K-Capital grudge matches

[Fergal]

ok,

so we have Steve vs Oisin so far, with money down, we need some more pairings to make this interesting.

Give us your names & race category & who's arse you're gonna kick in the races and we'll go from there...

[Barrydanzig]

oh the best one:


RICHIE VS. CONOR


no holds barred, pure un-adulterated sports action!!

[shane]

morgan v fergal (masters)

[shane]

oisin b v sean (expert)

[Fergal]

good stuff lads, keep them rolling in....

[Martin]

fergal v richie byrne? (ohh forgot they are in different clubs! doh!)

[Fergal]

Richie is a vet, they have to be in the same category, besides, no-one would bet on him, everyone knows I'd kick his ass

[oisinfitz]

the battle of the bottlers:

shane's 'system' from last year v barry's this year.

i think ryan would be the best judge for this tough category.

[shane]

i only missed one race last year aswell so he would have to beat that aswell

[Scrivo]

Shane V Squeek


You can take up where I left off on that one buddy.. He gets quick after Kcaps...

[TomH]

Myself v The Diamond v Alex, I will miss the second race though...I'll put e10 on me to beat them both

[diamondG]

you just tell me what category to find you in, this season is mine :)


you better start training Heavey!!

IF that is your real name!

[Barrydanzig]

oisin what are you smoking?! i never bottle anything!


another good pairing up would be shane vs. his ego

[shane]

me and my ego are just fine now leave us alone


on another note barry hide in work on sat as you work in a place with many weapons

[ryan]

Shane would win in the battle of the bottlers anyday - perfect last year :)


Anyone want a grudge match with me ;)

[ollietrex]

Maybe if we clone, Fergal, Morgan and Sean together we could create a thing capable of beating Ryan. Any one good at the whole DNA splicing?

[paddyobrien]

you're going down ryan!


In fact i'd be prepared to bet that i'll finish the race quicker than you


(well i'd hope so given i'll have 2 laps to your 6!)

[Martin]

Karl v Ollie, now thats a grudge match!


(5 euro on Karl!!)

[Conor]

Remember, it dosent matter if you win or loose, just who you beat in the process!! Oh yeah, me 'v' Cormac. So long as I beat him into any singletrack, it'll be me.

[Richie]

Hmmm, better sort meself out with a bike before this racing season kicks off.... might just do it on the Titus and run ya over Conor on your dinky Rocky Mountain ;-)

[Conor]

Thats fightin talk..... old man!

[Richie]

Sounds like yer all riled up there Conor - dang, now I really need a race bike....

[Karl]

You can put me down for 10 euro on Ollie on that one Martin!

[Cormac]

It racing Conor, no prisoners taken

[ciaranc]

10 euro on squeek losing to shane .

unfortunately i cant race too much as i work sundays and i cant switch bak to saturdays now.

but i guess ill come to a few and maybe shout abuse at yis if that helps

:)

[Ash]

Ollie will be racing with his new single speed....10yoyos on Karl :o)

[Ned Overend]

Hey queers...whats this bolloks about you kicking my arse Fergal..you can barely ride a bike you semi-mulchy..MAD grudge matches, yeah there isn't a gram of testosterone in the combined lot of you slack jawed faggots..its about time you got your own Forum..i'm sick of you stinking up ours with your bent videos and your gayness..

you lot are starting to look like the MTB Club of UL...heres a kick up the hole for you lot..there I hope you felt it..though I think half my leg is stuck up Fergals fat hole !!!

[Ned Overend]

Ps benders..oisin will wipe the floor with Scrivo...unless its the other Oisin,,,in that case Scrivo will kick his skinny ass..

[Ned Overend]

oh yeah Ryan..nobody will fight you..you kick like a girl !!

[Ned Overend]

and another thing .....I can't rememeber..where did I park my Plane?

[shanethepainter]

whats a chiqquer, some sort of flea?

[shanethepainter]

sorry my mistake, thats chigger.!

[Martin]

welcome richie byrne! that was some intro!!

[Morgan]

Sugar?


Forget the grudge matches lads, we have other clubs to beat into submission in the K-Capitals this year...

[diamondG]

should have known it was richie byrne


you still sporting that mustache Mr YMCA


or is yours one of the 'wise' ones?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saLcgaX4FRw

[Barrydanzig]

morgan, speaking of beating other clubs into a bloody mash, will we have our MAD camp (complete with gazebo and the like) set up this year?


as chief bottle dispenser for team MAD i think it is very important that we have a solid base camp from which to launch the assault.

