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4th Feb 2012.
10:00 – 12:00
£17
Philips Park, Whitefield, Manchester.
2 hours, 3 ½ mile laps, berms, rocks, water, steps, that hideous grass climb and some new bits.
Also including: brass band, catering, trade stands, showers at the rugby club (you’ll have to pay a little bit extra for them on the day) and some other stuff that we are still working on.
It will be another epic!
Limited places… and this one always sells out.
Credit cards at the ready boys and girls.
www.hitthenorth.net
Woo and indeed hoo!!
I've got the hideous muddy grass climb to look forward too 😉
sooo looking forward to this. In the diary & reminder set for entering this evening 🙂
A quick question, i've never done an MTB event but £17 and Manchester appeals. The site shows CX bikes, so is it a CX event or will my bog standard MTB be OK?
Any bike you want, lad.
Super, I said i'd do an event next year and this seems to fit the bill. I'm assuming mud tyres and singlespeed are de rigeuer?
Any tyres you want, lad.
😉
I'm seeing a theme emerging here...
any theme you wa.....
Will it be as muddy as he last event?. 🙂
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Hmm. Might have to organise a BBB delegation to come and observe, a la Amnesty International/UN, see what can be learned from our Northern Bredren...
Will there be an 'insult your own child' event? Hora car wrapping race? Will the Starbelly be there, so's we can come and gaze at it in awe and wonderment?
Will any Horas be abused/made to suffer as a result of this event?
Hora's been threatening to enter HTN since the beginning of time. He never turns up though.
We're not big on rules. Apart from having 2 wheels and 1 rider anything goes. I want to see a Grifter.
There will also be the usual Saturday night lash up in the pub afterwards where we can entertain any cock-er-ney guests. They've got rooms and secure storage if you need to stay over.
The Hill. 😈
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any bike,
Some pictures from the 2011 event.
Featuring a broken bike, lots of mud and a lot of smiles
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any bike (for project)
He'd borrowed that bike off a mate for the race and lost it big style going down "Preparation H". So named because if you get it wrong you will drive your seat right up your ass.
Note the missing seat. 😯
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Washing facilites are available
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That old Dynatech looks a bit brokedificated...
That old Dynatech looks a bit brokedificated...
It was easy to get it back in his car.
hora turned up at the winter sprinter last year to heckle
I got bored so I opened the entry early.
http://www.hitthenorth.net/news/entry-is-now-open/
sign up!!!!
BOOM!
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Here's a blast from the past: http://www.youtube.com/user/willfoxere2k7#p/u/3/Sr2sOhlwOo4
Oh the pain, the cramps, the filth!
I'm in!
terra/harry...............can we enter on the day?
no (but you can)
nice one. 8)
Hot damn Ma! Am comin' home in a box!
You joining us BH? You can't do it in your £30k rowing boat though.
modify it
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If I enter right NOW do I get to wear number one on my vest?
sorry - if you enter NOW the best you can hope for is number 2.
number 3 now
Am I doing it?
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bullheart......bring [s]the artfull dodger[/s] fred with you.
he owes me a pint.......... 😀
We'll sort out preview rides to test the new bits too.
And, if we can sort it out with the lap scorers, there will be a team/club/squad/bunch of mates contest where the highest 3 finishers from the same team/club/squad/bunch of mates win something ace or rubbish depending on what we can get from our sponsors.
Don't worry Ton, I'm not like a certain other Yorkshireman what is well known on here for not getting a round in...
Yay! I can come up in the vayn with Bully! Keep him company on the long drive up! 😀
getting serious now. One of the Hornby boys has entered.
getting serious now. One of the Hornby boys has entered.
This one?
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the other one
i like the sound of this....
*ponders*
This one?
No, this one.
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Edit - too slow!
i like the sound of this....*ponders*
Get in! It is quite silly and/or tough depending how hard you want to try. Chipps managed to somehow snap a shoe at the last one. 😐
Yay! I can come up in the vayn with Bully! Keep him company on the long drive up!
Arse. Elf, put the picture up please. You know the one.
Any chance you could book the Stone Roses to play the finishers across the line? (I'd not want them to usurp the brass band at the start, and chances are they'd not be out of bed in time for that anyhow)
In like flynn....WOOOOOOO.Can I have 69 please? 😛
Only 109 days to go!!......must calm down 😳
if i cant ride, i will man the bottom of the downhill again.
it was fun to watch the comedy get offs and crashes......... 😀
I thought you were fixificated now Mr The Ton? 😕
Elfin gets no.666 . Its the law ( well bbb law anyroad )
This one, Bully? 😀
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BOOYAKA !!!
Just hope i don't crack my frame this year 😥
I'm in! Will I get a prize for being last. 
PS whats this mean
i. Unsporting impedance
PS whats this mean
i. Unsporting impedance
stopping someone else getting past on purpose/lying down on the course
I think.
Ton, if you are at the bottom of that hill again, the least you can do is walk up and carry the bikes down for us.
you should be able to carry 1/2 doz a time. 😆
That way it will save me falling off. 😳
Great! Can I enter category (i) and be an 'unsporting impedance' please 🙂
(Might happen anyway due to remarkable ability to fall off ...)
Unsporting impedance
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Sporting impedance 😉
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I've entered.
I don't know why.
Is that you on the crosser?
Good effort if it is, that post scares the crap out of me as I've hit it too many times.
No no - I was one of the frustrated MTBers trying to get past the crossers on that bit.
I did hit the post once though.
Maybe you should change the event name to 'Hit the Post'
Mrs TJ said no to a tandem entry. 🙂
Just entered my first event, wayooo.
I've still not quite got over Frank Sidebottom not turning up the other year.
He's missed his chance now, he really has.
Mrs TJ said no to a tandem entry
where to start with that one.....
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Good luck, hope it goes well (again)
Get in! It is quite silly and/or tough depending how hard you want to try. [b]Chipps[/b] managed to somehow snap a shoe at the last one.
at least he enters your event, we've done 16 and have yet to see a soul from STW towers and we are 10 miles closer 🙂
Am I missing something, is this just a two hour race over 3.5mile loop? If so I assume the loop is challenging/ good fun. Will check work diary tomorrow and hopefully be free to enter, the banter looks good.
I'm entered. Looking forward to it
If so I assume the loop is challenging/ good fun.
Bull's Eye.
It's either a not too serious event for the have a laugh brigade or a 2 hours flogging for the 24 hour / 3 Peaks CX podium botherers.
'is this just a 3.5 mile loop'
ooh get her!
still not quite got over Frank Sidebottom not turning up the other year.He's missed his chance now, he really has.
His presence was felt at HtN2010. 🙁
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I'm in and bringing the steam roller to flatten out the CX boys groves ready for their 2nd lap.
"Am I missing something, is this just a two hour race over 3.5mile loop?". There's a bit more to it than just riding in circles for 2 hours.Those who know,know ;0)
Entered. Blimey, British Cycling have a mighty painful entry process...
Woohoo finally got my arse into gear and entered another HtN race. Not done any since the inaugural one.
Mud, sweat and gears.
HtN's winter sprinter is the funniest, gloopiest most unpretentious event in the calander. Come on down. Have a two hour blast round a sticky tricky trail then have a bacon butty and a few pints afterwards.
Looking forward to it already.
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