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highclimber - Member

That Link isn't working. getting a Database Error??

terrahawk - Member

hosting outfit are doing a db upgrade, that's why the site's down. It'll be back soon fo' sho'.

If (and it's a big if) you lot have saved us I guess we'll be buying you a few beers.

Thanks folks.

Harry_the_Spider - Member
[b]No marshals, no first aid, no insurance![/b]

Not with the first section of singletrack that we've got. It makes the bombhole look like a speed hump.

This is a genuine tip from someone that organises an MTB event - get the local Scout group involved and make them beneficiaries of a wedge of your Charidee hand-out. They get to do 'Scouty' things on the day - marshalling, first aid cooking, camping etc etc and have a great weekend, but best of all - you will get FREE Public Liability Insurance as the event will be classed as one of their fund-raisers.

I've entered and spammed the event on veganfitness.net. 🙂

Have you reached the break even point for entry numbers yet ?

Cheers nbt. I'm planning on being down on the Friday too, so should be easy enough to find each other as most people won't be there then.

omitn - I plan on riding for the full eight hours. Fancy a private race of our own? You should be able to cane me easily. [i]Then[/i] we can drink beer.

Really hoping that you get the entries guys *fingers crossed*

we're some way off break-even. this is a mountain to climb in all honesty.

keep the spamming going. tell the world.

omithn - Seb is looking for a partner...

Just been out on the regular tue with the mates...

I think I have talked a team or 2 in to signing up (but they may all enter as solo). And one is going to check and migh have to sin up on the day (if it's possible)

This is a genuine tip from someone that organises an MTB event - get the local Scout group involved and make them beneficiaries of a wedge of your Charidee hand-out.

We are using Scouts... 60 of 'em. Younger Scouts on directional marshal points and older ones/leaders where there will be carnage.

This year the BBB will have insurance and possibly army cadet marshalls.

HTN team - I am not back in the UK until the weekend but will try to get the BBB website updated then.

Hi,

Hopefully we want to enter as a team of 3, but we need confirmation from the final member. If they don't confirm we'll enter as a pair. Can we change the entry once it's placed ?

just been spamming bikeradar 🙂 hope you get the entries guys

Website back up.

RobinL - Member
Hi,

Hopefully we want to enter as a team of 3, but we need confirmation from the final member. If they don't confirm we'll enter as a pair. Can we change the entry once it's placed ?

Yes, we'll sort it.

Got it on Dashers site. I'll put it on the FRA site when I get home if Vince hasn't already done it.

Good man!

Posted up on Snowheads too, there are a few riders on there

If I remember rightly it was the scout group pulling out that left BBB without marshalls last year.

Nowt wrong with our Scouts. It's their campsite.

You should have a shed load of Manchester Mountain Biker members signing up over the next few days as we've bigged it up, err Big style. We're coming to take over the beer tent. 🙂

dot - might be doing it with BigDummy of this parish (his bro has dropped out).

Or I might be silly and do it solo veeeeeeeeeeerry slowly.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

No marshals, no first aid, no insurance!

Not with the first section of singletrack that we've got. It makes the bombhole look like a speed hump.

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now. 🙁

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

OMITN - i'm doing it solo. I reckon i'll get about 5 laps in max!

Looks like you may get a few through snowheads too

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=64829

seriously though, wonder if the Brownbacks events have cannibalised the NW racing scene a bit? TBH the riding conditions there are much more to my liking.

no, HTN are dfferent events to ours and we make sure we deconflicit

if they would like to get in contact we can discuss "mutual aid", it would be peferable to picking up their flyers from our car park again 😉

race 2 of our series is on the 27th June www.brownbacksracing.co.uk

Posted on the Lavatrax FB page. Hope it helps.

it would be peferable to picking up their flyers from our car park again

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now.

I lied.

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

If you mean Hurst Woods then yes.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

I thought you said there weren't any big drops and stuff?? Got me all scared again now.

I lied.

BTW does the course use that wiggly bit at the end of Copper Lane?

