I like his music but he needs to get off his high horse, he seems like a bit of a **** to me.

When Axle played in my city a few years ago (he owns the rights to most of the GnR songs) H came on a few hours late and only played 2 songs. He was getting angry at the crowd to for throwing plastic bottles on the stage too. Not very rock and roll I reckon.

I challenged the duty charge of $120

How would I go about that?

There doesn’t seem to be much regularity on the customs, sometimes they can be more, sometimes less. It just depends if you get lucky with it, or not. That’s what I was told at the post office anyway.

For example I received a jersey from CRC today also, with no customs charges on it. It was in a big box too like typical CRC style.

A 150 dollar order I had with CRC a few weeks ago only had 20 dollars custom charge. I knew I would probably have to pay something, but this is taking the p!ss a bit.

A lot of my workouts are around an hour long or shorter.

Are you any good though?

Yep!!! :-)

Wow, was that the wrong conclusion to draw.

No what I was say was simply riding for an hour or so, no matter how hard, isn’t actually that useful in terms of specific XC training.

The two most critical sessions in my schedule are riding 2 * 20 at a set power level with 5 minutes rest in-between each interval, and 4 * 4 minutes, again at a set power level, with 2 minutes rest in-between each interval. Both sessions are way less then one hour.

Oh right yeah if you mean an hour just farting along then yeah you wouldn’t get much benefit from that, unless your on a high volume week and need to get in an hour or two whenever possible.

Just riding for an hour or so, no matter how hard, isn’t actually that useful in terms of specific XC training.

Here we go again :roll:. So your not advising any workout under an hour long??? Rubbish..

Different types of workouts work for different people, theres no magic formula. A lot of my workouts are around an hour long or shorter.

At this time of year, I’d cut out the gym. Don’t wanna gain too much muscle for racing. Also riding your bike is the best way to get race fit. Martial arts 1-2 a week is probably ok as it helps flexibily I imagine.

Also you need a good taper a few weeks before a race if you want to do well in it.

Anyone know any male 24 solo results?

CRC doesn´t accept me writing this in the review.They filter it, that is why you only see 4-5star reviews!

I hate when they do this. I only feel the need to write bad reviews about things, but they always dissapear on CRC’s page.

Oh and of course by titanium I meant titanium coated alu, like the ones I’m looking at are, alligator and windcutter rotors anyway.

I thought any weight saving on the wheels would be a saving well made, unless it hampers performance.

Theres far more gnarlier places in Scotland than fort flippin william!

Too true….

At least if the course was wet it would make it slightly technical.

Some of these drops look like cross country banks for horses too… am i right?

nm

flapping about like Harry Redknapps face in a hand drier

Lol!!

Was gonna say Thompson… but now I’m confused.

Think if it was any more technical you would have some serious crashes, organisers have to take into account rider fatigue at 3am and a extreme variety of ability. Surely with most 24hr courses there is always this fine balance to get right.

True there is a balance, but don’t think mayhem have quite found it yet lol. All the other 24’s Ive done were more technical, and on a much more fun course so less boredem. It drives you to want to ride a certain section smoother each lap.

I hope people aren’t confusing “fun” with “technical”. A fun course isn’t always technical, and visa versa. Fast flowy singletrack is fun but not technical a lot of the time.

what bikes do you recomend for these types of events?
thanks

Depends if your on a team or solo. If i was on a team for mayhem, I’d want a nice light race geometry hardtail. If solo then 4 inches of travel front and rear max is all you need.

MM is very easy e.g. compared to most trail centres.

Wouldn’t agree with that in any way.

10 years ago some folks were complaing that the Penhydd and the Wall wall weren’t technical enough. I agree with what the ranger at the time used to say:

“then, you aint riding them fast enough”.

I’ve had more scary moments at MM than on any trail centre.
– 1. You’re racing, and so is everyone else (ok abeit at there own level). The adrenaline is up, personally I push myself far harder (in terms of risk taking) under those sort of conditions.

– 2. Fatigue. What is easy on Saturday afternoon is a different prospect in the cold hour before dawn on Sunday

– 3. Most importantly – grip. You compare the MM course to trail centres. Trail centres are all designed with trail life in mind and are therefore all well drained. They all / mostly have a hard / durable surface, and are therefore, pretty artificial. The MM course is as technical as you like when wet. No, there aren’t any gap jumps, ladders or steeep drops, but there are plenty of sections where staying upright or keeping the front wheel as the front wheel becomes incredibly tricky

I found last year it was a piss easy course, can’t compare it to other years though, only other 24’s Ive done. So on that bases comparing it to other 12 and 24’s it was very easy and pretty boring I think. What were all the long flat sections through fields all about? –yawn–

I also think Penhydd and the Wall aren’t technical. They are fun if ridden fast though!

Anyway, technical isn’t what I look for in a race course, for me a course thats fun is most important, with lots of fast flowy singletrack, aka Twentyfour 12. I know mayhem gets much bigger number etc so it’s hard to find a venue that can take that many people, but it’s not for me.

Theres only so much I’ll push it when going 24 solo, but even at speed i didn’t find much of mayhem technical, maybe about 5%.

