Comments on: What’s on in the MADMTB world this week? http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/ Ireland's Premier Mountainbiking Club™ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:31:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sean http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4761 Sean Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4761 yeah, That was sa great day's racing.<br/>Really enjoyed the first 2.5 laps bu the second half was a bit <a HREF="http://bp1.blogger.com/_RrSyw9D96sM/Rgbghu_DUAI/AAAAAAAAAAo/uQH3p-nAuT8/s320/hip.JPG" REL="nofollow">painful</a><br/>thanks again to the lads at the feedzone for the bottle changing, it's much appreciated.<br/><br/>Sean yeah, That was sa great day’s racing.
Really enjoyed the first 2.5 laps bu the second half was a bit painful
thanks again to the lads at the feedzone for the bottle changing, it’s much appreciated.

Sean

]]> By: Ryan Sherlock http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4759 Ryan Sherlock Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:31:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4759 Oh, and excuse me if I missed anyone on the list - add yourself in :) Oh, and excuse me if I missed anyone on the list - add yourself in :)

]]> By: Ryan Sherlock http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4758 Ryan Sherlock Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4758 That was a great race yesterday! A beautiful day in Rostrevor seen the MAD hoards arrive.<br/><br/>The course was fantastic, a difficult first kilometre that climbed 100 meters brought us into some amazing fast single track eventually turning into a much shorter climb that threw us back into more fast twisty single track with exposed roots :)<br/><br/>We had people racing in most of the categories!<br/>Shane and Ciaran in the U16, Inga and Judith (glad to see you back racing!) in Ladies sport, Stevie in Juniors, Nigel, Cormac, Marck, Arkadiusz and Oisin in Sports, Sean (coming along nicely!) in Experts, Fergal and Robert in Masters with me in Elite. That's some list! Well done everyone.<br/><br/>I have a few photos from the start of the first race here:<br/>http://picasaweb.google.com/ryan.sherlock/2007KCapitalCupRound2<br/><br/>Thanks a million to Shane and the lads for helping me out in the feed zone. I really appreciate it! That was a great race yesterday! A beautiful day in Rostrevor seen the MAD hoards arrive.

The course was fantastic, a difficult first kilometre that climbed 100 meters brought us into some amazing fast single track eventually turning into a much shorter climb that threw us back into more fast twisty single track with exposed roots :)

We had people racing in most of the categories!
Shane and Ciaran in the U16, Inga and Judith (glad to see you back racing!) in Ladies sport, Stevie in Juniors, Nigel, Cormac, Marck, Arkadiusz and Oisin in Sports, Sean (coming along nicely!) in Experts, Fergal and Robert in Masters with me in Elite. That’s some list! Well done everyone.

I have a few photos from the start of the first race here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ryan.sherlock/2007KCapitalCupRound2

Thanks a million to Shane and the lads for helping me out in the feed zone. I really appreciate it!

]]> By: Tom http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4754 Tom Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4754 Yeah that track will be savage, a bit of regular usage and it will be so nice, ....we ended up building no north shore sections as it turned out, we decided to keep the timber for a place that really warranted it, so for the few speed killing sect's at the top just after u cross the club course we filled in with rocks it and it works pretty well,....<br/>some kind of markers on trees in a few spots would be good as its quite hard to know what way to go until u are almost on it, maybe a few yellow arrows just tacked on to the bark or even sprayed on, at least until the the trail is worn in...<br/><br/>On my way back to the car park I met Christian on his gorgeous new Canyon, I just took it for a rip on the fireroad but wow the brakes are unreal!..his knee is still troubling him but he's coming to wales anyway so u can all ogle his new steed.<br/><br/>I will go now and upload Fergals video from yesterday it's a hoot.. Yeah that track will be savage, a bit of regular usage and it will be so nice, ….we ended up building no north shore sections as it turned out, we decided to keep the timber for a place that really warranted it, so for the few speed killing sect’s at the top just after u cross the club course we filled in with rocks it and it works pretty well,….
some kind of markers on trees in a few spots would be good as its quite hard to know what way to go until u are almost on it, maybe a few yellow arrows just tacked on to the bark or even sprayed on, at least until the the trail is worn in…

On my way back to the car park I met Christian on his gorgeous new Canyon, I just took it for a rip on the fireroad but wow the brakes are unreal!..his knee is still troubling him but he’s coming to wales anyway so u can all ogle his new steed.

