Tommy's ride. 50km on 7th November

[weeksy]

Entered. Start block A
https://www.trailbreak.co.uk/tommys-rid ... y-santa_31

[Rp1]

Booked

[weeksy]

Booked

Nice one matey. You'll have to wait for us!

[Rp1]

Really don't think you'll have anything to worry about

[weeksy]

Really don't think you'll have anything to worry about

Errrrm 20,kph uphill in mud. I think there's plenty to worry about !

[weeksy]

I'm still expecting an email for this now due to lockdown stuff, can't see any way it'll go ahead.
I'll be there if it does though

[weeksy]

Important Event Update: Tommy's Ride, Nov 7th 2020
Hi Steve

We’re contacting you regarding your entry to Tommy's Ride MTB on November 7th. This event is obviously affected by the November lockdown announced to begin on Thursday. At this moment we don’t expect the conditions of the lockdown to allow the event to go ahead on the planned date, but we are waiting to see the full details of the act that is passed, in case it includes any exceptions for safely organised outdoor sports or events. We’re also working out contingency plans to ensure that we honour your booking with us. Our commitment is that everyone who has entered an event with us will get an event with us, even if it can’t be on the originally planned date. This was how we managed bookings affected by the first lockdown to make sure that nobody loses out.

We will still be donating all funds pledged to the Royal British Legion, and if you’ve ordered a Tommy’s Ride T-Shirt, we’ll still get it to you.

Please bear with us while get our plans in place. In the next few days, we’ll contact you with full details of what’s happening and your options regarding your booking. Thanks for your patience - this has been a difficult year for all of us, but we really appreciate your support, and we’re totally committed to delivering great rides for you to enjoy, and that’s not going to change!


Regards

The Trail Break Team

[weeksy]

It ended up getting moved to today.

Myself, Crust and Rp1 were there flying the flag for the RTTL team. Lets just say, it was WET... wetter than i've ever been. According to the Garmin it was "rain and 5 deg, feels 1 deg" but it was the mud that was the killer, it was comedy moment after comedy moment out there, slipping, sliding, rear wheel, front wheel, drifting both, hysterical just trying to hang on.

I had a comedy crash on a known trecherous descent, it's chalky clay stuff and is slippery as heck at the best of times, into a right hand hairpin i lost the front and down i went, graceful, almost... Front wheel went out on the left, as did the back, sadly, my right foot went out the other way and i ended up doing the splits !!!! Fat old men can't do the splits !!! I've pulled the beejayzus out of my hamstring. I couldn't even walk on it. But happily i could pedal, tried a mile or so and apart from being unable to stand up, pedalling was fine. Which was lucky as we still had 28km left to go. I could have called the wife as we were only 5 miles from my house, but it was OK.

Crust was a super-hero as always. He may be an old Toyota Hi-lux wagon, but that diesel engine just keeps on chugging on, up, down, over, just pedal pedal.... Superb.

RP1 gave me a go on the Whyte E-150. Which was both comical and interesting. It almost rode like a proper bicycle. Not quite, but it was acceptable. Handled well enough really if still a little dead in some ways. But the power, that's just ridiculous. I don't think i'm a bad rider, but you can FLY on this thing and mud doesn't even exist, doesn't slow you, doesn't matter.

I didn't hang about at the end as my feet were frozen and soaked, I didn't have a spare set, so just got out of there ASAP and home for a bath.

Epic !

2020-12-13_03-11-02 by Steve Weeks - Flickr2BBcode LITE

[G.P]

^^^^^ Nutters

It was wetter than an otter's pocket out there today!

[crust]

That was tough, like riding through treacle on the downhills then long, steady road climbs. Tracks that are fast, flowing delights in summer became endless slogs, struggling to keep forward momentum in vaguely the right direction.

Good to meet up with RP1, I was most envious of his E-Bike, could have done with one for the last ten miles.

[weeksy]

That was tough,

Did you do more after we'd finished ?

[crust]

Ho, ho, ho, silver medal boy

[Yorick]

Ho, ho, ho, silver medal boy

That means you have to buy beer at Portimao

[weeksy]

Ho, ho, ho, silver medal boy

Words, I have none

[crust]

Ho, ho, ho, silver medal boy

That means you have to buy beer at Portimao

The gold medal rider buys the beer?

I'll buy him beers at Portimao

[Yorick]

Ho, ho, ho, silver medal boy

That means you have to buy beer at Portimao

The gold medal rider buys the beer?

I'll buy him beers at Portimao

I won the gold medal from afar

[Rp1]

Awesome day out if not a tad wet and muddy at time
Full respect to Crust and Weeksy for doing it on there analogue bikes I would of given up before I started !, As for the e-160 it a tank that just ploughs through everything thankfully .
Sorry I didn't stay with you both but I was getting cold and had an inch of water in my shoes

[Rp1]

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