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Got a HT?
Ride DH on it?
I have been working to bring back the HT champs for a couple of years!!
Well I have put it all together and it going to be great 🙂
Info here: http://ride.io/news/uk-hardtail-dh-camps-returns/
Would love it if some of you guys could make it too.
Hmmm. I'm not far away, now we've moved house. But I'm more a "ride down hills" rather than "ride DH".
Might have a spin down there to see what the tracks are like. Only been through there on the SDW.
Good work getting it organised though, sounds like a journey!
Double post.
Hi Scott, whats the timetable likely to be like on that day because I work shifts and have to be at work at 1830 and I'd love to race this!
As long as you don't make the podium you will be fine 😉deviant - MemberHi Scott, whats the timetable likely to be like on that day because I work shifts and have to be at work at 1830 and I'd love to race this!
Hardtails go firsts ish so your second run should be done by about 3:30 latest
Perfect. How do I enter?!
BC website, not live yet. That is one bit I'm not in control of or it would be live now!
this might just be the incentive I need to turn a pile of bits into a bike...
Good work Scott.
Is the prize still the denim cut?
Nope but hopefully something else cool, working on it 😉
thisisnotaspoon - MemberIs the prize still the denim cut?
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Hi guys entry is now live, If you have a HT grab your mate and come to the champs! It will be great fun 🙂
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/133136/Gravity-Project-Honey-Series-2015-Rd4
Hmm tempted to try and build up a dh hardtail !
You have to mate the banter will be epic 😉
QECP and BC websites say Sunday the 7th?
Sorry its the sunday 7th, there is optional practice on the Saturday.
Just how "DH" is it? Stupid question?
Not very IMO, It's piggybacking on a grassroots race
Here a race report form last years race. All features are rollable or have chicken line.
http://www.qecptrailcollective.co.uk/2014/06/race-report-gravity-project-rd4-qecp/
Not very IMO
Says the course setter from a race ridden in the dark which seemed to reduce a decent portion of the field to quivering wrecks 🙂
Must admit I'm tempted to enter this as it's fairly local but my HT is a 29er XC bike, kinda worried I'd ruin it!
jambalaya - MemberNot very IMO
Says the course setter from a race ridden in the dark which seemed to reduce a decent portion of the field to quivering wrecks
Very true 😯
If I was to compare the track to the Day & night enduro stages I would say easier than 1 & 2 and Harder than 3 & 4.
Scott, is this in the park or Headdown? ie using stuff from the day & night? (cos I coped with that - just!)
Also, is there a fully rigid category? - I'm thinking fatbike given the slideyness last weekend 😀
Headdown and a fatbike would be great fun! I think we all ready have one coming 😉
Painey - MemberMust admit I'm tempted to enter this as it's fairly local but my HT is a 29er XC bike, kinda worried I'd ruin it!
My mate is racing on his Solaris not that there very XC but it is a 29er 😉
Is a full face necessary or just an ordinary lid OK?
If I was to compare the track to the Day & night enduro stages I would say easier than 1 & 2 and Harder than 3 & 4.
Tell you what. I am supposed to be in Lisbon that weekend but if we don't confirm that this weekend I'll do the DH. 26 ain't dead but I might be 🙂
40mpg - MemberIs a full face necessary or just an ordinary lid OK?
Full Face only!
[i]Just[/i] a full face helmet? Lawks.
There was a guy on the Isle of Wight randonee a few weeks back in just a thong - each to their own eh?
(Wasn't pleasant passing him on a climb as he was out of the saddle - also he needed mudguards 😯 )
Righty-o. Talk me through how I enter please because I have no idea. Is it like motorcycle racing where I have to join a club, then the governing body, then put my entry in?
Too far south for me or I'd play.
would so love a bash or indeed just spectate at this and just so happen to be visiting the UK on tht weekend.- unfortunately i've got a wedding to attend in Suffolk on the 6th.
🙁
Race is on the Sunday, so you're all set! 😀
Hardtail is open to males only according to the BC website 😥 Shame, cos I'd have wooped some ass* 😆
* in my head
hmmmm, I wonder how my 4x bike would get on.....
In 2013 I raced the track on my dialled holeshot 4x for the win 🙂
Also, is there a fully rigid category? - I'm thinking fatbike given the slideyness last weekend
scottfitz - Member
Headdown and a fatbike would be great fun! I think we all ready have one coming
Piece of piss on a fatbike.
GP race- earlier in the year & I wasn't last
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kayla1 - Member
Righty-o. Talk me through how I enter please because I have no idea. Is it like motorcycle racing where I have to join a club, then the governing body, then put my entry in?
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Don't need any of that just need to enter online.
Also I was unaware that ladies could not enter Hardtails. Seam a bit sexist IMO.
And M0rk is signing up for this one right?!??!?!???????!!!?
Looks like I might join your mate and ride my Solaris.
Rode the day/night and loved it, can't do the summer one so this looks to be the next best thing.
Now where's the best place to look for a good, cheap full face for a huge head? 😆
Yeah, birthday treat to fall gracefully down a hill.
I quite fancy it - can I get away with a Bell Super 2R or do I need a "proper" full face?
Need to be a one piece FF
This is the race from last year.
Game on, I'm in! Gonna fail miserably, but hey its the UK champs 🙂
[quote=scottfitz]Also I was unaware that ladies could not enter Hardtails. Seam a bit sexist IMO.
It might just be a problem with the way the event is set up online. I've sent an email to BC anyway. Stick me in with the fellas, I'll race anyone 😆
Agree I can see how you can have a age cat for men and women separate but have a men's HT cat and NO women's HT cat sounds odd. Let me know what the email says because another lady just asked the same question.It might just be a problem with the way the event is set up online. I've sent an email to BC anyway. Stick me in with the fellas, I'll race anyone
I'm in. Good luck, ladies!
What time's practice on the Saturday, Scott?
9 till 4 ish and it's £5 on the day.
BTW just to let you guys know I am organising the Champs on the back of the Gravity project race but I/the champs don't take any money out. Just doing it you encourage others to race in Hardtail and have as much fun racing as I do!!
Well, it looks like it's working so far! 2nd ever race, 1st was SS XC. Need a FF helmet now. And some practice. Cheers, Scott.
Okey dokey, I haven't had an email back yet but it's only been a few hours since they'd have read it so they won't have had time to flap about and discuss it in committee yet 😆
Anyhoo, it looks like I can just enter the women's category and I'll ride it on my HT 😀
edit- done! 😀
I tell you what if we can get 3 women to enter I will speak to the sponsor's and see if we can get prize fastest women on HT!kayla1 - MemberOkey dokey, I haven't had an email back yet but it's only been a few hours since they'd have read it so they won't have had time to flap about and discuss it in committee yet
Anyhoo, it looks like I can just enter the women's category and I'll ride it on my HT
edit- done!
Same goes for Fatbikes if there are 3!!
What about a rigid 26+ front category? anybody?
that's a fatbike just a rubbish one 😉nedrapier - MemberWhat about a rigid 26+ front category? anybody?
Ha!
What's the format? Best of 2 runs? Or best of 1?
2 runs, sometime GP do 3 runs but the numbers and track length at qecp have meant it has always been 2 runs.
Here are the results from last years race to give you an idea of track times: https://www.rootsandrain.com/race2475/2014-jun-1-gp-honey-4-queen-elizabeth-country-park/