So… who was riding and who was walking on the first Twin Brook crossing (the one with the rocky step-up)?

Walked the actual stream but cleared the root fest immediately after which everyone seemed to also walk, wasn’t nearly as difficult as it actually looked.

With the brook crossing, in my defence, it just looked like a clipped in tumble into the ditch waiting to happen and conditions sucked enough as it was!

I’m one of the LVIS Singlespeed Superstars, and although we are singlespeed superstars, once we saw all the road that was on the course, we decided to ride geared (give everyone else a chance :-).

Can’t say I blame you – I rode the parade lap SS to see what conditions were like before breaking out the Fullsusser (which I did and it got caked to sh*t anyway as it rained before my first counted lap). I was riding with a geared team mate, pulled a minute or so out on him and then lost a full 5 mins to him just coasting down the road section spinning out.

Assuming I’m thinking of the same bit, I think I was dropping in to the right and cutting across the roots to the left…

Anyone else doing laps in their sleep last night? :roll:

Team Results:

Team Name Laps
Bike City 31
Cheddar Cycle Store 30
LVIS Singlespeed Superstars 29
Preston Tyre Kickers 28
Lard Racing 27
The Cheesy Riders – Stilton 25
Hydrock & Dyson 25
Bournemouth University 24
Yogi One 24
The Real Bike City 23
Pablo’s Piledrivers Part Deux 23
MTB Wales/AWE MTB 23
Team Bomb A 22
Phasenineclothing.co.uk 22
Mud, Sweat and Gears 21
The Four Riders of the Achypolyps 21
Yogi Two 21
The Jolly Jibber 20
AOAC 20
Disk Brake Divas 19
Saddle on Tight 19
Equally Bonkers 19
Extra STDs 18
Bonkers 18
The Wheel Deal 18
Village Bike 18
Lunar Loonies 17
Wii Not So Fit 17
Team Bomb B 16
Rock + Rouleur 16
Team Last Trail to Transcentral 16
Team Gravy Racing 16
Clitheroe Bike Club 16
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 16
Mahle Muppets 16
Mud Chucking for Mr Phelps 16
Bungle in the Jungle 16
Phelpsy Dirt Busters 15
Amazing Spokers 2 15
The Stabilisers 15
The Alpine (Gear) Shifters 14
Two Tyred 14
Amazing Spokers 1 14
AWEsome Bikers 14
Biker Bum’s 14
STDs 14
Numb Nuts 13
Hardcore Loafing 12
Team Two Tyred 1 12
Team 9 12
Tafia 12
Black Sheep 10
Leisure Wheels Lads on Tour 10
Lapp Riders 10
Dolly Mixtures 9
Leisure Wheels Lovettes 9
Crazy Crankheads 9
Ragin Saddles 9
Team Yellow Belly Bikers 9
The Spokes 9
Leisure Wheels Dandy’s 8
24 Hour Biking People 8
BBC1 8
BBC2 8
Muckfly 6
The Insomniacs 6
BBC3 6
Slack, Back, Crack and Botox 2
Norfolk ‘n Chance 2
Gang Green 0
Dynamo Pugwash 0

Sorry Andy!!! What a pain…

Still bloody brave of you to a) finish the lap and b) even try another in the morning.

I reckon I’d have cried, packed up and gone home there and then… :'(

Couple of snaps from the day…

Just uploading my pics now – wish I’d taken more now as I’m pretty pleased with the few I have.

Anyone snap rider 95?

3 seconds dammit!

Prophet springs to mind…

I really didn’t get out and take many pics given the conditions – shame :(

Oh well done sharki! I wonder who’d pruned the thing!

As mentioned, I was in the cheesy riders, we managed 6th place (sorry it’s not a race of course) with 25 laps – we were naturally chuffed with that and I think it was just down to always making sure we put a rider out there regardless of the weather.

That weekend was something else and I’m wrecked! Did the whole thing on high rollers which I’m going claim as good bike handling skills on my part – what a nightmare, I did the last lap for our team and it was easily the scariest thing I’d ever done and somehow brung it home still within the hour!

Great event, so well organised given the conditions and great vibe! No aggresive overtakers and I hope my own calls to pass were polite enough…

Was gorgeous up there this evening!

Not wanting to diss his family’s effort too much but I’d sort his website out proper for an 853 MTB singlespeed frame…

Hmmm, looks pretty jump biky, left long for barspins perhaps?

Crank the outer limit screw down all the way and it should sort it from over shifting to the bash…

Surely not!!! via twitter…

CLIC24 Course is perfect. Grippy and dry!! Signs going up now. Almost ready for everyones arrival http://yfrog.com/12k5aj

Had a go on a pugsley – it’s not really that fun tbh – kind of novel for 30 seconds…

Orange Blood – just looks like it’d be fun to ride the tits off it down something fast and loose.

