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Monday, September 11, 2006

The Epic Blast

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posted by Morgan @ 9:22 a.m.  

22 Comments:

  • At 12:02 p.m., Blogger Fergal said…

    I'm excited and terrified, kind of a bit 'excerrified' or 'terricited' I suppose, there's two cool new words for ye to impress people with...

     

  • At 3:58 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    same here but need to see if i will stick with the cleats or go back to flats but we will wait and see

     

  • At 3:59 p.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    I'm looking froward to this - I went down a bit of it at the weekend and it was real slippy and muddy :) It should be class!

     

  • At 9:48 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Who wants to give me a go of a full sus bike? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Promise ill do decent if I get one! And ill do the ramp of doom too, have a full face and body armour, what else could go wrong?!

     

  • At 9:56 p.m., Blogger Morgan said…

    You can borrow my Blur if you replace the bearings and shock bushings by the weekend...

     

  • At 10:09 p.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    I may also need a lift this weekend... I'll have a car for the Marathons though - I promise! I can give the cars pilot advice on how to navigate the muddy descent :P

     

  • At 4:24 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    is there any directions to this event thingy if so could i please get a copy

    shane

     

  • At 4:46 p.m., Blogger Morgan said…

    Here's one map

    and here's another one.

     

  • At 6:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    thanks morgan

     

  • At 3:50 p.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    Anyone heading up around by the course tomorrow?

     

  • At 3:51 p.m., Blogger Sean said…

    maybe, I was half thinking of returning home via there from the beginner spin..... :-)
    have you a lift sorted?

     

  • At 6:04 p.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    Lift sorted :)

    I did a run down the course today and it's class! If yas are sitting on the fence about going to this - do go! It will be a great event. You get to race the course 3 times with uplifts and it's (I'm guessing) a 15-20 minutes descent. Ya'll will be fine going down it :)

     

  • At 7:02 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    what a whopper day shame about my bike breaking at every moment it could(DAMED EXPENCIVE REPAIRS) but at least i got to do the blast on my diamondback(I.E HARDTAIL) and well done to ryan

     

  • At 7:17 a.m., Blogger Fergal said…

    wow - what a total mind-blower and body-basher of an event!
    Body should be just about recovered for next years one as I bent myself up a few times (just for laughs now!).
    The Blast was everything great I heard about it and a load more. Commiserations to Noel who sliced his hand pretty bad during a practice run (hope u got it stitched OK Noel!).
    nice one Ryan for 1st in his heat final (and 18th in the Blast - nice!) A puncture halfway thru the Blast was the only crap part of my day, but got it fixed and didn't finish last so all ended well. Never seen so many dirty grinning laughing faces after a race...madness is great

     

  • At 9:41 a.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    That was one of the most fun days I have had. I had heard lots about it before, everyone raving on about it but it was (as Fergal put it) everything and more.

    The track was deadly - it had the tricky technical bits, jumps, a fireroad climb and fast fast single track. The atmosphere was great, food lovely and prizes really really good :)

    I'm still buzzing after it all :)

     

  • At 3:03 p.m., Blogger Fergal said…

    Mr Downey, you've to report to Mr Richard Byrnes office and explain your absence from the Blast (he was asking for ya).
    You missed Mick doing a great impression of Ryan as Mick went up to receive Ryan's prize on his behalf, while Ryan went looking for his stolen bike (that wasn't really stolen).
    Actually is was nothing like Ryan but very funny, kind of a little prance in his step and an elegant motion of the arms, I'd swear you did ballet at one stage Mick....

     

  • At 5:58 p.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    LOL - I'd loved to have seen that. My heart dropped when I thought the bike was nicked!

     

  • At 10:07 p.m., Blogger Fergal said…

    Shane, I saw a deadly photo of you diving to catch a derailleur you saw in the bushes:
    http://images3.fotopic.net/?iid=yjdcco&outx=800&quality=80

    did you get it?
    and did it fit your bike ok?

     

  • At 8:19 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    fixed working grand but for how long

     

  • At 9:15 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    where did you get that picture

     

  • At 11:19 a.m., Blogger Ryan Sherlock said…

    That photo is deadly :)

    Did it hurt?

     

  • At 11:38 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    nope not at all what did hurt was when gar maguire pushed me over a bike at the top but got him back

     

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