[Closed] SSUK Rawked

I'll second that!

best one yet! cant wait for next year now! and i still feel sick after eating the tangfastic for the frame, cant believe i cheated and still didnt win!

Was a good weekend out, good crowd of 'misfits'. Course well thought out and plenty of stuff to keep you interested all the way round. Beer shower halfway through second lap was unexpected ! Huge thanks to everyone who organised it. Wales next year...

was cracking. feel a bit worse for wear now though!

Did they announce the venue for next year?

Wales was mentioned after the prizegiving but forget where...

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You should have stopped for one! Sorted my legs out to get me going again on the second lap.

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Wales. South I think.

Course data.
8.04miles 316m climbing
2 hours dead to do 2 laps for me.

Felt very rough after the night before. Nearly being sick as it was.... 2 or 3 minutes behind you.

Another big thank you to the organisers, had a cracking time even if my time to do a single lap was more than it took the winners to finish 2! But then I did dawdle at the beer stop for a while.. 😀

And I still can't believe how lucky we were with the weather!

and i still feel sick after eating the tangfastic for the frame, cant believe i cheated and still didnt win!

Great weekend, excellent ride out, not as epic as 2008 but good fun

race course was very good

organisation was great except the portaloos started backing up by early Sun morning otherwise pretty faultless

excellent beer on tap the SSUK 09 brew was lethal, shame about the large group in the beer tent who decided that they didn't have to support the bar on Saturday night but I'm sure eveyone else made up for their lack of support

Rollapalusa makes you ill!

it was good wasn't it.
excellant work boys and girl organisers. 8)

Brilliant, thanks to all those who organised it, and marshalled. My first and won't be my last.

Thanks also for the Saturday ride as well

Some of the first edited photos. More to come tomorrow via Flickr

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First pub stop

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Second Pub Stop

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Pub bike park

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Ed and PostieRich, Ed wins

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Which were you?

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Beer stop

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Over The Bars

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The one and only Ton

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Chilling out

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Stars

and that beer was way to strong for soft southern shandy drinking ssers.
and tweed hats and clothing should be burned, hopefully on the twunts wearing it.......... 😉

A great weekend, could not fault any of it.
Course was techically harder than I expected, can anyone tell me how does it compare with previous ones?
Not complaining BTW, I enjoyed the laps, just interested whether that is the normal level.

Anyway well done to everyone, most specially well done to the organisers an absolutely brilliant job.

Yep, great weekend thanks to all for their hard work.
Rabbbit Man!

thanks gil, did your bike turn up? rickk, i thought drumlanrig was way more technical but both events were very good. who won it?

Harder than Hamsterley technically and assuming the Aviemore course was similar/same as the world champs course on a par with that.
I have to admit to walking down the new rock bit at the bottom of the cross cliff descent although that was flipping hard in disco shoes. Not on that bike or with my hands so close to my £5 and a puncture would have lost me it.

great weekend guys!

cheers to tim (or was it tom? no.33) for the loan of the rear QR after mine died

that SSUK special brew was indeed special brew...

john - i have that sign.... 😉

for next year i think the proposal was brechfa

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Saturday's ride

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That's looks brilliant...will try and get over for that next yr.
The course looked cool, and tavern time too, supreme.

Bit of a geeky observation this:
John Climber in yo 1st pic there's a nice Green DeKerf (I ride the same), it appears to running disc brakes on the back - how' that done?

That's looks brilliant...will try and get over for that next yr.
The course looked cool, and tavern time too, supreme.

Bit of a geeky observation this:
John Climber in yo 1st pic there's a nice Green DeKerf (I ride the same), it appears to running disc brakes on the back - how' that done?

Fantastic weekend all round.

Good company, good racing, good course. Good haribo as well 😀

2010 is down with us at Brechfa, S.Wales.
About 30 min past Afan.

Yeah, great weekend and well done to the organisers. Can't believe the rain stayed away in the end; I was waiting for the rain all today.

Fantastic weekend, my first SSUK and not my last. Good pub ride and entertainment, rollapoluza hurts and seems to slow down time, 25seconds never lasted so long 🙂 Course was superb, properly technical. Loved it. Thanks to all organisers. Think I'll have a rest from the bike tomorrow!

superb weekend folks and a great ride
the beer was briliant, but i only found out this evening that it was 6%
need to improve my dancing i think! yvonne and izzy loved it too (izzy was the littlun being ferried round in the trailer 🙂

Had a wonderful time, nice to see some familiar faces like tony and matt.

I'm knackered now- came 4th (same as last year, oddly, but the guys in 1st and 2nd were a bit fitter!) and could do with a sleep.

Looks good! And as I'm probably the only person who's interested: who won? 🙂

George bud then Mat page then me :0)

who won?

We all did 😉

2nd win for George! What about the girls?

the bike hiders did a good job, couldn't find mine for at least 5 mins!

George beat me in a sprint by a tyres width 🙂
Rode around both laps together, really enjoyed it.

Amanda won the womens.

Fantastic event, respect to the organisers for putting it all together.

Shame someone stole Gil's bike from the Marquee...

aye that was harsh

what was the fight all about?

Chapeau to the race organisers (and to Matt and George). Fantastic event and a really fun weekend.

Excellent job Gil, Ian, Jon, Mark and the others.

AMEN!

Great job gents. Thank you.

That new 853 Pace frame looked sweet too, did anyone take a pic of it?

What a brilliant event! Loved it - the band were great, the beer was great, the whisky burned (thanks Grant) and the hangover hurt. Best weekend I've had in ages.

That was also the closest race I've ever had - there was literally an inch in it between Matt and me.

The 29" wheels made the rough DHs so much easier than the 26" wheels I rode there at the NPS! I'm thinking 29er race bike for next year now...

Well done all,

GB

It was a fantastic weekend. I took my lad along and he really got in the swing of it - he rode my spare SSer ( a bit), drank until he was sick and won the 'least hairy chest' contest! If anyone has a pic of that I'd appreciate it.
Brilliant course, great organisation, dry weather(!!), marvellous venue and met some real characters. Spot on from start to finish.
Things I learned :
The boy can't drink
Dalby is a lot better than I gave it credit for
Rollapalooza really is painful

Sal was second in the ladies and disappeared for a good half hour to get patched up by the paramedics after the finish due to her first lap fall.

She seemed to have an arm strapped up inside her jacket, nothing serious I hope...?

Does anyone know what time the race started?