Rickon don’t forget I’ll be wanting a few hot laps out of you on the sat as well as your sunday solo. You’ll be getting a bash of your own encouragement stick if you’re not careful! 😀

also bike, car and toolbox now pimped with loco tuning stickers…

Just seen that the campsite is now closed until 4pm as they’re getting some trackway delivered. Sorry Graham, no donuts for you this weekend.

Those of you moaning that the SS category has been combined with the old blokes cat – it was always like that

Not so much moaning but disappointed. I mainly ride SS and so like to race in the SS category but if there aren’t enough entries to constitute a race then I agree there’s no point in having the Cat.

Don’t mind racing in Old Gits Cat, I am 48 after all! 😉

Weather update Mr Rickon. Is it safe to leave my sofa?

the campsite’s closed until 4 due to ‘a big brown mess’ accordign to twitter. I’ll assume it’s mud…

Uh oh guess I won’t leave quite yet then…..

What is the twitter feed??

Yes I read that as “campsite closed until 4pm to do a big brown mess” too. Little things…

For anyone thinking about leaving soon, news from the site:

“Anyone attending Bristol Bike Fest, the campsite will be closed until at least 4pm as they’re getting tracking delivered to make the currently inaccessible swampy campsite a bit less so.”

Weather update Mr Rickon. Is it safe to leave my sofa?

Biblical.

Really? In a 12 hour race? Because you lost a few seconds!?

Yup, in the 12 hour, not getting clear on the first lap is worth a lot of time due to the bottle necks. In Oktoberfest I finished 10th in the solo, 14th to 7th was separated by something like 15 minutes at the end I recall, I was nursing a twisted ankle so jogged the run and didn’t cut the corner, easily cost me the 7 minutes to 7th place for sure.

On the awful wet 2009 bogfest, I was stood waiting to cross the bridge on the first lap when the fastest teams were coming round on lap 2 and pushing through.

BTG pirate ninja checking in. Quite excited as I haven’t done BBF before. I’m guessing it may be a new experience for a lot of us to ride a whole lap of AC without stopping for a natter every ten minutes.

Supersaiyan – doing any riding without stopping every now and again for a chat or to catch your breath is a massive difference.

Also getting caught up in the “race” spirit and trying to catch other riders kills me everytime. Id happily ride all day, but when it comes to Bikefest Im done after one lap 🙂

BBF website says campsite shut until 1700 ….you will be turned away if you arrive before that.

So they’ll help us get to the campsite, then we’ll get stuck! 😕

Nah I think they are laying down tracking to make the “roads” .. who knows guess we’ll find out around 5pmish!

Can I be the first to coin the name Bristol Bogfest? (EDIT: too late. By 4 years)

Oh well, dry course, muddy campsite, as a soloist that’s just more incentive not to stop!!!

I only live an hour away* so will be driving in and leaving Saturday night after the race. I’m sharing a camping spot with friends in the main field who are camping, but don’t want to get the car stuck on Saturday night….

Therefore if anyone can report back ‘live’ on conditions in the main field and in the rugby club (no point resorting to parking over there if I still need towing out), that would be great.

*At 6am on a Saturday, with liberal interpretation of the speed limit on the M4

First race since a national championship in ’98

I think I might suffer a fair bit. Overtaking seems different to what I remember in the good old days

First time in the 12hr solo tomorrow, have no idea why I’ve been so stupid! Changed tyres twice already this week and still not sure what to ride, plus it sounds like we’ll be sleeping in a lake.

The joys of mountain biking 😀

soooooo beavers or renegades?

Swampthings.

It’s 90% stone singletrack and doubletrack, and it dries out bloody quickly. The start finish straight might be an issue but otherwise don’t run mud tyres of any sort. Something like Ralphs will be ideal, I promise.

I’m running Bonty 29-1s, I’m a local and I ran these all winter too.

yep, just switched back to my Renegade/FastTrak combo, I remember the new sections from last year, but wasn’t too sure about the natural sections,

cheers Gary

It’s now all like the new section from last year 🙂