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Yeah, I was out playing in Thetford on Saturday morning too. Nice, sunny and dry if cold. And no sign of the chainsuck which struck so catastrophically on Sunday's race. Were you running singlespeed then, if you were overgeared?
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Yeah, I was on the Inbred. It was sub-optimal in the wet. Not enough grip, too high a gear, crashed a couple of times which filled up the rear end with mud and so ground away my brakes and kept throwing the chain. I was riding with flats/sneakers which didn't help keep the drive even so wheelspin was a problem. Basically a shitstorm of errors :)
But I did get a lot of respect for grovelling around on the SS from other peeps. I'm sure I had the cheapest setup in the field. :)
hippy
Of course the lap we did Saturday was lovely. If the race was on Sat it would've been much better. As it was I was overgeared on Sunday given the lack of traction. Probably running too much pressure in my tyres and generally being shit on an MTB doesn't help.