2010-07-03 - Swaintoux!

In like an agoraphobe

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    19.soperRiva(in a car)
    
    

maybe. either that or i'll sit at the top drinking.
and i won't have a car. i don't have one

Oh, what an excellent name for this event. :)

Given that we're going to ride to Norwich that day, I can't come along to this, although spectating definitely sounds like cruelty fun!

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    19.soperRiva(in a car)
    
16. FridayMarch26th (gears)
    
    

It's actually the down bit that I'm least keen on. I don't like going fast down hills, even in easy mode.

There's no way I'm doing that without gears - you guys are bonkers!
However, setting up camp with a picnic hamper at the entrance to the cemetery sounds like fun - to cheer everyone on just before the really horrid steep 17% bit. :)

spectating...

Gus you need to ride this!

I salute you, murtle. You have bigger balls than me.

ha, if i go, i'll be spectating/laughing etc.

brave guys

ha, if i go, i'll destroy that tiny bump of a hill. I'll kill it!

I'm better than all you guys

You sound pretty sure of yourself there murts.

haha

I rode up Swines Lane once. Once being the operative word. I'll try to make it as a spectator. You guys are bonkers - love it.

Why is everybody (including a conker) so surprised that Northies are bonkers? I don't get it.

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    
16. soperRiva(in a car)
    
17. FridayMarch26th (gears)
    
18. 6pt (gears)
    
    
    

I've never done swains so I'm signing up for this blind. I'll have to recce it and then quietly remove my name from the list at a later date once I realise I'm not man enough.

^ most of it's quite easy really, but right near the top it's dead steep. Mind you, by the time you've done a few circuits even the lower bits might feel a bit steep. I used to go home from work that way occasionally and could just about manage it using 75"

well done organising this andy

dons thinking cap and gives consideration

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    
16. soperRiva(in a car)
    
17. FridayMarch26th (gears)
    
18. 6pt (gears)
    
19. matt_ha
    

In!

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    
16. soperRiva(in a car)
    
17. FridayMarch26th (gears)
    
18. 6pt (gears)
    
19. matt_ha
    
20. mmccarthy
    

This is mental.

No thankyou.

I volunteer for stamping duties. Going to be a great day!

I'll do it only if I can do it on this bike:

Otherwise I'm at the top drinking.

I suppose I'd better let Reeen know he's signed up for this.

me haz no brakez and the reeenpack is broken too ... but i somehow like the idea ... a lot.

Freak!

tshutt up! you're enlisted, too ... you rural hippycrat, you!

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1. Sasmon
   
2. tex
   
3. Jung (gears)
   
4. Brun
   
5. Polky (gears)
   
6. BikePusher
   
7. hillbilly
   
8. Object (gears)
   
9. Reeen (Unipack)
   
10. tika
    
11. Mikey (gears or SS hillclimber special)
    
12. Macca81
    
13. Edmundro - fixed but possibly ss
    
14. murts
    
15. braker (on a bike)
    
16. soperRiva(in a car)
    
17. FridayMarch26th (gears)
    
18. 6pt (gears)
    
19. matt_ha
    
20. mmccarthy
    
21. dicki ( time to break out the 52:16 lo pro )
    

I'll do it only if I can do it on this bike:

Otherwise I'm at the top drinking.

I suppose I'd better let Reeen know he's signed up for this.

I'm tempted to do this on my pedal powered version of the above bike. It's SS, and has a coaster and front brake. It also weighs as much as the moon. Up for making an exception to the "fixed" criteria? It is LFGSS afterall ;)