With the infamous cobbles of the Buttress running greasier than an Ali Baba’s kebab, it was clear that anyone taking part in this year’s Up the Buttress Hebden hill climb would have to spend time working on optimal tyre pressure and pedalling technique if they wanted to be in with a chance of winning.
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Another good turnout saw riders battling for traction in front of an encouraging/heckling crowd for a chance to win something from the prize pile kindly donated by race sponsors.
But enough of that, here’s some bike mounted police doing their bit for community relations (thanks DazH for capturing the moment)…
Thanks to the sponsors:
Orange
Hope
Yorkshire Tea
Blazing Saddles
Lazer
Singletrack/Grit.cx
Butt’r
South Pennines Walk and Ride festival
Bridestones brewery
Victor and Liberty
Timothy Taylors
Only 400 yards of greasy cobble to goIf you made it this far you still had a way to goPolite encouragement
Race face on…He started wellDid he make it? Fat ChanceThe start of the corridor of heckleBallast or baby participation? You decide…Not far away.
The WobblerSome people won somethingHe really likes tea
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
Was that Matt Wild with the electric shouty tube?
Nah, it was Dan…
out of interest – did any fat bikes take part? Were they any good?
No fat bikes took part.
Ah well, it looked fun unless you were a member of the law enforcement community 🙂
I’m with wwaswas – a fatbike would have been the perfect weapon