[Karl]

Dear Chiqqueer,


You seem confused. Although the page title reads as 'Mad Forum', it is not in fact what you were looking for. Google can throw up some off-the-wall results eh?


You may find what you are looking for here: http://www.dublinsamaritans.ie/ or here: http://www.sjog.ie/sjog/services/services_mental_main.html


get well soon

[Scrivo]

"oisin will wipe the floor with Scrivo"

Thanks for the vote of confidence there Richie. We'll see how things go. There defintely wont be any wiping the floor though!


Karl Thomas has it in for you Richie...

[Ned Overend]

I hope you prove me wrong Steve...the state of that Oisin lad with the big hair..hello Graham, hello martin..hey Morgan..i haven't seen you on a bike in ages...you probably needed a rest..

This forum is going to be nearly as much craic as EPICs..I'm just the forerunner of the mayhem to come..

[Morgan]

Haven't you heard? I've become a roadie. I never really liked getting dirty anyway. Only four months to the Wicklow 200. Awesome!

[Fergal]

ah here, who the hell let the devil in the door?

I'll give you fat arse Byrne! and a fat lip to go with it, that even that out of control nose-bush of yours won't hide, wait'll my gammy leg heals, yeah, just you wait....

[diamondG]

Richie, you'd have seen us today if you were in Djouce wood, we were on the epic nps circuit, a really good loop


and now the reason I'm being nice to you, you'll see us out more if we can do the epic league, ah go on, you're not that bad

[Fergal]

Hey Morgan!

You aren't featured as a "racer to watch" on the K-Cap website!!

What the hell man?

Go have words with them - and bring your dogs to intimidate them.


http://www.kcapitalcup.com/


They had me lined-up as a feature racer, but they couldn't find a camera with a shutter speed fast enough to capture my awesome speed, thus no photo, no feature, how cruel.....


Tom was also earmarked for stardom but when he turned-up grinning in the MAD thong he won, they fled...

[Richie]

So who else is in sports - apart from me?

[jonnieh]

most likely i'll do sports for this one as i'll be drinking the night before.


any excuse...

[paddyobrien]

me for the first one at least .. highly unfit these days so i'll struggle to race for an hour, never mind the 2 hours plus the masters race would take me

[Karl]

I'll do sports for the first race and see how it goes

[Conor]

I'm doing sports for this, I'll wait and see about the NPS.

[Cormac]

Sports initially.


The competition is hotting up...


Maybe we should agree on some team tatics to disrupt riders from other clubs.

[Morgan]

You'll notice Robin isn't mentioned either. We decided it would be nice to give some of the up and coming riders a chance...

[diamondG]

you know you all want to give masters a go, go onnnnnnnnnnnnn!


I recon we train and try it.

The jump from sports to masters is always going to be huge, no amount of training will ever make the jump a comfortable one.

And if we do it now, we'll be grand for the nps'.


Shane Lavelle's spin Thursday, he's doing 3 laps of Leadmines.

Then I'm thinking of doing laps of somewhere on Sunday for training.


Open to suggestions, but at the moment I'm thinking of Kindlestown. A warm up in Glen of the Downs and then laps of Kindlestown (6 laps for masters?)


worst case, train for masters and then you can do sports at the last minute if you want to.

[Cormac]

Yes, but we all have to make the jump together!


Personally I will see how I feel after the first few races. I found Kilruddery very very tiring last year, much more so that the other races. Maybe because it was the first race in the season or because of the muddy conditions.

[Cormac]

Glad to see you are being so generous Morgan.

[paddyobrien]

To be honest graham i was struggling with 3 short laps in the pheonix park the other night! It'll take another few weeks of hard training to get me anywhere near masters level.


(Note that i'm very unlikely to do a few weeks of hard training at the moment)

[Fergal]

"then laps of Kindlestown (6 laps for masters?)"

more like 10 laps I'd say Graham as the K'town loop is pretty short

[Karl]

Kindlestown is only around 2km long, seems longer though. We could do a few longer loops taking in GOTD and back - 10 laps of Kindlestown would be painful

[diamondG]

10 laps, didn't want to hear that :)


yeah, it makes sense though.

We did the Djouce nps last weekend, its an 8km lap, and it was 3 laps in the race (because of the mud). Even with just 3 laps its still a 24km race, so 10 laps of Ktown would only bring you up to near that distance.


I'd still like to try it sometime, it is a very enjoyable circuit. No huge climbs but a good fast loop.


I was trying to think of more places for laps, it sounds like there are a lot of walkers up 3rock on the weekend, so I was trying to avoid it, but maybe all the trails are dedicated mtb trails so it might be ok.


