fubarza

Assos Chamois Cream is most certainly the best, we ride almost everyday at least 60km+ MTB and I never had any problems....but it's quite expenses though. You might be able to get a sample tube from your local bike shop free of charge which will last you for more than 3 days.

I think it will allow me to enjoy my new MTB more after its service and appreciate the old where everything started....

Hi All My MTB went in for a service today and now they've told me that something is wrong with the Fox RP23 and they've sent it to Fox for repairs... Do you think it's possible to ride the 35km Babbas event with a non-suspension MTB? I've already entered.... Regards, Fubarza

1992 Marin Palisades Trail http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k4/benandemu/art_print_misc_mmb_413.jpg

Looks like we might have the first decent MTB movie. The trailer looks very impressive!!!

I didn't do the previous FastOne so I have nothing to compare it to. However the 2010 winning time was 2:14 (103km) and this one was 2:15 (106km) so it must have been similar. The hills were relatively short and not too steep, unlike the 94.7.

Organisation was a bit below standard and the traffic was a mess. I didn't do the previous "Faster One" but this route was very flat and fast as well, did it in 3hours and my wife & I enjoyed it immensely! Great race.

We did a 75km mtb ride in the mud yesterday and a 45km ride in the rain today. Very slippery and my sunglasses tend to fog up but what a great day to practice some technical riding over slippery rocks, grass and mud :-)

Hi StevenS We normally prefer to do longer circular routes rather than laps, therefore due to the rain and everything we decided to do the 35km. I think they said about 400 or 500 cyclist did the 35km also due to the previous event in December which rained out carried over to yesterday's race. I agree with you that with longer distances you ought to get less newbie's as well and it will be an overkill to split them into 4 groups. The first part keeping left on the tar road and the gravel road took some time to over take the riders, sometimes at 20km/h, sometimes faster depending on the density of the bundles/groups in front of us. They could just as well been part of the 70km group, but I don't know that though. You are correct in saying that the gravel road has more than enough space to over take 99% of the time, however when the lady moved to the right instead of the left, at that point one thorn bush had an overhang partially covering the "right-lane". So i had to decide either to push the lady back to the left hand side(whereby she might fall) or to try to push through a few branches and take my chances. Braking wasn't an option at that point because one of our club members were riding behind me. However, it still remains that cyclist must cycle on the left hand side of the road except when they overtake somebody. I even agree with leeu52's quote "Rather listen to your Ipod whilst riding on the left of the track than discuss stuff with the oke on your right shoulder and cause innocent veterans to crash"

Great race and VERY muddy but overall quite easy without the bad luck. Had a very big accident on the normal gravel road 7km from the start, fractured rib, minor concussion, broken my helmet in 2 places, a lot of scars(but chicks dig scars ) and semi-broken MTB. Managed to fix my bike and continue till about 20km when I got a flat and then on the other wheel another valve flat on 22km so I ran out of tyres and spares. Luckily a MTB'er came along after assisting an even worse crash involving a women at one of the rivers and gave me a spare tube and we manage to finish. After 15 years of cycling I just really think that they should at least create 4 categories at the start based on previous babbas(or other) results(30+km/h, 25-30km/h, 20-25km/h and less than 20km/h or unseeded). Newbie MTB'ers should start in their category based on their performance. We started at about 25% from the beginning of the group and on 7km passed a girl with her boyfriend riding next to each other, after shouting "passing right" and doing 40kmh+, the lady started to go right in stead of left while only doing about 20kmh. I tried to miss her and my handle bars and hands got stuck in a thorn bush so the bike flipped. It wasn't her fault I suppose, but cyclist should realise the importance of keeping to the left (even when riding in social groups) as much as possible except when over taking somebody as well their starting position in the bunch should be more or less based on their previous performance(with the results it is easy to calculated percentage wise more or less where in the start group you must position yourself) However, the rest of the race was great and i would certainly do it again.