigade completely unjustifiable?
*im still contemplating the kilt if my gooch can handle it, this is not, repeat not the same as a skinsuit. Its far worse.
[Sensible hat on] Please do not ride in the arboretum just outside the hotel, the event will get cancelled in a split second if a rider is spotted in there. Thats not our rule its the FC's [/Sensible hat on]
iirc it was one of the knights of niche lobbing beer at riders that refused to take one at ssuk09 and the shots were quite good ;-D
Swede get Leffe 9 for Taz, that would sort his snakebite out!
Righto off to look at some spread sheet stuff
Ayatollah- Are you trying to get me drunk? 😯
If anyone of the speedy persuasion comes across a fat old bloke wobbling along the track please try no to knock me off my bike.
You going to take a bike then father? Would be easier without one 😉
Ok, some Qs, I'm getting nervous now;
which tyres?
do I need a dropper seatpost?
what travel?
body armour?
after dinner cheese?
No, I'm not serious. I have however realised a disadvantage to my planned fixed wheel ride though - the pedals hit your legs when walking. As that is my planned race strategy, it's a big negative. May have to remove the left pedal.
In order:
Yes you'll need some
yes
lots (There is an 8" travel SS coming)*
Yes
Copious amounts of it 😉
HTH
*That's serious!
serious question.... are there going to be any dirty burger vans/ fodder mongers there as I'm debating if I can be arsed to cook, or just eat fat boy food.
Food will be served in the marquee Friday night menu will be at sign on Friday.
Sat night food is supplied by us in the marquee
Sunday night limited bar menu
Sat morning a breakfast van may be there, I organised this yesterday with the hotel but I can't confirm this at the moment.
The cyclecenter will be open Fri, Sat, Sun and is just down the road.
Sunday lunch is either fish and chips or ploughmans in a local pub, preorder at sign on £6 iirc
Stumpy, What's all this getting pissed about, you know you can't drink! Leave that bit of the weekend to me! And I can't wait to introduce Mrs Stumpy AKA Fluffy to the SSEC bretheren. Bring on the dancing girls!
'Night time, day time'
im bringing these bell ends
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...and possibly these
You a MacLeod?
no he's a lady cos he's wearing a skirt
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Ooh there's a lot of excitement and rightfully so :-)))
Lots of use of the 'R' word tho.
See ya Friday
not a macleod, ive got a beer drinking/race kilt 😉
its not a skirt-we dont wear pants*
*we might wear shorts though, been a while since my gooch saw that much abrasion
Wear shorts unless you want muddy grit abrading your saddle with your ghoolies as the polishing pad.
Experience...
Woooooooo its getting xxxxxxiting now YAHOO !
Father: You don’t wobble you glide, are you bringing the boy to this one?
Bungi: I can drink like a proper Yorkshire man now 2 pints, 1 taboo & coke and its goodnight I’m off to bed. ( Night time…….Day time…….)
Speedy: I’m taking both pedals off my hack and doing a CTB monger clunker run.I here your fit & fast again 😉
Right to pack, bike check, beer check now which frock to take…….
On our way, see you soon!!
There's no muddy grit in the fod, we've had carpet fitted to all the trails
alecangus, you realise there's no campsite until tomorrow midday? If you've not booked a room in the hotel and need to camp a day early head the Christchurch a few miles up the road, campsite there is called Bracelands!
red, I hope...
Carpet, O yes, pure wool with a floral pattern I assume ?
I do hope you paid the extra to have it stain guarded so the sweat from rrrrrrr….aaaa..cccc…ing Whoops I mean a gentle undulating ride with like minded folk wont leave those nasty white salty marks. Bungi will be pleased as I assumed you carpeted the north shore for his “ MINCING ON THE SHORE the return”
See you tube for reminder of SSUK2009 mincing run.
We splashed out to get the 70's floral style complete with a pungent used odeor, come to think of it the carpet looks like singlespeedstu's best frock!
looks like singlespeedstu's best frock!
