Bear Bones 200 ... FINISH TIMES

[Ian]

XCWeather says dry, I'll stick with that thanks. 8-)

The difference appears to be how they're modelling the movement of the high/low pressures. XC think that the prevailing wind will be from the north, thus cooler and dryer. Yr.no are saying that the low pressure and prevailing south-westerly will have arrived by Saturday tea time and thus rain. So, the question you need to ask yourself is do you want a cold head wind for the finish or a wet tail wind?

[chris n]

Actually, I think a wet tail wind is more likely. At least if it's wet it won't be too cold on Saturday night.

[Taylor]

Dry now according to the Norgies

[Dyffers]

Dry now according to the Norgies

That was my source yesterday. Good news, Yr get it right more than most others I've found.

Still might need the wellies for crossing some of the wetter parts...?

[Ian]

I managed to maintain dry feet for the southern Rhayader/ Twyi/ Carnau section with a pair of Shimano WM80 boots a couple of weeks ago. Some of the crossings looked quite deep, but if you picked your way through it was OK.

[Bearbonesnorm]

If you know that any of the following is wrong, tell us so we can correct it. It's the finish time, rider name and colour of badge.

1.18 BARRINGTON Ian black
2.42 LARGE Steve black
3.38 RUSSELL John black
3.38 TOYN Mike black
4.35 RODERICK Kevin black
5.32 McPHILLIPS Mark black
5.33 EATON Mark black
5.33 WIXEY Rob black
7.45 MACNAB Ian black
8.25 DEAN Rob black
8.25 DYTHAM Paul black
9.15 PITCHER Keith black
9.20 POMFRET Paul black
9.55 TURNBULL Oliver black
11.40 GOLDSMITH Alan blue
12.35 HOULTON James blue
13.50 KANE David blue
16.10 EVANS Mark green
16.40 CUNNIFFE Kevin green
16.40 HIGHT Susan green
17.20 BASKERVILLE Adrian green
17.20 GLOVER Mark green
17.45 NORMAN Geoff green
18.30 DAWSON Bryan green
18.30 WATSON Luke green
18.38 COCKERHAM Matthew green
21.30 McINTYRE Robert green
21.30 VEAL Gareth green
22.00 HODGE Chris green
22.00 PINFIELD Ron green
22.00 TAYLOR Tim green
DNF BROOKS Roy
DNF BURTON Paul
DNF GALE Peter
DNF GRATWICK Peter
DNF MACGREGOR Ione
DNF NARBOROUGH Chris
DNF SANGRA Meharpal
DNF SHERRAT Ben
DNF TWIDELL Paul
DNF WARD Mark
DNF WILLIAMS Austin

[Normg002]

http://youtu.be/GA5jFGcghv0

After getting my hands on a GoPro some time ago, and more recently, Adobe After Effects, thought I'd put this together.

[Taylor]

Very good Geoff.

[gairym]

nice work fella!

[Normg002]

Cheers gents! Was tricky to chose from all the footage I had! In the end I went with the driest bits haha.

[Zippy]

nice one, I was wondering what it was like after seeing a few pretty tired bb200 riders as we brought them into the Bothy. I reckon you should have put a few of the wet bits in to prove how hard as nails you are ;-)

[slarge]

Good to see there was 5 minutes of dry riding in the 15 hours plus!

Nice footage, speeded up it looks quite exciting! I like the squeezing it all in the drybag at the start, a lot of gear seemed to go into a small bag - No pics of the overnight stop though? Or did you ride through the night?

[Normg002]

Cheers!

It was a medium Exped compression dry sacks. Managed to fit a Rab Neutrino 200 down bag, hammock gear under quilt, Uniqlo down jacket, and a pair of thermal leggings.

We stopped in the public toilets by the damn for an hour to dry out, warm up and cook some cous cous, but other than that didn't stop. I had intended to stop, but progress was real slow so needed to go through to make up time. Got some video of 3 of us sat in a public toilet, huddled around a gas stove, but there were no lights, so unless you know what you are looking at, it doesn't look like much haha.

Speeded up to 400% just to try and show more ground covered and changes in scenery while keeping the video a decent length.

[Chew]

Stu are you going to 'race' this next year?

I'll happy man BB HQ and make sure theres a cuppa waiting for you

[Bearbonesnorm]

Stu are you going to 'race' this next year?

'The powers that be' have decided yes ... you'll look nice in a pinnie

[Taylor]

Looks like it's me and Chew!

See what I did there?

[Chew]