I was thinking of laps of the sugar loaf, sounds nuts but there is a loop going anticlockwise around the mountain, its basically 1 huge climb and 1 huge decent. It might be a bit boring though, and maybe its full of walkers on the weekends. I might try it in a week or two though.


anyone any other ideas for loops?

Maybe 3rock is best.

[Fergal]

you can pretty much avoid all walkers on that 3rock loop we did a while back Graham, and I know an extension of it that definitely avoids then, you basically continue on the sandy/stoney path all the way to the end of the forest (in Sugar Loaf direction) instead of turning down left to Satellite Run.

You end up on a long fireroad, after the barrier you can take a left which will bring you up a narrower fireroad t oSatellite Run so you can get it in as well, then it's rock-n-roll, old CC, Crossmax, across the front of the hill etc...

or the long tough climb up the fireroad to the aerials....lots of options, all difficult but all good...

[diamondG]

that does sound good, its a pretty savage loop.


A lot more suitable for training than ktown.

It sure isn't 2kms :)


I think I'll try this on Sunday morning. I'm afraid to ask though, how many laps would a masters race held there be?

If you say 10, I quit.. I'm becoming a roadie.


With the boneshaker climb included in the circuit, there's no way it would be more than 3 laps.

(I have a set of Rosary beeds in my hands and I'm praying, for the love of God it can't be more than 3)

[Fergal]

hmmm good question - well, a lap of a typical XC race is 5-6km, Masters generally do 5 laps, not sure what distance that 3rock loop is but sure you could measure a full loop on your speedo and then repeat it until you get to approx 30km

then say 10 Hail Marys and you'll be sorted

[diamondG]

sounds good, I'll try it Sunday.


Karl, sounds good bringing Glen of the Downs into the Kindlestown loop, we'd have to watch out for walkers but it'd be good.

[Karl]

I'll try make it Sunday too.

The route I was thinking was a lap of KTown, over to GOTD, the tunnel, switchbacks, car park, then up the long singletrack to the ruin and back. Probably 6-7km? Walkers would be an issue alright, unless it was early...

[Colm]

I would be up for it too... if its early

[diamondG]

what's early Colm?

I'd be thinking of starting at 10:30 or so

[Karl]

I stand corrected Graham, just back from doing that loop. A lap of Kindlestown is 3k and the loop taking in GOTD is bang on 10k. Bone dry up there too.

[Conor]

Just an idea, but does anyone want to do Ryans Killmashogue climb/race prep on Sunday? We can do this, then head over to 3 Rock for Grahams loop, and do K-Town on Saturday. Well?

[Karl]

I'd be on for that Conor. What time were you thinking for Saturday?

[Richie]

I'll be out on Sat, not sure if Sunday is a runner unless its early and quick.

[Conor]

Whatever time suits for Saturday is fine by me. Sunday will be quick Richie, Ryan is taking us up Kilmashogue.....that is if a few people turn up.

[diamondG]

Sunday sounds good! You can count me in, then up to do laps until I drop

[Karl]

I was thinking early on Saturday, less traffic on the trails. How does nine sound?

[Micheal]

All this talk of training is makin me dizzy. Just wondering is it possible to enter the 2nd k-capital race after not doin the first. There is no way i could survive the first race with my lack of fitness and Amsterdam this wkend. Actually my fitness levels will drop after the trip to the Dam!! The second race is more of a realistic goal, so is it possible?

[paddyobrien]

Hey Michael,


You'll be fine .. just enter the sports race and give it socks.


Racing is really good for seeing your improvement week to week (or race to race).


Say you enter the first one thinking you're not that fit or whatever, remember that there's lots of fairly unfit people out there. Then say you beat one person by 30 seconds and the next person was 1 minute in front of you. Then your minimum goal for the next time is to beat who you beat the last time and catch that fecker that was in front of you. Except that his goal is to keep you behind him and catch the one in front of him etc etc and so on up the field.


Only 3 people in each race are gonna get a medal/prize, but there's private races/battles going on all throughout the field, no matter where you are. These are what make it fun ... that and going really fast knowing theres an ambulance nearby if necessary! (personally i tend to go faster downhill in a race then on a spin because of this)

[Liam]

WEll you seem fitter than me Michael (not better lookin now!) and I'm doin the first race.

[Richie]

Well, sat is out the window for me - need to be back earlier than I thought...so I'm gonna try get out for a quick spin around 3 rock tomorrow morning, starting at 9(ish) from Taylors. Drop me a txt if ya want to come along. 086 8201549.