Video: Dirty Reiver 2017

Love the video guys. Well done on surviving!

A brilliant day out. I'm glad I did the 130km, that was gruelling enough. That descent in open countryside on a rocks strewn track (before the tarmac section to the 100km feed station) was terrifying! There were two sweep riders at the top, one of which shouted as I passed them "nice bit of downhill now mate!". It was not nice. I'll be using suspension next year I reckon! Friend of mine was doing the 200km with Laufs and was fresh as a daisy at the finish.

Huge thank to the organisers, sponsors and volunteers. And the hug from Paul Errington at the 60km feed station. I'd missed all the cake!

Great vid guys, captured the day perfectly.

...although, if you only have 10 seconds to spare, scrub forward to 5'30"...and imagine that going on. For hours. Eight hours, in my case...

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...interspersed with sections of between two and twenty minutes of moderately-terrifying descending, praying not to come a cropper on an unspotted inch-high wheel ridge down the centre of the road, as I saw two people do in close succession at the 66km mark, bloodied, ripped and shocked. I tell you, it sobers you up to the reality that you are a long, long way from help, even on a brilliantly-managed event like this. There's no mum's-taxi-pop-to-a-pub-and-call-the-spouse bailout here. Once you're in, you're in.

A great day out (as always).

Bet it'd be PROPERLY hard if the weather was bad all day, but Saturday was glorious

I did it. Nearly killed me. The road.cc crew passed me twice - once in the car near swindon on the way up, and again at about 15k going like trains...

All those unguarded disc brakes though. How many participants & bystanders were killed or seriously injured that you're not telling us about?

I'd suggest roadcc John should give this a go but he'd probably insist i went too...