Any news on SSUK 2014

It was indeed.

i reallly enjoyed the booing of the geared riders during the bike wang.

i wondered what they made of it.

Especially as it was right after everyone was being really nice and polite:

“No, please come through, we’ll be ages here, seriously. Come on, everyone, let these guys through”

“BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

By the way, who won the raffle? I had to leave early you see.

Me 😀

Great weekend, cheers boys!

I had a really bad start- Rocketdog’s photos nicely capture me wandering around trying to find my bike. After that I had a great race with DrP and Jules. They both had a bit more power than me but I could plod back at them and, ahem, shoulder barge them out the way on the fast bits (sorry Jules). I blew on the last lap, but I think the order was fair. Nice to see Student Dave won on a bike that cost less than his shoes.

Really quite chuffed with myself having designed, built, painted, assembled and then raced my bike.

My highlight was being confused with Shaggy, bloke would not believe my protestations,

him” no you are him, you were really fast”

Me “no mate, you so don’t know me if you think that”

Fame was cool if only for a fleeting moment 8)

Top weekend much thanks to tazzy, keef and everyone else who helped make it so good. A full weekend of riding trails that are completely different to the type of stuff we have back home. Friday night ride was a good laugh too, dunno if chaz and chums are on here but cheers guys.

May I be the first to say, nice course boys (even if the drop did take me 3 attempts).

think I saw a pic of you checking out the line 🙂

Nice to meet some more stwers there. GWS dawson.

FIFY

you were really fast and ugly

🙂

I’ve ridden that drop loads of times & still get that sphincter tightening feeling, it’s more the 90° right at the bottom that’s the problem

FIFY
you were really fast and ugly

It’s the reason for the beard, imagine how awful I’d be without it! 😯

Great pics Rocketdog..
Not me, but “uh oh…”!!

DrP

Not much travel left on my forks here!!

DrP

aa – Member
i reallly enjoyed the booing of the geared riders during the bike wang.

Ha ha. That was me and Mrs Digga. We thought it was funny too. Glad you stopped wanging bikes down the trail for long enough to let us through. 😀

We’re local, so were just out on a ride and decided to drop by to see (singlespeed) friends at the campsite and tell people to keep the noise down 😉 (we’re the site’s nearest neighbour in one direction).

Looked a bloody good event anyway. Top marks to Taz & Keef.

Oh, was that u in the flowery wife beater Dr P? The trees left their mark on you didn’t they 🙂

Not me, but “uh oh…”!!

He’s folded the tyre right over, presumably terminally if it’s tubeless. The pitfalls of low tyre pressure.

Camera doing a stunning job of de-gnarrifying the trail there 🙂

Oh, was that u in the flowery wife beater Dr P? The trees left their mark on you didn’t they

Indeed it was, and indeed they did!
Slight graze on the knee, larger one on the right shoulder…that’s what happens when you take the racing line a bit too close!!

DrP

Digga,

I think you took it better than the 3 blokes who stumbled across the mess shortly after!! 😆

Does anyone want to buy my ssuk14 hat?

I’d have to shave off a quarter inch of my head for it to fit….

aa – Member
Digga,

I think you took it better than the 3 blokes who stumbled across the mess shortly after!! Yea, but be fair, they didn’t have my Mrs to back them up.

Camera doing a stunning job of de-gnarrifying the trail there

Indeed!
It wasn’t particularly difficult, but it’s one of those dodgy-looking drops with a few line choices, that can lead to a refusal if you don’t go straight down without thinking too much about it!

Agreed. And yes DONK that’s me thinking “have to do it, can’t let this beat me…”

It’s the undercut half way down that always worries me

AA

What size is your head? I’d be interested if the hat is normal size.

* Not trying to imply you have a large melon. 😉

I find the hat a bit small too. Normal sized head AFAIK.

And I agree re the drop. I finally followed a mate down it on lap 4 and it was easy, barely noticeable. I can be a bit of a mincer though.

Ta very much to the riders and organisers for a great event.

It was so nice to chill in a rain free campsite with a pint, chatting about bikes.

That first band, what were they on? And what were they playing?

Would have liked more of: showers, curry

Brilliant weekend, top marks to tazzy and keef for putting on such a great event..

Must say the guy on the black and lime green carbon niner made the bombhole (er climb) look easy on every attempt..

Bigblackshed.

7and a half in old money.
60cm in new fangled units.
its not exactly john merrick-esque

Must have been a good event – I got round to writing my ‘race report blog‘ within 3 months of finishing the event…!

DrP

Nice write up DrP, and thank you for the gear ratios interesting, I was geared almost identical to Jules. Nice speaking to you as well Shaggy later that afternoon, very impressive frame for a home build.

AA.

Sent you and email.

can I just point out, only the pics In my posts are mine, all the race ones I seem to be credited with were taken by Lindsay Smith https://www.facebook.com/lindsaymollisonsmith

here’s my effort on the drop, again taken by Lindsay

Running the same gear as you DrP – think I’ve worked out I was 6th back to the tent – need to ride or drink better next time 😉

I forgot to tighten my seat post camera mount so have lots of race footage of my water bottle 😳

Cheers RocketDog…royalties forwarded on to the right person!
DrP

Nice blog entry DrP.
That was my first SS gathering and I wasn’t sure what to expect (of the race part at least!).
I thought I’d see how it went and how I was feeling before deciding how to tackle it, but once we were off I had to give it my best shot really. Pretty pleased with myself, despite a last lap crash, when tiredness was setting in. 🙄
The course was pretty good fun – even the sections that were mis-routed and ran anti instead of clockwise ran o.k. The one bit that killed me (oddly) was the long straight top section coming back to Tackeroo from climbing out after the steep drop. I just couldn’t seem to get back up to speed there. I guess my legs were heavy from the climb and rollercoaster bits.
Look forward to another SSUK event in the future!

The one bit that killed me (oddly) was the long straight top section coming back to Tackeroo from climbing out after the steep drop

me too! everylap I flew down the trail toward the drop and everylap I struggled getting back.
imperceptibly uphill? Very slight headwind? Could be from the climb I guess, dunno but that bit hurt.

Its a very slight incline with slightly spongy stuff under the sandy gravelly bits It always feels like you have the wrong ratio or wrong legs on that bit! 😀

It sure does!

Where is this drop?

I’m not man enough for single speed yet. But I saw a few of your lot round the trails over the weekend, wanted to come and hang out, but the wife wouldn’t let me.

Re: that bit mentioned up there…
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me then.

How many times did people get hit in the helmet by that branch on the fast two lane trail towards the drop?

It was the bollox, start to finish, just a shame I bumped into singlespeedstu again 🙂 😀 oh and my dogs loved it too.

Took the pussy route option as there was no queue for that bit on the first lap but it was worse than the drop