Jamie Goddard & I trundled out to the Fat Tyre Flyers club champs today, intending to do our first MTB races. Jamie's an Eastern combine A grade road rider and a trackie, and I'm a gumby B grader.
long story short, I broke a spoke during the recce lap, which was just as well, I'd have been a menace on the course! Jamie did well until his brand new Avanti's bars came loose!
I took my camera, just in case, and in that case ...
Looks like much better weather than we had for the 2 12hr races this weekend - occasional showers yesterday for the "fun" event and torrential rain (almost an inch in a few hours) for the Championship event which ended up being called off early.
Looks like much better weather than we had for the 2 12hr races this weekend - occasional showers yesterday for the "fun" event and torrential rain (almost an inch in a few hours) for the Championship event which ended up being called off early.
I'm glad I passed up on that empty spot in a friend's team ...
Looks like much better weather than we had for the 2 12hr races this weekend - occasional showers yesterday for the "fun" event
Why is that in inverted commas. I had fun. You had fun. The other monkeys had fun. It was a tops day out, and a fine day to ride a bike without gears.
Especially if it had two chains and you were wearing sheepskin overshoes. Who was that idiot?
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Looks like much better weather than we had for the 2 12hr races this weekend - occasional showers yesterday for the "fun" event and torrential rain (almost an inch in a few hours) for the Championship event which ended up being called off early.
Was that in Sydney? I noticed two cars carrying very muddy MTBs late in the afternoon on Anzac Br. --
Nice shots. It's always good to be able to check out the photos when you get home.
I was certainly relieved to get there and find the track was nice and dry. Not so relieved to discover I had left my slicks behind and was riding home into a rather nasty headwind on knobbies.
What did you think of the track? I have to say I am more of a fan of whittlesea (which it seems is no more), but it did have it's fun sections. The flowing downhill walking trail with steps comes to mind... 😄.
Nice shots. It's always good to be able to check out the photos when you get home.
I was certainly relieved to get there and find the track was nice and dry. Not so relieved to discover I had left my slicks behind and was riding home into a rather nasty headwind on knobbies.
What did you think of the track? I have to say I am more of a fan of whittlesea (which it seems is no more), but it did have it's fun sections. The flowing downhill walking trail with steps comes to mind... 😄.
For me, it was -way- too difficult, but, I've done buggerall MTB'ing, and in a way was glad I had a mechanical, I'd have just been an obsticle for everyone else while I walked the damn thing!
