ColdTea
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 19:50 |
For a change, this weekend I will mostly be entering an Uphill race. 
Its quite simple - one long technical climb (Bamford Clough - 600m long
with 120m height gain) and the person who gets highest without dabbing
wins, in the event of more than one person making it to the top, the
fastest time wins. Should be a lung bursting, leg burning hoot (I'm taking
the FSer with a low pressure DH tyre on the back for grip).
Its great to see some different format events which is one of the main
reasons I'm entering 'cos sure as hell I'm not going to win. Its part of
the Bamford Mountain
Bike Weekend in the very slim chance anyone else is up this way this
weekend.
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scratch
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 19:55 |
can we bring back xc sat/dh sun,same bike events too?
that'd be cool 
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jumpmasterj
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 19:55 |
| Sounds fun, good to see something a bit different ____________________
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jumpmasterj
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 19:57 |
quote:
can we bring back xc
sat/dh sun,same bike events too?
that'd be cool
Don't they do that at the world cup and world championship? ____________________
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ColdTea
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 20:11 |
quote:
quote:
can we bring back xc sat/dh sun,same bike
events too?
that'd be cool
Don't they do that at the world cup and world championship?
World Champs for sure, World cup, sometimes.
Closer to home at this years National Champs at Moelfre you had the
opportunity to take part in DH, XC, 4X and Trials* all on the same
weekend.
With a growing number of venues that can host serious DH and XC races who
knows maybe in the future we'll see more multi disciplin racing - I'm all
in favour of it.
* Trials was cancelled due to lack of entries - I think they had 3. 
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scratch
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 20:13 |
quote:
Don't they do that at
the world cup and world championship?
1 rider 1 bike, XC Saturday DH sunday overall wins,
erm, maybe in 1992 they did, Tomac won it one year,
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scratch
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 posted on 18/8/2006 at 20:18 |
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World Champs for sure,
World cup, sometimes.
no way, i thought they'd finished with it,
any way goodluck tommorow Colin
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2tyred
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 21:20 |
Dosen't look too bad....to go DOWN.  ____________________
What happened .... did I fall off?
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blanche
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posted on 18/8/2006 at 21:52 |
Good luck, dude.
Whilst you are there, going past the edge, say hello to the A35 for me- i
lost a lot of skin falling off, again and again.
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ColdTea
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posted on 21/8/2006 at 13:36 |
Thanks for the good wishes everyone - you'll all be shocked to hear that I
didn't win, didn't even make it onto the podium 
It was good fun all the same, nobody made it to the top which was due
mostly to the wet conditions, in the dry I reckon the top 3 guys would have
made it.
The pic above doesn't give any idea of how steep the damn thing is -
definitely a lot more fun to go down!  ____________________
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