Can anyone explain the difference between Sport and Open? In a normal XC race sport is the more serious of the two and usually entails one more lap, whereas in the MM results Open appears to be quicker than Sport?

Also, looks like someone can’t spell Liam Kileen’s name…

Open at Mayhem is for teams that have at least one rider with an Expert or higher racing license. Sport is for teams without such riders.

Link to Rob Crayton’s photo site

http://www.robcrayton.co.uk/mountainmayhem2011.htm

Rider 1559 has just made my day, whoever you are.

“Open at Mayhem is for teams that have at least one rider with an Expert or higher racing license. Sport is for teams without such riders.”

Where did it make that clear in the info? We were enetered in the open section and decidedly amateur

Guy Martin – one of the sad idiots, if only he was more like loddrik

i’d say he’s alright he’s just like the rest of us up for a laugh eh!

I agree the sport/open thing isn’t clear. Should be open and expert (for those with an expert/elite), how it used to be.

I guess it’s to elevate the expert mixed category to a higher status. Maybe Sport should be fun?

I noticed the typo on Liam’s name, I also noticed his mental lap times! Never over 45 minutes!

Sarge,
that was me that said that (I think). It seemed to be the way that I passed people on the flats and climbs and got overtaken on the descents. Still, didn’t crash so I justify my mincing to myself…

Just think how well you could do if you ate properly

What, you mean using cutlery ?

Off the entry form

Sport class – Open to four man and four-woman teams who would normally race in the Sport (or Fun) category of a British NPS race. That means no experts and no semi-pros sneaking in. There are prizes for both the men’s
and women’s teams. Basically a Sports team must be single sex and four strong.

Open Men -Team of four male riders, open to all abilities.

retro-tastic

IMG_1383 by rOcKeTdOgUk, on Flickr

That’ll be Gil M in that pic Rocketdog, a machine of a rider & one hell of a nice bloke too

Didn’t take a single picture, but I did take video…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6lbllwN2H4[/video]

cool video…

can i suggest this?

might help steady some of the footage.

Yes, I didn’t do stabilisation in post. Should have. Using a monopod for most of the shots was a mistake too… but the tripod was too much hassle. Lessons learnt for next time.

To save time in post messing around with slow-motion I just rode at half-speed. That worked a treat 🙂

Good little video that. Nice one! 🙂

That means no experts and no semi-pros sneaking in

I noticed Matt Barrett in a sport team on the results, he’s still an Elite, so I guess they don’t police it that carefully, not surprising as it’s rather ambiguous.

Matt Barrett was in a Vets team, not Sport.

Edit – Counted for both, so yes, you’re right.

Loads of pics on the front page now – http://www.singletrackworld.com/gallery/Mountain_Mayhem_2011/

They got me looking all serious and racer like. 😀

Nice one stw, some great shots 🙂

Official Photo’s are loading up as i type –

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robcrayton/sets/72157626899505359/detail/

Unleash the Crayton!

I appear to have missed every single photographer at Mountain Mayhem. Probably for the best! 😛

STW’s photos seem better than Rob Craytons, Seem to have far more riders.

I take that back, there were only about 800 photos last night, much more like it now! 3 seconds later and this would’ve been ‘foot out, flat out’ 🙂

I took a few too:

click pic for more.

I appear to have missed every single photographer at Mountain Mayhem.

Same here.

Racist. That’s what it is. 😐

Nice pics Baldyquirt. I’m not a racist, but…
they all look a bit dark to me.

This is hopefully a link to the rest of my pics…

http://s1182.photobucket.com/albums/x453/FunkyDunc/Mountain%20Mayhem/