Hit the North – Provisional start list and course photos.

Harry_the_Spider – Member

Not everyone is a great photographer

Cheeky bleeder.

Methinks the lady chap doth protest too much, you could have quoted the bit about not bothering to stop on the ace singeltrack 😉

bet it don't look that good at weekend, spot of rain forecast, hopefully heavens won't open properly until sunday.

Race Event day should be dry.

Could do with a spot of rain to bed the course down else the people at the back will see nowt for dust 🙂

Peter Poddy Festival of Mountain Bicycle and General Awesome

I believe that's in a couple of weeks! Now it has a name! Yay!

LOL!! Now I know what FredBoy was on about earlier. Superb!

Made my day, that!

Is Fred back amongst us?

Is Fred back amongst us?

I doubt it, but you never know….. 😉

There's been 'conversation' behind the scenes, shall we say, relating to this thread and other planned MTB events… One of which I dare not speak the name of. 8)

That would be the Big Bike Bash then?

There. Said it. Don't care. 😉

Myself and Nick have discussed toilets and such in the past.

**looks left and right**

Err, maybe….. Who's asking? 😉

Is it secret? Until the middle of June we thought HtN was judging by the entries!

Now however it will be massive and impressive like this.

Like the Taj you say? I wouldn't argue with that.

Indeed, I don't even know how to start! 😉 🙂

Like the Taj you say?

Yep. But with berms.

"What iz thaat you say? A berm? A BERM!?!?"

No, no, no. Not a berm. A balm. It is very expensive.

❓

I may well be mis-quoting The Life of Brian. 🙂

EDIT: Hopelessly so. I had entirely forgotten that a balm is a dangerous animal

Ahh. Never seen it, sorry……

It's not funny. 😉

Just got back from a morning dropping flyers at bike shops around the New Forest and found this thread.

Great news that it is all go. I know there were worries and as said earlier HTN and BBB have been talking previously and sharing advice. No issues between us.

I think a few southerners are surprised by the difference in treatment from STW when threads are posted up here. I did go a 'little' over the top last year but was inspired by the HTN blanket coverage. I have deliberately reduced the level of BBBing this year but threads and posts still seem to disappear.

It is STW play ground so we just have to live with their decisions. Long live HTN, long live STW, please live BBB

I hope the Ladies Loos are not 'Bog standard'.
Thick velvety loo roll, padded throne and baby pink walls are this years must for the female race goer. After all we do spend more time in the powder room than the boys.

You will have exclusive use of the ladies and the disabled loos on the site. Proper ones that flush, not your building site type TARDIS jobs.

Bring your own paper if you are fussy.

Breaking News – Following criticism of the HtN photos the team from BBB have appointed PeterPoddy as official photigrapher!

Come to the BBB to enjoy the weekend and then judge how well PP managed to capture the spirit.

If anybody wants to criticise our marking out technique please feel free as we’ve got the best part of 300 arrows to put up on Friday and I’d rather somebody else volunteered to do it. 😉

In fairness we haven't bombarded this forum for some years now, we only started a few threads on here when the event was threatened by apathy.
granted our relentless bombardment of the forum in 2008 perhaps caused the rules to be tightened anyway, but hey ho.

I don't think we get or have ever had any preferential treatment.

I did go a 'little' over the top last year but was inspired by the HTN blanket coverage. I have deliberately reduced the level of BBBing this year but threads and posts still seem to disappear.

I'm afraid this has quite a lot to do with why I dont want to attend WCA/BBB – I get fed up with references to it appearing on a lot of unrelated threads I read. Sorry 🙄

I do, however, wish you and the HTN team the very best for your respective events. Taking the time and effort to organise one is to be admired and commended.

lcj – I did a secret event earlier this year but you didn't turn up to that one either. It was almost as if you hadn't heard about it. I guess I can't win.

😉

Harry_the_Spider – Member

If anybody wants to criticise our marking out technique please feel free as we’ve got the best part of 300 arrows to put up on Friday and I’d rather somebody else volunteered to do it

We'll be up earlyish on friday, I'll give you a hand if it's not done by the time we arrive.

lcj – I did a secret event earlier this year but you didn't turn up to that one either. It was almost as if you hadn't heard about it. I guess I can't win.

I was at this secret event, but I was so secretive you didn't know.

In seriousness, you obviously did win because your event was very popular, it's just that your marketing technique put me off. Nothing wrong with that. You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time 8)

I can piss off most people most the time as well!

I wouldn't advertise that as an attraction at the BBB 😉

Let's keep you away from our fire eater then to avoid cancelling each other out.

nbt – Member

We'll be up earlyish on friday, I'll give you a hand if it's not done by the time we arrive.

I've been made redundant today so I'll be free on Friday, what time are you going to get there to start work?

Need a hand?

Sh1t!

We'll need some hands in the afternoon to help with the barriers and beer tent if anyone is free.

From what time?

Peter Poddy Festival of Mountain Bicycle and General Awesome
I believe that's in a couple of weeks! Now it has a name! Yay!

Even if the course turns out to be crap, the photos blurred, the beer tasteless and the organisation chaotic, the one thing you could guarantee with unwavering certainty is that an event with that title is bound to have good cake.

"put me back on my bike, burp"

2:00 ish

Even if the course turns out to be crap, the photos blurred, the beer tasteless and the organisation chaotic, the one thing you could guarantee with unwavering certainty is that an event with that title is bound to have good cake.

The Colossal Cake Caper ?

in true mancunian tradition….. it's p1ss1ng it down, lets hope it dries a bit in the next few days 🙂

Don'y worry there is a wet weather contingency that will swing into place.

I'm sorting train tickets out tomorrow, so will aim to get down for early afternoon to help out.