I will go now and upload Fergals video from yesterday it’s a hoot..

]]> By: Fergal http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4753 Fergal Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4753 A great trailbuilding session today in glorious weather with a LOT of great work done on the DH section and also the XC section.<br/><br/>I left about midday but the lads - Oisin, Nigel, Paddy (looking very smart in his very clean MAD gear), Carsten, Cormac, Tom carried on and finished the linking of the 2 DH sections-man it's gonna be superfast, there was a dual line section in construction when I left so that's even more fun for us.<br/><br/>I got to chase Tom on foot and film him going down the new section - it looked great - hopefully he can get the video off his camera and onto the 'net.<br/><br/>Oisin turned up with a load of great timber for bridge building - looking forward to hearing (& seeing)what happened there.<br/><br/>Thanks again lads for turning up and getting rightly stuck-in, can't wait 'til a load of us are whoopin' and hollerin' down that section on a night ride next week!<br/><br/>I'm already thinking of what we can do with that huge hill we were looking at as we were carrying-up the timber....but I guess we'll finish the XC section first and then see what's next.<br/><br/>Now to change my jockey wheels before Rostrevor tomorrow, the teeth existing ones are worn so sharp you could cut diamonds with them.<br/><br/>Good luck to anyone racing tomorrow!<br/><br/>Fergal A great trailbuilding session today in glorious weather with a LOT of great work done on the DH section and also the XC section.

I left about midday but the lads - Oisin, Nigel, Paddy (looking very smart in his very clean MAD gear), Carsten, Cormac, Tom carried on and finished the linking of the 2 DH sections-man it’s gonna be superfast, there was a dual line section in construction when I left so that’s even more fun for us.

I got to chase Tom on foot and film him going down the new section - it looked great - hopefully he can get the video off his camera and onto the ‘net.

Oisin turned up with a load of great timber for bridge building - looking forward to hearing (& seeing)what happened there.

Thanks again lads for turning up and getting rightly stuck-in, can’t wait ’til a load of us are whoopin’ and hollerin’ down that section on a night ride next week!

I’m already thinking of what we can do with that huge hill we were looking at as we were carrying-up the timber….but I guess we’ll finish the XC section first and then see what’s next.

Now to change my jockey wheels before Rostrevor tomorrow, the teeth existing ones are worn so sharp you could cut diamonds with them.

Good luck to anyone racing tomorrow!

Fergal

]]> By: Ryan Sherlock http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4749 Ryan Sherlock Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:36:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4749 That was a really technical section that we were riding down in the mud and wet. Damn those roots! I know I was all over the place the first couple of times but by the end it was a lot cleaner - need more of this!<br/><br/>The new XC section will be great, the top section with it natural berms will be fantastic once we all know which way we are going :) Me, I would put forward making the bottom section a lot longer with up and downhill single track going over and back. Those trees are perfectly spaced for some nice windy single track and even with rain (and eventually mud when it's ridden in) I don't think there are any gradients that you couldn't climb... That was a really technical section that we were riding down in the mud and wet. Damn those roots! I know I was all over the place the first couple of times but by the end it was a lot cleaner - need more of this!

