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come on let me know again is it going to be this close to my face welcome what's happened to him
the uk's biggest fix crit and it is happening here at home hill
for the first time ever it's happening over two days we've got a new novel format where
we've got day one technical course lots of turns lots of twisting some hairpins day two we've got
a completely different course it's gonna go all the way around it's gonna be more focused more
powerful riders so basically the winner of thundercrit this year is gonna have the
most broad skill set of the fixed gear community it's the fifth one we've run and this year we've
changed the categories because we used to have a men's and women's uh race so we used to have
equal prizes which was really good but then this year we realized that actually
that's not as inclusive as it could be because we're excluding non-binary riders so we've
actually changed our categories this year we have the thunder category and the lining category
the thunder category is kind of like what uh kind of cis male men would be in so it's kind
of like if you used to race in the men's race you would still be in the thunder category but it also
allows for non-binary riders and also trans riders who fit into the kind of natural ability of that
category to race in that race without feeling like they're being misgendered that's why we've changed
it and uh yeah we hope that it's made a much more inclusive race this year that thing's fancy
i'm much going to be much better at this than racing yeah can look at this thing what all
these do when am i racing now you're on the next one if you're ready you're in the next
one okay you're in the next one because we were basically just if you weren't
you need a bike nicely done got round it's gonna be hard to make an overtake on this course
it's pretty tight i probably could have if i really wanted to but there's no points in
this round so just chilling just dialing in it's tough actually tell me about uh
um which is exciting uh it means that we've got the biggest squad i think at thunderquit which
is what i was aiming for at the beginning of the season when we knew this was happening here
um and when we were putting on fixed gear crit skills and just generally kind of supporting
the team to just kind of get involved really um making sure that people had to go in like a nice
chill transported training environment and yeah it's turned into a nice looking pressure is on
i don't know i don't think so i think i think we're all really kind of
nervous about crashing and things like that so i think just kind of making sure that we all get
around in one piece is going to be the priority and just kind of making sure we've got the biggest
you know support squad as well with the cheers going around and i think the vibes and just kind
of being here is more important than winning to be honest but you know results would be nice as well
i think i'm just quite anxious so far i'm just gonna cycle around
i think you look fast that all stayed together pretty close yeah
some of the other races have just belonged to bits yeah and that one was
definitely
wow
uh it's a bit slippy on the corners um so yeah it's all fine a tiny just getting out of the way
yeah my first race sorry it keeps everyone about the same speed throughout which is quite nice
and thank you so much you did a really cool overtake though
and i was lucky because he came off a bit on the cones i thought that one was going to be the
hardest but it's actually fine it's that last one before the finish line because you obviously want
to like sprint over it you're on the same gearing i am on you it's really good okay cool yeah the
gearing was a big whole thing that we had hours like hours hours actually it's all going to change
yeah yeah you're trying to do this yeah yeah she's a don't move a muscle she might bite your nuts
four three two one oh
it seemed pretty dry it was fairly dry i'm gonna try and get back in
and then i noticed that uh i've skewed my hair
it was good it was good it's a lot drier now compared to what it was before so i think i felt
a bit more confident with the corners it was that was fun it was fun second no i think um i think
alice got me just in the corner as well really well have you overtake two people that's bloggers
hey well those for your second ever race he was third number two at one point but at one point
he was first could be faster still you did well really really well you're ready do you
care about it's my shoes it's quite wet are you glad you're not racing you've got your insole
i brought my insoles because i thought all right if someone doesn't have their insurance
camera so much out of the way of me he's gonna leave me in the rain just so he can get on yours
i'm in the middle of something i'm talking to francis are you francis cade off of small town
what's wrong with you well it is oh no i'm theo i race bikes i'm ben i don't oh there we go
is someone racing their heat was gonna go and then they called it off right i wonder
because we found a box of crisps instead everyone looks well actually it's raining
it's raining a lot so much riding across the grass that is a bit dumb actually we found the
owner of the box of chris we went um to a dinner party last night with a pacquiao with a bad crisp
but no one finished them so we got given them back in the cupboard and we thought we'd bring them in
we've been wondering about this for the past 10 minutes as to who brings it up away what christmas
i mean he said 10 minutes it's been about three
conditions are ideal less than idealism feeling good i feel [ __ ] amazing
happy
there's another one it's all just like if you're off the line first i mean i'm too nervous to
overtake so wherever i end up in there from the start that's where i am you just won yeah yeah
because i i got off the line first there's so much today that's just pure luck i think clipping it
at the start is such a big thing you did really well uh get in the drive we'll get in the drive
i think me and nelsie are through to the final today and then there's the um intermediate race
as well with everyone else i think there's about six or seven of us in the final every group is
going to have one race and then everyone else is gonna do a race then you have a second one both
of those races will now get you points towards tomorrow so both of the next few races points
races and it's going to start with intermediate group one then intermediate group two advanced
let's see mine what about this one what pressures are we going for uh 40 35 late 30s early 40s
we're good are we good i think this point and i was like something isn't right it's greece yeah
it was grim it was really grim so what fifth place five points we move money's money right where'd
you compare how are you feeling not nervous does it ever change i don't know if it does
it's uh slightly damaged but improved significantly has it francis okay i believe you
i'll take that almost some dry patches appearing oh you're right look at that game plan clip in
got that you got
oh my god such a bad start i didn't even get anywhere near the pedals but it's just it's
about knowing the limits honestly when it's wet when it's wet you just have to
yeah i i don't know what happened but
crash we came back that's racing the thing is people are skidding and it's wet they've got no
control it's like as soon as you skid that's it you've lost control you have to just use
your legs to slow down literally i didn't clip in and i ended up hitting the spoke and i was like
that's not what i did i've got another race which i'm a bit more excited about now that i've won
obviously sad that people crashed i'm sure they're fine low speeds yeah take it easy i'm so impressed
oh
the instructions on the start line were to get to the first corner first
and people took that a bit too seriously and it was not safe yeah i'm fine just yeah i don't
know someone just shoved into the side of me panda bars got tangled it was yeah the race was
over really before it began and uh my handlebars wonky kiso being in one piece is more important
do you want to wear this gopro seems like it's got a curse on it