September 18th, 2007
Three Peaks Cancelled
Due to foot and mouth fears.
Update:
We’ve had good weather today too, it would have been nice to be at the top of Ingleborough in something other than cloud for a change.
Due to foot and mouth fears.
Update:
We’ve had good weather today too, it would have been nice to be at the top of Ingleborough in something other than cloud for a change.
Three Peaks Entries have been confirmed.
Good luck to all those who got their entry in on time.
I see that 360 got a head start on the young ‘uns the owd giffer.
Get your form here.
Enjoy it without me :-)
update:
Sold out in 6 days. Bonkers. Sometimes having no access to a computer provides the best excuses…
I might have found a venue. The gravel surface is reminiscent of the high mountain passes of the grand tours of the 50s. Bring your best St Raphael jersey.
Inappropriate Tyres
Date and logistics being sorted.
Rick bending tubes
Rick Hunter has finally got his website active so that us on this side of the Atlantic can admire, and purchase, his wares. I’d love to be able to justify/afford one of his cyclo-cross frames.
There’s some nice cyclo-cross history written by Joel over at black bird ess eff.
In the early days of ‘cross, racers had to ride uphill, against the wind, both ways, in the snow, with hornets chasing them the entire time. Here at blackbird we have the photos to prove it. Monster runups, deceptive trench jumps, thicket […]
March 4th.
Bristol.
11am at shaggys for noon start. Will be a local pickup at the bridge or somewhere.
Free races. No insurance. No pits. Any bike. Anybody.
Rules are flexible and at the organiser’s whim.
skull and crossbikes rules
The only rule: There are no rules
Just let yourself tune in
Another Man’s Rhubarb Pop Will Eat Itself
Steve’s photos
Steve and Simon have captured the event. I _may_ have taken a shortcut on a lap or two and taken […]
SteveR has interviewed Samuri for 63xc about being the first man to ride the Three Peaks on fixed.
JW: I rode a fixed wheel bike around what is generally considered to be the hardest cyclocross course in Britain, if not the world. I didn’t come last and my knees don’t hurt.

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Actually we‚re lying about the Maverick since some low-life stole it.
A dogs dinner of links to stuff that we have arranged in an apparently random manner, though I assure you it made sense at the time.
The things we listen to are occasionally logged on Last.fm
New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
It doesn't update from the wheels of steel though :-)
Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.
in no particular order...
For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.
In the UK as we give away our civil liberties in the name of freedom it might be handy to be aware of Photographers Rights.
Don’t let The Man stop you shooting.
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
sometimes you just gotta take action, or at least be able to get our hands on the FACTS