We're in !!!

Me and juanita are in the Trans Schwarzwald, confirmed by email today!

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Trans Schwarzwald

I have registered the Sunday Riders, we now have to wait for confirmation by post...huh?

The online entry wouldn't accept our English style post code, so I put 345 in that box and sent an email to the organisers with my address on it.

series one photos

I will add them as I find them:











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Thetford Series One

Skidmarks/Sundayriders take a podium in the first round!

results: Ramon 3rd vets, Facer 6th vets, Mighty D 8th ladies. pulsa aqui

distance: as many laps as possible around a 10k circuit in 4 hours.

weather: dry and warm, though it had rained all week.

terrain: a very slippery and muddy first lap, but it quickly dried out.


riders:

Ramon: smoothly and confidently almost pulled out after a very bad first lap.

Facer: now officially aged and is allowed to ride with the veterans.

The Mighty Dinsdale: had a leak, and so was thwarted in her plans to dominate Norfolk.

mechanicals: none

punctures: the mighty D had a slow puncture.

crashes: none.

no shows: juanita: was made a gift of ramon's cold. marky mark: has a mystery northern virus.

Trans Schwarzwald - website update!

The route is up on the website, no distances or registration yet though.

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Trans Schwarzwald registration

Registration starts on the 27th November: pulsa aqui

Spotted by LCO - pitbabe for this race.

Shackleford trailbreak

The next Evans trailbreak trail ride is on the 25th of november. This weekend they are putting on two events, the trail ride on the Saturday and the Navigator on the Sunday. pulsa aqui

Unfortunately the navigator clashes with the 1st round of the Thetford winter series. pulsa aqui

ramon y juanita are thinking of maybe doing the Saturday trail ride and then the Thetford on Sunday.

The swrc invitation ride

An invitation ride is a sort of 'suck it and see' ride organised by the club. A bit like a recruitment drive or open day :-)

Geof -El Presidente organised five different rides all starting at Cobham.

A ride: 90 miles led by Patrick.

B ride: 60 miles led by the newly slim Mr Smith.

C ride: 30 miles led by El Presidente.

D ride: 15 miles led by Roger.

MTB ride: led by the dashing Ramon.

The Mtb ride:

distance: 40k in 2.30 (74km in 4.15 for R and J)

weather: cold but dry 10'

Terrain: slightly greasy chalk, surprisingly little mud. Lots of orange leaves!

riders:
ramon: smooth and confident.
juanita: saw a lovely toadstool.
alan parky: climbed the fence.
paul gadd: sore legs.
marek: cross.
will: rigid and pink.
geraldine: enjoyed it.

mechanicals: none

punctures none.

teastop: bocketts farm.

crashes: none, though ramon had a moment.

Mighty Dinsdale Day

For millenia it has been thought that the Mighty Dinsdale was an eternal and not subject to the ravages of time as are ordinary mortals. It was often said 'The Mighty Dinsdale is, was and always will be.
Time, the great weakener of men is afeared of the Mighty Dinsdale and so does not make it's mark.

Happy birthday the Mighty Dinsdale

The Big Seven

With the big five under our belts, we are now being offered the big seven!

The Big 7

A new mountain bike stage race in Canada, from the capital of BC Victoria to Whistler.


British Columbia

Bramley Trailbreak Results

Saturday's results are here

gold all around yay!!

ramon y juanita equal 2nd fastest in the long event, el parky was next.

Trans Schwarzwald

registration is 'probably' in November according to the website: here

Probably seems very un-German, their races are usually organised down to the nanosecond:-)

pics and video from Poland

Yesterday we got the promised dvd's from Gzregorz. One has 47 mins of film footage and the other 2000 photos of the race.

The video is fantastic and divided up into each stage of the race. The Sunday Riders and Skidmarks feature a few times. In fact that's the great thing about it. It features everyone in the race, not just the first three of each category as you get from other races. eg the Cape Epic.


There are some great shots of the steep dusty downhills, with some people actually riding the whole thing, and lots crashing:)

Bramley Trailbreak

Distance: 92 km in 5.10 including 21km each way and 50km 3.09 for the event.

Weather: Cold and Sunny

Terrain: Very dry and very fast.

riders:

ramon: smooth and confident.
juanita: demon descender.
cliff: inhuman.
alan parky: went to church.
paul gadd: struggled after crashing last night, so he did it again.
neil: climber.

How it panned out: the swrc group set off as one, parky set the pace and cliff responded. Then it was eyeballs out until the first hill and the selection of the above five occured. Then the whittling started first to go was paul on the climb to reynards, next neil's front mech slipped in the woods at Holmbury.(alan said. 'go on, he'll catch us up') this group stayed together to the water stop, where ramon and parky filled their bottles. juanita and cliff rode on. cliff turned off at the bifurcation of the standard route and the longer route. ramon, juanita and parky took the long route. After a slight orientation hitch alan set off for the church and ramon and juanita went the right way. ramon thought 'he'll catch us up'. He did, but only after we'd finished our coffee at the finish:-)

mechanicals:none.

meeting of the day: the brothers grim, kay, phil.

slackers/soft tarts/no shows: marky has a cold, facer went to a party, the mighty dinsdale had to work.

the perfect ride.