Kona Mash-Up powered by MBUK!
Danny Walter Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009 3.15pm
Blast down the technical singletrack in the fastest time possible (Paul Smith)
One of our favourite events last year had to be the MBUK powered Kona Mash-up. Mixing up a bit of downhill, trail riding and cross country we loved it because it was a highly competitive event but still managed to have a real relaxed friendly vibe running through the day.
Well, the good news it’s happening again this weekend (13th June) at Glyncorrwg Mountain Bike Centre in Afan Forest.
For those of you that missed it last year the format’s pretty simple. There are two main categories you can enter.
First up the Enduro. This is basically a loop made up from the entire White’s Level trail and the July trail and sees riders battle it out to post the best time over the 40km section. Within that there are also timing mats for downhill, singletrack and uphill sections so you can really see where you went fastest (or not!), when the friendly banter with your mates goes down at the end.
Then there’s the Technical category. This one’s based on White’s Level and allows riders to cruise their way up the timed sections, keeping energy reserves high so you can then go flat out down the timed downhill sections.
Whichever one’s for you we’ll be keeping our ear to the ground to pick out a winner for our MBUK Spirit Awards – basically a search for those riders who show extraordinary guts, determination or camaraderie in the face of battle, so even if you don’t post the fastest time you could still be a winner!
This year there’s an improved timing setup with fiber optics supported ‘live timing’ on the black run and a super user friendly online entry system available.
For full details check out http://konaworld.uk.com/mash-up/
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joshtp/mbukman
Posted Tue 9 Jun, 1:22 pm BST Flag as inappropriate
as much as would like to enter, i dont fancie the XC catagory as i am not a very good long distance rider, but i ride a HT and am not sure if i would be up to the tech catorgorie
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mbuk editor
Posted Tue 9 Jun, 3:42 pm BST Flag as inappropriate
There are demo bikes available on the day if you'd rather try out a different bike for the event. It's well worth it!
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richardg29102
Posted Thu 11 Jun, 3:42 pm BST Flag as inappropriate
Don,t worry bout it fella just get up there and enjoy, I weighed in at 19 stone in the last one done the tech come 60th and loved it i,m still the same and doin it again watch out for the wide load on the way up lol
rich
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olly19
Posted Thu 11 Jun, 10:55 pm BST Flag as inappropriate
and while you lot are enjoying the mash up, i'm going to be lying in hospital in bristol, unconcious, having a load of surgeons finally fix my leg from when i snapped it last august, and i'll probably be dreaming of next october when i'll be able to ride again. maybe see you at the next one (oh, and ian/rosie if you read this, i did get the shoes in the end, i sent you a coupla emails a month or two back, but just got an email yesterday from the company who run it saying they didn't even get sent, so cheers, they're awesome, if muddy!!)
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s.ammo
Posted Tue 16 Jun, 6:24 pm BST Flag as inappropriate
haha this was funny. I stopped halfway up the first climb to pick up someones googles ( the big bloke on the gold diamond back!!), and completely forgot there may actually be about 20 riders all riding my pace behind me haha. I looked back and all I could see was this concertina of riders grinding to a halt. sorry guys!!
but at least I found the dude and he got his goggles back.
oh and thanks to the welsh ladies for looking after me camelback whilst we raced the black a couple of times.
good times, even the midges ( or maybe not )
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