Be intestested to do it again if the whole day’s were timed rather than just the special stage

My thoughts were the same, I know it would make the whole event harder and less social in one way, and thats not for everyone, however I think its what may keep the motivation going day on day, rather than just plodding through another long ride.
However I know this is nothing to do with the organisers, and its the ridiculous bridleway laws in the country that restrict anysort of competetion. So the organisers have done all they can, within the law to give everyone some competetive element.

Ha Ha, whytetrash, looking forward to it now provised the weather sorts itself out. Daily updates will be on the Transuk website and the Gore website I think. But I will try and keep everyone updated as we go. Twitter probably

hmm, I was going to enter next year too, hohum

I think the transwales in some form or another will exist, but not in the traditional 7 day trans event as such, if I read between the lines.

Ha Ha, was quite looking forward to it before I read that :-)

i feel like death the week before every event i do.
change is as good as a rest.

I am usually the same too, personally I think the stress and anxiety of so desperatly not wanting to get ill, actually makes you feel ill !

You riding again Nonk ? I’d heard you were off the bike, we rode together a couple of years back locally (when my loony mate crashed over the fence onto the roof of that house :) I am doing the Transwales this year with same said loony mate !!

Yep you’ll see me and my mate Team 10 in the open pairs, me riding an epic and my noisier mate on a top fuel. Looking forward to it now, hope this weather gets a tad kinder

Brill thanks, thats what I’ll use

Anyone else got a mahoosive kit list that seems to be growing by the hour?

Oh yes ! I had thought about the camelbak issue, and wondered a simple way round it, other than thoroughly rinsing it out each day. Anyone know of a simple way to effectively clean and sterilise it ?

Thanks

I have about £75 quidish to spend at CRC in the next week or so, a voucher would be handy if theres one going begging. Cheers

Email should be in my profile

google doesn’t reveal anything! Enquiring minds need to know!

Celebrity parent and child Who wants to be a millionaire. Just thought an orrible teenager could switch off teenager mode for an appearance on prime time TV, clearly not. Poor Fern looked totally defeated :)

whats it done..he/she?

It was just being a proper teenager, but it was just a stark reminder of how revolting teenagers are

Is there a t*tty bar there?

Doubtful, but I am sure there is many bars full of tits

It’s the most materialist place in Britain, full of Cheshire wives and BMW driving cocks. That’s why it’s called Vulgarsoch.

I live in North Wales but not on the Llyn, we go there quite a bit to all the nice places. Popped to Abersoch last year for a day with the kids and was truly astonished at how utterly bad it had become over the last few years. Revolting place, A bit like Dubai without the skyscrapers !!

Yes did the full marathon. Logged 70K, 2100M of climbing, so it was tough enough in that weather.
On the plus side, great weather, lovely location good facilities, brilliant descents and singletrack sections. Considering how tricky it must have been designing a course around a smallish mountain range, I can understand the necessity of a bit of road linking. Considering the great descents the full course offered I can’t complain. The tight singletrack through the woods was ace (in the dry) It makes me shudder to think how tricky it’d be in the wet :) And the long descent at the end (advertised as the longest singletrack in shropshire, possibly England) would rival anything I have ridden in my home area of North Wales.
My only gripe was the sometimes iffy course signing. Unusual for the normally slick organisation of CRC. Me and my mate missed an important right turn at about 55 ish K and had to U-turn and retrace our steps about 2K up a 15% hill !! We thought perhaps it was ourselves being a bit dim and missing an obvious turn marker, only too see another group of riders doing the same thing. (the sign was there but was not very obvious)

njee20 – Member
Yep I’ve got one, had it about 5 years.

Njee, if you want to email me any sessions etc you’ve done, I am always keen to get some more data from decent riders to “ride” against and vice versa.

