NUE Series - Mohican 100 Mile Race Repot

[@bicyclestation]

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[@Jinedan]

Great job! Love your race reports.

[@stewbomb5]

Great video! I’ll see you up at the W101. This will be my 6th or 7th time at the event. Lots of rocks. Run inserts especially the rear wheel. Be prepared for lots of long gravel climbs straight into steep rocky descents all day long!

[@bicyclestation]

I’m debating what bike to race. How much of its gravel?

[@stewbomb5]

@@bicyclestation if you have that epic 8 with flight attendant I’d race that! Are the options the 8 or WC? The rocks are big and chunky and while there’s only about 30-40 miles of single track, it’s really hard single track! You want all the squish you can pedal. I’m on the previous epic Evo and would be fine with the new epic Evo.

[@bicyclestation]

Epic 8, bc40, zfs-5 all with flight attendant

[@stewbomb5]

@@bicyclestation oh snap! All the bikes. Then which ever you like the best and handles rocks the best.

[@jschoolie]

Use the follow as breadcrumbs feature on your karoo's routing and it will keep you from being re-routed!

[@bicyclestation]

Dude thank you. I’ve ask so many people at sram how to turn off reroutes and they never said use breadcrumbs

[@elimupod816]

What camera are you using the stabilization while on the handle bars is quite stellar? did you use any software stabilization while editing ? Awesomwe video - thanks for sharing !

[@treyshepard1717]

That race looked hard

[@bicyclestation]

Why didn’t you do it

[@benjennoah]

Schwable or Schwalbe?

[@elimupod816]

Schwalbe ... haha

[@boostenmkiv]

Before you mentioned cramping, the gel strategy and "sipping" bottles as needed sounded like a mistake as the gels don't generally have enough fluid and sodium for me. Nice race!

[@bicyclestation]

The bottles had carbs in them that’s what I was referring to. I just didn’t drink enough of my pack In the first 3 hours because I was more focused on the carb plan

[@boostenmkiv]

@@bicyclestation yeah, kind of the same as the gels, but more fluid intake with the carb bottle mix right?

[@bicyclestation]

Yes. But I wasn’t drinking a ton of the bottles sense I didn’t want to exceed my carb threshold. Just remembering to drink from the hydration pack was the learning curve

[@boostenmkiv]

@@bicyclestation yeah, makes sense. Lots of different ways to accomplish that goal and even the race type can dictate the best option.

[@Rompish1]

Did you run it in Auto or Manual, the FA i mean… :) Well Done 🎉

[@RoalWard-xs2rx]

Great video as usual - how do you compare the physical effort vs mental effort of a 10 hour race? and secondly, what's your bike cleaning process like after the race? I recently did a very very very wet muddy 80k race and had to do a full strip and re-build to regrease so many bearings from mud ingress - is it avoidable? is it user error (not pressure washing the bearing areas)? is it poor bike design? Thanks!

[@bicyclestation]

I think the physical and mental come in waves. When I was mad my body felt great but I don’t usually get mad when I’m not feeling great if that makes sense. I think a lot of its poor equipment. Like my bikes totally fine. We washed it off with a hose and bike wash. Nothing fancy. I spend a ton of time working on my bikes and that continual maintenance keeps everything running well. I do have a parts cleaner and it’s cleaned weekly. But I also have high school kids working for me that are pros at cleaning bikes lol. All the bearings on the bike are high quality. Like buy a cane creek hellbender headset for your bike and suddenly it will never have an issue if that makes sense.

[@RoalWard-xs2rx]

Missed the reply until now, good on you for the mental challenge too :) Just had to replace the jockey wheel bearings on the sram transmission derailleur, sram dub bottom bracket and arcos headset bearings, I keep quite a close eye on it all, but clearly not good enough! :) Gl with the channel, always enjoy the vids!

[@ellerybice3787]

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