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Who wants to give me a go of a full sus bike? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Promise ill do decent if I get one! And ill do the ramp of doom too, have a full face and body armour, what else could go wrong?!
I may also need a lift this weekend… I’ll have a car for the Marathons though - I promise! I can give the cars pilot advice on how to navigate the muddy descent
I did a run down the course today and it’s class! If yas are sitting on the fence about going to this - do go! It will be a great event. You get to race the course 3 times with uplifts and it’s (I’m guessing) a 15-20 minutes descent. Ya’ll will be fine going down it
what a whopper day shame about my bike breaking at every moment it could(DAMED EXPENCIVE REPAIRS) but at least i got to do the blast on my diamondback(I.E HARDTAIL) and well done to ryan
wow - what a total mind-blower and body-basher of an event! Body should be just about recovered for next years one as I bent myself up a few times (just for laughs now!). The Blast was everything great I heard about it and a load more. Commiserations to Noel who sliced his hand pretty bad during a practice run (hope u got it stitched OK Noel!). nice one Ryan for 1st in his heat final (and 18th in the Blast - nice!) A puncture halfway thru the Blast was the only crap part of my day, but got it fixed and didn’t finish last so all ended well. Never seen so many dirty grinning laughing faces after a race…madness is great
That was one of the most fun days I have had. I had heard lots about it before, everyone raving on about it but it was (as Fergal put it) everything and more.
The track was deadly - it had the tricky technical bits, jumps, a fireroad climb and fast fast single track. The atmosphere was great, food lovely and prizes really really good
Mr Downey, you’ve to report to Mr Richard Byrnes office and explain your absence from the Blast (he was asking for ya). You missed Mick doing a great impression of Ryan as Mick went up to receive Ryan’s prize on his behalf, while Ryan went looking for his stolen bike (that wasn’t really stolen). Actually is was nothing like Ryan but very funny, kind of a little prance in his step and an elegant motion of the arms, I’d swear you did ballet at one stage Mick….
September 11th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I’m excited and terrified, kind of a bit ‘excerrified’ or ‘terricited’ I suppose, there’s two cool new words for ye to impress people with…
September 11th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
same here but need to see if i will stick with the cleats or go back to flats but we will wait and see
September 11th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
I’m looking froward to this - I went down a bit of it at the weekend and it was real slippy and muddy
It should be class!
September 11th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Who wants to give me a go of a full sus bike? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Promise ill do decent if I get one! And ill do the ramp of doom too, have a full face and body armour, what else could go wrong?!
September 11th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
You can borrow my Blur if you replace the bearings and shock bushings by the weekend…
September 11th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
I may also need a lift this weekend… I’ll have a car for the Marathons though - I promise! I can give the cars pilot advice on how to navigate the muddy descent
September 12th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
is there any directions to this event thingy if so could i please get a copy
shane
September 12th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Here’s one map
and here’s another one.
September 12th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
thanks morgan
September 15th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Anyone heading up around by the course tomorrow?
September 15th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
maybe, I was half thinking of returning home via there from the beginner spin…..
have you a lift sorted?
September 16th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Lift sorted
I did a run down the course today and it’s class! If yas are sitting on the fence about going to this - do go! It will be a great event. You get to race the course 3 times with uplifts and it’s (I’m guessing) a 15-20 minutes descent. Ya’ll will be fine going down it
September 17th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
what a whopper day shame about my bike breaking at every moment it could(DAMED EXPENCIVE REPAIRS) but at least i got to do the blast on my diamondback(I.E HARDTAIL) and well done to ryan
September 18th, 2006 at 6:17 am
wow - what a total mind-blower and body-basher of an event!
Body should be just about recovered for next years one as I bent myself up a few times (just for laughs now!).
The Blast was everything great I heard about it and a load more. Commiserations to Noel who sliced his hand pretty bad during a practice run (hope u got it stitched OK Noel!).
nice one Ryan for 1st in his heat final (and 18th in the Blast - nice!) A puncture halfway thru the Blast was the only crap part of my day, but got it fixed and didn’t finish last so all ended well. Never seen so many dirty grinning laughing faces after a race…madness is great
September 18th, 2006 at 8:41 am
That was one of the most fun days I have had. I had heard lots about it before, everyone raving on about it but it was (as Fergal put it) everything and more.
The track was deadly - it had the tricky technical bits, jumps, a fireroad climb and fast fast single track. The atmosphere was great, food lovely and prizes really really good
I’m still buzzing after it all
September 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Mr Downey, you’ve to report to Mr Richard Byrnes office and explain your absence from the Blast (he was asking for ya).
You missed Mick doing a great impression of Ryan as Mick went up to receive Ryan’s prize on his behalf, while Ryan went looking for his stolen bike (that wasn’t really stolen).
Actually is was nothing like Ryan but very funny, kind of a little prance in his step and an elegant motion of the arms, I’d swear you did ballet at one stage Mick….
September 18th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
LOL - I’d loved to have seen that. My heart dropped when I thought the bike was nicked!
September 19th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Shane, I saw a deadly photo of you diving to catch a derailleur you saw in the bushes:
http://images3.fotopic.net/?iid=yjdcco&outx=800&quality=80
did you get it?
and did it fit your bike ok?
September 20th, 2006 at 7:19 am
fixed working grand but for how long
September 21st, 2006 at 8:15 am
where did you get that picture
September 21st, 2006 at 10:19 am
That photo is deadly
Did it hurt?
September 21st, 2006 at 10:38 am
nope not at all what did hurt was when gar maguire pushed me over a bike at the top but got him back