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Don't think it makes it any better... maybe just a little less terrifying...
Still planning to ride this weekend. Day one looks hard (conditions and terrain) but hopefully do-able, if not slower than expected. Day 2 should be ok after the first lumpy bit, then I'll see how I feel. It's relatively cheap/easy for me to bail from the main control so if I don't think I'll get round the 3rd loop I'll just roll along to Lancaster and catch a train home.
Taking sleeping bag/bivy and waterproofs, no dropbag so I can just pootle along and do my own thing to an extent...
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That was the plan with the new bike. The TT bike doesn't have room for a frame bag which is why I left all the sleep gear in the car for the Tan Hill 600, which then cost me £85 hotel for 3hrs when I wanted to sleep through the downpour.
I could ride the TT bike again, but then the new bike doesn't get an outing, if the new bike is actually ready. Or I could ditch this, feel a bit of a dick but save 8hrs of driving and possibly ££ in hotel bills and shakedown the new bike over the weekend locally with more time to finish it and a potential pickup if I need to bail rather than being stuck in the middle of nowhere, with the car parked hundreds of miles away...
I dunno, I was super keen but with all the arguing and frantic search for new wheels and shit I'm a bit fucked off with the world at the moment. Or maybe it's all the rabies, hepatitis, encephalitis etc flowing through my body after yesterday's shots...
HTFU hippy
No.
Pub?
Oh ok.
hippy
@scherrit is being a champ and leaving his mum fend for herself while he works on my cursed ultra bike (JRA wheel should arrive today). I'm a bit wary of riding something brand new with a (sort of) untested position on a 1000k hard-as-fuck audax. Will entering another event make it all better?