It’s rubbish give your ticket to me.

There’s not too much to know. Pump tyres up nice and high. Ingleborough will be great in this weather. There’s lots of false summits up to Whernside. If you are there the night before then the bottom of Penyghent is legal to ride up and down, test yourself out.

I was in but had to pull out due to injury. 🙁

OP you have practiced carrying your bike up a hill haven’t you? Its a bit late in the day to be deciding if a camelbak is good or not ?!?!

For what its worth I had to use a Camelbak. I ride a small frame and I couldn’t shoulder the bike with a bottle cage on, but you will know all this right? 😯

On the way up the first hill the bite valve caught on a bit of my bike and came out, the bladder then leaked out almost completely. I had actually super glued it in place for this year. I wasn’t the only person this happened to. Luckily I found the valve, another women didn’t !

I also got an mtb inner tube, cut it open and taped it to the underside of the top tube. You see people with pipe lagging etc on the tube, but an inner tube just stops the bike moving around on your shoulder, which IMO was more beneficial than padding.

Use the road ride from Ingleborough to Ingleton to refuel, its about the only rest in the whole route. Take on food and drink off Whernside. The road ride from Whernside to PyG is harder than you think and full of cars (support crews) driving like d!cks.

Coming off Whernside don’t just follow the path. Look for the sneaky tracks that the fast guys use.

Enjoy, its an amazing chance to ride your bike on some very nice hills, whilst absolutely killing yourself 😆

Ride with a gopro, then go and torch ’em later while they’re in the pub.

Make sure you have read and understood the rules and regs. NOTE the bit about being able to maintain disc brakes if you’re using them, this is my 1st time using discs for it so nearly missed it.(i’m taking it to mean carrying spare pads and the tools to change em)

No feed stops, only 1 water stop as listed in the regs.

13. BRUNSCAR DRINKS STATION
There will be a drinks station at Brunscar between Chapel-le-Dale and Whernside at the start of 20
metres of bridleway, where competitors must walk the 20 metres and ride again after the bridleway
(due to bridleway laws).

why is it too late to be deciding how he’s going to carry water?

hardly a show-stopper.

your original point/issue was that it was ‘late in the day’ to be considering it, which it isn’t. He’s got all week to sort himself out.

I found that a Camelbak made it easier to drink while trudging upwards. Each time I’ve done it, it’s been a battle against cramp more than anything else.

How much do you weigh? 60psi will be comfortable, but might put you at high risk of pinch flat….also depending on what tyres your using.

I’ll be there….marshalling 🙂

Carrying a bike up and down boggy hills isn’t really my idea of fun. Fair play to those who manage it though. I’ll be doing the foot version next year, if all goes well, which may sound even less appealing to many of you…

Warm and dry as anything right now with a week of the same to come, but I think the rain is forecast to arrive just in time for Saturday (still warm though). I’d have thought it will still be unusually dry underwheel.

Any supporters, have a look on the Three Peaks website, the rules download has been updated and they seem to have got much tougher on support vehicles including a ban on vehicles following the race route off Cold Cotes.

Good news I think, some of the driving (and associated cheating) I’ve witnessed in the past was getting way out of hand.

I get pissed off with all the cars. It’s a bike race FFS. I keep saying I’m going to run all our sheep from home down towards Austwick which can take 45mins.

Ggrrrrrrr !!!

C

The cold Coates thing has been in operation for at least 2 years. I marshalled near there 2 years ago and a farmer did get his sheep out on the road at an opportune moment. People were going mad. All a bit sad really.

I’m in favour of banning bike changes/wheels swaps etc. To me it should be carry the spares etc you think you need. Being able to change a bike or wheel is not very sporting or fair on those who can’t afford lots of spare kit. Plus it should be about rider skill to maintain their equipment and get it to the finish.

I’m torn on team support. The team support has come from the roots of the event in cross and road and is just part of the culture and been there years and years. You accept it when you sign up. The fast guys are properly good and deserve it too. But…. to anyone who has come from mountainbiking first it is a bit weird. Can you not ride round some hills for 4 hours with your own kit?

I`m not very good at the peaks at all but do have two cross bikes if the rules allow I will have support if they changed the rules then I would abide by them .I need all the help I can get

Number 640 starting on an old blue Kinesis ,but may end up on a bright orange Dave Lloyd

I achieved my PB in the 3 Peaks that year when it rained for months beforehand and was super-windy. The one where there was a lake near the bottom of Pen Y Ghent.
Happy days.

anyway, chuffed I’m not doing it this year!

yep. Mad isn’t it? I put it down to the bike I was riding rather than anything else.

Setting of now for a pint or two in the pub at Helwith Bridge then a night in the bunkhouse.
Good luck to everyone.