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London to Brighton Charity Ride - feeling fit???
pickle:
There are no water stations, only the half way food break.
Make sure you use a camelback thingy which you can refill half way :daumenhoch:
griff:
I've got a bottle cage that fastens to a seatpost if you want to borrow that Martin?
Are you going to MK?
dinglem:
--- Quote from: griff on August 06, 2016, 12:34 AM ---I've got a bottle cage that fastens to a seatpost if you want to borrow that Martin?
Are you going to MK?
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Yes mate - that sounds awesome. Does it just clip on?
I'm in Norway unfortunately, so no MK for me :(
Where are you based?
dinglem:
Well, we're just back home from an awesome weekend down on the London to Brighton charity bike ride.
It was.... errr..... different!
Amazing atmosphere and we had great weather all weekend.
It's a long way, especially on a BMX! We were doing pretty well from the tart and were really mixing it with the majority of the rider traffic, but we had a few technical issues after a while. One of the BMX lads (one of my mates) has a total crank bearing failure on 123 miles and had to drop out, and then I had a front wheel puncture on 22miles. Believe it or not I then suffered a further two punctures on the same wheel over the next 4 miles. We ran out of spares and patches in the end, so at the lunchtime break i visited the mechanics station who as they didn't have any inner tubes in my size cobbled something together folding up a larger tube and inflating it hard... it felt fine and lasted to the end! My sister also had a puncture about 400yards up the road from my first, so in total we certainly had a few set-backs.
But we made it! Ditchling Beacon was bloody ridiculous, and we could barely push our bikes by the time we got to the top.
Total raised by us so far is around 2100pounds which is fabulous.
Same again next year for sure.... the atmosphere was fantastic so we'll be getting another group together again.
To top it all off ex-Birmingham WHEELS rider Anto But joined us on his freshly rebuilt Kappa and took the time to pose for some pics on my bike and also signed my race plate :daumenhoch:
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dinglem:
It was a bit of a shame we managed to get separated from many of the group almost immediately but there was a great turn out at the start and it was fab to put some faces to names at check-in. Awesome effort all-round and well done to all of the others who joined us in taking part fistblump
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