National 12 hour championship winning bike ...

[to55er]

... and the bike I rode my last EVER 12 hour on ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181540476814? ... 1555.l2649

 

[Robbied196]

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Well that made me smile, what a superb listing

Good luck with the sale.

 

[daccordimark]

Stumbled across that listing myself and had a good chuckle.

Hope someone buys it Mr. Cammish but would they have the nerve to turn up at their local 10 on it?

Mark.

 

[Midlife]

Made me smile too. Only ever did one 12 hour event and the water bottles filled with rice pudding still haunt me !!

Shaun

 

[daccordimark]

Made me smile too. Only ever did one 12 hour event and the water bottles filled with rice pudding still haunt me !!

Shaun

Ugh! I hate rice pudding and flatly refused to eat it even in the most desperate hours of a 12.
To this day I've never done anything so mentally and physically demanding on a bike. I only ever rode three and one of those I didn't finish.

Mark.

 

[Midlife]

daccordimark, were you riding in the late 70's like me then ? surely they must have found a substitute for rice pudding by now LOL

I'm not sure what was worse BITD, distance riding or the mind numbing hours on the rollers.................

Shaun

 

[Mike Muz]

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I was helping to support club mates on two occasions. Seeing them at the end of the race was enough to put me off ever doing one.

GLWS fella

Mike

 

[daccordimark]

I was an 80s racer Shaun so rice pudding was still very much in fashion!

 

[Midlife]

Blimey !! I had hoped by the 80's that rice pudding would have been banned

I helped at a few events BITD and the riders had a choice of rice pudding in water bottles, water bottles with water laced with some greenish stuff with salt in it or water (I wish I could remember the name) ........ I know it sounds cruel but on hot days some riders did douse themselves with rice pudding thinking it was water

Shaun

 

[Mike Muz]

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Swarfega maybe?

Can't imagine the misery of tipping rice pud all over yourself, on top of the 12 hour thing anyway