Beastway round 10 - 20th July

[Grahame]

Was that Mr Ferri I saw making his Beastway debut at last night's designated muddy round?

He looked to be coping with the conditions better than most for a decent placing - certainly top 40 overall.

[carl f]

Thanks Grahame bit of a mud bath there last night! good fun with a relaxed atmosphere
Was battling it out with the eventual vets winner for the 1st couple of laps until i went head 1st into a thistle hedge. After this i couldn't stay on the bike much sliding all over the place and got passed by a few more but managed a 31st and 6th vet in the end. Great fun look forward to next week,might stick some more suitable tyres on next time though......

[Grahame]

The mud certainly added to the fun. Having helped build the course, I decided to marshal rather than ride around and have a nightmare cleaning the bike afterwards (if I'd looked at the weather forecast I'd have taken the singlespeed), I then confirmed my excuse list by lending my rear QR skewer to a singlespeed rider who'd broken his QR somehow during his warmup/reccy lap.

We had a bit of a panic near the start of the race when we noticed 2/3 of the riders were crashing on the descent through the woods, so I got John Mullineux to help me reroute the race down the gravelly zigzags before anybody got injured (we didn't want any Andy Schlecks or Alexandre Vinokourovs in our race), I spent the rest of the race at the top of the hill telling people about the reroute.

[carl f]

That was a good move,certainly made my race safer there was a stack down there on the 1st lap. I remember seeing you now sorry i didn't say hello but i was hanging on for dear life!

[stamourp]

From the pictures, it looks like I picked a good week to be on holiday. Well done to all the marshalls who helped out in what looks like a deluge.