To me, most Morvelo T-shirts don’t look very bikerish. As in, if someone was wearing one I wouldn’t know they were a biker, unless I recognised it as Morvelo. :?

I like the T-shirts CRC have.

Your not doing it properly :wink: .

I’m no expert but don’t you need to do some sort of conditioning to force your body to cope with extreme endurance? I.e. go for some 12 hour long road rides?

I don’t know of anyone that goes for longer training rides than about 7 hours max, MAYBE 8 hours. Theres not much to be gained after that long. Whats more important is the overall weekly or monthly volume of hours.

Anyway, after about 8 hours you go into auto pilot and just keep pedalling. 12 or 24 hours, it’s all the same to me really. After a certain point it’s all just tiredness anyway. Obv the really competive people ride 12 hour races at a much faster pace then 24’s. You’ll be surprised how much you really have in your tank when you keep it going though.

If you want a good place it is worth taking the run and first lap seriously. You save a lot of time not being held up by the queues into every even slightly technical bit on lap one.

Yep…. This ^^^^^

I was fit enough to be competitive, probably could have got top 10, maybe top five, just didn’t have the mental strength for that course!!

So anyway I ran the run, but not so I was knackered afterwards. Just enough to get past the majority of the numpteys.

But to say something more constructive, it really depends what your aims are. Keep riding for the whole time?(god help you) ,take a few breaks here and there?
The mileage you have sounds decent. I’d throw in at least one ride a week consisting of a few 30 second sprints with about 4 mins rest in between to help boost the fitness more.

Also last year there was about a 15 – 20 minute run at the start, so if you haven’t been running in a while maybe go for a few.

Don’t mean to put a downer on this, but I think mountain mayhem is the worst possible event you can chose as a first time solo. I nearly felt like slitting my wrists doing it last year, it was so boring. The course that is, which is the main thing I like (or dislike) about competing.

I can see how teams like it cuz they can blast along in the big ring meaning all the long slow monotonous sections would go by quicker, but I def don’t plan on doing it solo again unless the course gets significantly better.. or I get paid for in some way :wink:.

I’d much more highly recommend twentyfour 12, relentless 24 or the 24 hours exposure, all of which I’ve done and highly enjoyed.

OXO tower?

Third date rule applies?

The Big Bang Theory

Is that rose from two and a half men? I always thought she was pretty nice.. or would be nice in a normal setting rather than the character she plays. If a girl started saying all that to me I’d probably start running lol.

Yes you’re right Edukator :-) . Any suggestions though?

Romantic = cheesy creepy trying too hard

Can’t you just go out and have a laugh ?

Yeah we’ve had a good time the last two times out where it was just chilling in a pub. Just wanna make it clear I don’t want to set foot in the friend zone lol. Pretty sure I’m out of it.. but still.

Probably meeting too late to go for a stroll at sunset ?

“Possibly .. what do you have in mind” is yes with a tease

Yes…

And agreed lol.

it’s still Liverpool tho

:D

This..

Let’s not complain too much before everyone stops doing it

True.. sometimes it looks like a bit of a joke though, an item on “sale” with a penny taken off the RRP.

the pisteurs are out there doing their job asking the over enthusiastic to slow down; there are safety posters to read on the pylons as you ride the chairs up.

Good to hear, it’s been a while since I’ve been skiing in France.

I don’t want European resorts to do any more for safety because I like the hors piste that would get me arrested in Whistler.

Thing is we have a huge amount of off piste here that is within the ski area boundary and avalanche controlled. You could have your pass revoked for skiing in the permanently closed areas. Not sure about the temporary boundrys, I think skiing in those is just at your own risk.

Rage against the machine :wink:

Sounds pretty bad. Here’s a couple things that spring to mind. It looks like thats a run leading back to the village he was on. In Whistler BC where I am, all the runs leading back to village are either blue or green runs, and are all slow zone areas. Big red fencing blocking the piste you have to slow down to get round, and men there looking like they’ll nab you if you’re going too fast, their main job is to slow people down and take of the signs i think.
Also those speeds on a big open run is a bit stupid. If he didn’t lose control and hit the cannon, I bet he would have hit something or someone else. All for the sake of some lame bragging rights in a pub later that night I’m sure!
I think things are a bit too safety concious here in whistler, but some of the euro resorts could take one or two leafs out of the book here.

Why, you can’t do this on a pair of touring skis

Of course you can, or could. The only real difference is the bindings so you can walk uphill in them, you can use any fat alpine skis and just whack a pair of skins on.

I like the backcountry, slackcountry thing, I just hike up to somewhere from the top of the chair lifts though, don’t see the point in starting any lower unless you are in the proper back country with no chair lifts around.

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Can’t see why anyone would bother with a splitboard! Too much faffing around. Just stop snow boarding and get skis with touring bindings, enough said.

It’s all a load of pants. Shows how people resemble sheep.

For those of you who think 24 Hours Of Exposure is too expensive, I just entered the 24 Hours Of Adrenaline world champs which is 500 dollars. Thats something to compare it to.