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Yak Attack – The Final Days
March 29th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 5:22 pm
With all the substantial climbing over there was only one stage left… 67km in length and mostly descending with a fair bit of ‘Uptulating’ terrain to take us from Muktinath to Tatapani… and the promise of a relaxing hot spring.
The day started not so well as not long into the first jeep track descent i noticed my forks were sitting almost at the bottom of their travel and with no shock pump there was nothing i could do to try and remedy this… maybe an issue with altitude.
So now riding what was essentially a fully rigid bike (i suppose i should be used to this) i made my way down the first descent to the first flatter section of the day… a ride along the dry river bed to Jomson… at this point i past the Swedish guys.. Andreas and Martin.. who had suffered a flat on one of the many cobble we were riding over, Andreas had gone off super fast making the most of his very well trained bike handling skills but had slowed mid downhill so himself and Martin could ride out the last stage together.
Yak Attack… Breathing thin air
March 29th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 5:20 pm
With limited internet access for the last 3 days its not been possible to blog the race as it happened. Today we are in Manang at 3540m, a rest day to acclimatise before the next climb upto 4450m.
The last 3 days have gone like this -
Yak Attack Stage 2 – Spinning Out..
March 11th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 7:39 pm
After a transition stage group ride yesterday of 50km with a healthy serving of both up and down we found ourselves in Gorka.. the old capital of Nepal.
Stage 2, Gorka to Besi Sahar, 60km… the days stage was sold as a half and half, jeep track and sealed tarmac rode.. on paper it didn’t sound too tough although with that much tarmac involved it was never going to be a singlspeed friendly day and best I could hope for was to minimise losses.
The day started with a descent of around 6-7km, not too rough but pretty rutted as rain has carved the surface into multiple channels to choose from… the jeep track flowed from reddish clay, to grass then into villages and back onto the familiar dusty brown surface of the last 2 days…
Yak Attack day one – a glimpse of the pain to come..
March 9th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 6:46 pm
I never viewed my participation in this event as a ‘race’, I knew the local guys had the event sewn up as although we can match them on the flat and the climbs, when you limit the supply of oxygen we have no response.
So with this in mind I have no idea why I couldn’t sleep last night, I had my usual pre race nerves and spent most of the time going over what little I knew about what lay ahead. Everything usually feels better after the first stage…
Road.cc test the Equilibrium
March 9th, 2010
Filed under: News – by: Genesis Bikes 5:45 pm
A different bike to the one C+ had, at least in size. To read the test on road.cc click here..
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