If you mean Hurst Woods then yes.

Oh Good..

Entry tomorrow

Have we got enough entries yet?

No.

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

How far away Meester Spider?

How are you doing for marshalls?

Have spoken to everyone we can, some who definitely won't ride say they might be able to marshall if required.

Just passed the link on to one of the Blackburn and District bike club.

Hi i have entered a team of 3. Any more preview rides planned or a rough route map on the website?

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

Excellent. Race ya!

How far away Meester Spider?

Thirty days...

[i]How far away Meester Spider?[|i] from being viable?

Just signed up. Solo. How foolish.

Good man

[i]How far away Meester Spider?[|i] from being viable?

bloody miles off yet. About 50% of break even currently.
I said it was under threat...

everyone's efforts are making a difference, it just needs to continue.

Thanks.

Excellent. Race ya!

Careful, or I might just put Robinsons Unicorn in your bidons.... 😉

bloody miles off yet. About 50% of break even currently.

OK. What can you ditch to lower costs? Howabout you turn it into a summer version of the Winter Sprinter with a couple of extras?

As omitn says - Time to slash costs. What is essential and what can you do without or reduce.

I'm going for a bike race, not a pop concert.
Cancel the band if the saving means the race goes ahead.

I know what you're saying, we're well aware of the priorities and will make decisions next week.
We will probably do the winter race once a year though rather than trot out the same thing twice a year.

We'll see where we are next week.

Terra - seen my email?

Funnily, the winter race worked really well because of the first summerrace, but I suspect that the winter race is now the one people really want.

Indeed, I wonder if the smmer race now seems to some like a bigger version of the winter one, and so has found iself with a slightly odd identity.

Shame, as I think it has the makings of similar levels of fun... 🙂

Many friends who would normally race are expecting children. Some are on holiday and the rest are short of cash.

I've done everything I can to push it.

Maybe it'll end up with huge rush at the end.

Actually, what would be ace would be a short summer series (say, three) of winter sprinter-lite races. Same format - MTB and CX (cos no-one else does that, unless we're talking cross racing but YKWIM). An hour.

Then pints of ale afterwards. 😀

Anyway, fingers crossed this one goes off as planned.

I see a few problems here:

1) Most STWers are sad, Billy no mates types, who sit in their little box room/office and are internerd warriors, who don't actually ride a bike.

2) The above who do ride a bike.

May I suggest that - if you would like to join in the race and maybe not run 'solo', that you post up for a couple of strangers to make up a double or a team from this here website.

3) Oh and maybe there are 'others' who are too scared to leave the safety of the beautiful south 😉

We Northerners won't eat you, however we may drink you under the table 🙂

Disclaimer 'Some of the above may not be true' disclaimer

Good move, Bunnyhop, mild goading is sure to work. 😉

Don't forget also, a lot of STWers won't want to enter a race for fear of being beaten by...
a kid
an old bloke
a woman
worst of all, one of the above on a cheaper bike

Put your money where your carbon is. Enter the race.

I think they're scared of being beaten by that bloke what came last in the Kielder 100. That'd be well embarrassing.

miketually - I agree: I think that bloke who came last in the Kielder 100 needs a good beating.... 😉

however we may drink you under the table

You may drink more pints than us but that's because yours has to much head(the beer that is) and we get more beer in the glass with our flat southern stuff

Just been speaking to the guy who runs the beer tent. He wanted to know if you lot were real ale or lager types.

It also gives me another opportunity to post a picture of the bar staff.

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I'm struggling to see what the attraction of a beer tent and a live band is at a bicycle race?

EDIT: I posted this before I'd seen the post above. And I'm still struggling.

The beer tent went down a storm after the first HtN.

Horses for courses, I guess.

Well thats solved where to park everyones bikes
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beer is for winners

I'd love to come along, thought the event 2 years ago was the best event I've ever done, had to do most of my drinking on the Friday night, soaking wet from a practice lap as my wife decided she didn't want to camp on the Saturday night.

