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Who are you following?
Team JMC/One On should be strong in the solos
Jason Miles (Terrahawk)
David Powel (Twinklydave)
Andrew Burgess
Phil Simcock
Guy Martin is up there too.
Kick off is at 10:00am tomorrow.
6 hours (nearly)
1st Dave Powell
3rd Phil Simcock
4th Jason Miles
13th Andrew Burgess
Just watching Jojo really this year...
Any way of finding out team members? I'd like to see who's running for Icycles.
Also, anyone know what team celebrity sideburn wearer, barge owner and occasional motorcyclist Guy Martin's in?
JMC are smashing it, 3 riders in the top 4.
On the live results what's the time on the side for?
Elapsed time to the end of the last completed lap.
Budge up to 10th. 4 JMC in the top 10!
Budge is carrying a camera for the BBC. It will be on The Adventure Show. They were all interviewed yesterday and by their own admission were a bit ****.
Drew Thomson. Been training like a man possessed since august, and he's 3 laps behind. I can't imagine how fast these guys in the lead are. 😯
Dave is due a big win. He's been in the top 3 at just about every 24hour over the last few years.
Jason is riding it single speed. 😯
Seems to be riding fast this year. Wonder how the times will go when it cuts up more later.
Go Jojo!
The lads from Cooksons Cycles (Shaun & Chris I'm guessing) are in the lead outright and pairs.
Exciting innit - course wet and slippy now
Northwind - I-Cycles is Steve and Keith
Cheers Diane. Took Steve months to stop complaining about trashing his bike last time, wasn't sure if he'd be there again 😆
jojo sitting second still and munrobiker (i think) and simplyoliy of this parish going well in pairs
biugalus - what team is ollie in?
We were up for a look and walked the course. The conditions are quite good really.
There are some fast times this year.
@ teej don't know the name but third in pairs hexham bike shop and 2pure
C'mon Gronk, 2 seconds between 2nd and 3rd after nearly nine hours.
Pity Alex Slaven wasn't there.
Go Jo!
Come on Jojo & Devs. 😀
8)Come on Jojo & Devs.
Not forgetting epicyclo on his fat race bike
:salute: 8)
9 hours.
JMC / On-One soloists
1st Dave
2nd Phil
4th Jason
11th Budge
No tweets from any of them or their crew. I guess they are busy.
4 minutes covering 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Dave yu stunning man, hope he gets this one, deserves it.
jase, SS and that close...this is going to be interesting
Gronk is back into second. 'Puffer virgin.
Did Dave stop for a pie & a pint? Sure he was much further ahead than that a while back.
He dropped 10 mins on lap 13.
JMC are 1st, 2nd & 3rd!
Dave, Phil, Jason.
"Not forgetting epicyclo on his fat race bike"
Here he is, it isn't that sharp, but I was in a bit of a rush when I recognised the bike.
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Should that not read
"Not forgetting epicyclo on his fat 'race bike' "
😀
Seriously cool looking freak bike
Just wait until sun stroke sets in
its all wrong with no snow and ice
A Tweet from the JMC pits
[b][i]6 hrs in and all is well 🙂 tv crew caught me smoking whilst fitting Dave's lights oops[/i][/b]
😀
More from the front
[b][i]Tweets are coming through now, Dave's had an off and it's eating a meal, Phil 1st, jase 2nd[/b][/i]
'Mon Gronk!
Gronk and Gronkette out on a training ride. legend in the making.
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C'mon icycles in the pairs.
Jojo looking good as well.
Hmmm go mona and jo dig in for the night
Watching live timing makes it all seem so nice and easy...not my memory of it at all!
come on the fife boys, simon & gronk.
1. Terrahawk
2. Phil
3. Gronk
6. Twinklydave
12. Budge
Epic stuff!
The Cooksons boys have just been interviewed by the BBC. This particular episode of The Adventure Show is going that have a very North West feel to it.
Twinklydave out. Rode off a bridge and squashed himself. 😐
He's alive and tweeting from the pits.
Muppet . Get angela to get him going with a restoritive cup of tea
Props to The Bike Shop Hexham/2 Pure chugging along in 3rd in pairs.
well done the fifers.
24 minutes between first and third after 13 hours and 17 laps, it'll go down to the wire.
Not necessary. The race is only just starting...
Anybody else loving how the team with the most laps is actually a pair??
GO Team Cooksons Cycles!! and thanks for petrol last year 😉
2 1/2 hours to go.
Solo
1st Phil Simcock
2nd Ewan Gronkowski
3rd Luke Morris
6th Jason Miles
15th Andrew Bugress
Overall (and leading Pairs by 3 laps)
Cookson Cycles
From Twitter it looks like Jason has had some time in the pits but got bored and went back out again and Dave is sleeping off his injuries.
Gronk, 23 laps - 21 hours in, our man is 20 minutes down in second. His last couple of laps have clawed back about fifteen minutes. For a first timer in any endurance race that is good going.
Single ladies are flying too. Go Mona, Go Jo!
Tweet from @oneblackdot running 4th in pairs.
[b][i]Freehub went kaputt on that lap, along with any chances of catching 3rd (don't think we would have anyway Guy Martin is on it!)[/b][/i]
absorbing battle between jo and kate - well done the both of you!
must have been tough i the night for some - that one heck of a lot of laps the top teams have done
yes, i look at those totals and it makes me even more depressed about my previous performances!
that one heck of a lot of laps the top teams have done
Top team are all under 15!
