What a brilliant event! Loved it – the band were great, the beer was great, the whisky burned (thanks Grant) and the hangover hurt. Best weekend I’ve had in ages.
That was also the closest race I’ve ever had – there was literally an inch in it between Matt and me.
The 29″ wheels made the rough DHs so much easier than the 26″ wheels I rode there at the NPS! I’m thinking 29er race bike for next year now…
It was a fantastic weekend. I took my lad along and he really got in the swing of it – he rode my spare SSer ( a bit), drank until he was sick and won the ‘least hairy chest’ contest! If anyone has a pic of that I’d appreciate it.
Brilliant course, great organisation, dry weather(!!), marvellous venue and met some real characters. Spot on from start to finish.
Things I learned :
The boy can’t drink
Dalby is a lot better than I gave it credit for
Rollapalooza really is painful
She seemed to have an arm strapped up inside her jacket, nothing serious I hope…?
Possibly a chipped bone, I think I overheard. Great result to finish; most blokes would have stopped I’m sure 😉
Does anyone know hoe the rider who fell on the boardwalk was? I saw them laid by the paramedics being given gas/air and morphine – from the sling I’d assumed collarbone, but I’d also heard dislocated shoulder.
Saw a guy with his arm in a sling at the presentations as well.
Did everyone else escape with just minor injuries and hangovers?
price of Rollapaluza free
price of T-shirt free
price of Meat BBQ free
price of Good Beer £2.80
price of Stella stop/shower free
price of Hangover, aching and cripling leg cramp free
price of spending the weekend dressed up like an emu, riding bikes with mates and like minded people in the only dry part of the country…. PRICELESS
That was my first SSUK and i’m really glad we made the long trip from Exeter. Really enjoyed the course and the whole weekend’s festivities including finding a wiggly snake on the zig-zag climb 😀
’twas a long drive for sure, but we certainly got the luck with the weather 🙂
a great laugh on saturday night.
cracking trails, not as constantly involving as drumlanrig, but the techy bits were proper techy, and most of the climbing was interesting climbing that kept you occupied. good riding indeed.
thanks very much to everyone who put in a lot of hard work to get it all together.
i was so impressed that I cleaned the zig zag climb (i was on fire!!!!)
quick question to the bloke on the kona who i saved from a near serious fall (really)
you ok now bud? 😉
excellent ssuk again – good work to the promoters and cowboy hatters – and especially thank you for allowing me to still enter at twenty to 11 !
i really , really don’t like Stella though and she was dripping off me for ages on the 2nd lap – vile!
met loads of lovely peeps for little chats through the race and a big hello to the bloke i had a very childish but hilarious bmx style sprint to the line with. My girls loved it too, the last time my daughter saw me race it was the SS worlds in wales, this time she was itching to be on her bike and in the woods. good times.
and hi to the bloke with the RC100 – wow that looked gorgeous.
anyway, roll on next year.
badger – 64 biketreks top and the tinbred with yellow forks.
Cheers all. As one of the ‘team’ I can say we all had a great weekend. Too much drink, but lots of good karma flowing. I’m still recovering at work, t’others are cleaning up.
Update on the fallen Dan after the boardwalk – he’s broken his collarbone in 3 places. Not nice; get well soon.
Only upset.. Gils’ bike. If everyone can Paypal £1 to…. No, let’s not go there.
Yours, still buzzing, Ian (squat clean shaven chap on the table (not the forester with the effeminate stance))
Great weekend of riding, course was nicely challenging. As a bit of a gayer enjoyed second lap more when I could see where I was going and tried a few bits I walked on first lap.
Plan to return for a weekend in Dalby and roll on Brechfa’10
Shall we get a Flickr Group going to make it easy for everyone to share/see the pics from the weekend rather than trawling through multiple posts and upload sites?
__ilovebadgers__ – Member
and a big hello to the bloke i had a very childish but hilarious bmx style sprint to the line with.
Might’ve been me 😀 – black GF Rig 29er, blue/white top, MET full-face helmet? I certainly had a BMX-style sprint against two blokes who I’d followed through the final section before we all let rip down the final grassy straight. Must’ve been for about 220th position or something. Bunch of big kids, aren’t we? 😆
Excellent weekend – big thanks due to all those involved with making it happen. Special thanks to the marshals too and all their encouragement. Really enjoyed the course and suprised myself by riding all ups, and managed a bit of (surprising to me) air on some of the drops/jumps near the start of the lap.
Got a heap of photos (mostly drunken and Rollerpaluza QFs-Finals) that I’ll hopefully sort out tonight.