Gutted I can't do it this year.

Thanks Nick.

That's the point of it. It is an event (we can't call it a race because we use bridleways and a short bit of road 😉 ) for people who don't do races, followed by a massive piss up.

As an added bonus the course is pretty good/tough, so the fast guys will have a real advantage and the drinkers will fall into the beer tent knowing that they've done something hard.

Shame I can't compete. I have to stand around in a high viz vest looking all official. I'll even have a walkie talkie to make me look extra efficient, but it won't be switched on.

[b]HTN = Bike Based Bobby Dazzlement.[/b]

The HTN course is on my doorstep and as a result, I've been riding it a lot lately. I can honestly say that it is a brilliantly varied trail with scarey bits, up the berm bits and fast, gravelly, swooping bendy bits. It is a great bit of riding. The apres-riding aspect may not be to everybody's taste but surely nobody will find a band, ace catering and a booze tent offensive?

Please guys and gals, get behind these keen, keen, keen chaps who are endeavouring to make a success of a brilliant MTB event and selflessly dishing up any profit to charity.

Again - my offer of signed photo's of my belly stands.

Oh - I am not an organiser of this event but would happily "lead" another preview ride as I did the last one due to illness/holidays.
DS

The course is brilliant. I rode it on the preview, it's proper ace. NIce tight twisty singletrack, out of the saddle fireroad sprints, massive berms, proper bo singletrack with jumps in it, tricky drops into a stream crossing where the local scallies will laugh at you (and maybe nick your bike) if you crash - what's not to like?

and as for the beer tent - how can you go wrong when the event catering isn't "tiny fatty burger and some ****-weak lager" but rather is "pie and peas with lancaster bomber on tap".

My vote goes for bitter, btw Harry

You 2 can keep nbt entertained while I snog it around the course.

Blimey Bunnyhop - have you consulted nbt about this?

I'm an easygoing kind of chap. give me a beer and I'm happy. Give me two and I'm leathered

Is the barmaid on the left the ghost of Jade Goody?

Actually, what would be ace would be a short summer series (say, three) of winter sprinter-lite races.

would you mind awfully if I told you to sod off?

Is the barmaid on the left the ghost of Jade Goody?

Haunted hooters?

would you mind awfully if I told you to sod off?

+1

and another +1 from my wife.

Haunted hooters?

like vuvuzela's are they ?

... getting closer but we still need more.

The Chunky Challenge.

As a way of spicing up this event in the absence of a veterans class, I will put up a £10 prize fund to go to the charity of choice of anyone who weighs more than me and completes more laps.

So, come on you Clydesdales, who wants to take on a 47 year old 98kg vegan ? 😛

Terms and conditions.
The total prize fund is £10. If two or more people complete more laps than me, it gets shared out.
I'll round the weight limit down to 95kg or over. I'm not taking my bathroom scales with me, I'll take your word for it.
I've broken two frames in the past two months. With that track record, there's a good chance you'll beat me simply by riding for 8 hours while I'm sat in the pits with my bike in two halves.

What bike for HtN?

It's going to maybe the CX bike for me (then again i may come on the MTB)....

I reckon the race will be won by a crosser.

It'll be won by the best rider... who will probably be on a cross bike. 😉

Have you been promoting the event on skinnytyredrophandlebarworld.com, (or whatever the equivalent CX site is called) I'm sure the almost nailed on chance of a trophy for one of those gents would bring a few more out of the woodwork.

It'll be more fun on an MTB than on a cross bike though. TONS more fun. Riding an MTB will make you beer taste better too, *FACT*

I'll be bringing one of each.

Just to be on the safe side.

I don't think the CX bike will be as much of an advantage over the longer time frame.

I wouldn't fancy the "faster than light" DH section or the jumps on a CX myself. But I do the technical stuff with all the grace of a piano falling down a lift shaft.

*whisper*
I might be rocking these at HTN
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*/whisper*

(Unless my Ragley frame's ready by then.)