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Withdrawn: Giant Trance - Small (Excellent Condition)
You can't fault this excellent Giant Trance mountain bike. Fully rebuilt in April with new X1 frame, XT BB and Fox Forks. Also new cluster, rear & front derailleurs, chain, mid front chainring and rear rim. The remaining few parts of from my original Trance.
If you are looking for an excellent cross country bike, the Giant Trance is it.
Reason for selling. 3 bike rule and I want to buy a more downhill kind of bike.
If you don't want this one, perhaps you would like to buy my:
Canondale Jekyll for $1,275-00 or
Giant STP1 single speed for $365-00
Convict 100 - the perfect race?
The Convict 100 (formerly Dirtworks 100) holds a very special place in my heart. I have fond personal memories of my first ride 4 years ago, resulting in a 5hr 35mins mid-pack result.
The next year, I went back, better prepared and rode to a 4hr41min (and about 17th place).
Last year was different. Something in my riding clicked last year, and I was starting to ride towards the front of the pack.
I pushed and hurt and bled, and cried, and rode a 4hr14min race resulting in 5th place.
I beat Shaun Lewis in the Convict 100!
Ok, I beat him because he dnf'd. I'll take it anyway.
I started with a few hot Nobmobbers around me - Steve01, ps & the man of the moment Dicko. Just ahead of us in the first wave was the always easy to spot on the start line Antsonline. I was really hoping Ant would get a podium this year as he's been getting close and of course us Nobmobbers all claim him as one of ours!
First time and back of packer.....
Hi All,
Got hooked with MTBing about 9 months ago and have lost 25kg in the process. Now I'm only fat instead of obsese - lol.
Anyway - a few mates and I made some weird pact that we should give this go and why settle for just doing 50km when you can wipe yourself out on 100km?
Through our training and also doing about 75% of the course 4 weeks ago cramping was my major weakness but I managed that quite well yesterday.
Issues with 2012 SID XX 120 mm
I recently purchased and fitted 2012 Rockshox SID XX forks. They are 120 mm travel and fit to a scott spark.
A nice day for a bike race
Ahh the dirtworks.. over the years this has been that “one” event for me, as it was my very first race of any distance just after I changed my life by losing a real lot of weight and got into ridding mountain bikes, the first year I did 8:10, next year I did 7:10 and last year I wanted 6 hours but ended up with a DNF.. so this year I really didn’t care who beat me or who I beat as long as I worked to my time of 6:00 I’d be super happy and as an extra bonus if I could finish the race without needing an ASS transplant, as I was riding a hardtail this year, I’d be super double happy.
2012 Convict 100
This was the race I was aiming for in 2012. Having done this the previous two years in 2010 taking 07:32:53 and 2011 06:27:49 my goal for this year was 05:30:00.
With the Capital Punishment being rescheduled this meant I had the Wombat 100, then the Capital Punishment and then the Convict 100 all in consecutive weekends. This meant not only going for my goal time I was backing up from two other races.
Eventful 50k Race in the Convict
After the cramp infested Fling - I decided to get fitter and better prepared. Race briefing said the waterbars were nasty - check.
Good day out
St Albans is a magical place when there is a bit of morning fog around the river reaches, and so it was for the 2012 Convict 50.