[Closed] SSUK 2015.

There is a facebook group and it is the 4th - 6th September.

If it's as good as last year we are in for another treat.

Might have some proper hills this year 🙂

There some info in the edsbikes article on the front page.

It is the 4th - 6th September.

Well that's a load of bobbins. Almost the only weekend I can't justify going is the one before new school year and 2014 and 15 have both picked it.

Off to have a sulk.

Y'shire?

W'bouts?

Anywhere near R'ogate?

bikebouy - Member
Y'shire?

W'bouts?

It's at Duncombe Park.

It is the 4th - 6th September.
Well that's a load of bobbins. Almost the only weekend I can't justify going is the one before new school year and 2014 and 15 have both picked it.

Off to have a sulk.

Ohh excellent, it's nice up there.

Diary booked.

Hope they use other media not just Facebook to let everyone know..

N-n-necro post! So this is in 2 weeks time, I'm guessing there's going to be a fair few on here going.

What are people riding (and more importantly, what gear are you running?)

58/11 fixed 36er tall bike.

22/34
14" wheels full suss.

APF

ontor - Member

Off to have a sulk.

is that a special SSulk?

Undecided between the common in yarkshire but brutally efficient O-O Lurcher on 32/18, Or monumentally heavy but slightly more interesting Trek Sawyer on a more easily span up 30/18.

I'll be going with my Soma B-Side (it's orange, you can't miss it) with probably 34-18.

I'll be riding something niche, main thing is I wont have to entertain you buggers and make sure you have a nice time etc... i can just get drunk in a corner and heckle wayne for not being as singlespeedy as us 😀

I'll be on a Kona Unit on 32:18 and hopefully a full set of intact collarbones

Same as last year except with different tyres and a fresh Bushnell eccentric because I think the drive side threads on mine are stripped.

Salsa Juan Solo, Pace RC31 mag rigid forks, 26" wheels, but disc brakes so no retrogrouch category for me.

I'll be SSulking at home too.
I couldn't get my jabs in time, so travel as far 'oop there' as Yourkshireville isn't possible for DrP and his motley Southern Shandy Drinking Red Bus driving kru (that means 'crew' in gangster chat (that means talk))

DrP

Wot, none of them?

32:17 might put a 16 on as apparently there are no hills 😉
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the beard is going, I'm not

Nope Ned - none of us.
This partae will SSuk...!

DrP

I may bring some proper westcountry cider .up

Nay lad we don't do that foreign muck up north. It'll be proper beer an' nowt else!

Bearing in mind that the north wouldn't know decent ale is danced across the dales with a marching band singing "la la la im decent ale" best bring some cider mr cornish... the yarkshire folk are too tight fisted to spend money on decent beer so it'll be drip tray special and breakfast with 5 use tea bags hung out to dry as " theeers plenty moooah life in that un yet, youth...gerit darn thee neck" etc...

this could be the most frugal ssuk ever 😀

the only they have beards is to save ont razors n heatin

Its also why they talk in a comedy regional dialect that relies on using less letters than everyone else...even tight with the alphabet

Anyone for a West Country single speed champs next year? I know a good venue and an idiot that'll organise it...

Get ya hosting bids in to wayne early for decisions at the event

even tight with the alphabet

🙂

Well we do all have short arms and deep pockets taz!

1998 RatRide 1x1.

Gearing to be decided but seeing as Postierich says there's no hills, probably 53/13.

I may even ride down from the real North.

34/18 on my 650B Kinesis Decade. Should be fun!

apparently there are no hills

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmaps/

YO62 5EB

Duncombe Park House is on a gentle slope, but between that and the River Rye there are some tightly packed contours in the woods.

Had the email so time to get reet proper excited 'appen like

What tyres for yokkshire bimbling.???

Round 'uns.

You some sort of southerner?

ontor - Member
Anyone for a West Country single speed champs next year? I know a good venue and an idiot that'll organise it...

West Country? Haworth, Hebden Bridge, that sort of area?

I stole all but one of my wife's gears last night. I softened the blow with some prettier replacement bits, so she's OK with it.

Quite happy with the way it's worked out. I had spare Deore brakes from when they were £14 an end on CRC, new bars and grips. So the old bars come off, with grips, levers and shifters still on, with all the cables hanging off. Full length gear outers too, so the derrs can stay all tensioned up.

Now 1x1 bars and 2x10 bars can swapped over relatively quickly. Relatively. Still got spacers and front ring to mess about with, though. Hooray for cheap brakes and buying more than I needed. Nice to have a splurgey buying decision finally come good!

hey all

My ride* for the event is going to be a Buffalo Bike from http://www.uk.worldbicyclerelief.org

It’s singlespeed with a coaster brake, semi slicks, weighs 50 pounds and can carry a couple of goats on the back, so it’s going to be absolutely perfect.

£95 gets one of these into the hands of someone so they can get to school, clinic or market. The bike will be there for anyone to try.

I’m inviting donations, reckon we can raise enough between us to pay for a couple? (Obviously I’m paying all my own costs, 100% of any donation goes to WBR).

Thanks to Wayne for being cool with this.

If you want to track me down I'll be riding either a WBR shirt or Dorking Cocks. Any of the Cocks will be able to point you to me.

Thx.

* mostly it will be pushed

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I've got a transport problem, in that my +1 has decided not to be, and I haven't got round to buying a van yet...

Anyone able to give me a lift Friday night from near Knutsford/Altrincham/Stockport about 6pm, or from Central Manchester or Bolton later on? Also, a lift home to Bolton on Sunday?

Alternatively, where sells vans for under £2k near the aforementioned places which might be open beyond 5pm on weeknights?

Great weekend - course was a good mix of techy Singletrack and the ups were nice and wide for the fast boys to go past the slower peeps ( like me)- good effort from Wayne and co! Coventry next year 🙂

mattjg - Member
...My ride* for the event is going to be a Buffalo Bike from http://www.uk.worldbicyclerelief.org
...* mostly it will be pushed

It wasn't mostly pushed. Matt did a brilliant job of getting it around a course that made me nervous with drum brakes. He just had a coaster... 🙂

If you can, take a look at what he is trying to do and make a wee contribution.

Well said epicyclo!

Had a great weekend - good course, good beer, good people, good band and even good weather. Thanks Wayne!

Great weekend - still feeling slightly broken from my 4 laps in the morning and then 7 in the afternoon.

Enjoyed that. Thanks to all involved in the organisation.