The new XC section will be great, the top section with it natural berms will be fantastic once we all know which way we are going :) Me, I would put forward making the bottom section a lot longer with up and downhill single track going over and back. Those trees are perfectly spaced for some nice windy single track and even with rain (and eventually mud when it’s ridden in) I don’t think there are any gradients that you couldn’t climb…

]]> By: Fergal http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4747 Fergal Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:02:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4747 the new section we went through with Ryan last night looks very good, and a lot of it was reasonably rideable, thre'll be a bit of heavy work for the exit to the path but the branch clearing within the forest should be handy enough.<br/><br/>It'll also be fun to join the end of the 1st DH section to the start of the 2nd DH section, just to have the option of XC vs DH.<br/><br/>As a loop, we could even have the XC bit as a tech climb and the DH run as the fun reward, if we bear this in mind during building, then the XC bit should remain climb-able, as opposed to the tendency to make it all a fast downhill run.<br/><br/>I'll be up there on Sat between 8 and 9 (I may need to leave around lunch) so will continue work on this section, I'll bring some spare saws as I've a few in the shed.<br/><br/>Lidl were doing decent quality spades last week so there may be a few left - I'll keep an eye out <br/>for one, as we'll need a few to dig thru the bank where the trail exits to the path. the new section we went through with Ryan last night looks very good, and a lot of it was reasonably rideable, thre’ll be a bit of heavy work for the exit to the path but the branch clearing within the forest should be handy enough.

It’ll also be fun to join the end of the 1st DH section to the start of the 2nd DH section, just to have the option of XC vs DH.

As a loop, we could even have the XC bit as a tech climb and the DH run as the fun reward, if we bear this in mind during building, then the XC bit should remain climb-able, as opposed to the tendency to make it all a fast downhill run.

I’ll be up there on Sat between 8 and 9 (I may need to leave around lunch) so will continue work on this section, I’ll bring some spare saws as I’ve a few in the shed.

Lidl were doing decent quality spades last week so there may be a few left - I’ll keep an eye out
for one, as we’ll need a few to dig thru the bank where the trail exits to the path.

]]> By: Fergal http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4746 Fergal Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4746 good spin tonight lads, Ryan lead Morgan, Tom, Nigel, Oisin and myself on an intense series of laps of "the section near the start of the transition across to the boneshaker" (really need those trail names to be decided on!!)<br/>which had a decent fireroad climb, a muddy transition up & then a very technical and rooty section to bring us back down to the fireroad.<br/>Ryan as expected was flying, but Oisin on his 'notably lighter' bike was really moving, think I need to shed a few ounces of my bike, actually make that kilos<br/><br/>Great practice on the technical section - finding that 'floating balance' position is the key - it's a skill Robin Seymour was definitely born with - the way he seems to glide over sections that most of us bounce and struggle though, the skill is up there somewhere I'm sure, hiding under a rock or in an overgrown gulley....the holy grail of mountainbiking!!<br/><br/>Morgan, organise a posse - we're going back up!!! good spin tonight lads, Ryan lead Morgan, Tom, Nigel, Oisin and myself on an intense series of laps of “the section near the start of the transition across to the boneshaker” (really need those trail names to be decided on!!)
which had a decent fireroad climb, a muddy transition up & then a very technical and rooty section to bring us back down to the fireroad.
Ryan as expected was flying, but Oisin on his ‘notably lighter’ bike was really moving, think I need to shed a few ounces of my bike, actually make that kilos

Great practice on the technical section - finding that ‘floating balance’ position is the key - it’s a skill Robin Seymour was definitely born with - the way he seems to glide over sections that most of us bounce and struggle though, the skill is up there somewhere I’m sure, hiding under a rock or in an overgrown gulley….the holy grail of mountainbiking!!

Morgan, organise a posse - we’re going back up!!!

]]> By: Tom http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4745 Tom Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:57:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4745 does wearing a loincloth, chewing on a a large roasted chicken whilst pedalling around at a leisurely pace count?..thats about as close to savage as I can get.. does wearing a loincloth, chewing on a a large roasted chicken whilst pedalling around at a leisurely pace count?..thats about as close to savage as I can get..

]]> By: Fergal http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/whats-on-in-the-madmtb-world-this-week/#comment-4742 Fergal Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=684#comment-4742 that's the spirit Ryan!<br/><br/>Now then slackers be warned!!<br/>Ye are going to be in the presence of an Elite class MTBer tonight so ye better be on your savagest behaviour!! that’s the spirit Ryan!

Now then slackers be warned!!
Ye are going to be in the presence of an Elite class MTBer tonight so ye better be on your savagest behaviour!!

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