H.T.N. !

What time does the race start?
I’m really wanting to enter, but need to be back in York late afternoon!

What time does the race start?
I’m really wanting to enter, but need to be back in York late afternoon!

10am, done by 12, York ~ 2pm.

Oh bollocks I’ll enter too

My 1st n only race.

Can I use an ebike or does anyone have a livestrong wrist band and a telephone number of an Italian doctor…

10am, done by 12, York ~ 2pm

Sounds good to me!

I’m in!!!

….
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Do I still need to think myself accurs’d if I’m in Belgium? 😥

Just ‘hold your manhood’ between 10 and about half 12.

I’ll have to take the piss out of someone else in the car park though.
😐

Why Belgium?
Picking up some Wiggo biscuits?

Do I still need to think myself accurs’d if I’m in Belgium?

No

Saint Crispin’s day.

Is the 25th October

Yeah, factually.

But it doesn’t scan if you change it to ‘The day before Mothers Day’.

What is the Flemish for ‘pot Belge’ btw?

I’ve entered but my receipt said it wasn’t a guaranteed acceptance of entry into the event.

Binners- you can’t have been far behind me in the last one- I came 194th!

I’ve entered but my receipt said it wasn’t a guaranteed acceptance of entry into the event.

All BC entries say that. You’ll get another email that says you’ve been automatically accepted by the organiser.

Thanks cp 🙂

10am, done by 12,

Waiting for snowplow ~ 2pm.

Why Belgium?

It is at least a cycling trip. Work gang usually to to the Tour of Flanders and associated sportive, but this year it’s a week earlier for the Gent Wevelgem and Harelbeke E3. Shared bedrooms, so any manhood holding will have to be done in the bog.

I’ve put an entry in

I’m in

Entry submitted, so I’m in.

Right, so before I enter, am I going to either die or come last by a long and embarassing distance?
I’m 15 stone (BMI around 28), not massively fit and never raced before so not going to be hugely fast and probably going to be stopping for a rest (or five) at some point!
Please tell me I’m not alone and the majority of you are entering as a social piss about? 😯

reckon you’ll fit right in – there will be proper fast folk and there will be proper slow folk, and a lot of folk in between. That’s partly what makes these such great events – real inclusivity!

from the horses mouth….

The aim was to stage an event that would appeal to everyone from Nick Craig to Tony The Electrician. All you needed was a bike, a helmet and a desire to get stuck in.

ciento 🙂

Please tell me I’m not alone and the majority of you are entering as a social piss about?

I’m going to be riding a comedy 29-plus clown bike with dynamo lights and massive mudguards, and will undoubtedly spend a fair portion of the race chatting and heckling Binners instead of pedalling properly. There will be plenty of fast lads, but let them past and they’ll not mind – grid yourself at the back with the rest of us donkeys and you’ll be fine. 🙂

yeah, it’s a social for a lot of us. one or two of the fast lads at the last race were dicks mind, and one ran me off the trail in the whoopy jumpy bit of the lower red loop in phillips park, but whatever, it’s a good day and since binners, rusty spanner and myself are all in you’re more or less guaranteed to not be last!

10am, done by 12, York ~ 2pm.

Unless he’s got a note from his mum excusing him, then the post ride beer and curry is compulsory

Thats last place sewn up then. Again!

one or two of the fast lads at the last race were dicks mind

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about them.

Remember, if you hear anyone yelling stuff like “Elite racer coming through!” that’s secret XCer code for “Stick a branch in my front wheel please.” 😉

I got lapped by Nick Craig, on my first lap, on the climb out of the stream.

He mumbled a resigned ‘For ****’s sake’ just behind me as I wobbled to a messy halt right on his line.
😀

Very civil in the circumstances, I thought.

Remember, if you hear anyone yelling stuff like “Elite racer coming through!” that’s secret XCer code for “Stick a branch in my front wheel please.”

No need for impoliteness at all.

Anyways, I’m in, firmly stuck in mid-pack if I’m lucky

He mumbled a resigned ‘For ****’s sake’ just behind me as I wobbled to a messy halt right on his line.

it was probably aimed at himself for not anticipating your wobble. And the fact he probably ended up with a wet foot.

I’m not complaining, I consider it an honour.
I thought he was a gent, considering.
🙂

nick lapped me at least 3 times, and smiled and asked if i was having a good time each time he did it. the lad’s the biggest gent in cycling, without a doubt.

Oh dear, I seem to have done something rash & entered this! Since I don’t want to have to get up at silly o’clock to get over from Chesterfield any local information on where to stay the night before?

The Church Inn, Prestwich. Home of the MNPR and venue of the original HTN brain fart storm back in 2006. It has B&B, is about a mile from the venue and if you ask them nicely I’m sure they will lock up your bike in a store room.

In other news, I can’t make it on the 25th and I’m gutted.

Oh dear, I seem to have done something rash & entered this!

It isn’t an experience that you will forget in a hurry… In a good way.

Right, that’s me signed up.
See you all there! I’ll be the confused and nervous looking first timer 😯

Fear not little one, the gnarled and grizzled old lags will help tutor you in the ways of righteousness

How old do you have to be to enter ? My son fancies it along with myself and was wondering how old you have to be ?
Anyone shed a little light on it ?

Fear not little one, the gnarled and grizzled old lags will help tutor you in the ways of righteousness

True, and in years to come you will meet a random cyclist on a distant hillside and exchange “the look”. Not a sound will be uttered, but you will both understand.

As old at minipips? He’s 11. and will do better than most here.

Better than most? Minipips is going to wipe the floor with 95% of the field!

Was trying not to crush everyones spirit so far in advance…

Me and my brother are in. 🙂