Brass Monkeys...

miss notax

Right!

Who's Brass Monkeying this winter then?! Just about to sign up for the full set (to make myself feel better about sitting on my backside for the past hour, messing about on the internet and eating a box of Maltesers)

frogstomp

Substitute Maltesers for red wine and you've got the reason I've not signed up yet!

If I've drained the wine cellar dry by Christmas I may be tempted out in the new year to reclaim my rightful place towards the back of the middle of the field... :roll:

miss notax

That's a rubbish excuse ;-)

I am cleverly using the races to justify my Malteser and wine habit...!

Sarpullido

Also planning to do the whole 4 hours race series.

njee20

I ought to sign up really, cement my mid table mediocrity.

miss notax

That's the spirit njee20

njee20

Slightly depressing when I was happily top 10 a couple of years ago! :-(

miss notax

Ah, welcome to the 'getting older' club :-)

JasonRwmb

I appear to have a pass to a few of these. Despite living on the doorstep and going to most of the Brass Monkey races, I don't think I have actually raced one before :oops:

4hrs for me, probably joining njee lost somewhere in the middle of the results.

njee20

Woop woop, let's strive for anonymity!

heavy_rat

I'll be there for round 1 in the 2hr cat. Bit of a trek for me but worth it

frogstomp

Right, checked down the back of the sofa and found a shred of motivation, so I'm now signed up for round 1!

I graduate to the 'adult' category this year, so hopefully it'll be populated by slow, old giffers who will make me look good.. (gnarled, race-hardened whippets more like!)

miss notax

Ha ha

I'm quite looking forward to it, although I shall look like an idiot racing on the Burner (in a shocking display of over-bikeness!) but hey ho. Only one mountain bike at the moment so needs must!

Mccraque

I'm going to wheeze my way around.

njee20

I don't actually have a mountain bike presently, which may pose a problem.

Mccraque

@njee20 - I am sure I read a story where Peter Sagan turned up on his sisters bike because his was lost in transit....and subsequently won the event.....

njee20

I imagine Peter Sagan would still have won even if his sister's bike was a 12" kids bike!

JasonRwmb

Nick, if it helps you can borrow my son's 24" wheeled mtb. If we put the seat up you won't look too ridiculous. It is 1x10 so you will manage fine, in fact it is probably lighter than most of the bikes at the race so you will have no excuse!

njee20

Haha! Wouldn't want to deprive Isaac of a race!

Should have a bike sorted for the second one, I'll try and drag myself out for that!

miss notax

How did everyone go then??!!

Good to see Frogstomp speed past but not sure I recognised anyone else?

6th in category for me - hopefully not out of 6 ;-) !!

JasonRwmb

13th in the 4hr Vets for me. Pretty pleased with that, legs felt good for the first couple of hours, but endurance wasn't there, which I expected as it was the first ride over 3hrs I have done for a while.

I thought the course was fairly good, and given the problems the organisers had in the past week with trails being trashed it was very good.

Lou had to pull out after 6 laps as her (fairly new) Reba forks blew an internal seal, so she did most of her last lap with no air pressure in them, and the lowers slowly filling up with dirt as the oil wiper had been forced off. She still managed 3rd, but I am sure she would have been 2nd otherwise. Now to see how good Planet-X are with warranty returns...

miss notax

Oh god, poor Lou, that's a nightmare :-(

I didn't realise that there was a last minute problem with the trail?

JasonRwmb

There has been forestry work going on for a few weeks now, it has trashed some of the existing trails. And made the fire roads a bit muddy! So the organisers spent several days building a couple of miles of new trails, only for those to be destroyed by forestry vehicles last week. Good job the main monkey is a quick trail builder.

Sarpullido

Hi,
I finished 14th in 4h veteran males, just 1 position after Jason Loved the course, kudos to the organizers.
I started very well first 3 laps but during lap 4 I was having cramps and had to ease the pace. I also drank too much powdered water and had to stop for a wee twice! At the end felt slightly better eating bars.

See if I can catch you, Jason, next race in 3 weeks time!

Mccraque

I finished mid pack in the 2 hour male. Certainly had nothing left and rather glad I finished lap3 after the cut off... Or would have forced myself into lap4.

Really enjoyed it... May not be able to do the next round as wife about to drop- but will be back later in the series

frogstomp

Managed to scrape into the points with 39th in the 2hr Male Vets.. would've been 40th but I bust a gut to overtake someone on the last corner and it worked out lol!

Great course.. roll on round 2!

JasonRwmb

Sarpullido wrote:

See if I can catch you, Jason, next race in 3 weeks time!

Good stuff, see you there. I am not sure how quick I will be as it is my birthday on the Saturday, so may be recovering from that.

For anyone that hasn't spotted it, Round 2 is now to be held at Ceasers Camp - Look forward to a bit more climbing than Rnd 1!

frogstomp

Some photos available here and here...

Round two confirmed at Caesar's Camp.


_DSC0751_edited-1 by Kevin Sheldrake, on Flickr

heavy_rat

800 photos and none of me. Must have been going to fast.

I wish

miss notax

None of me either

frogstomp

Sounds like I'm the only one who slows down for the photographers? Maybe that's where I'm going wrong then... :oops: