tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post9044771684380437053..comments2023-10-29T03:50:25.904-04:00Comments on the original big ring: Spank The Monkey Race Report (Crank The Shield Race Report 2010)the original big ringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10865105701772620245noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post-41087242494094436262010-09-22T13:54:51.989-04:002010-09-22T13:54:51.989-04:00probably more of a drink fest???
I like the hundi...probably more of a drink fest???<br /><br />I like the hundies! <br /><br />too much mud up north and bugs...<br /><br />"driving to Montreal, eat a shit load of poutine, and go stuff loonies and toonies down strippers g-strings "<br /><br />when the hell are you going to do this? I'm in!<br /><br />I'm sure you get enough of those in the cells though...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post-79440770341673560092010-09-22T12:21:48.710-04:002010-09-22T12:21:48.710-04:00Good write up. I'm even more glad I did Pauls....Good write up. I'm even more glad I did Pauls. If you read between the lines on MTBR you can figure out that while it was a great event in all other respects, the actual riding sucked.<br />There probably was a time when days of slogging through mud would be a interesting test of mettle for me, but now.. nuh-uh. <br />On top of which is the consideration that I'd have taken a dual susp, with 16 gears all of which would be roached out & trashed from grinding through three days of mud.<br /><br />Still, the social aspect is huge and thats a shame to miss. Just not worth destroying a bunch of equipment for.Karkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05755441932425569362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post-63462025791181666762010-09-22T11:34:27.788-04:002010-09-22T11:34:27.788-04:00This race grows on you - just ask Ms. Vagabond. He...This race grows on you - just ask Ms. Vagabond. Her first year race report sounded just like this! Now look!<br /><br />A surprising number of the bogs were rideable on Day 2. There's something remarkably fulfilling about making it all the way through something that looks impossible. I really did love day 2!<br /><br />Also, you and Dicky might have had more fun if you'd emerged from the stinky cabin and joined in the scotch drinking in the lodge (even Mr. Dermont partook - a lot). Just sayin'...<br /><br />The Anti-Race will be fun start to finish, I'm sure.Kimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post-18951262382611300882010-09-22T08:07:26.792-04:002010-09-22T08:07:26.792-04:00I raced the first CTS and had a very similar exper...I raced the first CTS and had a very similar experience from what it sounds like. Stage 2 in particular sounds very much the same from what I've read so far (mud, and some more mud, and some ATV trails, and more mud). Thanks for the input, the race had shown back up on the periphery of my radar for next year. Now it's fading away and the Pisgah MTB Stage race is coming into focus.WPGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428252062711374285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572555494322710549.post-86691061993294788422010-09-22T00:51:46.567-04:002010-09-22T00:51:46.567-04:00and there was a reason I elected the right to not ...and there was a reason I elected the right to not race the <a href="http://goatshell.blogspot.com/2010/09/longer-then-elephants-penis.html" rel="nofollow">Elephant's Penis</a> this coming weekend but to go back to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goatshell/collections/72157624906499212/" rel="nofollow">Butte and enjoy me some more of the 401 and Strand Hill while leaving the Dyke</a> for hiking with the family. Oh, and I did not ride this past weekend but enjoyed <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goatshell/sets/72157624875629261/" rel="nofollow">Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park with the Missus</a>. Goat enjoys while the Big Ring suffers, racing is overrated, I'll stick to my adventuring.The Evil MGE!https://www.blogger.com/profile/06189933903211693479noreply@blogger.com