Enduro 6 results

Anyone?

I did shite

Cracking course though

iDave, do you know if it was the same or similar course as last year as that was a toughy doing it solo.

Didn’t do it last year. Lots of lovely singletrack, hills were OK too. My back seized up after 4 hours but I still had fun. Highlight for me was remembering I had Randoms in my back pocket.

The word on Twitter is that it was a 1-2 for Shaun and Chris from Cookson Cycles.

Great course, 6 laps solo, hot, dry, very dusty and a stuffed back limited my ride. No idea if it was the same as last year.

ace laugh, and all gruntable on big wheel singlespeed 😀

Cracking course for the big wheeled single speeders. Many thanks to Pop Larkin for the loan of a 20 tooth cog. Without it my back would be fine.

That was a cracking course, Singletrack-tastic! Needed a dust mask at points though! 🙂

good effort on the solo Picto, you looked like you enjoyed the leffe at the end 😀

if the chap with the on-one carbon 29er (grimey limey I think)reads this it was a teambeer EBB converter that should fit it not homebrewed components, they make nice chainrings Doh!

+1 on the fantastic course.

First time I’ve done it and as a pair we managed 11 laps. 6 for me and felt OK apart from a painful lower back, so might have to try an event solo at some point.

Great course and apart from some minor changes the course was much the same

Bike ride and beer a winning combination (the joy of not having to drive to/from the event. The thermal properties of a fleece jacket never cease to amaze, leffe was still cold. Did not dull the pain of the aching back though.

Rode as a single speed pair great day out.. think I saw you big wheel ss toward the end. Time for curry I think let’s hope it never rains at a race at catton again. Bring on sleepless.

It was a great course – Catton is brilliant in the dry. Let’s hope SITS is the same (and Mayhem).

GB

Thought I’d leave the Rohloff at home and give the singlespeed a go for a change.
Did a 32 minute practice lap on Saturday afternoon.
No chance of holding that pace for six hours, but if I could lap in <36 minutes I could get 10 laps in in under six hours and go out for an 11th.

First lap in 38 minutes, a bit slow because of the run.
By about half way through a few fastish laps put me 8 minutes ahead of schedule though.
After 7 laps the hills started getting steeper and I was walking more of them.
Out on my 10th lap and the creaking from my handlebars turned out to be them working loose. I wasted a couple of minutes stopping to tighten them and never made it back up.
I finished my 10th lap at 6:01:12, just missing out on an 11th.

7th/20 Elite Men
36th/136 solo men overall

The new Vegan Cyclist Race HQ. 😀

It’s steeper than it looks, honest. Especially on a 34×19.

Picto- glad to be of assistance ( I think!)
I had a very tough ride in Cannock with the family – half the blue route before the girls moaning became too much- give me back ache over ear ache any day!!

A nine lap solo for me. Had a painful last 5 laps when cramp kicked in. How painful is it!!!! Very stop start but its all part of the game.

63 Fun Male

Well done Andy, a full lap ahead in the Elite Men.

Great atmosphere thanks for a great day

Had a great one today pairing up with Tazzy doing the SS crew proud.

1st time i’ve done an event singlespeed and loved it.

Very tired after doing rollapaluza the night before in London and arriving at catton at 3am

Interested to see the lap times

Will these be posted on Provelo Support?

Also anyone know if pics (official or otherwise) are going to be online?

Millcar – what number were you?
My wife took some random shots of riders, i could check and see if you are one of them

MidlandTrailquestsGraham – interesting to see you rode in Elite. I did 11 laps in 6.26 (unlike you I just scraped in for that last one just before the clock!) However I rode in Fun and got 21st. Does that mean if I’d have ridden Elite I’d have got better than 7th?

Oh, and JohnOne72, was that you with Henry(?) next to me in the pits? (me riding an Anthem in XXCMag kit)

Great day, rode last year as a mixed pair with the wife, did 10 laps this year, 1 more than last year and got to top up my tan! Thanks to the wiggle boys for the lend of their bb tool (always forget at least one thing each time I race!). Looking forward to seeing the lap times, had to leave to get a pint before they put the final results up! 🙂

funny, my plan was identical to grahams. was fine until 6 laps in the left side of my back went all spacca

Anyone know what distance a lap was? We managed 11 laps as ss pair team mate had a hard time with cramp on his last couple of laps.

That was me vdubber67 next to you in the pits with Henry. How your legs today? Good luck with the 24 hour next week.

Soop

I was an asthmatic looking 75 🙂

There were a few snappers out with fancy looking photo type machines.

Vdubber, the categories are meaningless without any sort of BC style ranking system, that’s why I always quote my overall position rather than just my position in the Elite class.
I don’t really consider myself an elite rider, it’s just that I think of Fun Class as being for those who are either not really racing or are pot hunting. 😉

Soops, or anyone else, any pictures of number 10 wearing black & green kit please ?

Incidentally, did anyone notice who was last in the Fun Men Pairs class ? 😀

Best ignore the classes i reckon.one guy was placed in the fun tt and the elite enduro.

Fair play as both wereld a good effort!!

The guy I bought my singlespeed off came 2nd overall solo male at SITS last year.
He was racing in Fun Pairs yesterday for a proper sponsored team.
I asked him if he didn’t think he ought to be in Elite class and he said “No, I don’t hold a BC Elite racing licence”

10th (11 laps) in the Fun Solo Male for me, great event. I entered the Elite/Expert btw.

Photos anyone.

It said Expert not Elite on the prizes.
Either way, there’s always the same discussion after endurance races with arbitrary categories.

There isn’t a ranking system for endurance and there are plenty of fast people who don’t hold a BC license or race XC.

MidlandTrailquestsGraham – Member

Vdubber, the categories are meaningless without any sort of BC style ranking system, that’s why I always quote my overall position rather than just my position in the Elite class.
I don’t really consider myself an elite rider, it’s just that I think of Fun Class as being for those who are either not really racing or are pot hunting.

Fair play – now more importantly, have you got a gold chain on that SS of yours, or is it REALLY rusty!? 😉

have you got a gold chain on that SS of yours, or is it REALLY rusty!?

I thought that when i saw your bike in the pits!

@millcar “I was an asthmatic looking 75”

yeah but thats how you always ride! 😆 😆
and didn’t think you were that old

I was too busy shouting at people to get many photos. My Ixus compact isn’t great for action shots!

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Got a few photos of you Graham – your kit is easy to spot 🙂
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The only unidentified rider I got was 483, check photostream if that’s you 🙂

Results up here

Had a great weekend and boy was it dusty 🙂

Great atmosphere, finished 46th in mens pairs with a mate. I know the guys who finished first in mens pairs are pretty sh!t hot 😉

Can anyone tell me which official photographers were there other than rob crayton? I got some great shots of me, but my wife didn’t get any on his site 🙁 and i’m paying the price!

mtq – let me know if you want a copy