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A mate has twisted my arm to do an enduro on Boxing day! What have I done, am bricking it, gonna be so tiring and cold!
https://www.witleymcc.org/events/tview_detail/c/48/2008/12/26.htm
I got lots to sort out before then as need a new rear tyre plus some heavy duty innertubes for front and rear. Have been told it’ll kill my brakes and chain/sprockets as part of the course is sand, but hey; in for a dollar, in for a pound and all that!
I have a mate or two coming to give moral support hopefully and no doubt they will have a camera in hand at all the right (or wrong dependent on view point) moments!
I was just about to call the guy organising it and realised the cut off date is the 19th, he’s almost local tho so hopefully I’ll be able to pitch up at his addy and pay him directly and collect the entrance pack from him letting me know my race numbers etc!
Just spent £120 on brakes/tyres/tubes so I bloody better be able to do it still!
Gonna have to just hope the chain and sprockets are up to the job as I can’t afford to replace them just yet. Fingers crossed the bike don’t blow up coz its using a bit of oil!
Prepping my bike yesterday I managed to let it drop its coolant all over the floor….
One of the hoses (the one that split the other day burst off the rad. Have repaired and refilled it again now, hopefully it’ll be fine now??? :$
Am getting proper nervous now, not just about my stamina but the bikes too. Still if we don’t try these things we never get to experience anything!
Am just about to head off now. I’m so apprehensive of this event, no idea how its gonna go. Have prepped the bike as best as I can so just need to get some calories inside me and hope I’ve got the stamina to finish!
Will update how I got on when I get back if I’m not too tired, otherwise it’ll be tomoz
ouch, am so stiff and achey. That was not the “easy” course I was led to believe!
I fricken hate sand! But I finished, no idea where but I finished and had a fantastic experience from it.
Unfortunately a rider on my last lap knocked himself out just ahead of me and possibly broke his back (could be whiplash but the paramedic was thinking more likely broken)
I stayed with him while we waited for the marshals to organise medical assistance and kept him talking and as warm as we could while we waited. I was a tad annoyed that the marshals didn’t have radios or even phones (or telephone numbers for the organisers) so I had to get a mate to lend his phone to one of the organisers so we could get help out. It was harder because no-one was entirely sure where we were on the track so couldn’t get the air ambulance out to him. It all got sorted in the end and I hope his dad was informed of what was happening as I passed on his name to the marshals in the pits where he was waiting for him to finish the lap.
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Originally posted by Pete247ouch, am so stiff and achey. That was not the “easy” course I was led to believe!
I fricken hate sand! But I finished, no idea where but I finished and had a fantastic experience from it.
Unfortunately a rider on my last lap knocked himself out just ahead of me and possibly broke his back (could be whiplash but the paramedic was thinking more likely broken)
I stayed with him while we waited for the marshals to organise medical assistance and kept him talking and as warm as we could while we waited. I was a tad annoyed that the marshals didn’t have radios or even phones (or telephone numbers for the organisers) so I had to get a mate to lend his phone to one of the organisers so we could get help out. It was harder because no-one was entirely sure where we were on the track so couldn’t get the air ambulance out to him. It all got sorted in the end and I hope his dad was informed of what was happening as I passed on his name to the marshals in the pits where he was waiting for him to finish the lap.
Glad you enjoyed yourself. Hope that lad is OK
lol
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