6th at Strathpuffer

The bikegoo team had a great result at the Strathpuffer 24 last weekend. In a race that had driving winds, snow and sub zero conditions the bikegoo mens pairs came in 6th after a formiddable performance from our two riders, Graham and Mark.

The race had a ferocious start and the first few laps saw a blistering pace being set by several front running teams. The bikegoo team found themselves in 15th place.

The Strathpuffer organisers seemed to have worked miracles over the last year and the course was excellent. Firm and stony terrain for the most of the course with a few muddy sections. This meant the course was a joy to ride rather than a chore.

As night set in the pace was still very fast and bikegoo found itself in 14th place. As normal with 24hr races, some teams go off too quickly and after a few hours people start to become tired and start clocking up slower times. However, bikegoo's tactics were centred around endurance and pacing themselves. They slogged on through the night recording some pretty impressive and consistent lap times while others struggled.

As the sun came up the bikegoo team had climbed to 8th. Then came the final push... Bikegoo's resident nutjob Graham unleashed his secret tactic... Freeze your ass off to make you go faster! He went out wearing next to nothing and flew round the course! He clocked two superfast laps in the closing minutes of the race and Bikegoo finished an impressive 6th.

Truly an excellent performance and a superb event. Well done to the team and to everyone who successfully completed the race. A special thanks goes to the guys who run the Strathpuffer 24 who put on an amazing event again.

Roll on next year!

Bikegoo

2009

Well, here we are 2009 is in full flow and its cold indeed.

Bike Cleaners on Offer
We've launched a bit of an offer on bike cleaners and cleaning accessories which always become rather important at this time of year. So have a look at www.bikegoo.co.uk and see if anything floats your boat.



Strathpuffer 24
Our Bikegoo team are preparing for their second outing to the Strathpuffer 24 in a couple of weeks time. This time they are doing it as a pair (rather than two soloists) and are currently in the process of getting trained up for what will be a cracking event. For those who have never heard about the Strathpuffer 24 before... Well its allegedly the most difficult 24 hour mountain bike race in the UK. Its on Jan 17-18th and takes place in freezing cold Scotland. For more info check out the Strathpuffer webpage.

Twittering away
We're still twittering away at the moment and quite enjoying it. Its really quite impressive knowing what Lance Armstrong and Steven Fry are up to on a daily basis!! We'll aim to keep you abreast of all our goings on on our blog going forward (we promise to try and keep it updated more regularly!) But we'll be updating twitter before anything else so to be the first to get our news you'll have to be following us on twitter www.twitter.com/bikegoo

Plans for 2009
We've got some major plans for bikegoo in 2009 but they are all very hush hush at the moment... but all will be revealed in due course... hopefully its going to be one hell of a year!

Bikegoo