If you’re planning on joining us on Sunday, please enter online as soon as you can. The after-effects of COVID on some of the organisational logistics are making life difficult and it would be *really* beneficial to know potential numbers beforehand this year. I’d hate to be left high and dry on Sunday morning by running out of bike numbers etc as folk turn up en masse and swamp us a little because we’ve only catered for lower numbers.
Thanks for your understanding.

The whole route is hard, fast and dusty at the mo. It could very well be a quick year.
Plenty of space for everyone and online entry closes at midnight on Friday. If you miss the deadline then it’ll be £25 CASH on the day.

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Online entries close a week today.

‘Jesus Christ’ is definitely fictional. It was just that Joseph was the first carpenter to shout it when he ****ted his thumb with the hammer…

Back in the early 70s, when I was very young, a bloke in our street found a novel way of dealing with a similar issue. He used to lie in wait on the hall floor, with an air rifle loaded with salt pellets poking through the low-level letterbox.
Any offending predator that wandered into his garden to unload a batch only needed to experience a high velocity salty balloon knot the once before deciding to seek alternative defecation arrangements.

Slats Hoofer
Cosmic Aureole
Nescafé Enema
Chutney Ferret
Bottle of Crisps
Throbbing Strawberry

As an event organiser, here’s something that you think you’ll never have to write:
It is with great regret that I have to inform everyone that the gentleman who was taken seriously ill with a cardiac arrest after the event on Sunday sadly passed away in hospital. Apparently he never regained consciousness and, despite remedial surgery, he suffered a further arrest and drifted away at around 11.00pm on Sunday night.
Ken Witham was 62 years old, but loved adventure and a challenge. He had recently beaten cancer into remission and was keen to get back to peak fitness and resume the outdoor activities that he loved so much.
Ken’s family told me that he was a deeply private person, but very generous of nature, often helping charities local to his home in Rugeley, Staffordshire. It is some comfort to them that Ken passed away doing one of the activities that he loved so much.
The family would like to pass on their heartfelt gratitude for all the help he received and the tireless efforts of those that performed CPR to keep him going until the medical professionals could stabilise him enough ready for the airlift to hospital.
All at the CVMBC pass on our deepest condolences to Ken’s family following such a tragic turn of events at the weekend. Rest in Peace Mr Whitham.

Online entry is now closed – but you can still enter on the day for £25.00.
Please arrive early as parking is all on-street and increasingly awkward. Make use of the side streets both above and below the venue where possible.
See you in the morning.

Still time to enter online before tomorrow night’s deadline.
Choice of 20 or 30 mile route and e-Bikes are welcome too.
Click here ENTER

Please check your spam folders as ALL entries have had their Entry Number and a copy of the route emailed to the address provided.

10 days to go. It’s worth entering just for the bacon butties that are STILL only £1.00!!

Just 4 weeks to go now – get yourselves over to the Website and get your online entry sorted sharpish!

mlehworld is mourning one of our own. Incredibly sad news for all that knew and loved such a lovely fella. Rest In Peace, mate.

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T minus 5 hours til online entry closes.

http://www.cvmbc.co.uk

+++ online entry closes at midnight on Fri 11th +++

Get those last minute entries in and save yourself a fiver on the ‘on the day’ entry fee.

http://www.cvmbc.co.uk

+++ FIRST 300 ENTRIES WILL NOW RECEIVE A FREE OTE GOODY BAG +++

Only 10 days to go now – get those entries in ASAP and give us a chance to organise for the right numbers! Thanks.

Keep those entries coming in, folks. Beautiful morning here in Huddersfield and the trails are drying out nicely now.

Hmmmmmm, now up to 8. Not sure how that happened!

4 x MTB

3 x Road

1 x Track, for the Velodrome.

Still aspire to a CX and a TT though…

FunkyDunc – Member

Did they give any hint on what they are doing next?

I was at MM from the start, missed a few years along the way, but then the prices started to rocket, and when it went to Gatcombe that was the final nail in the coffin for me, too far to travel for a mediocre course.

I hope they manage to do something else.

I’m not sure what more you could expect from the course of a mass-participation event set in a country park? Lots of places to pass/be passed safely, not much flat, challenging climbs, challenging descents, a lap length of around 7 miles (making it the right length to get plenty of laps in, whatever the size of your team) and all in a beautiful setting. Tell us, what would get the Dunc seal of approval?

I’m there again, as part of a mixed 5 from Hudds Star Wheelers. We’ve got 4 teams this year, but it’s more social than racing snakes. I’ll be arriving tomorrow dinner time and looking for a huge pitch for everyone!

