Dan Irons (wannabe David Attenborough) has put together a cracking short about the last Dinner ’til Dusk mini enduro event which we held in July…
Watch it here or click on the word ‘HD’ to watch it in full HD lushness (which it deserves)!
Short of the second Dinner Till Dusk mini enduro, for the Black Canon Collective.
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What is it?
Its our monthly club timed practice day on one of our taped downhill tracks using ‘freelap’ timing equipment and kindly donated ‘shimano’ tape. This month we’re timing on ‘Puppets’, check out the helmet camera footage of ‘Puppets’, the second one, after ‘143’.
When is it?
This Sunday (22nd) 11am – 3pm
Where is it?
The Allotment, our home in the woods
How can I take part?
You need to be a member and bring along proof of your membership to take part, it doesn’t cost any money to take part in a Tickertape. The only cost to you is the cost of your membership for the year. There are a few rules though; Your bike must have 2 working brakes and you must wear a full face helmet to take part. Also you get 2 runs with a ‘freelap’ watch, then you must let someone else borrow it. This is known as the 2 run pass it on rule. There’s no limit to the amount of runs you can record in the 4 hours, Will managed 17 one day!
I hope to see many people there, help setting up and packing away is highly praised, and don’t forget to bring beans, you know what I’m talking about!
Thanks to Andrew, Simon, Jen, Ian, Sam, Maria, Neil, Josh, Jamie, Mark and Juliet. We rolled just under 3000m of Shimano tape in two and a half hours. We also ate perfectly* cooked sausages and listened to great* music whilst sprawled out on my driveway like some sort of white trash self help group for people who hate tangles but have an uncanny resistance to RSI. Good times.
*not true
Hello
We’re holding a night of tape rolling, food and ….well, more tape rolling, on Monday (that’s tomorrow).
We’ve used up all 3000m of shimano tape now and despite a pretty fantastic effort at the last committee meeting we just can’t get to the end of the massive bundle.
So, PLEASE come along and help out – I promise you’ll get some good food and if you try hard enough some RSI too!
Monday 16th, 19:00-21:00 (see the forum for location)
If you can make it please say so below (we need about 8 or so people to make this worth doing)
Thanks!
p.s. We get given this tape by shimano and as we can’t hold TickerTapes or Dinner ’til Dusk events without this tape we re-use it to save money and minimise waste. We’re looking into getting two tape rollers but haven’t found anything suitable yet so for now we need to roll this back up by hand. I’m hoping that within the next week or so we’ll come up with a more practical solution (all suggestions welcome!).
p.p.s. The sausages will be worth the effort – they’re the best in all of Frometownshire.
Thanks to Jamie, Ian, Ben, Gordon, Mark, Charles and Liam for working so hard today. We’ve got some great things planned for the trails at the Allotment so please get involved if you want to see things progress. .. as awesome as it would be; there’s no such thing as trail fairies – just people with tools, doughnuts and plenty of elbow grease.
Due to a potential clash in September between the Tickertape and The Cobble Wobble, this weekend’s Dig Day and the August Tickertape in a fortnight will be moved to the Sunday instead of the Saturday.
That means that we hope to see you at the Allotment at 10am this Sunday for some digging, raking and building!
You may remember that we were involved in the Velo Jam last year, an evening of bike centered events held in Frome to celebrate the visiting Tour of Britain cycle race. We ran the Cobble Wobble, a bicycle hill climb sprint in the heart of Frome that saw massive crowds, funny costumes and some very impressive times. It was great fun, and was something that we were very keen to be involved with every year .
Well we are; this year the Cobble Wobble is being held as a stand alone event but this time we’ve been involved from the start!
The event poster below explains everything you need to know for now, click on it and you’ll be taken to the Cobble Wobble website where you can sign up to find out about entries before anyone else. It’s going to be an awesome day with lots of great people, food, bikes, Cobble Wobble ale and some pretty amazing prizes too. The event is being supported by Charge Bikes and Red Bull so expect to see some famous faces and very very fast times.
Neil Cousins, last years winner (and BCC member) is going to have to eat plenty of Helen’s Millionaires Shortcake if he’s going to be in with a shout this year…
Check out the website for frequent updates and KEEP THE 19TH SEPTEMBER FREE!
Beans
p.s. we need 16 volunteers to help run the Cobble Wobble on the day. Volunteers will get free entry to the race and after party (which will be pretty special), food and drinks during the event and a goody bag. They will also be helping to raise money for the club by their involvement. Please email andrew.denham@blackcanoncollective.co.uk if you’re interested. thanks!
Despite the uncomfortably warm conditions and unexpectedly hungry horseflies, Sunday 25th July saw the second Dinner ’til Dusk. Starting at 2pm after a practice period featuring Charlie crashing, the Le Mans style start led to violence and abuse as everyone fought to get to their bike.
As the chain of riders wound its way down the first singletrack descent Mark’s lack of practice lap was shown to be a mistake as he went straight on and straight through the tape at a sweeping right hander, the riders behind him didn’t let their laughter get in the way of their overtaking.
Later into the first hour and it was clear how the event was going to work out; Tom was going to steam round each lap hailing everyone he passed with his Pumpkin Man cry – he earned himself a beans prize for his costume, speed and enthusiasm on such a heavy bike, Will would put us to shame with his fixed wheel riding of the technical course while ‘rocking’ a Banana Man costume and Paul would attack every climb and descent which he attributes to his new bike, not his increased skill and fitness.
As if his mission was to ensure that everyone proved their intelligence as well as their riding skill Pete used his courdroy-wearing-geography-teacher persona to ask questions and hand out ‘gold’ stars, while Andrew convinced Robin (dressed as a punk ferret) to throw in a couple of laps in (between finishing work and going for his food) allowing him a well earned rest from his solo pursuit of Adam.
About an hour in Chris Sheppard arrived – sleep deprived – to put the Steptoe into his team with our chairman. His fast laps on his new bike put them in contention for the win, while The Chedge channelled the power of his MC Hammer Pyjama bottoms to return after each lap faster than Josh J was hoping, especially as Josh was running up the switchbacks of the main climb each lap, bike on his back.
While Josh J was running up climbs, Josh H and his teammate Timmy were churning out frequent smooth, fast laps, while showing their musical prowess on the maracas back in the pit area.
The battle for the win in the pairs event all came down to the final lap, with Greg – paired with lycra wearing, singlespeed riding Big Bird – successfully completing the course in sub 11 minutes to take the victory!
Meanwhile Adam had put in an incredibly consistent set of laps – ruined by a snapped chain – to take solo gold!
Other winners of the beans prizes (along with Timmy and Tom) were Josh and Will for both starting their final lap when they had no realistic chance of making it back in time and Gordon, who won the tyres for tolerating my team orders and for putting in far more effort and commitment than anyone else.
Thanks to Andrew for the stickers, picture captions and designing the climb, Dan for the photos, to Max Bikes PR for providing the prizes and to everybody who helped pack away and took part.
I’ve sped up the climbs so that it’s a little more watchable…..
