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Mud tyres
Sense of humor
Tent
Warm clothes
Food - Undecided what to take
Bike
Tools
All suggestions welcome - I cannot remember what I took last year 😳
Wellies
Bacon
Pressure washer
Water containers for above and cooking
All the cycling clothes you own, all of them.
Bin bags
could go on and on and on ha ha
The [b]main[/b] things are:
Lights & charger
Bike
Mud tyres
All cycling clothing
Helmet
If you forget anything else it isn't the end of the world.
Redbull - for the drive home.
All the stuff above. - providing you don't have she'd loads of ride clothing. You won't be doing more than 7 laps, 5 more likely, two will be chilly.
Tools.
Bike lock - a big one.
Cash - it works well for food stands etc.
Jump leads.
Most important - BEER you need some entertainment for Friday night and after you give up!!
Forget cooking - just get stuff from the food tent and take pre-cooked stuff. A stove should be for making a cuppa and that's about it.
Alarm clock for waking you up at 3am for a hideous mud-miseried lap.
Loudhailer to shout "Mark! Maaaark! MAAAARK! Where are you?" at the handover point just after that 2-hour lap........
Plenty of towels, nothing worse than using a wet cold towel to try and dry yourself after a shower, although if its seriously muddy is there any point having a shower...
Some ear plugs so my 2 year old doesnt wake you up when it gets light a 4am and he thinks its time to get up 
Bike cleaning kit
More clothing
Huge drum of paper towels
Spare brake pads
Lots of lube
Ear plugs
Head torch for wandering about at night
Pen and paper for keeping track of when each rider is due back.
Lots of tea and coffee...
Hi all as this is my first post!
My first time at MM, actually the first MTB race I have done as well so if there is one piece of advice for the the event you'd give me what would it be? Apart from don't forget the bike....
Well, I've got my travel size Pantene shampoo and conditioner, so I can look like Liv Tyler on a bike. PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!
For the non-singlespeedists, a mech hanger and spare rear derailleur for when the mud gets bad.
Bike shoes that have some grip in the mud.
Madjak - best advice will be to leave the good bike behind and take something light that looks like a bike to carry round the course.
My first time at MM, actually the first MTB race I have done as well so if there is one piece of advice for the the event you'd give me what would it be? Apart from don't forget the bike....
Every piece of clothing you own that's bike or outdoors related.
Since the change of sponsor i'll have to bring some shower gel this year.
These were my notes last time I organised a team there:
Clothing
Bring all your cycling kit – especially as many pairs of shorts as you have. Even if the weather is dry, there are river crossings, so your shorts will get drenched each lap. Nice dry shorts for each lap is a good idea. 24 hours / 1-1.5 ours each on the course = 6 rides each (roughly), so you’ll ideally want 6 sets of kit. Save the CCC top for the last lap in case we’re on the podium. It might rain and its coolish riding at night, so gillets & arm warmers and plenty of dry socks are essential.
Its surprisingly cold hanging around tired at 4am even in mid summer. If its raining, its very cold. Bring a down jacket, gloves & hat and rain coat. There’s a lot of standing around waiting in the dark and most riders will be in a down jacket and woolly hat. Bring a headtorch for wandering round the campsite. There are showers so bring towel & stuff. You’ll get muddy, so bring wet wipes, spare towels etc for cleaning up between laps.
Bikes / Tyres
You need a bike. You’ll need basic tools and spares to carry with you on the course. I have 10 spare inner tubes and 8 seal and flate puncture repair kits. You’ll just need a small multi-tool, tyre levers and a mini-pump to carry. Helmets are mandatory – we get disqualified / time penalty if you ride on the course without one.
If its muddy, we’ll eat through brake pads very quickly – so you need spares.
Don't try any new bits on your bike just before the race, you have to complete a lap even with a broken bike so aim to minimise risk by sticking to tyres / bike parts you know are reliable.
Tyres
The course gets very muddy if it rains, but drys very fast when it warms up. Bring two sets of tyres (fast slicks for dry and thin tread for mud).
Lights
We won’t have any way to charge them on site easily (there is a charging tent, but it might be full / miles away). We’ll need lights from dusk till dawn (it gets very dark in the woods quite early). You need to bring a small headtorch as emergency backup / for fixing a puncture. No rear lights (bad form).
