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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Single speed worlds brings out the big guns!

I have my name down to do the Single Speeds Worlds later in the year at Rotorua. I dont actually have a singlespeed yet but I reckon its worth it to make one up for the weekend.... I mean any race where you are encouraged to dress up and drink beer during the race has got to be a good thing eh?

I heard that LA himself cant come as he has another event on. Well, at the moment he has, but I just got this email from the organisers and the quality of the field seems right up there, I mean cripes, you have to be pretty serious if you are coming all the way from Austria!

Over 800 entries from over 25 countries - the most "worldly" Singlespeed Worlds ever...
Tadeas Mejdr from the Czech Republic and Sepp Hribar from Austria entered in the last week - and if our maths is right (not a done deal!) that takes the country count to 27...
 http://www.sswc10nz.com/


I guess I better get onto building my bike. It will most likely be based on my 93' Litespeed Ocoee, altho I believe the winner of the ladies National event last year did it on a full suspension Santa Cruz, so it is possible to go F/S.
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nunuboogie said...

Would love to be able to enter this event but too far away! Have to remain contented with the Uk's version http://www.ssuk10.co.uk/ singlespeeding is great fun, especially the beer drinking ;) have a great race!

El jefe said...

I am about to find out, still have only done 1 proper race, and couple of CX's. See if you can find them on facebook and check out the fotos of the cool rigs people are posting!

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