Cheers

I have had mine and used it pretty regularly for about 4-5 seasons too (Winter only) like njee if the weathers tolerable I’d rather ride.
I partly agree with the above opinion and partly disagree.
If you are thinking of it as something that simulates cycling in the real world then it’ll probably be a disappointment. If you think of it as a way to use the turbo with far less boredom then its great. I use certain videos of the rlv videos to replicate intervals (Tour of flanders springs to mind as the best at this, as it has fairly regulrly spaced hard hill efforts. The ergo videos are probably the best (Rabobank and training with the Schlecks) as they require you to keep up a wattage (so you cant just slow down too make life easier) it’ll just ramp up the resistance.
I agree in part that the Virtual reality is a bit pants its probably the most visually impressive, and probably Tacx use it as a showpiece, but its not massively useful. For me the exception to this is the velodrome, where you dont have the annying effort spikes, and you can choose to pursue, sprint sessions, time trial efforts etc etc. For me its great training.
The steering frame is essential to begin with for virtual reality, as otherwise you are limited to the courses and distances that are preset, when the frames attached you can go as far as you want. Without it I wouldnt have been able to do a 200 lap velodrome session. But totally agree that when you have all your saved routes you want then the steering frame is a pointless gimmick and mine is now packed away !
Tacx becomes most useful when there is a group of you with them, so you can swap sessions and create ghost riders to chase (from your mates sessions)
Totally agree with Njee’s opinion that Tacx are hopeless at sorting issues. And they seem to use the paying customer as beta testers.

Looks swift, nice one. I presume you race ?

I had rebas on a trek, they did make a slight fluidy noise on the rebound and compression, I just figured it was the relevent circuits working, because they were new and worked perfectly, never lost any air or fluids at all, rebound and compression gates worked perfectly and the forks were buttery smooth so I wasnt overly concerned. I’d be more concerned about rattles, clunks and knocking noises.
If as you say the noise increases when you slow down the rebound, it suggests its just the noise of the oil flow being restricted correctly just as its supposed to. Great forks btw

Yes I had heard about the limited usefulness of solar chargers. I thnk you could have the right plan bring an older “not so smart” phone, (I think I still have an Nokia 6500 knocking around with a full battery possibly bring another fully charged battery for it, and hey presto I can see it lasting a week easy. Bringing my Blackberry with all its gubbins, is only going to mean being pestered by work Emails and such like. All I really want to do is call my family and friends occasionally and have it there for emergencies

Holy cow, I am looking at the theoritical list of stuff I “thought” I was going to be taking and there doesnt seem a chance in a million years I am going to fit it in that bag they give you.

Was thinking about getting the powermonkey, for charging duties. Apparently it has enough juice stored in it to charge a BB twice. ANd you charge it up via the mains (again find a friendly landlord) if the s**t really hits the fan it has a solar panel too to attempt to top it up. Although I am sceptical about the efficiency of this, bearing in mind its Mid Wales !!

neilWalts – Member
i did the Transwales in 08 & 09, and will ride it this year again.

Did you take kit for 7 days, or is it feasible to wash and dry stuff. What do most do ? Just wondering so I dont have to blow another £300 on kit as well !

I am in this year, first timer. Male pairs under 40, cant honestly tell you whether I am looking forward to it or not to be honest, which is bizzare considering its just cost me £500 :)
Whats everyone riding ? Epic for me, hope its a good choice.
Stupid little details are niggling me. They say always carry a fully charged mobile. And that there is no where to re-charge it. Which is going to be a pain, as my phone only lasts a couple of days tops on standby. May have to find a pub with a friendly landlord who’ll let me recharge it there. Or do the organisers have a generator

Cant really comment as an out and out mud tyre, (I think they do the storm for that) but I also understand that its what the Specialized team lads turn to when the world cup xc courses get a bit sloppy.

