http://www.qecptrailcollective.co.uk/2014/05/qecp-day-night-rider-start-list-and-info/

will food be available on Sun morning, or do I need to bring sausages and a gas cooker??

Yep but beer tent will be closed by then 😈

scott is it near the activity centre?, was thinking of bringing the family and camping

tots near centre 2 mins walk from camping, 8+ near top of hill 5 min drive & 15 mins walk from camping

Play areas

Let the children loose in our fantastic play areas. For children aged eight and over there is an extensive range of equipment at the Adventure Play Trail near the Juniper BBQ site. Also for children under 8 years there is a range of animal themed play equipment in the Tots Play Area close to the Visitor Centre.

Some links with info guys:

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Lummox – Member

I’ll stay in fun please as it’s James first event and my second but I’m at the tail end of injury recovery so will not be ‘at my best’ by a long margin. Approaching the event in the true spirit of ‘fun’
Cool see you sunday.

My first enduro race really – bit scared
What time should we be on site?
Is this the usual car park in QECP?

even experienced racers get nervous before races. Its part of the reason we get hooked.
I will be emailing out a park/camping/sign-on map with the start times later today.

Riders Breathing will be at 17:30 but you will be able to sign-on from 16:00.

Think I posted on the Facebook event page, last name is Bowen and both team HFRS there’s a third team member Liam gibbons riding in sport.

Cheers for your help
ok cool I had all ready done it on your team names. If you want to ride with Liam I can bump you up to sport. Its up to you.

Lummox – Member

Scott, I put a request up on the Facebook page about getting myself (Al Bowen) and my pal James Angove grouped together both in fun, don’t know if you’ve seen the request or not just wanted to double check.

Cheers
Nope missed that one, just looked did you message QECP facebook page or me? Any way Angroves and Bowen are together because they have the same team name. Remind me your second name.

P.S for the future putting the same team name as your mates is an easy way for me to put you together.

superfli – Member

dantsw13 – if it was me, I’d go with the Heckler
But you have hobbit wheels 😉

Its just a balance of ease of transitions vs ploughing downhill in my virgin race!!

transitions are the quickest and easiest ways to the top not a drawn out transition for the sake of adding km. Some of the stages are STEEP! some are rooty, some are pedally, some are super fast, some slow and technical, some are fresh cut, same are well used, some have berms, some have jumps, some have flat corners.
Hope that helps 8)

Only 4 spaces left now.

It does – Reverb and Smorgasbords. Special prize for the slowest rider on a HT with the most crashes??

sounds fine to me.

Cheers Scott, probably reverse order to be honest……

I have switched you round so you are less likely to catch each other on the stages.

Hmmm – trying to decide if I should service my Heckler with 160 Marz55’s on it, or just ride my go-to bike, a Ti Fireline 29er HT??????

PS – never been to QECP, so have no idea really!
Does your Hardtail have a dropper post and aggressive trail tyres? If so go for that.

Scott – could you put myself and my mates start times together and under the name Fat Ginger Racing as per my email? Hindle, Burgman and Newhouse. Perry has had to drop out because he can’t remember the dates of his own children’s birthdays….Cheers!

Fat Ginger Racing – Hindle, Burgman and Newhouse. Done. Is that quickest first?
Get Perry to email me, I will leave him in for now in

There’s some info via the hargrove’s cyclefest site and some on FB. Anyone know if it’s going to be seeded, or just by class?

I’m entered in Sport, which i hope doesn’t prove too embarassing… Just by class, If you want to go last in sport let me know and I will make it happen 😉

Times:
http://www.qecptrailcollective.co.uk/2014/03/qecp-day-night-enduro-goes-live-15th-march-at-0800/

There is an event page on facebook its posted on there too.

We also have USE/Exposure supporting the race, so you can hire lights from them:
https://www.facebook.com/events/509136502533735/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Hire a MaxxD they are a bargain.

Rode most of the stages on Sunday, really happy with it. Wish I was racing it not organising it 😉

Conditions: Bit muddy at moment but with the warm wind it id drying out very quickly. Forecast looks good for the second half of the week.

P.S Camping is available Friday and Saturday nights.

Not yet just the date

My take on things:

Stage 1:
Turning up when the time said then having to wait around an well over an hour for the start (Could of communicated it better but not end of the world) Stage was good bit on the peddle, rooty, off camber & some nice steep drops.

Stage 2:
On the peddles to start in to some cool off piste DH stuff. Great stage.

Stage 3:
Same on the peddles to start in to some cool off piste DH stuff with some tricky off camber sections. Not sure why it went through the bog at the end but that was probably bone dry when they scoped out the tracks. Fun stage shame it didn’t count but again not the end of the world.

Stage 4:
Same as stage 1 but with 900 bikes down it in 6 hours. Really cut up if you were in and around 300 bib number not as fun as the first time down it. Would have been different if it was dry but it was the same for all the Hardtails. If had to choose one to do twice it would be stage 2 but that would not work for the timing.

Overall I had a good day, Planning on doing eastridge round and FoD again if I’m free.

What did you think? I loved it, easy transitions and trick stages. Bit broken today.

Shared use, innit.

So is every road and bridleway.

I use and like both, but I think the Fat Albert are a bit better because of the larger volume.

Now sold out, 320 riders its going to be busy at FoD this Sunday. Can’t wait 🙂

Sounds like a great event – but it’s high time we cut “gravity” from Enduro in the UK and catch up with the rest of the world. anything not Enduro as in proper Enduro (rather than riding round ad nauseam for 8/12/24/3568433774 hours) shouldn’t confuse the issue.

Can’t used the term ‘Gravity Enduro’ Anyway unless you have permission from the TM owner:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00002634344

Yes they are, have fun 🙂
http://www.ctc.org.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/Image_Large_Focus/media_library/users/Ian%20Warby/imgp6034.jpg

Cant fit a saddle bag/bottle cage to my bike

what sort of bike do you have?

Its great fun on the hardtail, try and go when it’s dry. I raced root canal last year it was really good! Pic

Thinking maybe TIME DH-4

I love the DH-4’s would defiantly by again. I uses them for DH and Enduro racing. I use them with Shimano AM45 Shoes

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My boy on the first ride in his Weeride. It’s easy to take on & off and will fit on nearly any bike.

The Superstar ones look a good deal to me.

Yes sorry just read the title, no idea why I put July.

Sorry here’s the LINK

Ok now I know the choice I would go for trance. 😀

Glory would be fine but what else you got?

My RF N/W only lasted 6/7months and has now start to drop the chain,
RF 34t Narrow/wide
KMC chain
SLX Clutch mech
SLX 11-36 cassette

Swaped for a Vectoix N/W I see if that will last longer. First observation is the teeth are bigger on the Vectiox but still runs very smooth.

Also might put the RF one on backwards on the other bike to see if I can a couple more mouths out of it.

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Basingstoke canal path sound like it fits the bill:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/basingstokecanal-leafletmap.pdf

When is the pro fracking ride? So when the 10 Nuclear site are decommissioned over the coming years we don’t have to by all our energy from France.

We are down to 38 spots left so if your up for it grab your mates and get signed before it sells out 😉

http://www.xcracer.com/raceentry/viewevent.php?event_id=633