Thanks fellas. Yeah, the cramps were just frustrating. I'm prone to them though so if I'm going to keep up with this gig then I'll need to look into the science of them. Took a heap of magnesium tablets and popped them like tic tacs but they didn't do any good. Maybe getting fit might work? ;)

As for my drivetrain, after about 20km it resembled a buzz saw. Damn, it sounded bad. I think it's lifespan might have been dramatically reduced. Is there any point lubing thigns up on occasion during events like that? And actually, during the race, people who I was riding with were saying exactly what you said, that the fling course was way better.

BTW, are Mavic XM117 rims craphouse? At the start of last week they'd loosened off so I got the LBS to fix it. Only rode probably 20km after that. Then during the race they loosened off again. Ended up tightening them twice and they still loosened off again so I just rode with the things and hopped I got to the end. Luckily I made it.

Thanks. Thylo's cult might have something to it after all. ;)

if the Fling course was better, i can imagine this one was ****.

The Fling could also be a lot better if you ask me, or maybe I just hate fire roads and other people don't. :)

For dealing with cramp on the ride magnesium tabs won't act fast enough, you need quinine tablets (maybe a bottle of gin & tonic) or cramp stop which I have found effective.

Yeah, I was riding with people who'd done parts of the course before, but even they were biatchign about the course this year. You wouldn't imagine it would have been any more rocky, although even the full suspension people were saying they were getting beaten up. I think maybe just all the sand and almost jacknifing every 100 meters was the most anoying bit. But it's all there to test us which is what it should be all about. I'd probably prefer riding this course than nicely groomed firetrails. Just give me a FS bike next time. ;)

Isn't quinine what they gave to people suffering scurvey? Looks like that spray is the go though. Wonder what's in it?

BTW, gin & tonic???

berny will be the only TAT participant i think. give him a day or so to get his breath back :)

Brad C pulled out of mmas3 just after halfway after cramping up on lap 4. tough race, hell wind.

nope, for scurvey the solution was limes (any citrus fruit) for vitamin C. that where the phrase "aargh, yer just a bunch of limey bastids!" comes from.

gin and tonic because until recently they put quinine in tonic water.

Jocko knows his grog. ;)

yup, was bar tender/manager when i was little. couldn't mix a cocktail if my life depended on it tho!

Indian tonic contains quinine 'coz it's a treatment for malaria or some other tropical disease. Back in the days of the Raj it really was a medicinal "tonic" and I am sure the fact it went down well with gin was not overlooked as well :p

Was talking to someone else who road the DW100m I reckon we could map out a really nice 100 in ourimbah, including the XC course, other side of XC road, some firetrail, old XC course etc.
Might get the map out!

What was your mate saying about the route Paul? With my moaning you've got to take into account I'm a noob. Maybe what they threw up was good standard long distance xc mtb racing fare?

Where exactly is ourimbah btw?

i do beleive saurkraut ( no not an angry jan ulrich!) was a favoured food of one captain cook to stave off skurvey.

Should be plenty of vitamin C in that pickled cabbage. Be pretty stinky in the bunk room though :eek:

fark yeah, heaps of trails out there.

Man, my Arete Sc is only 225g lighter than the equivalent Arete SL. That's about half a waterbottles' worth of water.

Sweet! Is the price of steel coming down yet?

Yes.




Only if I buy 10 or more tubesets at a time :D Then I'd be happy to pass the savings on to you and your 9 closest mates! *evil laugh*

Naw, seriously, I'll look after any of yas if you're in the market.

Hey saccy, mates said pretty muchthe same as you e.g.
Waaaay too much sand!
Not very flowing
Lots of crappy rock shelve drop offs
A waking section in a bike race:eek:

One mate got to the walking section and met someone else on their way back...dunno maybe the trails crossed, anyway he turned round and road back to the village at 75odd kays cause he thought it was crap!

Ourimbah is on the NSW central coast next to Gosford. Make a weekend of it and there are loads of trails to ride, maybe even squeeze in a CCCC RR.
Ourimbah XC course
Killingworth XC course
Glenrock nat park
Boudhi nat park (Staples Lookout/WoyWoy tip/Pearl beach)
Tons of trails to ride :D

Is Ourimbah on the train line to Newcastle? We have friends in Newcastle that we'll probably visit in the not too distant future.

Ourimbah is indeed on the trainline between sydney and newcastle, but it's not a major stop. You would have to catch an all-stations train from either gosford (coming from the sydney end) or wyong (coming from the newcastle end). Ourimbah station is about 10-15 mins from either option.

timetables at www.cityrail.info or as an alternative http://www.cityrail.info/

Expat can you fix the bleep on the valid URL in the post above so that it actually works as a hyperlink pls?

I didn't mind going down the drop offs. Going up them gave me the irrates though. You get over the trials mindset after a while.

Does this look like the area?

hmmm.... hard to say saccy. I've never been able to jump quite that high! :p

but yer definitely looking at the ourimbah/lisarow area (eastern side of the freeway). The two roundabouts at the top/left are the F3 ourimbah interchange. Our crit course goes around that cluster of white buildings just down and to the right of there.

willy or climbo will know the trails area

You guys sound like a bunch of old roadies or somethin' ;)

Sounds like fun to me.

My race on Sunday consisted of mud rain and more mud! Raced for 4.5 hours (6hr enduro)then called it quits.

Some super dodgy descents on steep rutted terrain. Very scary. :eek:

you're miles fom it saccy :) , it's NW of there. Look up Red Hill Road Yarramalong and you'll find the general area.

I can't find those pictures of Warney with the nude chicks

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

Ask him to text 'em to ya! :lol:

"Hi Shane, u r my favourit bogan. Can u sign my butt pls?"

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/media-p...-autograph.jpg

Damnit, I'm freezing again. 12 degrees, Jaysus.

The don't have street names on these photos. Is one of these it?