Pedal On Southern XC Series
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Round 1 this Sunday. Anyone on here taking part?
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If my forks are back from servicing I may well do, not looking too likely though!0
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I am planning to race, although haven't entered yet. I have never raced at Checkendon before, so looking forward to it
Njee, I can't belive you only have one mtb?0 -
Indeed I do!
I'm also making excuses because I really didn't enjoy checkendon last year and it's knocking 2 hours from me, and I can't be bothered :-)0 -
After geting my arse well and truly caned at Crowthorne (Gorrick) last Sunday I really should know better, but perversely I'm thinking of giving Checkendon a go. However it rather depends on how I feel after a 4th cat circuit race at Milton Keynes on Saturday.
Anyone know how the Checkendon course compares to Crowthorne?
I'm a complete newbie and I'm desperately short of skills on technical courses, if it's like Crowthorne, I'll give it a miss.0 -
It's significantly more technical than Crowthorne! lots of tight singletrack, steep little climbs and off camber descents. V slippery in the wet too, with some nice flints to trash tyres! It did used to be a great course, and they've done well with the significantly reduced land they've got now, just wasn't my sort of course!0
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That does sound great, especially given that someone else told me the course was not very interesting. Forecast is for wet0
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It's a difficult one in the wet, part of it is quite Mayhem-esque and you want a very narrow mud tyre, but that won't last/grip on the flints!
Vindicates my decision to go for a nice local ride instead :-)0 -
njee20 wrote:It's a difficult one in the wet, part of it is quite Mayhem-esque and you want a very narrow mud tyre, but that won't last/grip on the flints!
Vindicates my decision to go for a nice local ride instead :-)
Ha, I'm riding it on an 18 year old all steel rockhhopper with CX tyres. Can't wait to see the carnage. Better bring some spare tubes :shock:0 -
DNF due to snapped bar. Some rethinking needed on racing the 18 year old rigid it seems.0
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It became very dark and started to sleet/hail as I lined up with the veterans. Very ominous but that stopped almost straight away and the course improved every lap. 100% rideable if you had the skills and fitness. Didn't notice the flints but was very rooty.0