Bunclody race prep !!

Once again its race prep time for an XC race..hahahaha..some of you made stupid, stupid mistakes last time so heres a refresher..
A Powerlink..use a piece of insulation tape and tape it to your front brake hose.

Get a teeny saddlebag and place it securely under your saddle with a tube and a couple of CO2 canisters in it.

Your Jersey will have 3 pockets.

In the middle pocket put your inflator and if you have any sense a decent mini pump.

In one of the other pockets put 2 Gels, make sure you have tried and tested them though.

In the other pocket put a bag of Powerbar Jelly yokes.

You do not need a Camelback

You do not need a fookin rainjacket, long sleeves or thermals !

slide a High 5 gel up the leg of your shorts ! it should stay there till the end of lap 1 , then stick it in your gobs asap !

You do not need armour , end of story !

Check your bike..its not race ready if the end of the gear cables are missing the nipples..if the nipples are missing replace the cables immediately.

Do not use schwalbe tyres ..do not !!

Check your jockey wheels..

Leave nothing to chance..if you dont have time bring it to a bike shop immediately !!

Visualise crossing the line in first place

Wear very tight underpants/knickers for the next 3 days

Get your bike set up just right tomorrow and fix it immediately if its acting the maggot.

bring 1 500ml bottle on your bike and leave 2 in the feedzone
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Use a bottle with flat coke for the last lap..oh yeah..that will fire you on something miraculously !

Check your grips..are they loose ? are they worn ?

Visualise victory and pay attention to Conan , and check out myself when I had hair and a beard as his coach !



no Camelbacks and 3/4 length baggies..its not a feckin picnic.

you don't need tyre levers..use the end of your skewer !

Remember too that you can't recieve help from non competitors except in the feed zone but if you get in to trouble out in the course you can only recieve help from your club mates !

Most of all come back on the interweb afterwards and praise David Furlong and his merry men for a most excellent race !

WHatever you do , dont lose !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzgU5O-3Xto




Excellent !!

Amen to that! :)

Not that I could top the illustrious Mr Byrnes advice but don't make the same mistake I made last weekend. Just before the off a cleat in my right shoe was giving guff / not clipping out/ They mid way through the first lap after the drop off by the river it got totally stuck resulting me me having to stop take over 10mins to take off my show / wrench it free from the SPD and then ride the rest not only unable to clip in my right foot but with the cleat sticking out arse ways fromt he bottom of my shoe.

I was feeling rather smug about the bike running great only to be undone by something so stupid.

It won't happen again, so please don't learn the same lesson I did the hard way.


Oh and Richie have a read of this thread for the auld videos HERE

Mind those low branches

thats not , very interesting Adrian..once upon a time I was a fierce serious racer..no really..
ANyway, it was in Ravensdale before the Offroad Commission ruined it for us there and I was jumped on the startline by some roadie gob****e..so anyway, I was up his hole on the singeltrack roaring at him to get out of the way when he fell off in front of me , i crashed in to him , fell off , dragged him off the singeltrack and fooked his bike in to the bushes and off I went..so I am after clawing my way back in to 2nd place with only Knud to catch and Robin caught up with me, the two of us are hoofing along and I'm on my last lap, Carol is doing my bottles..so I shout at her to give me a bottle..she hands me the wrong bottle and I threw it back at her screaming " thats not me bottle of Coke !!!" and off I went, the fireroad curved around and she comes running out of the bushes, fires the bottle of coke at me , it hits me square in the head and she shouts " theres your fooking coke !!"

I though Bob was going to fall off the bike laughing..

Be nice to whoevers doing your bottles !

Now boys and girls, rumour has it that Nobby Nics are the rubber of choice down Bunclody way. Run'em the wrong way round with 34.67psi. Serious!

Is there a guy playing Banjo sitting on a rock on the way into the town as well?


:)

mmmmm, now there's a thought

you are some bunch of boring ****s and Adrian..I can't be arsed reading that, can you or Graham not sort that embedding **** out for me..I am the fooking Club President and the Anti Christ after all !

I forgot to say that your man I dragged off the singletrack..well he had a broken Collarbone and he never raced again ! I know..I am a ******* , like the time I punched the Junior who knocked me off my bike, then I punched his dad for giving me lip afterwards ! what can I say ..I dont take criticism well ! Like the time I punched some lad in Killarney for knocking me off my bike on the start line of a race..then I punched some lad in a chipper for getting thick with me about it later in the town..I think he was the Commissar..
and you feckin eejits think I'm bad now..

didnt we also try to rob a car after a race once too or was that a horse ? Jesus I am a very bad example ! But at least I dont stab my mates in the back !!

i'm off for the first of todays training spins..I hope the rest of you are planning a pre race savage training spin this morning ?

Can't wait to get down there and see the course!