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BIG BIKE BASH
I want everyone on the south coast to come along and make this a truly great weekend. Come on guys, let's own this festival.
This is a charity event. The difference is we have not just races and rides we have lake jumps and bike limbo too. One ticket covers the whole weekend including two nights camping, the beer festival and the music festival.
Check out www.bigbikebash.co.uk to buy tickets.
Which day is the main XC race please Nick?
I'm flossing the cat.
In all honesty if I lived down South I would go best of luck
You could have given us all a bit more notice than 9 days 🙄
I wish you luck all joking aside but i can't make it as the mother in law is down and so i'm under orders, and before you say it no she doesn't want to come along as well 😆
So when is the main XC race?
Druidh, that's out of order, proceeds are for charity FFS, i had a better opinion of you until now, i hope you're proud of yourself
Saturday for most racing, some at night and some Sunday
All too happy to bump this one, as long as people ignore druidh's post above.
A great looking event, just what the sport needs! Can't make it myself, but it's a good event. Support it.
10 More in Moray race is the same weekend too, with hills and everything 🙂
I assume you're aware of this
there are a couple of chalets - maybe this will tempt non campers
Getting quite excited about this!
[b]Can we have a roll-call?[/b]
I'll start - me, MrsDezB and DezB Jr. will be camping it up (ducky) 🙂
i'll be there 🙂
I will be there. 🙂
Me too. And I know a few others from my area are coming too.
Well, at least we won't be alone!
I'll be there
Can't make it sadly - looks fun though.
Edit: Good to see someone finally made a proper poster for you to replace the one that I made in Photoshop in about 2 minutes 😉
I prefer yours grumm........
10 more at Moray, hopefully with good weather.
Riding somewhere hilly, maybe the Isle of Wight.
Probably riding my local trails.
10 more at moray.
Seems a bit dear to me
familes with teenage kids seems high £120 if 2 adults and 2 teenagers race?? plus getting there and eating...
why have a spectator price and only allow them in at same time as an adult racing - not really encouraging people with an interest in bikes who don't want to race
lower prices might have had more people and more money (have to make a profit before anything goes to charity)
doing uplift day next we - pretty good value
hey Pal, cant make it, sorry.....
Will post that Carver frame down to you this week, can you email me your address again? and it was a medium/painted, correct?
That £120 wouldn;t buy you many music festival tickets or any adventure weekends. We are giving you a whole weekend of live music, lots of activities on site that are not biking related. A beer festival. Free camping tonnes and tonnes of prizes.......
Plus if you are a family of 4 with 1 racer it only cost you £70 which is pretty bloody cheap considering the cost of camping in the New Forest....
kids under 12 are virtually free and I hope there's a big profit
£20 for teenagers seems a bit of a jump as should be encouraging this age group more into racing and joining in - mixed bag of races so not sure people will stump up to race and reckon only 15% of mtbs regulary enter races
would agree if only one racer it's good value for WE of entertainment at £70 - some afternoon visits to tourist attractions cost £45 to £50 just to get in
Riding in the Quantocks with Sharki, Treemagnet and anotherdeadhero and others.
Mudhound - we have dropped the 'Spectator must be accompanied' bit so that should help.
good luck and great weather for next weekend
thanks - What could possibly go wrong?
Sat & Sun night shift
Sat is grandsons 4th birthday party 😛
Way up in Scotland so it would be at least an 8hr drive 🙁
beer festival, mmmmmm. Which breweries will be providing the goods ? 🙂
The final list is still under construction, but they will be from surrounding counties, so Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Dorset. If you have any requests email me today and we'll see what we can do, as long as there localish.
Cider will also be localish
Lager won't
I'm sure Itchen Valley Brewery will provide a few pints of the finest ale on the planet 🙂
(Hope I'm right there!)
if it wasn't 600 miles away I'd be well keen. Hope it goes well.
It's our annual group ride/bbq around the Derbyshire Dales/White Peak on Saturday, although not sure of the route.
There's probably going to be around 15-20 riders of varying abilities, who make an appearance on rides at some point over the year, but it's basically two groups that come together for a sociable ride.
One of the riders (a mates dad) and his mrs set up a marquee in the local pub beer garden, where they have a big stone bbq and all the wives/GF's turn up for an afternoon of food, beer and socialising.
Itchen valley does indeed feature on the list.
Lake district!!! Sorry WCA would be there other wise looks a right laugh! next year mate next year!!!
I'm coming with my two children.
I'm going, dragging wife and two kids along as well.Good luck to WCA,Luke,Soma rich and everyone else who has been working on this for a while now.As WCA says "What can possibly go wrong ?"
Wookster - Next year?!?! Are you mad, this is strictly one off. MrsWCA would kill me if I tried it again.
wish you all the best for the event. Not really my kinda thing but all the best anyway! Mind you watching all those bands appeals...
then there's the band babes and beer ...mmm
[i]Not really my kinda thing [/i]
Er, I don't recall an event like this before, so how would you know? 😕
true. It is certainly original.
juicedm - £10 for the bands and beer festival. Cheaper tan staying at home almost
£10! time for a rethink!
WCA, is there are an agenda for the BBB yet? Some idea of what is happening when would be great. I couldn't see any thing on the website. I am just trying to work out if it is worth me and my wife entering, we will have two young kids with us and we will both want to ride at some stage during the weekend, looking at your site looks like only one of us could be a competitor, the other would have to be a spectator - but I am not sure really.
Jason - events are all on the site - http://bigbikebash.co.uk/event_listing.php
WCA did post up a provisional timetable, not sure if it was under WCA or BBB login.
ticket ordered 😆
Jason You can both race as there is a long XC on Saturday and a short XC on Sunday plus the night race on Saturday. If you bring tag-alongs you could both try beating me and Soma_Dan in the tag-along challenge.
Plus LOADS of stuff happening all day in the event arena.
Just come from the BBB Summit. All going to plan we are even giving away 40 odd medals now..... I just need to sort our exactly how 😐
See you all there I will be the fat guy on a singlespeed that isn't WCA.
Juiced you wont regret it the bands are amazing! Everything looks amazing at the moment!
hi guys dont forget your swimming trunks as we are the only event to have an on-site swimming pool and life gaurd!!!!
Under water bike riding not allowed though...Sorry people!
Steve
Lake Jump and Swimming are in different water.
Working on the schedule of events following some changes this morning.
Provisionally long XC saturday, short XC sunday, Trails open both days for fun rifing.
Drag race heats Saturday, possibly final too
Trailer bike challenge Saturday, repeated Sunday if we get the numbers
Track Stand, bike limbo, bunny hop comp run twice sat, twice sun
Lake Jump Practice Saturday final Sunday? maybe final on saturay
Trailquest Sunday
Childrens challenge sat and sun and trails open both days for fun
Tyre drag open all weekend
When we are not uysing the event equipment you can have your own races so if you want to find out who is the best in your club, run your own event.
just spoke to my mate, he's 'borrowing' a wedding marquee for the weekend, says we could park a few cars in it 😯
how long is the long xc race and how short is the short one?
Long track is 4.5 miles with fun = 1 lap, open/ss = 3 laps race race whippet = 5 laps
Night Race open = 2, race whippet = 4
Short race is a bit different. Basically we shoot the last 5 riders each lap until we only have a few left who sprint for the podium. Track is about 3 miles with lots of trips through the baying crowd in the arena
shoot 🙂
I've had a root around but can't find anything going on at all next weekend. Looks like it's another local ride.