TitusTi

So, it got christened in the worst way possible! Set the bike up and all was cool on Friday night. Hit the straps on Saturday and it was working pretty well, about 60km in my calves were cramping and I figured it was from the cold, it wasn't, got hom and found out my seat was about a cm too high. Other than that the bike felt solid, back was stiff laterally but didn't feel too harsh over bumps. The 29" wheels help alot with this and getting over washboard bumps on the roads as well.

Okay, so I built it up last night! Haven't been able to ride it yet but will get round to it tonight and then a whole bunch of that tomorrow! It has gear but that will change soon enough. Can hardly wait, will post pic's and a proper report on Monday.

Marius, have you tried to draft in the rain and mud before? You're certainly going to get your fill of roughage.

I might pull in as well then.

Not fun? Of course it's fun! Besides if you clean your bike properly afterwards it really shouldn't be an issue.

Oh yeah, the soft roadies and mtb'er who should be roadies have already eliminated themselves, this is gonna be a whole bunch of fun! I can honestly hardly wait, and it's gonna be my new bike's first ride! Yay!

Can't remember anymore, and no don't have spare battery packs for either, they both burn for almost 8 hours so never really been a need for it.

After a few teething issues, I will be putting this together next week, and in true "me" style will be racing within 3 days of building it, hey, how else do you know if it works right? This is going to be the first time I own and ride a hardtail for about 4 or 5 years, not to say my Titus is going away (it isn't, things of eternal beauty never do), just that I'm quite intrigued to see how this puppy rides. Building it up with a 100mm travel Reba on the front, a mix of XTR and SRAM stuff and some nice new hoops! Also experimenting with the wheel build and rims (it's built with different front and back rims on purpose). Pics and general comments to follow.

Why not do them all in the same year, or do TB and DD this year and S2C NS next year?

It fits fine, I had a set of 25c road tires on my 29'er once, then took them off because it's evil and should never be done ever again. Don't do it I tell you, don't do it!

Easiest thing for these sorts of races is to start eating as early as possible, after a while your body doesn't want to take in solids anymore, so when you swap over to that you can use whatever gels you prefer, try to use the ones with the most natural ingredients.

I did liase with some guys after the last one and they said they would be doing something, I hope they still do, maybe next month 'eh?

So, this morning was CM 24-04-09 and just as an experiment I decided to not post anything on the Hub, do you know what impact it had, nothing. That's right, nothing, it seems there is a large online community that like to whine but when there is something they could possibly do it all suddenly become too inconvenient, nice one. Anyway, that's my rant, it was a cool ride on a cool morning with some cool people. Later.

Mtb? Does she ride mtb?

That's the first little climb after the start straight and the last little bit at the bottom of the first descent on the XC course.

Good man, we'll be up there as well, think we're on Andre's (Manny's buddy) couch at the moment.

Sean, has anyone turned those last 2 jumps at the bottom of the DH into a single yet? My money is on the crazy sitting in front of you (Sam Hill) to give it a go, it's long but on an MX bike you might make it or if you're just plain nuts.

I was standing next to her for quite a while before I realised who the 15 year old was that was next to me.

Exactly, just preorder. What's the issue? HR, you on a media pass? I should be in the pits with a beer or 2.

I'll see all of you up there, was there this weekend, was good, real good! HR, pub lunch, not such a hot idea, need to wrestle for position on the XC cousre and then on the 4X course as well!

Yeah, that's Toby. He's a good kid.

I dig that funny looking bike! 2 bike on top of each other welded together, awesome!