Gutted I missed it - suffering with manflu and feeling rough so stayed in bed! Was really looking forward to dry racing for once!
I rode yesterday. First one in a couple of years due to lots of surgery and injuries. Was so nice to be involved again. Really enjoyed the course.
Well done masterdabber, that was a good result.
the badly damaged stunt car
I did a practice lap on the Saturday with Natrix Junior and we had a look at the car. Apparantly there were three identical cars, but the crashed one had to be kept in its original crashed condition for continuity (they were paranoid about cyclists / passers-by writing their name in the dirt or something). Don't know what they would have done if it had rained and washed it clean.
Well done masterdabber, that was a good result.
the badly damaged stunt car
I did a practice lap on the Saturday with Natrix Junior and we had a look at the car. Apparantly there were three identical cars, but the crashed one had to be kept in its original crashed condition for continuity (they were paranoid about cyclists / passers-by writing their name in the dirt or something). Don't know what they would have done if it had rained and washed it clean.
Thanks @Natrix... btw, just for absolute clarification the masterdabber I referred to was our son .... not me.
Interesting about the car. When we there on Sunday we walked past the car and wondered what the person sitting in another car (not a stunt car) was doing a few meters away. Presumably guarding the crashed car.
also, the police car that was just ahead of you as you went over the bridge (and then visible again in the flat singletrack section a few minutes later)... was that a police officer guarding the set, or was it a car used in the filming?
Couldn't tell if there was anyone sat in it.
The police car was there on Saturday as well, I assumed that it was used in the filming as most film sets have their own private security. They often have private ambulance and/or fire engines on standby, but I've never seen a police car before. (Not even when they were filming a zombie film at Minley - just imagine if the zombies broke free of the set and roamed the local area!!!!!)
When I rode over there on Thursday I had to avoid the various area closures but did end up riding through their compound down at the bottom near the fields. There was a police car in there parked up but I never saw any actual police.
I've no idea if this embed of video will work or not given the current status of the forum but here goes....
Btw, not the greatest bit of video as my GoPro 8 kept freezing video (not audio though) and I lost a load of footage I thought I'd recorded.
OK, so embed didn't work.... how do I do that? Anyone?
Did anybody race the Gorrick Spring Series on Sunday? Great weather and a cracking course 😎
Nice course, nice weather. I did well for about 1:05 of my 1:10 race, couldn't quite keep it up for the end and ended up quarter of a minute off the group I had been with. Up until that point I dont think I had been more than 10m away from someone either ahead or behind for the entire race - XC is more fun with others!
One tiny bit of mud on the entire course, which inevitibly ended up on my bottle mouthpiece.
I'd been over there with the Gorrick team over the last couple of weeks doing some trail maintenance.... some resurfacing plus drainage, so that plus some dry weather made for nice conditions. I'd ridden the course back last Thursday and thought it was really nice.... I liked the new "downhill dippy" bit that came into play after the initial uphill climb. By the time of the race it had bedded in a lot.
Dabber, I think I saw your video on youtube. Pity you can't improve the drainage at Swinley..................
Yep, I was there, struggling in the vet + cat! What a beautiful day, and the course was great - the Strava trace shows just how many trails get squeezed into that space!
I didn’t eat properly and racing at midday didn’t suit me at all, properly bonked out of energy, didn’t complete the 4th lap which was disappointing, but loved the racing… Some nice official photos too
