[Closed] Strathpuffer 24 - 2014 - who is in?

i'm soloing as well - a good excuse to eat chocolate for 24 hours if nothing else.

I like your style 🙂

have you done it before?

Im in for a solo

Yeahhhh no.

I do have some ice tyres to sell though 😉

nikk - i've done it four times now - once as a four, once as a duo and twice solo. great event and the atmosphere is what makes it 'fun'. the dawn lap is always a good one. have you done it before or is the first one?

Signed up as a pair. Have done it solo a few times. It's a great event whatever the weather. Snow/ice/mud just makes it all the more interesting!

24 hour race in Scotland in winter? **** off!

In as a pair, me teammate doesn't know yet 🙂

Our team name'll mean nothing, but Chipping Sodbury scout van'll be there again.

ittaika - this is my first time. You will be gentle now, won't you?

😆

Love to, I'm a local but am going to Orlando same date, aw well..........

Solo, SS, on fatbike.

nikk - worry not, i'll be gentle 😉 i'll bring enough chocolate for both of us if you like.

solo - SS fatbike? will keep a lookout! what are they like on ice - can you get huge spiked tyres or do you just run a really low pressure?

banks - is this their christmas present?

We are in a quad again this year.

"Thats not a shed, this is a shed"

I'm in, solo too. NW, I may be interested in taking those tyres.

Nobeer - me and Robin are both doing the solo. Have you sorted out a pit crew? Funnily enough no one seems keen.

I'm in as a pair with Cynic-Al. I think I'll take the fat bike too, but maybe get some skinny ice spikers just in case...

Cynic Al better hurry up and get his new frankenframe to me for welding soon then! 😉

Tomd - Hadn't really thought about a pit crew, So many other things to think about. Campervan, generator and heating are the priorities atm!. I'll see you tonight if you're going to AGM Tom?.

camper van - for solo. what are you a poof ?

dont even bother with a tent would be my advice - if theres no where warm to curl up then riding your bike to keep warm suddenly looks a great prospect.

I think the 'Puffer is his motivation 😉

I've been down with the cold Nobeer and missed my latest event deadline. Shouldn't be long now though.

trail_rat - Member
camper van - for solo. what are you a poof ?

says the man who has 3 other 'poofs' riding with him 😀

meh - wont ever surpass my previous attempts at solo so retired from that on a high 😉

I'm in, woo 🙂

No idea how I'll hold up to getting back into training...or trying to ride for 24hrs, but hey, it's always fun!

Any idea when the entry list of who's entered is available?. Need to see who got in from some local clubs.

It's up now.

I'm in too, singlespeeding and feeling the urge to use the fat bike 🙂

It's not the fat on my bike that'll be an issue....

I'm in with a quad, 3rd year running now.

Looking forward to it, good crack!

I'll be bringing this up for warmth and cooking duties-

[URL= http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a333/boff1979/stove/IMG_20130328_075923.jp g" target="_blank">http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a333/boff1979/stove/IMG_20130328_075923.jp g"/> [/IMG][/URL]

breadcrumb - that stove is awesome! did you make it yourself?

Cheers, yeah I made it, it has a couple of metres of stainless steel chimney too. Borrowed one for last years puffer and melted my trainers, great for cooking too.

We used a dustbin incinerator and a heap of my fire wood last year- what a differance to moral at 4 am knowing you had warm shoes to put on - and dry shoes from them sitting steaming for a couple hours infront of the stove

🙂

Yup, a bit of warmth goes a long way in those circumstances. Just got to make sure someone is feeding the fire at all times!

I'm riding it for the 1st time in a quad, with a team of roadies... 😯

which cats still have spaces?

Just the quads, solo and pairs all sold out.

I'm doing it for the first time, in a pair. I'm kind of looking forward to it.

Does anyone know when the entry for the puffer lite opens?

if its ever run again .....

lak of interest in a very competitive time of year means its been shit canned for the last couple years 🙁

Ah that sucks... I can't make the 24 hour one due to uni exams so I was hoping to do the lite version instead.

Bumping this thread again.

Can anyone tell me about the brake pad thing?

[img] [/img]

I can't get my head round the stories of people going through pads every 2 laps.

Does this happen to EVERYONE? or it is a case of poor brake setup / wrong pad compound / low quality pads falling off their backing?

When we can normally get 1000 miles out of a set of pads, how are they getting all used up in 14?

Am I really going to have to buy 10+ pairs of pads? Looking at £120 for that...

The last 2 years I've got through on one set of sintered pads (7 laps & 9 laps). Suffered from pad munching on the second year the event ran though.
The only noticable difference was when my pads got munched it was pissing it down & cold compared with cold & damp when they didn't.

It is very abrasive, I'd recommend sintered pads prebedded in before you go. I done about 8 laps as a quad on one set of pads, might of got another lap out of them if I was lucky.