NB Dusk is 21:30, Dawn 04:45
Tools etc
I’ll bring a complete tool kit, track pump and spares (cassette, chains, gear cables). We’ll also have two spare bikes.
Camping
I have two gazebos, tables, two chairs, a hurricane lamp, a tent with two compartments (one for me and one for someone else).
So bring tent, sleeping bag (warm), sleeping mat, torch. Can you all bring camping chairs (there's a lot of sitting around and if it's wet, chairs are essential). A 2nd hurricane / petrol lamp would be good as we need to keep the place lit all night so people can find stuff / prepare meals through the night.
Can you bring your stove + cooking stuff. We could use decent stoves, mugs, pans etc for cooking pasta / brewing tea 24/7. As not everyone has everything and someone will forget something, let's aim to have too much kit rather than too little. A thermos is a good idea, instant warm tea when I wake you up at 4am for your stint.
On the off-chance it's sunny, Factor 25 would be a good idea.
Food
Can we each bring our own drink powder, gells & bars for riding. Bring lots of energy drink - I got through nearly a kilo last year (and had the flatulence to prove it - ask Paul who shared a tent with me).
As for proper meals, we’re there from Friday pm till Sunday pm, so that’s Friday dinner, Sat breakfast, Sat lunch – race starts – race stops, Sun lun, then depart. You can buy food on site (Wilf’s café), but ideally we’ll have lots to hand. NB In the night shift you're too knackered to want to cook, so bring pre-cooked meals (eg pasta & tuna), otherwise you tend not to eat which means you bomb in the morning. Good food is essential as you need to recover fast as you only have <3 hours between laps.
XYZ – can I put you in charge of group provisions (pasta, eggs, bacon, bread , stuff)?
Anyone got a cool box?
Rider order
I’ll have paper, pen etc for keeping tabs on all our lap times, so the next rider is always up at the right time. I suggest we ride in the same sequence unless a mechanical forces a change. I don’t know the lap time yet, but 1 or 2 laps each ideally 60-90 mins on the course (no more).
Since the change of sponsor i'll have to bring some shower gel this year.
I've still got about 20 of those small containers from those years!
Plastic Bags... Lots and lots of plastic bags... Everything you own will be covered in shit and soaked wet through by the end of the weekend, plastic bags will at least help you get it all home without ruining the insides of your car!
Since the change of sponsor i'll have to bring some shower gel this year.
Must remember that - have got too used to the place being awash (no pun intended) with people giving away shower gel.
MM has got considerably more expensive in real terms, now that I can no longer offset the amount of Original Source freebies I was going home with for the last couple of years from the entry price.
A bucket and brush. There are many standpipes in the camping area and a bucket of water and a brush will save you hours waiting in the jet-wash queues. Also you can rinse your kit out before taking it home. If you get really desperate you can rinse it out before putting it back on. Wet kit is marginally better to put on than muddy and wet kit as I found out at my first Mayhem in 2004 when the weather was REALLY foul.
I must guiltily admit that I kept sending my kids into the Original Source tent again and again.
We have just opened the last large bottle of gel but do have a number of the tiny ones left.
(disclaimer - Yorkshireman so owt free just goes to my head)
Mint stuff was OK, wasn't so keen on the Orange one.
If you are in a team then a gazebo really is essential.Having a small patch of dry land makes a huge difference to morale. If you are lucky find someone who has a decent one which won't just blow away.
Other essential is baby wipes so at the bare minimum you can clean your nether nethers before getting some rest for the next lap. Morale thing again. Dirty legs and arms don't matter.
Have fun.
Must remember that - have got too used to the place being awash (no pun intended) with people giving away shower gel.MM has got considerably more expensive in real terms, now that I can no longer offset the amount of Original Source freebies I was going home with for the last couple of years from the entry price.
Oh crap yeah! Well remembered that man... 😐
Have a feeling the local supermarket in Ledbury is going to do rather well this weekend, given that about 5000 people in a field are probably all expecting free shower gel, and the year they actually need it there won't be any!
I must guiltily admit that I kept sending my kids into the Original Source tent again and again.We have just opened the last large bottle of gel but do have a number of the tiny ones left.
(disclaimer - Yorkshireman so owt free just goes to my head)
Doesn't matter where you're from, free stuff is free stuff, but either you only wash once a fortnight or you begged/stole/blagged an obscene amount of shower gel, cos my stash lasted approximately 6 weeks, and I blagged a number of bottles.