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Post by kirky72 on Apr 2, 2015 18:43:03 GMT
Anybody entering this. Supposed to be a good event, fairly reasonable cost and like the ard rock enduro you get to ride routes across private land normally off limits. im going to wait until nearer the time before signing up. cvmbc.co.uk |
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 8:55:57 GMT
Yup, doing it on my fatty  Did it last year and it was a cracking day, great route too, first 3-4 mile though is some serious climbing designed to split the pack up. Top of the first climb there's a full blown bag piper playing away as you pass, then in the quarry there's an Elvis impersonator banging out song's complete with amp and microphone |
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 8:56:50 GMT
Infact my profile pic is from last year's event |
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Post by kirky72 on Apr 3, 2015 9:04:37 GMT
I watched the video that showed Elvis and the Piper, there seems to be a good atmosphere around the event. The only thing that concerned me was that I'm sure I spotted a few cx bikes here and there.
Is it a pretty easy going route or are they some good fun sections, I did read that they had more off road this year than before after striking up more agreements with landowners to cross their land.
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 9:13:04 GMT
Yeah it's full of cx's, 29er,s and lycra loony's just let them go first and get out of the way then you can just enjoy the ride, there's plenty of climbing around 4000ft if i remember rightly, and over the 30 miles i would say 10 are road miles, well worth doing though, I placed 185th out of 251 entrants which i didn't think was to bad because at the 20 mile point i was in last place due to the lads i was with having mechanicals, i dropped them at 20 miles though and got the red mist and went for it |
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Post by hodgy on Apr 3, 2015 9:20:14 GMT
That's no impersonator ...Elvis is alive and kicking ..I was speaking to him only yesterday in Belllingham Co-op...
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 9:20:59 GMT
Last years weapon of choice  This years  Wonder how many more fatty's will be there haha |
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 9:29:08 GMT
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Post by glynnsixo on Apr 3, 2015 9:54:26 GMT
not done this one but did the holme valley one, year before last. its run by the same scout group.dont know if any of it covers some of the same route. there was a cobbled climb that seamt like a 1:1 and a tough rocky climb near to the last descent to the finish. yeah there were a few cx bikes on that one also. |
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Post by glynnsixo on Apr 3, 2015 10:01:16 GMT
macky I wish you'd geeore putting piccies up of your fatty.im already yearning after a new full suss that I cant have due to my daughters wedding to pay for  |
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Post by roundie1981 on Apr 3, 2015 10:16:44 GMT
This looks alright, might see if I can get the BIL to do it with me, as it's only 20mins from where I live.
I'm guessing it starts and finishes in the same place?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 10:23:34 GMT
I'm in whinlatter on the Saturday so no go for me  |
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Post by roundie1981 on Apr 3, 2015 10:30:48 GMT
I'm in whinlatter on the Saturday so no go for me Jammy bugger |
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Post by steormy on Apr 3, 2015 10:45:06 GMT
I'll be in Malaysia. Damn  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 10:50:01 GMT
I'm in whinlatter on the Saturday so no go for me Jammy bugger No mate it's that stupid bloody enduro I got talked in to doing  Not feeling the love for it .. I prefer more xc riding |
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Post by hodgy on Apr 3, 2015 10:56:56 GMT
Ste ..thought we had agreed that I was taking your place on the Malaysia trip ..so you could enter the Whinlatter event ..?
It's a it of a bugger if you are going now as I've booked the time off and everything ..even bought two new Hawaiian shirts and a new tube on suntan lotion ..what a let down ...
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Post by steormy on Apr 3, 2015 11:19:44 GMT
Ste ..thought we had agreed that I was taking your place on the Malaysia trip ..so you could enter the Whinlatter event ..? It's a it of a bugger if you are going now as I've booked the time off and everything ..even bought two new Hawaiian shirts and a new tube on suntan lotion ..what a let down ... Ha Ha. I knew you'd remember. I couldn't get on the whinlatter enduro so I've decided that the holiday is back on. Soz. What size are the shirts? |
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Post by hodgy on Apr 3, 2015 11:48:22 GMT
Not your size !!
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Post by kirky72 on Apr 3, 2015 13:02:04 GMT
Only 29 miles I thought it was a rad over 40? Maybe Its shown in kilometres but I assumed it was miles. Relatively a lot of climbing though for the distance. I like your style with the fatty, I can tell you don't give a flying shit about what others might think with their carbon cx and hard tailspin as long as you enjoy yourself. ps I would be one of those opting for the carbon hard tail but I still doff my cap to you. |
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Post by macky on Apr 3, 2015 14:06:06 GMT
Only 29 miles I thought it was a rad over 40? Maybe Its shown in kilometres but I assumed it was miles. Relatively a lot of climbing though for the distance. I like your style with the fatty, I can tell you don't give a flying shit about what others might think with their carbon cx and hard tailspin as long as you enjoy yourself. ps I would be one of those opting for the carbon hard tail but I still doff my cap to you. Short course was 20 miles, long course was 30 miles, It is quite tough with some bitching climbs but well worth it and the atmosphere is great. The thing with the Fatty is it showed me how a lot of my so called friends were just cocks, when i bought it i took weeks and weeks of grief for going from a carbon stumpy to a fatbike, so much infact i decided to go out and prove to them how good fatty's can be, 4 month's down the line 600+ miles and nearly 45,000ft of ascent and not a squeak out of them now, my riding has got so much better now too, I'm riding further and faster than i did on the stumpy (albeit not downhill) I even got a kom in the peaks, a f*****g kom on a fatbike haha Now i just get up early on a Sunday pack my shit in the car and go ride a full day in the peaks taking loads of pictures of where i've been, then spam fbook with them just to shut them up haha |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 15:54:54 GMT
Only 29 miles I thought it was a rad over 40? Maybe Its shown in kilometres but I assumed it was miles. Relatively a lot of climbing though for the distance. I like your style with the fatty, I can tell you don't give a flying shit about what others might think with their carbon cx and hard tailspin as long as you enjoy yourself. ps I would be one of those opting for the carbon hard tail but I still doff my cap to you. Short course was 20 miles, long course was 30 miles, It is quite tough with some bitching climbs but well worth it and the atmosphere is great. The thing with the Fatty is it showed me how a lot of my so called friends were just cocks, when i bought it i took weeks and weeks of grief for going from a carbon stumpy to a fatbike, so much infact i decided to go out and prove to them how good fatty's can be, 4 month's down the line 600+ miles and nearly 45,000ft of ascent and not a squeak out of them now, my riding has got so much better now too, I'm riding further and faster than i did on the stumpy (albeit not downhill) I even got a kom in the peaks, a f*****g kom on a fatbike haha Now i just get up early on a Sunday pack my shit in the car and go ride a full day in the peaks taking loads of pictures of where i've been, then spam fbook with them just to shut them up haha Fair play macky take my hat off to you , I had a go on sarkys fat bike and I can see the fun in them and see why you and sarky are riding them .. |
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Post by lowcogger on Apr 3, 2015 20:22:35 GMT
Roundie's suggested we do this together,at the moment i'm giving it a serious ammount of thinking about |
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Post by roundie1981 on Apr 4, 2015 9:44:31 GMT
Roundie's suggested we do this together,at the moment i'm giving it a serious ammount of thinking about We can bimble round together mate, hopefully the downs will be good. |
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Not feeling the love for it .. I prefer more xc riding 