Don’t worry, even if there’s a bit of damp between now and Sunday, the trails are baked hard already. It’s gonna be quick this year and we’ve already got over 250 entries with a full day still to go before online entry closes.
If you want to ride, then get yourselves over to the website whilst you’ve still got the chance to save a few quid!

The 20 mile route is the same route with a loop in the middle missing.

The sun’s been out here all weekend and the routes are bone dry and dusty. Get your entries in as soon as possible folks, it really helps us out when we know the numbers involved.

Here’s a video of last year’s event:

It can take me ages to warm up these days. I spent a week in Mallorca recently and had this same conversation with a riding pal. I actually said that it felt like one of those days where it was going to take me 50 miles before my legs started working properly. I was more or less bang-on with that prediction too. Stomped up Puig Major on the big ring and towed the group all the way home afterwards, feeling strong as an ox. Man, know thyself.

Hi Nick, there’s plenty of space to park up overnight – either in the corner of the pub car park, or on land adjacent, no problem at all.

I use Finesse Multi Clean. Comes in 1ltr, 25ltr, or 8-1 1ltr concentrated.

I thought tipping was their job?

DIY clippers every week. Guard off and take it down to the wood these days. Last time I paid it was £2 in the local place in the village, (West Yorks) but that was about 10 years ago.
Was seeing a lass last year that has her own barber’s shop locally and she charged (not me!) about £6 I think.

Cougar – Moderator

I asked her to move and she refused.
“You deliberately took your time so I’m wasting yours!”

I think at that point I’d have dug out a paperback and put my feet up.

Shirley you just roll your car forward enough to prevent her husband being able to park either side of you then dig out the paperback and put your feet up… :lol:

My usual routine before the Sunday Club run (anywhere from 80-140 miles) starts with a huge pizza on Sat night. For breakfast I have a tin of Ambrosia rice pudding with a generous blob of jam in. I’m then straight on the bike and heading for the meeting spot ready for an 8.00am start. We always ride to a café and I always have the same meal: beans on toast with two poached/scrambled eggs on top and a tin of Coke. I never feel the need to nibble on snacks in either direction, and I’m generally on the rivet for the whole ride. This week’s was a particularly hard ride though (Huddersfield -Knaresborough-Huddersfield, 100.2 miles in 4h 57m) so I did resort to a gel to help me up the last 2/3 mile climb home.

A mate stuck all our combined kit in a tumble drier for a bit too long last year and the heat made all of the leg-gripper strips come off on my club bib shorts. The kit is made by Champion Systems.

That felt harder than the first wet year at Gatcombe. Mainly because with a lot of effort and concentration it was all rideable, whereas the previous time walking the climbs was the default option for most.
Much as I enjoyed the new steep, off-camber, rooty descent, I’m really not convinced it was a sensible bit of route planning. I never saw another single rider actually ride it at any point, which meant it was always full of walkers whenever I got there. And I dread to think of the potential carnage if we’d had a rainy weekend. I’m all for a bit of a challenge, but I think this section was way too much for the vast majority in an event of this type.
Overall though, another excellent event in very testing conditions with a great atmosphere.

What I find a bit disappointing is that if you match a current KOM you don’t get a share in it in your achievements. I’ve equalled 2 or 3 local segments, along with the 4 (all road) outright KOMs that I hold, but it appears that you have to beat the previous KOM to get the award – or indeed be beaten to lose it.

I’m currently on Thunder Burts too, but picked up a new pair of Bonty Mud Xs on my way home today. Hopefully just an insurance policy – but it was a bit tasty at the first edition at Gatcombe the other year.

I’ll be there as part of a mixed 5 from Huddersfield Star Wheelers this year.
Hope the course is the same as the last 2 years as it’s/was bang on for a 24hr.

“…vertically compliant whilst schralping the square-edged hits…”
**** off.

Junkyard – lazarus

Blah, blah, blah…

Thatcher would be proud of the way you ignore society and think only of yourself where yourself means your wallet,

And if the evil old bitch hadn’t decimated Britain’s manufacturing base, perhaps all us hard-grafting manual workers would still be able to afford holidays out of term time.

I use a local printers for the CVMBC event. He uses decent quality (Fruit of the Loom or Gildan etc) shirts. Entry fee is £17, which also includes a certificate and free food & drink throughout.

I’d just like to echo dangerousbeans’ sentiments above, and thank all of you who took part today for your support. Again over 300 entered the event and the feedback has already been really positive. Hopefully everyone had a great day on some blisteringly dry trails and you’ll be back next year for more of the same. Thanks again.