But as a quick tyre that copes with everything pretty well, I have been impressed. Rode the Whinlatter challenge with a mate earlier this year, and whilst it wasnt exactly deep mud being on a trail centre surface, it was damn slippy and wet everywhere, and the Sausers were 100% better than my mates nobby nics run at the same pressure. I am going to be runnign them at this years TransWales (but in a control version not the delicate S-works) becasue I am happy enough that I have found a race tyre that copes with pretty much everything well enough

I run Sauserwinds tubeless on my epic and they are a great fast racing tyre. I run a Stans kit in mine, and very very rarely do I get a seal on any tyre with a track pump regardless of however long its been inflated before. Do you know anyone whos has a compressor you can use. For me its the only way. If you are running a stans strip, A good start is at least one full layer of thick velox rim tape underneath to make the tyre tighter initially

All sorts of little things this morning, about a big bird shat on my new car, about only finding red pens in my office, about there being no parking spaces in town, and then I stumbled across the Twitter thing about Alices Bucketlist, which is written by a 15 year old girl from Ulverston in Cumbria with terminal cancer who happened to blog her few little things she wants to do before she dies, nothing ridiculous like fly to the moon, just little things like see a whale, stay in a caravan etc etc. After I read that I felt a complete spoilt b*****d, had a word with myself gave myself a proper good metaphorical kick up the arse, and got a flippin grip of whats important. Now I cant wait to go home and see my kids !

Wasnt planning to originally, (Mrs at a blimmin Take that gig, and leaving me looking after the kids) However got a bit muddled up on the dates and it appears I’ll be riding if Enter on the day is still an option. Oill be mostly roiding a Red Spesh Epic, with my mate on a trek top fuel. Its a flipping tough event.
If the weathers decent its worth popping into town on the Saturday as theres a good atmosphere with the local wheelbarrow race and general village p**s up going on. We’ve stayed in the campsite in the village for the past couple of years.

You cant nuke it….its got an ace national standard bmx track and a brand new crit circuit.What would I do on tuesday nights?

The new Marsh Tracks is a brill facility, a good mate of mine (who frequents this forum) was appointed manager of the whole facility a few months back and is doing an amazing job with it.

Have you been racing there on the road race track Tuesdays Rorschach, ??

I live in Rhyl, but to be honest cant really defend it, its a town of two very seperate contrasts, East and West. East Rhyl is a perfectly pleasant could be anywhere sort of town, not idillyc rose cottage type stuff by any means but just a normal town with nice homes, normal people with normal goings on.
West Rhyl is Bedsit ghetto land (which whilst I am sure there is a percentage of perfecty lovely people who live there) which is a boarded up, socially deprived area full of societys most problematic people (nicest way of saying it, I guess). Says it all I guess that I would rather drive 18 miles down the A55 to Llandudno rather than go into the town centre of my own town if I had my kids with me.

63-67 kgs dependent on time of year. When I dip under 64 kgs I just look ill, and I dont even feel the bemefit on the bike as I dont feel strong. 65 kgs is spot on for me. 5’7″

Rasmussen just looks horrific

Mustn’t forget the sausage rolls at the feed station. There’s only so much sugar a body can take. Genius

Couldnt agree more, after 2 litres of energy drink and a cuple of sickly energy gels, the sausage rolls were an absolute winner.

Nonk, I reckon we were riding somewhere in the general vicinity of your significant other, on the last third of the ride. Or so my riding partner, tells me. If he is correct she is a strong climber for sure.

I was on a red epic full suss

Yours truly

I was in a long sleeve black northwave long jersey, and black shorts with red and yellow logo and black leg warmers, white MET lid

Anyone, have any “clean” comments on that sneaky climb at the end of the day, just when you thought you were heading into the trail centre finish. MEAN, OFFSIDE, EVIL were some of the more family friendly words I heard being muttered on the way up :)

Yes it was a good event, the parking situation was not the best to say the least, but hey ho you can’t have everything. It certainly didnt spoil the day, and I cant really see what else they could have done. My first ride on the Whinlatter trails, and they are as has been well documented on this forum, pretty damn slippy, but not unrideably slippy by any means, just a good challenge. Saw a few decent crashes, but no injuries to anyone thank goodness Enjoyed the day. Rode with my mate, who had a lengthy mechanical early on we lost 20 mins, still happy enough with a 3hr 20 min ride time though. Hard event, will do it again next year.
The little village shop in Braithwaite before you drive up the Whinlatter pass to the trail centre has bacon and egg sarnies to die for !! Real traditional old school friendly shop, deffo worth a pop in there before next years event :)

Yes, I was too

Is this a closet “what tyres for Whinlatter?

I wouldnt be so bold :-)