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tilover, see you next year?

• many thanks to our support team - dan, dave and vicky.
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well done boys, sounds epic indeed. pictures, nay, fucking statues please.

well done team!! pix prav, pix

nice one! it was indeed an epic weekend,

i managed to get out of doing a night lap but did do an early morning one after drinking a copious amount of beer throughout the night. loadsa fun!

what bikes were you riding? i wonder if we crossed paths, i was riding for team singular (blue big wheeled singlespeed bikes)

did you see those mental unicyclists?

It was epic - I'm still knackered and ate my second breakfast half an hour ago. Great fun despite the mud and loss of ability on the off camber sections. My only regret is that I only had one beer on Saturday before falling asleep. Great to meet Pete and the rest of the Exeter crew - the support was so much help!

Tilover - I was riding a blue singular set up 1x9. I saw a few around so might have seen you.

Tommy - cheers for the lights. They were great and only got a little bit muddy. Can I meet up later on this week to give them back?

It was great thank you Jon, Peter, Prav, and our support team! Hope we will have more teams next year as i spotted some fixed gears riders doing the race - polish MIke, Mike (dude on a white Condor on the ride to Cambridge), and Superted!

PIctures on my Flickr:

Well done. good photos

Jon, any time. I will prob go to central beers tomorrow night for a short while, otherwise I am flexible.

Jon, any time. I will prob go to central beers tomorrow night for a short while, otherwise I am flexible.

Nice one. I'm busy tonight so maybe tomorrow at about 6?

Results are now posted at http://www.mayhemworld.co.uk/Mountain_Mayhem/results.html

We did 13 laps in 24:10:50 which meant we came 43rd out of 60 in the Open Men category and 373rd out of 624 overall. Not bad for a bunch of fixed gear hipsters. I even had Ourys on my bike! To put it in perspective, the Scott team won the event with 31 laps in 24:09.

BTW I got the fastest lap out of our team at 1:00:38 - I thought you guys had been training! Pete's Sunday morning lap was probably faster but it's clocked at 6:01:43 cos we'd all been asleep.

^ hipster! Fully rigid too.. Well done Momentum!
I must have left my competitiveness in the tent. :-(

Well I'm still knackered so I think it took more out of me than I thought! I realised that we probably placed higher than the results suggest because there are loads of people above us with times under 24 hours which meant they didn't actually finish.

well done chaps,

Yeah, more like 37th. Looks like the teams above you were only doing a 12hr or something. Mind you, their laps (Evans vets) were pretty fast.

well done

my mates from east london triathletes said it was tough......

well done guys - looks like it was gruelling.

Prav your grin says "massive achievement".

Major props.

More sorted results are here http://results.singletrackworld.com/event.php?id=10

We were 29 ot of 60 in open men once the people who bailed early are DNFed.

bumped cos theres still one place going for someone who is up for it this year,
gonna be a good one..... pm me now!

So; who is going this year?

not going to the Malverns this time around,
heres another race sunday, singlespeed cat. too
Im going to be competitive in this, my local forest, theres some very tight cornered secluded rooty singletrack on this course,within ya standard U.K. forestry fireroads.
Harvey are you in?
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Not me.
Ten years of 24s and never a dry one. Why choose Glastonbury weekend? that's daft.

Not me.
Ten years of 24s and never a dry one. Why choose Glastonbury weekend? that's daft.

Weekend nearest to the solstace so shortest night.

I've been told that this is do-able on a cross bike.

I'm a half decent bike handler and will be in a four man team, any advice from those that've ridden it?

yeah you could do,
tech sections arent too bad, you could cane it through them faster on a dual suss or hardtail,
but overall, you will go faster prolly.
there are always sections that are impossible to overtake on too.
but yeah,
go for it.

My father in law (well, live in girlfriends dad to be exact) invited me to join his team, since I've accepted I seem to have been sold to his friends as the saviour of their team and the positions they were getting a decade ago will somehow be achieved.

No pressure.

... and it's a fantastic excuse to buy a decent cross bike.

... and it's a fantastic excuse to buy a decent cross bike.

even more reason is start riding cross right now, mayhem is a lifetime and a half away after winter season- where the winners are decided from the losers that stayed indoors talking bollocks