Transwales sounded great, much more my cup of tea than the one-day mass slogs.

Transcotland 2007, eh? Any details available on that - I'm assuming it'll link up a load of 7Stanes stuff?

Veterans class? I'm 40 next year!

Hows the shoulder Pete?

I wouldn't assume anything Monty. I wrongly assumed TransWales would include a lot of trail cente riding but we only did about 10% on specific MTB trails. Not that that's a problem if the natural trails chosen provide fun riding.

I'll keep an eye on their plans and add you to the potential partners in suffering list. Alan Craft was vaguely interested in TransWales, is also the wrong side of 40 and pretty quick.

I`m also on the wrong side on the big 40.

What end`o Scotland is this event mooted to be taking place in?

Hi monty. I am gonna be keeping an eye out on this one too. TBH yer not gonna have an issue whatever your riding on are you ;-) Anyhow, hopefully see ya there

Yep, not sure of my plans for next summer yet, but that'll go in the pot. I assume it'll be 7Stanes based because of the need for private trails you can actually run the competitive stages on - maybe that's another bit of access law that differs in Scotland, I'm not sure.

Shoulder's still killing me, although I've got more movement. If you lot hadn't said ligament damage takes weeks to recover from, I'd be getting a bit worried by now.

I HAVE to do it :-)

I reckon there is scope for quite a bit of competition for this.

Imagine the banter :-(






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I have no doubt that I will beat you ;-)








Shit its started already :-(

Reading barbara's write up it sounds like a fantastic basis for an event.

You ride the long stages against a time limit and enjoy the surroundings (as much as is possible, then you do racing type sections across the man made courses including night rides. Sounds like my idea of fun.

As i commented to mike recently, its not really gonna be the distances thats a problem, it will be doing them each day for 7 days or whatever. Be nice to have some confirmed details for next year so i can build up to it somehow.

that's another bit of access law that differs in Scotland

I believe that's the intention - there are no bridleways, ergo the not-racing-on-bridleways legislation is irrelevant. I'd be surprised if the Stanes didn't feature, though.

The provisional dates for TransScotland are 19-27 May 2007.

Ohhh quite early then. How much wonga did it cost for the transwales in the end if you dont mind me asking.

Nice pre-midge timing, even better.

"It was at this time that I'd come to the conclusion that French mountain bikers were a totally different breed to their British counterparts. In France there are the Lycra bunch and the Big Air bunch. In the UK the Lycra bunch are into big air in the dark."

I know what she means. Makes you proud to be an 'eccentric' Brit!

I'd love a crack at one of these stage type events but I'm not sure if I've got the mental toughness for it and the thought of finding out that I haven't - and quitting - scares me a bit. I've done week long cycling holidays in very mountainous country and ridden hard almost every day, but I'd imiagine that's a far cry from something like this. Besides, the weather in the French Alps and Southern Spain is a tad better than Wales...

We are having a discussion on Hobo Style atm about arranging our own 'version'. We have as much experience as anyone else in the area and people like John Henry have more than most so we reckon we can put together our own 'challenge' for less than £400 each. And the fact that i fly on holiday on 27th May has kinda scuppered my plans.

It all sounds good to me, when is the trans Yorkshire one though. Plenty of scope there.

it does sound like a laugh!

i'll be 18, and me + a few mates are trying to start a college cycling team (get them to pay for race entries)

so, who'd like to see me suffer (if i could actually be arsed)