Retrobike @ Mountain Mayhem

John

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The weekend saw the tenth running of the Mountain Mayhem 24 hour endurance race, one of the biggest events in the UK cycling calendar. This year saw a large contingent from retrobike at the race, not only did we have three teams riding (mostly retro rides) but also had a 'palatial' stand in the main paddock area with a display of various bikes. There are loads of details and pictures over on retrobike, here are a couple of pics to get you started.

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Our star rider and elite category racer Geoff Beetham led the field out the paddock following the initial 'Le-Mans style' running start and up the first couple of climbs on the 1985(ish) Overbury's Pathfinder. He went on to finish the first lap in a creditable top 15 position, despite being up against riders with carbon frames and new XTR on the 22 year old Overbury's with a lugged 531 frame and 'stags head' deore. Team #2 were hovering outside the top 10 in the elite category until after 11 hours riding at around 1 am it was decided to keep things old school and get a good nights sleep.




Managed to keep up the Fat end as it were by putting in half my total laps on the Grello Yo. Everybody bar one loved that bike.

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The luxurious stand had a lot of interest from trade, press and the general public all weekend. I estimate the brakes were squeezed on most bikes around 1200 times and the disks drives poked on average 5 times and hour.
 
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