[Event] The 36ONE

[HenkD]

Is the half like teeing off from the ladies tee and making the green in regulation?

Ps its only a little banter 

1 hour ago, ChrisF said:

 

Well, some context for the newbies .... you WON the half-36one ....

 

You two doing the full this year ?

 

[Zebra]

14 hours ago, JacquesJ said:

I did two with them, no issues. But I know of one of the elite ladies was told to take it off by the csa rep a few years ago.so maybe they turn a blind eye to us regular folk

 

15 hours ago, Mamil said:

I have inner bar ends - wonder if I'll be DQ'd when I come in on the 50th percentile

I rather think that the SQLabs inner bar ends are not what CSA, etc, think of as inner bar ends, but rather CONVENTIONAL MTB (longer) bar ends RELOCATED to the middle of the handlebars; I may be wrong, but this is my understanding…

(meaning these ‘thumb grips’ cannot be used as a lay-on mini-aero bar, whereas regular MTB bar ends in middle of handlebars can be used more as an aero ‘rest’…)

[BuffsVintageBikes]

14 hours ago, ChrisF said:

 

Well, some context for the newbies .... you WON the half-36one ....

 

You two doing the full this year ?

Sadly not this year @ChrisF, neither of us have had the time available to put in the amount of training required to defend that title and we don't want to just make up the numbers.
Besides, 12 months isn't enough for me to recover mentally & emotionally from 180km's of pain & suffering from racing with that animal 😅

I raced with those SQLab inner bar ends last year (well the Temu knockoffs 😊). I can't see what the issue will be with them because you can still reach your brakes comfortably with your 3 outer fingers on each hand while in them and still have full control of the bars?

[ChrisF]

39 minutes ago, BuffsVintageBikes said:

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Besides, 12 months isn't enough for me to recover mentally & emotionally from 180km's of pain & suffering from racing with that animal 😅

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Hiehie .... he certainly is one STRONG rider ....