Ouch, that’s going up be sticky tonight.

Thanks I was on my Jones Fat Front SS
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Are you going to post the 3 hours of uphill fire road edit next?

No they weren’t the best part*

*For me ;-)

Heres my 4 steel MTBs

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Great event as usual thanks to the team for organising it.

I stalled in that pond above and my bike floated away!

Go Pro footage later

Route is rocky, slatey and muddy in places.

I’m running about 8psi in the front and 35 in the rear ;-)

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My back end will sink.
Can’t be bothered to camp this year so doing a day trip over and back. Swede just take your gears off, it’ll save weight

Yeah, heading over and riding an ego chariot*

*Any questions will be charged at £1 per question and given to air ambulance

:lol:

Looks like Stu is sat in the back :-)

Not going at the weekend as its ssec

I like to draw out the haterz:-)
Music
The Dirt Daubers with Wayfaring Stranger
Wintersleep with Nerves normal Breath Normal
The 2 tunes I had banging around in my head whilst pedalling around :-)

I’d slap a compact road chainset on. My cx bike has 53:39 and is a struggle on some off road parts.

There’s no bus big enough for Stus awesomeness he’s so rad he needs an airbus all of his own :-)

Your ego isn’t big enough then Jeff :-)

they support oversized wok’sEgo’s

There fixed it for you Taz

Can I interest Sir in some front mudguards?

Yes, I’ve been meaning to get one since the arrival of my attentiontyre
Jeff, they save wearing the rim out on the rocks

The guy on the fatbike looks fast.

He’s so fast awesomeness wafts out from behind him

Thanks druidh you beat me to it!

A mate of mine will be making framebags soon enough. Their courier bags are fantastic.
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:roll:

The neo motos and the nevgals in 650b drag compared with the RR. The RR are also a lot lighter, I run mine tubeless with no issues. Looking forward the the nobby nics next year as I’d be nice to ride the 650b’s in muddier conditions too!

I don’t think it’s in the portes du Soleil route but the mountain in the pic (I think they’re called something teeth) you’ll see from the top of the Moisettes lift just in Switzland.

Nobby Nics would be fine there after this weather, you’ll never need a full mud tyre in the FOD

Is yow speeekin a different langage to moi?

If FOD wins, I’ll break out the singlespeed with the bendy bars and give you a shout

No worries, if you think you’d keep up I’d even bring a bike with gears on :-)

Unless your shown round by one of those types you’ll not see them.
They’re too busy riding walking down all the trails the full suss mincers can’t find trail fairies make because they’re more than a mile from the carpark.following Keef

Keef’s a first class mincer and should really be in a 30sp FS skillz compensator with a full suit of body armour.

Cannock is winning then because I don’t want to bump into anyone riding some kind of bendy tubed, fat tyred, singlespeed freak bike

Fair point I suppose enjoy Cannock ;-)

Cannock sucks, even the locals stuff!
FOD is so much better but you have to know where to go. Mind you if you just followed your nose from the cycle center and don’t cross any roads there’s miles of singletrack in that enclosure which is better than Cannock. Only issue with the FOD now they’ve opened the Verderers trail its starting to get full of trailmincers with armour that can’t ride for sh**e and the only thing they can do is make braking bumps.

Rolls eyes @ Rich :-)

That’s right Rich there were no ups or downs.

Thanks! I rode the last lap with her just to make sure she made it round. I thought it was demanding with some nice singletrack to keep the boredom away

That’s one of my favs too!

MrsTollah has booked a nice warm cabin but she’s the one riding 24hr solo SS on her Pink Singular Swift so give her some encouragement please :-)
I’ll be pit bitching for her and Dan le 5th who’s riding for Brothertons/Torq/Schwalbe/Specialized etc………..

Cheers Sofaking, MTB not roadies on here ;-)
No idea why can’t get past page 3??
Great fun may do it again may do Paris Roubaix next year
Did the 138km but ended up doing 148 as I couldn’t find the car after :-0

MrSparkle, yup along with Dutch champs, Belgian Champs and Italian/world champs ;-) see you there??

I’m taking 1 bottle and drinking 1 on the start line both with Torq
2 gels, shot blocks and cash. I’m riding with locals so should be ok, fingers crossed!!

May see you out there!! Enjoy.

Ewwwww

Speech house hotel is nice but pricey
Fountain Inn @ Parkend for cheaper bnb

Did you face the BB shell old chap? Also I always grease my axles before entering the BB ;-)

Been riding 650b for 3 years, going to have to sell them now they’re hitting trendy :-(

Do they come with a stick on beard and a pair of sandles?

LOL, its in Worcestershire ;-)
Theres enough there to keep you entertained for a few hours anyway. Big climb to get up there then rolling terrain once on top. We tend to go up and down a few times to make it more interesting.

Enjoy

It’d help if you knew which county it was in :-)

It’s OK, not worth driving far for but if its on your doorstep it’ll make a good 1/2 days riding