Cam MTB - the Cambridge Mountain Bikers' Forum

Click on the "return to website" button to see our new website with loads more details of who we are, where and when we ride and much more.

DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.

SAFETY BRIEFING.

  • Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
  • Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
  • Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
  • When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
  • Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
  • Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
  • Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

Photo: CAMMTB Winter 2022-23 rides have been posted up - please click on the Runs List link..

CAMMTB Forum
Start a New Topic 
Author
Comment
CAMMTB Awards - categories required

Hi All,

It's about time I made that call for awards categories. There must be some special ones out there to add to the likes of

- Best Crash
- Best Comedy-Off
- Rider of the Year
- Best New Rider
- etc

So get your thinking caps on. What's happened this year that deserves a special mention? Drunkest in Charge of a Hardtail, perhaps, or Rider Most Likely to Receive a Noise Abatement Order, Worst Adherence to the Use of English on the Forum???

I'd appreciate some help with certificates too - Dom, do you mind volunteering again? Your efforts were sterling last year. PLUS we need some prizes from kind donors.

Regards

TOM

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

Oh, go on then, twist my arm...

Yours etc
Reginald D Penpusher III Jnr
CEO
Certificates-R-Us

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

Most elusive rider possibly? Maybe? I think.

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

How about:-
Most squeakiest bike?
Most amount of money spent on yr bike in one season?
Least amount of money spent on yr bike in one season?
Pub dodger?
Best ride where the leader hasn't got a clue where we are going?
Longest ride?

Cheers
GN

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

most elaborate excuse for not riding.
most excuses for not riding in one year.
instigater of the most "exciting/alternate" ride of the year.
most persistent newcomer of the year.
best bling bike
most improved rider

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

Riders' Wives?
Knobbly Knees?
Most Sensible Rider?
Least Sensible Rider?
Rider That Looks Most Like Someone Else?
Rider on the Storm?
Paperback Rider?

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

- Most Blood on a Jersey?
- Most Ridiculous Thing to Do on a Bike in Six (and a half!) Days?
- Most Polite Rider?
- The Edmund Hilary Award for Mountaineering (to be awarded to a rider who claims to prefer the mountains near Cambridge)
- The Grim Oop North Award (for persistent wearing of shorts in the face of unsuitable weather)
- Rider Who Looks Least Like Someone Else?
- For Whom the Bicycle Bell Tolls?

Re: CAMMTB Awards - categories required

Thanks for all of the suggestions; I had a good laugh reading them.

Plenty to go at there - I shall pick the best tonight and issue a 'call for nominations'.

PT