Is that the one you gave me as your wok'd got so big that you couldn't squeeze into it anymore?
Best frock ( male or female) competition….?
Biggest arse (men only) in a frock competition…..
Night ride in a frock ……… SSEC frock wearing & ridding at speed event
The possibilities are endless…….
you lot are raceist
AtsTHAt's the one Stu
that's it! I have a great prize for the "wok in a frock" contest!
Bring IT on!
alecangus is at ours tonight (he wanders if left to his own devices)
Soon be on your marks , get set, and try to "FIND YOUR BIKE" . Hows it going K of N boys ? The bit where you run around like headless chickens is Saturday a.m. The pink crew got up at 04.30 on the day at Dalby last year to find 9 of the gang of ten still pissed. Do you want me to wake you all early or are we drinking until dawn like real frock wearing blokes ?
On my south.car stinks of Yorkshire blue
I demand some cider at the beer stop for those of us who
A. haven't killed off all our taste buds with cheap lager and poncey foreign beer
B are still under 50 so don't drink bitter.
C don't want to spend the rest of the day stinking of dirty lager (as at ssuk09)
🙂
PS is anybody going who knows me from STW northern chapter rides?
Hopefully my flight wont get cancelled again 🙁
Should that be on my way south Captain Tarmac ? Car stinks of Yorkshire Blue, what have you got in your hand ? and more to the point what are you doing with it. Save is a sunny pitch that we can turn into the "Vatican State of Yorkshire for the weekend " Signage to be provided so we can make lots of new friends to play with.
2nd call for the cider if there's a apple juice part of the beer stop, oh and I'm a wee bit curious how to find the actual location? So it you see a rat style vectra going aimlessly around the forest of dean gimme a honk
I've had a sudden attack of the sensibles and decided that scary/hairy/wok equipped men in dresses with beards is not for me.
I'm going back to leg shaving and road riding,(with gears) you lot are all weird!!
I'm a wee bit curious how to find the actual location?
The Speech House is signposted and easy to find.
Local knowledge please, I'm coming from oop north am I better taking M50 OR keep on M5 to J11 and then A40? Tom Tom and google both say there's chuff all in it. Hoping to get down that end of M5 just before 12:00, no idea what traffic will be like.
Junction 11 and A40.
Ta
Thanking you kindly, I've just finished packing and seem to be taking more stuff for 3 days than I do for a week!
You wana see what we've been packin!
The cheese board is something to behold!
Beer Stop? The bar will open at 16:00 in the hotel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
Pink Crew I have no plans tp get up before the hour of 7 as last nigh 4 Dutch guys arrived so we drank my stash of beer then started on theirs at gone 3 this morning we called it a night and after one of the oddest days in a long while we're at it again. Trouble is we've got to leave here at 6:30 in the morning in order to get to the FOD ;-o
...the wonders of organising a Single Speed ride... 😀
Well ok, we wont wake you until 7.00 but we will be up at 4.00 as cousin Leroy gets well ****ered on Taboo and tends to wander about alot from tent to tent making new friends. See you 2mors The Pink Boys aka Team RACE Yorkshire Doh !!!!!sorry I meant team group ride.
All this talking of a race makes me think we may have forgotten something?
Venue, check
cheese board, check
entertainment, check
something to eat, check
prizes, check
numbers? Nah WTF do we want numbers for?
race? Nah sorry There's a group ride vagly planned but the infestation of updoc is not looking good it's being really badly affected by a cloud of dusssst from them bad pixies in Iceland blowing all of the uk's money on a phat party. Either that or Stu fell out of bed and the vibrations caused a massive plume of dust to drift around causing disruption to good peoples plans. But a race? Nope definatly not going to be a race no sireeeee hick, I'll bring this Polish moonshine vodka brandy stuff, 'tis good yar. See you tomorrow!