We’ve got a rock garden to build and we’re gonna need all the help we can get!
Bring food, drink and a neanderthal like obsession for stones.
10-4 down the Allotment.
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Cobble Wobble 2010
Many of you will know that the Black Canon Collective were the people who, on the day, made the Cobble Wobble run smoothly (both this year and last). Check out this great video produced by Charge Bikes and Red Bull to showcase the event…
…not bad ey? I’d like to say a massive thank you too all the BCC members who worked so hard over the whole day – the event wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for you.
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Tickertape DH Jam tomorrow, 18th Sep.
For those that didn’t know, I apologise for not posting several days ago.
Tomorrow is our monthly Tickertape (Downhill fun jam with the option to do some timed practice). A day before the Frome cobble wobble makes this a bumper riding weekend with weather looking mighty fine too.
Track BBMS (Badger Badger Mushroom Snake), a few track stats; length – 450 metres, vertical drop – 65 metres, avg. time 50 – 60 seconds.
Push up – less than 10 minutes
Freelap timing system & Shimano race tape!
Spot prizes courtesy of Max bikes PR.
Come along and check it out, its gonna be bonza!
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Dig Day Done
Saturday’s Dig Day was quality.
Loads of people turned up to help and as a result we got everything done with plenty of time left to ride.
We built a new top section for puppets, repaired and extended the top berms on 143, repaired ‘weeeboing’ and raked every inch of every trail leaving them looking amazing and helping those lovely roots come through.
Next dig day we’ll be building an extended and stepped rock garden at the top of spoons ready for the TickerTape triple crown in october – so please come along and help out as it’ll be a mammoth task but be awesome once done.
Cheers!
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Dig Day This Saturday!
It’s dig day this saturday and there’s plenty to do…
Come along and lend a hand, meet some more members and eat some doughnuts.
10:00 – 16:00 (ish) @ the Allotment
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Blindside review
Charles Mountford has been riding a Transition Blindside over the past few months thanks to Keith from Max Bikes PR. Here’s his review after plenty of fun down the allotment (both), and some epic riding at the Megavalanche and Avalanche Enduro… (click on the image to go to the full review).
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Raise some money – win some cool stuff!
We really need to raise some money to buy some more freelap watches for use at TickerTape races…
So, we’re asking our TickerTape loving members to get creative and think up ways to (legitimately) raise some doh.
What about…
A sponsored ride.
A week of doing chores around the house.
1000 press ups in an hour.
Bunny-hop your gran.
Going a whole week without saying “rad”, “dude”, “yeahhh boi!”, hi-fiving or greeting people by saying…”sup”.
Or, just rattling a big bucket at a supermarket checkout whilst dressed as a brownie.Whatever you can think of and successfully carry out without stealing, hurting or defrauding other people is cool.
So now for the best bit…
All proceeds will go towards buying freelap watches (which is obviously very cool), the top three fund raisers will win some cool prizes AND whoever raises over £100 will have their name put into a hat to win this brand new beautiful commemorative signed copy of STEVE PEAT WORLD CHAMPION- SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING – something that money simply can’t buy (he only signed 100 copies, we ordered this one within minutes of it being available and got #15, the rest have all since gone) !
So go on, download the sponsorship sheet (you can use as many as you need) and get fundraising!
The closing date is Friday October the 1st.
All money collected for this fundraiser must be given to the BCC or returned to the donors.
Money can be donated personally and / or raised by sponsorship.
The BCC will spend all of the money raised from this fundraiser on Freelap watches and timing equipment for use at TickerTapes.
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And the winner is…
BCC member Charles Major won an awesome Trek Fuel EX8 recently (jammy sod!) but managed to get the club a cheeky mention in the magazine and get snapped wearing his BCC T-shirt…good work Charles!
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Sock Puppets
August TickerTape was a quiet one in terms of numbers, but as always it was still full of plenty of action, laughs and more super gnarly radness than anywhere else within 10 miles of Frome.
After being helped to set up (thanks guys!) there was an odd “no, no….after you!” etiquette going on that highlighted just how rough and intimidating puppets can be – no-one wanted to be the first one down, so we just sat there looking scared.
Before too long though Chris Smith had finished his course walk, taking soil samples and scratching “Copyright Chris Smith” on all his lines, it’s normally at this point that the full time pro mountain biker claims it’s ages since he last rode, and that he “can’t remember any of the track” but we all know that’s a load of b******s! ; )
Keith, head honcho of Max Bikes PR, popped by to say hi and drop off some awesome prizes for the next few events – we’re really lucky to be supported by Keith if it wasn’t for him we’d be giving away tins of baked beans rather than shinny new products and cool t’s.
Everybody rode really well with only a few spills and no injuries worth mentioning. Josh Jobbins was the only full time hardtail rider this time around and was running it single speed too. For being the most fearless as he chattered his way down battery hill (sometimes on his bum) Josh won a colour co-ordinated KCNC machined topcap, which was pretty cool given the state of his existing one.
Liam Arkell killed it all day long too and was nothing short of impressive as he rode all the rough stuff fully committed and flat out. He managed to catch Chris’s eye – “who’s that kiddy on the Cove…he’s going pretty quick ey?!” high praise coming from the man himself. Needless to say Liam won the other beans award – a pair of very limited edition SockGuy Transition socks.
As for the winning time, well …. but…. it snapped… if I’d have had….. yeah, but next time…. ok, Chris won, fair and square and he did so convincingly; beating me by 0.47 secs and leaving with over an hour and a half still to go.
Next month we’re racing BBMS and it’s going to be the last event before the special TickerTape Triple Crown in October – so come along and get some practice in!
(thanks to Tom Rickhuss for the action shots)
