Monthly Archives: August 2017

Mud Sweat and Gears Round 7 – Radical Bikes, Chelmsford. A rare lie in for me on race day, as the local venue of Radical Bikes in Chelmsford was only a very comfortable 30-minute drive away. With the usual pre-race day prep done the evening before, just the bikes to load up and then we…

Brighton Big Dog - 12th August 2017 - Mark Darley Having heard great reports about this bike event, I was up for giving it a go.  So making up a team of two with fellow racer Matt Phillips we entered! Having never done a 6 hour race before, I was a little apprehensive, but with…

Brighton Big Dog Race Report On Saturday 12th August a few members of HMTBC headed down to the edge of Brighton to have a go at the Brighton Big Dog Endurance race. Matthew Darley and Joe Champness were racing in the Little Dog race (1.5 hour), myself and Mark Darley were in the male pairs (6…

National Series Round 5 – Builth Wells by Rob Staines We decided during the week before the race to make the trip to Builth Wells for the final round of the National Series on the day of the race.  We got up early and set off around 4 am.  It was a long journey and…

HSBC UK British Cycling National MTB XC Series - Round 5 I’d noticed at the last minute that the final round of the National XC Series was taking place in Builth Wells, Wales at the weekend and I just had to go and see what the experience would be like.   This meant driving the 240…

Ardrock Enduro Intro Sunday 6 August 2017 Wow, that was tough, huge kudos to the guys who did the main event on Saturday.  The Intro was the last three stages (4, 5 and 6) of the full Ardrock but not half the distance 30km against 45km. An early start on Sunday to register and get…

HSBC UK British Cycling National MTB XC Series - Round 5 Thought I would write a small piece for the HMTBC web page this time - may have more of a following that way??  Still do a blog but, more for my own posterity and those that want to read and asked me to put…