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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Aug 4, 2021 14:16:51 GMT
Mountain bike ClipClop. On tarmac though since they spent some cash on the canal towpath. Really fancy a gravel bike but can't justify the outlay just now. Yeah, the prices have gone silly. I have contemplated getting a knackered old mountain bike converted over. |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Aug 4, 2021 14:48:51 GMT
Cheers guys. I thought I was fat and slow. Good to know I'm just fat.
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Post by jsrace on Aug 4, 2021 19:04:49 GMT
Cheers guys. I thought I was fat and slow. Good to know I'm just fat. Not trying to be funny but the dimensions you gave of yourself, describe a large ball bearing. |
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Post by armstrongracer on Oct 7, 2021 16:48:32 GMT
At least you made the front cover meeks.  |
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 8, 2024 10:16:18 GMT
So, like a fool I allowed myself to be drawn into taking part in a 50km cross country race this coming Sunday.
It is forecast to rain constantly from this evening and till the end of Sunday, so its going to be a mud-bath and temperatures are not expected to go above 7º.
Apart from faking my own death in the next 48 hours and spending the day in the pub instead (tempting as it seems) any advice? Should I wear waterproofs of just man up and get soaked?
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Post by beefus on Feb 8, 2024 14:10:00 GMT
So, like a fool I allowed myself to be drawn into taking part in a 50km cross country race this coming Sunday. It is forecast to rain constantly from this evening and till the end of Sunday, so its going to be a mud-bath and temperatures are not expected to go above 7º. Apart from faking my own death in the next 48 hours and spending the day in the pub instead (tempting as it seems) any advice? Should I wear waterproofs of just man up and get soaked? If I hadn't trained for it (have you?), I'd head to the pub!  but fair play if you give it a go! |
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 8, 2024 14:20:12 GMT
I do train, I ride about 20kms on unmade surfaces twice a week (except when I'm away for work) and I usually go out a couple of times a month at the weekends with a group of friends and my son to do a bit of tougher enduro riding or downhill (hard work, but not long distance). The weeks I don't go out with the enduro group I go to the pump track with my younger son.
So yes, I do ride a lot, but I'm still a bit daunted with the idea of 50kms in the mud and rain...
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Post by mekon on Feb 8, 2024 15:52:27 GMT
I do nothing but cruising and wheelies on the Big Ripper. In fact I now hate all cyclists as they keep ruining my runs in the Merc.
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Post by beefus on Feb 8, 2024 16:26:36 GMT
I do train, I ride about 20kms on unmade surfaces twice a week (except when I'm away for work) and I usually go out a couple of times a month at the weekends with a group of friends and my son to do a bit of tougher enduro riding or downhill (hard work, but not long distance). The weeks I don't go out with the enduro group I go to the pump track with my younger son. So yes, I do ride a lot, but I'm still a bit daunted with the idea of 50kms in the mud and rain... No brainer then....Good luck! |
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Feb 8, 2024 21:07:02 GMT
Waterproofs Diego the toe clipper. No brainer. I bought a second hand road bike last autumn for training. I haven't used as much as I intended but so far so good. |
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 9, 2024 13:30:53 GMT
When my sister sold the family house from the inheritance I had to go over and rescue what I wanted from the attic / shed etc. Luckily, my old BMX (Meteorlite Freestyler) was sitting there, but in a bad state. The plastic mag wheels were cracked, the chrome parts were rusted down to the base metal, but I decided to put the frame and forks in the box to send over to Spain. Fast forward to last autumn and my younger son decides he's fed up of his trick scooter and wants a BMX to use at the pump track. Lots of money and a few evenings of swearing in my "workshop" (10th floor balcony) my old BMX is resto-modded for him as a Xmas pressy!   Another cyclist in the family! |
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 11, 2024 19:59:14 GMT
In the end the rain held off, we were lucky!
Finished 80th out of 126 participiants, 26th out of 38 in my age category (old gits).
Pretty pleased with finishing in the first place and having seen quite a few people get off and push on the really steep inclines and trickt technical sections, even more pleased that I didn't have to stop or get off at any point (except at the refreshmenat stall at the half way point!)
But fuck me those last 8 or 9 kms were torture.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Feb 11, 2024 20:32:02 GMT
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 12, 2024 10:39:30 GMT
Yes, we were in a group of 4 and we stayed together until the half way point, then the rest of them went offf at their own pace. My boy was first of the four (he is 16) and completed it in 3hrs 21 minutes (64th) - he stopped again for second refreshments and reckons he could have finished in 3.15 really. Next was a friend of mine, same age as me but he does a lot of marathon running so fitter in terms of resistance (he also has a carbon fibre XC bike) in 3hrs 27 minutes Next was the other friend, he's 30, does a lot of downhill with us but also has a carbon fibre XC bike which he used, finished in 3hrs 30 - but he was riding with another guy and they both took a wrong turn and did an extra few kms, he was gutted! And I was last of the 4 with a time of 3hrs 33. No excuses, no wrong turns, just that I did it on my aluminium framed double suspension All-Mountain bike. But considering that the winner did it in 2hrs 4 minutes and the last to complete the course 4hrs 14, we were all quite closely grouped aroung the "average" mark really. |
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Feb 12, 2024 18:19:26 GMT
You'll be holding your lad back before you know it. Try not to be too envious at his pace.
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but fair play if you give it a go!