150mm full suss travel bikes ridden on local trails…

To be fair, not everyone can afford multiple bikes and 150mm bikes are starting to be light enough to be a real do it all bike.

It’s the age old, just cause someone’s riding a freeride bike down a toe path – doesn’t mean that’s all they ride it on…

Edit: besides, when we were doing bike fest laps the other day it was my almost 150mm full susser that was comfortably the first to the end of the upper quarry trail – oooooooohhhh ;)

Can’t wait to join the queue for getting car pulled out of the field as well!

Anyhow there is a fair chance the course might dry out between now and tomorrow midday (if it stops raining). Its very mild and with a bit of breeze it could dry out (ish).

Although this is the kind of desperate optimism I can get on board with!

How about just ride the event!!

If its sh*tty then put mud tyres on. If its dry put semi slicks on. Simple.

Oh get into the spirit of agonising over pointless decisions and talking crap on the internets!!! :-P

FFS.

that’s all I can say.

Quite. I’ve been lucky so I suppose it’s only fair I’d have a wet event sooner or later.

I hope this is weather credits banked for the bristol bike fest and it’ll bloody lovely there!

Ok, I’m convinced about riding the singlespeed now.

But tyres? What’s the epic-mud to bridleway/road/good-ground ratio like? My gut feeling is to chance the high rollers and trust in my ability to stay upright in the crap but if most of the lap is going to be like that then I’ll concede to the Trailrakers… Are any of the climbs going to be deep mud?

Thoughts?

Ha, my Five is going to look ghetto as with it’s Cycraguard rear and down tube guards and some inner tube zip tied around the fork corwn :D

Add skinny trailrakers and an overshoe clad rider – shexy!

orange 5, my god did i get brake jack on long or steep decents it was like being buckaroo’d

Panic braking much? :wink:

Ah, this reminds me on the Fat Cyclist’s take on all this…

http://www.fatcyclist.com/2008/01/15/how-to-be-popular-part-i-what-to-carry/

Incidentally, I reckon I fall into the ‘overpackers’ camp of the STW massive.

all the responses on my “what’s in your daypack?” thread.

Link? Can’t find it in search…

I’m an SLR snob but my wife’s Panasonic TZ3 constantly surprises me – wide angle lens is a big plus too!

Fiat 500 (Spoleto, Umbria, Italy)

Any other ride numbers? LVIS lot don’t worry, I’ll spot yer jerseys…

No promises though folks – guaranteed to be too lazy/tired/bored/injured/cold

If any of you find yourself pelted with a flash gun while on a night lap – I apologise in advance for screwing up your night vision and hopefully I’ll have an awesome pic of you to show for it afterwards!

Tried and failed in Saltford (Bath) – was deffo well over 30 as I started to considerably drop the cars slowing down for it. Rode right in the middle of the markings, nothing. :cry:

Failing that there is the Freeride look of zip tying an old bit of inner tube between the crown and brace on the forks – very gash but suprisingly efficient!

Ahhh, nice one, will do that!

You can flick the lever on the fly, you shouldn’t switch which propedal position (1, 2 or 3) while on the bike is what I’ve been told.

EDIT: beaten by 7 mins, that’ll teahc me to open multiple threads and then reply to them without refreshing…

My Orange Five, was demoing at CwmCarn and used the uplift but to ride the XC back down from the freeride park. Rode the freeride park the first time and already decided it was going to be mine. Spent the rest of the day agonising over colour and trying not to crash from over exuberance. Ironically, once mine was delivered I did in fact crash it, quite badly, on the first ride, at cwmcarn, all down to over exuberance… typical!

Before that, I had one of the higher end Schwinn Gold label Moab’s before it all went to sh*t for them. That was realy fast and leggy from the off!

Antony, they were only 2.4 Rubber Queens so not excessive (800g ish)

Blue groove up front in 2.35 is the perfect trail centre/stoney trails tyre all year round (never happy on anything else) – it’s brilliant in the wet too. It doesn’t like excessive mud but only gets out of hand when it’s thick and really sticky.

I run it all year round even locally because it’s really good on wet roots which are more of an issue locally than the admittedly bad mud…

I don’t like Nevegals on the rear, they do work but being a lightweight I tend to run skinny and fast (either SMB8 if dry and HR2.1 if wet).

Lapierre Froggy – although it only weighted 36lb I’ll be buggered if I could get that thing up to speed, it always felt like it wanted to coast to a stop rather than pick up speed. Doesn’t say a lot for a Freeride bike when I was only impressed by how well it climbed (it really did climb well mind!)

Specialized Stumpjumper FSR – dull, soft and reluctant.

I’ll be stringing together a load of zip ties to see if I can somehow fit my crudcatcher to the downtube of an Orange Five.

And then go and decide to ride the singlespeed anyway.

Trailrakers are packed.