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I will be doing it next year. would have done it this year but i only got back form a 2 week holiday to florida 2 days before the event and its not good prep no training and drinking every night for two weeks. This year i have the event allready i...
Yeah Id definitely be up for that,Im sure Simon would too and maybe Crispy.
Yeah Id defin
I am having a break now from mountain biking but still going to finish the cyclo cross league just so i dont completely go rusty. Thinking of going to dalby after the new year to blow the cobwebs off and get some early training before the kielder ...
Yeah it was that first drop,it was a bit slippy going down there,especially with a back wheel locked up and not slowing down,lol. The last lap killed me too,the mud was bad enough at the start but on the third lap it was awful,like riding through ...
Shut it Rhodes. When you ride hard things tend to get broken,sorry,you dont know what that means,bloody marin shopping bikes,lol.
Breaking bikes again I see! Bloody Specialized! I hear it broke at Dalby too :-)
Well done mark thats not a bad time without a front brake. I think i did see the lass who broke her leg. Did she do it on the first drop off going into the woods. Didnt realise she had broke it could see she was in a bit of pain. Dont know about y...
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- What type of riding do you do?
- XC, All Mountain
- At which of the following locations do you ride?
- Hamsterley, Chopwell, Dalby
- When do you ride?
- Weekday Morning, Weekday Afternoon, Weekday Evening, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening, Sunday Morning, Sunday Afternoon, Sunday Evening
- What intensity do you ride at?
- All Paces - Depends on the group
- What bike/s do you ride?
- Giant anthem advanced. (for racing only).
giant xtc carbon custom built. (training & playing).
specialised tricross comp. (road & cyclocross).
- Tell us a bit about yourself
- Hi call me ray. I race xc as much as the wife allows. I also race cx through the winter. I am an X BMX north east champ dont get excited it was 24yrs ago. I have only been back riding bikes 3 yrs . As i had a 21yr rest and decided to get fit again after running and football was getting boring. Married with two kids age 18 & 10. won my first mtb race this year and hoping to better that in 2010 love all kinds of racing from short and fast cx racing to 24 hour enduros what ever pops in the calendar and i dont have plans i will be there. I work at TRW in peterlee as a lead op.
- Where do you live?
- chester le street
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- At 8:46am on November 24, 2009,
Anthony Michael Burrell said… - hello mate, yes i am up for richmond on sunday. Hows the neck? I did barnard castle, sunday gone. it was the hardest physical thing i've ever done, it was ultra muddy and i couldn't find any grip, there was almost as much running as there was riding, due to the lack of grip! my inexperience showed, i dont know wether all of my energy was drained by the mud or wether i wasn't 100%, either way it was hard work, hopefully i will have gained some experience goin into the richmond round. I think that there will be a large no of entrants. hope to see you there. the Ripper is waiting patiently for you to grace its pedals!
- At 10:19am on November 17, 2009,
Anthony Michael Burrell said…
- hello again mate, thanks for your kind words mate, you can be sure i will be trying hard next time, so i hope your right and i'm mixing it up with you guys again.
all the hairs are up on my arms looking at those bmx pic mate, awesome, when i was a kid, although i loved bmx, it was football and table tennis i concentrated on. I wish i'd stuck in with the bmx!
after nebbing on your profile i noticed that we have more than cyclocross, mtb and bmx in common, I also work in peterlee ind est, at Caterpillar, and i'm also a married father of 2 boys Harry and Joe ( 6 and 4). I have a pk ripper which you welcome to ride anytime, harry has a little ripper and joe has a mongoose 12" wheel, little ripper ready for xmas. We try to spend time at summerhill bmx track in hartlepool, which is an awesome track , well worth a look.
Are you racing Barnard casltle at the weekend, i was thinking of not bothering and goin to hamsterly instead, however, if you and stephen are goin, i guess i should. let me know mate.
I will hopefully be tagging along on some mountain bike races with you 2010.
Anthony.
- At 3:25pm on November 3, 2009,
Anthony Michael Burrell said…
- hello mate. i'm off to eurodisney tonight, will get back early hours of sunday morning, was thinking about the cross race at southshields on sunday. will see how i feel on my return. see you around mate. good luck
- At 9:57am on July 28, 2009,
Si said… - Hi ray,
Sorry but just picked up your message. Shame as you would have been made very welcome. Saturday night piss up was quite epic with only 6 of the 26 starters making day two of the ride. Mind you we had a few injuries to take into consideration including a badly gashed knee and three broken ribs in the DH race alone. There were some fantastic old bikes out there and they were riden hard, 8 hours in the saddle on saturday and a lap of Dalby on sunday. There was a modern Orange 5 (reserve bike due to regular bike breaking) that could only manage 9th in the standings. I managed to get my 1987 FAT CHANCE into 4th- first fully rigid home and oldest bike in the DH race.
We will be up in Guisbrough and going over Urra to Commondale and back next month if you fancy coming along?
Cheers
Si
- At 7:06pm on July 27, 2009,
MARK said…
- Cheers for that Ray,Ill have a look. Unfortunatley Im not doing the merida due to family commitments. Ive just bought a new road bike which I also do a bit of,Im gonna stick a pic up now so you can let me know what you think.Thanks again,Mark.
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