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Exmoor Beast Sportive

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  • October 26, 2011 at 10:22 am #14403
    CaptJack

    Anyone riding the Exmoor Beast this Sunday.
    Starting from Butlins in Minehead, my 3rd year riding this one.

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  • November 1, 2011 at 4:14 pm #656667
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    SideBurn

    You came down from
    You came down from Manchester? GodleySpinner :O What brought you down this way? ‘Tis a bit out of the way

    October 31, 2011 at 4:38 pm #656665
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    GodleySpinner

    Well done Fringe The 100
    Well done Fringe 🙂 The 100 mile route was excellent and you are right, both me & my bike looked like we had done a cross race!! The weather for the 1st 50 miles was awful, rain,gusts and fog. Then as if by magic glorious Sunshine and everybody started over-heating!! A great event,I’ll be back again next year.The drive back to Manchester today was a painful one 🙂

    October 31, 2011 at 12:09 pm #656663
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    SideBurn

    Wanted to do it but could not
    Wanted to do it but could not get the day off. My son arranged to do the 100mile with a friend…who pulled out at the last minute. He was pretty p****d off as he wanted to do the 100k. He finished, just, some riders from south devon took pity on him on his own and he rode with them, cheers whoever you were. The Paramedic based a Lynton had his busiest day ever! A few casualties ended up in Barnstaple hospital but nothing serious, that I heard of. Exmoor is superb, hilly but worth it; I spend as much time up there as possible. On road off road just as good…next year I will do the Beast!

    October 30, 2011 at 8:34 pm #656661
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    CaptJack

    Great day, although fairly
    Great day, although fairly wet start !
    Beat my time from last year finishing in 4:24 ( 100 kms )
    Favourite part of ride the climb from Lynmouth to Watersmeet, must be one of the best climbs in the area.

    Well done to Fringe 100 miles :O

    October 30, 2011 at 6:38 pm #656659
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    Fringe

    did the 100miler despite
    did the 100miler despite trying to talk myself out of it, this was in the first two hours which was very wet and windy. glad i did now as it was a good course, plenty of hills (and even some i recognized).

    you could tell near the end who had done the 100miler as they were covered in mud as one 100 meter section of road was cm deep in the stuff thanks to a one Mr. Farmer. nice.

    heres a pic of the 7.00am start.

    October 28, 2011 at 12:27 pm #656657
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    CaptJack

    Planned to ride the 100 mile
    Planned to ride the 100 mile in 2009 but that distance was cancelled due to bad weather !
    So have ridden the 100 km since , missed out on Gold last year by 1 minute !

    October 27, 2011 at 2:41 pm #656655
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    Fringe

    GodleySpinner wrote:Don’t

    GodleySpinner wrote:
    Don’t make a mistake Fringe & do the 100 miler,most of the tough climbing is in the starting 100K, the last 20K is more or less downhill. It’s a stunning course & well worth the extra effort. Mudguards are a must & winter training bike perfect, I’m going on my nice heavy steel steed :)

    ta for that, i reckon i prob will plump for the 100m seeing as ive paid for it..and having done a few audax’s round exmoor and looking at the ‘beast’ map it does seem like the extra miles on the 100m are just a diversion on the rolling roads south of exmoor itself..

    better go make some extra flapjacks. 😀

    October 27, 2011 at 7:48 am #656653
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    GodleySpinner

    Don’t make a mistake Fringe &
    Don’t make a mistake Fringe & do the 100 miler,most of the tough climbing is in the starting 100K, the last 20K is more or less downhill. It’s a stunning course & well worth the extra effort. Mudguards are a must & winter training bike perfect, I’m going on my nice heavy steel steed 🙂

    October 26, 2011 at 8:10 pm #656651
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    Fringe

    i’m down for the 100 miler,
    i’m down for the 100 miler, but may well chicken out and do the 100km as i’m on the ‘winter bike’ (read not so lightweight with m’guards). but looking forward to it either way. esp. as not done this one before.

    October 26, 2011 at 2:05 pm #656649
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    GodleySpinner

    Yep,2nd year for me,really
    Yep,2nd year for me,really looking forward to it as it is a great event.Travelling down Friday with the family for a great weekend at Butlins 🙂

    October 26, 2011 at 11:00 am #656647
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    dave atkinson

    mat normally does it though.
    mat normally does it though. he’ll be in his road.cc jersey. even if it’s -3° and blowing a gale. won’t you mat?

    October 26, 2011 at 10:59 am #656645
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    dave atkinson

    was going to but now i’m
    was going to but now i’m going to the natural history museum to look at dinosaur skeletons 🙂

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