Just 2 days to go until Mountain Mayhem (and the weather forecast is dry(!?) mmm… we’ll see…). Took the ‘race’ bike (geared Voodoo) out last night, as its not been used since Enduro 6 and had vague memories of it sounding quite unhealthy during the race. Confirmed at the top of the first climb to [...]
So, around a year after booking the Fundamentals course (postponements due to my fractured elbow and the Atherton’s having a awesome season - how dare they! )…..
Late Saturday afternoon, (in true to form - last minute-ness) I decided to give the bike I was going to use for the following days Athertons training [...]
Lots of entry forms been filled in at the moment…
“Thank you for entering the 2009 Original Source Mountain Mayhem.
This is to confirm registration of your team in the SPORT MEN Category.
Further event information will be sent to team captains nearer the event date.
See you there!!
Patrick, Jill and the Mayhem Team”
Received confirmation for our team entry [...]
February 8, 2009 – 7:55 pm
Go!
In short Hit the North was a lot of fun the course was excellent (much improved over the original HTN course in my opinion). I was really glad I chose to ride the singlespeed (and scwhable mud shark 1.5 tyres), the 32:18 ratio proving to suit the climbs and the flat bits weren’t as [...]
February 6, 2009 – 9:29 pm
First race if the year tomorrow - Hit the North 1.5
I say race it, I imagine it will be more of a pottle in my case.
Excuses I have so far are:-
Had a virus thing last week and not been on a bike for two weeks.
Doing it on a singlespeed with a 32:18 ratio [...]
January 24, 2009 – 10:34 pm
Total opposite of my last ride - out on the SS again for just over 2.5hours and felt really good.
I did a loop from Whalley Bridge to Buxton via Derbyshire Bridge, which I’ve not done singlespeed before. I thought there would be a few pushes as there are a couple of steep sections - [...]
January 22, 2009 – 10:34 pm
Tonights ride (SS) was pretty uneventful. I felt slow both up and down and I was all a bit rubbish really. I lay the blame firmly at been up at 5am this morning as I had to visit the hamlet of London.
January 18, 2009 – 1:55 pm
Picked up the singlespeed from Eighteen bikes on Saturday and headed out for a short ride around 5pm, it HAD been a clear, sunny winters day.
Five minutes into the ride it started to rain, an hour later we were in a full blown gale - although short it was the most difficult riding conditions, I’ve [...]
January 13, 2009 – 10:28 pm
Another short ride late afternoon/early evening (can’t seem to get out until dusk recently) on the Gary Fisher Ged.
Not so sure about yesterdays (totally unscientific) theory of riding a heavier biker will make you faster when out on the race/light bike. As I felt reasonably OK at the top of a climb which [...]
January 10, 2009 – 7:26 pm
After a slow run this morning (Significant Other slowing things down).
Decided at 3pm to get out for a quick ride, as the SS is still awaiting the brake lever to be returned from Magura (its leaking - 18 Bikes have kindly sent it over to them for the repair job). The Voodoo has [...]