Here’s a little bit of fun for your Friday afternoon – the guys from This Is Sheffield, fresh from organising the Steel City Mini DH and their ghetto dual and downhill races, have gone a step further and organised a mass start downhill race. As well as their usual Tuesday night ride crowd turning up, a certain Steve Peat and a mister Brian Lopes put in an appearance.
Check out Duncan Philpott’s edit below…
Joe has promised a full write up on the This Is Sheffield site soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that. We hope the mass-start-trail-bike-race-followed-by-beer format takes off. Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…
That is proper Dicking About On Bikes. The world needs more of it.
A proper larf, as they say down my neck of the woods. What mountain bike racing should be about.
Yep looks a right larf! wish i’d gone to that..need more stuff like this..
could do with organising one like this my neck of the woods.
ha ha ha that looks great fun.
Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…
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That looks bloody brillaint. I might move to Sheffield.
😀 Looks like a laugh
brilliant! love the multiple helmet-cam shots
brilliant.
“Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…
Want a bet?”
it puts mine to shame but it certainly recalls a mass-start underground DH race on a mountain in the central belt that happens once a year at night…
That road could do with a wee bit of patching
awaesome im loving that idea seemed a great laugh got to get something going here in wales.i think a mass start off pen y fan and down the roman road till the finishin the forestry car park would be great fun.
“it puts mine to shame but it certainly recalls a mass-start underground DH race on a mountain in the central belt that happens once a year at night…”
Underground downhilling!! – You are Orinoco and I claim my free Mike Batt greatest hits CD
http://thisisheffield.co.uk/2011/05/megadeath/
Race report now up on ThisISheffield.co.uk
i remember being on a geography trip there thinking dammit where’s my bike!!!