In case it comes up as a Trivial Pursuit question. What is the record for solo laps? Who was the rider?
it wisnae me!
Well done to all who took part. We were up to watch and take photos for a while in the afternoon/evening.A few video a and stills here
1st for Phil and for Cooksons!
Top effort from everyone.
Well done Drew T! 6th - awesome!.
Nice footage Mrs Hoover
Props to Huw Oliver and Ollie Young in 2nd in the Pairs- 31 laps, that's more than Cooksons won with last year. Either they were going at it like the clappers or the weather was better. Anything over the magic 24 laps in an hour is astounding.
Well done to all my fellow competitors - awesome fitness, skills and commitment. My first-ever MTB event (at 47) which I only found out I was doing a week ago when a (so-called) friend pulled out of a quad with an injury. My total lack of MTB skills told a bit but I loved (almost) every minute of it. No injuries or damage - result.
Would you do it again?
I did the Puffer a few years ago and we had quite good weather, if you could be sure of weather like this week-end, I think I would do it again, but if we had weather like the last two winters then forget it.
It was great to have a walk round the course yesterday, the Puffer has a really good atmosphere.
Very 'clement' weather in terms of mildness and lack of precipitation. Ground wetness made bitsof the course cut up quite badly. The potholes of slurry/gravel that appeared on the fast descent took me by surprise.
Epic ride for me. My lights played up on one lap and I rode by the full moon in the open and other people's lights in the woods. A bloke kindly yelled "jump!" at me on all the wee water bars on the descent when I asked if I could tail him for the benefit of his light.
An upsetting too-many-gels 'Paula Radcliffe' moment out on the course coincided with the middle of a lap where I had a hard otb in a wheelstopper and my freehub decided to play "guess when I'm going to engage". A bit of a weep at the indignity of it all, a baby-wipe shower, fresh clothes, a bastardised bike, some real food, some immodium and a kip later, I was good to go again.
My pit crew, Roberta, druidh and graham went above and beyond the call of duty to get me through to 10am today.
....you really didn't need to know some of that, did you?... My head, body and two bikes are sh*gged, I just don't care anymore! *rocks gently in a corner*
Well done Jojo.
I was following your laps times. cracking performance. Nails!
Would i do it again? If I was put in the same situation again, I would.
I did it this year because I've spent the last 14 months helping my 14 year old son through cancer. After that, I feel like I take take on anything - I can't imagine anything tougher (the Puffer is obviously a walk in the park in comparison). The Puffer was a great atmosphere - very friendly - had a chat with people on my way round and got cheered on.
Well done Jo, & well done to your pit crew 😀
I should add that anyone who was wondering what the Doug Stewart memorial trophy was - Doug was a close family friend (colleague of mine, husband of my wife's beSt friend, father of my kids' friends) who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the day my son's cancer was diagnosed. His son was in my quad. Things like that drive you on
Sounds ace 😐
But respect to all who took part 🙂
Mebbe I need to take part in such things to see the attraction...
A cracking puffer. Done it 3 times solo but never again.* Did it as a quad and got on good coming 8th, quite happy with that.
Conditions were really pretty good considering the weather here recently. Experiencing parts of the track actually getting drier in the wind around 1-5am was definately a first for me.
The big muddy slither down from the swivel seat was great fun and the braking bumps down from view rock on the last descent were interesting on a rigid bike at speed.
Ridiculously awesome results from the top guys as usual, and a top effort from epicyclo dragging his monstrosity round ten times 😯
Time for bed.
*probably
14 laps in 23.42 for me. Didn't have the stomach for a last one and it would have made very little difference to my standing. Great event. I think I have exorcised my solo demons now and won't feel like doing it again. Maybe a quad.
What an evil, nasty, brutal, horrible race. Kinda enjoyed it, but a bit silly to attempt as my first ever 24.
The guy riding for Cooksons Cycles on a Lapiere hardtail was an absolute monster.
That was the most technically difficult and enjoyable 24hr course I've ridden. It was absolutely brilliant, although my back, neck and arms are killing me today as a result! Anyone know how long a lap was?
The fireroad climb was another matter entirely...
How Gronk put in a fastest lap only a second slower than the fastest ovverall I will never know!
Congratulations to everyone, I had an amazing weekend!
who do i bribe to get a solo place next year?
I got a reserve place. And then I got offered another reserve place 2 weeks later. Didn't get on the list till really late either, so I'd say it's definitely worth getting on it even if you miss an entry.
iDave - Memberwho do I bribe to get a solo place next year?
You need to apply as soon as the application line is open - takes a few minutes to sell out
someone will probably give yo an accurate figure but IIRC between 6.5 and 7 milesBrown Anyone know how long a lap was?
I measured it at 11km last year and it didn't change that much this.
mcmoonter,
What's that set up with gronk and nipper being towed - looks like part of a Bo Yak or copy with modifications - do you know?
My daughter has a 24" wheel Isla Bike and it's too big to be towed with a Trail Gator, but that looks like a posible solution.
That was the most technically difficult and enjoyable 24hr course I've ridden. It was absolutely brilliant, although my back, neck and arms are killing me today as a result! Anyone know how long a lap was?The fireroad climb was another matter entirely...
I'm glad you said that about it being technically difficult. As a total novice, I thought it seemed quite tough for an endurance race but I have nothing to compare it with.
As for the fire road climb, that's where I passed everybody (apart from the surface, it's not a million miles different from my commute) - then I'd let them back past as I was fighting the rocks! It's my upper body that's taken a battering - the swelling on my wrist as gone down thankfully.