Croatan Buck Fifty

[Judd]

@Sunyata 165170 wrote:

So… I know there has been some interest in folks doing DK200 this year (or other endurance style races/events). What better way to get ready for it than a “last weekend of BAFS2018” 150 (or 100 or 50) mile gravel race in the flat lands of North Carolina?!

https://www.bikereg.com/croatanbuckfifty

Anyone want to take a trip to the beach?!

Looks like fun. I’m like 98% in.

[Sunyata]

@Judd 165174 wrote:

Looks like fun. I’m like 98% in.

Woohoo! I am trying to convince Dane to come and make it a long weekend.

[AFHokie]

@Judd 165174 wrote:

Looks like fun. I’m like 98% in.

I’m up and down on this…

Like: 150 miles of endurance

Dislike: multiple laps

However, I’m still interested

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[vern]

I bought a cyclocross bike today so I am now very interested in this event.

[AFHokie]

I was just reading about the DK200 registration changes and it got me wondering if there’s any updates as far as who’s interested and the logistics planning of going to this as well as the DK200?

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[Sunyata]

@AFHokie 166330 wrote:

I was just reading about the DK200 registration changes and it got me wondering if there’s any updates as far as who’s interested and the logistics planning of going to this as well as the DK200?

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I have already registered for Croatan, and will be putting my name in the bucket for DK200 as well.

From what I understand, there will be a pretty decent contingent from the DC area putting in for DK200. Hopefully a decent portion get in through the lottery drawing.

[hozn]

@Sunyata 166395 wrote:

I have already registered for Croatan, and will be putting my name in the bucket for DK200 as well.

From what I understand, there will be a pretty decent contingent from the DC area putting in for DK200. Hopefully a decent portion get in through the lottery drawing.

This year I was considering doing the DK200, but might not be dedicated enough to the idea to enter the lottery. Will consider the Croatan, though there are more local races that I should probably do first. The 3-day Hell Hole stage race sounds kinda fun too, but probably too much travel and absence​-from-family for a bike ride in a swamp.

[AFHokie]

Has anyone set up a group name for DK200 registration?

Is there any advantage in signing up as a group?

[AFHokie]

@AFHokie 166403 wrote:

Has anyone set up a group name for DK200 registration?

Is there any advantage in signing up as a group?

Nevermind…just saw groups are only up to four

[AFHokie]

@Sunyata 165170 wrote:

What better way to get ready for it than a “last weekend of BAFS2018” 150 (or 100 or 50) mile gravel race in the flat lands of North Carolina?!

https://www.bikereg.com/croatanbuckfifty

Anyone want to take a trip to the beach?!

Bumping the thread since this is a few weeks away…

Anyone else sign up for it?

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[Sunyata]

@AFHokie 175197 wrote:

Bumping the thread since this is a few weeks away…

Anyone else sign up for it?

Team Bikenetic will have a pretty big crowd going (15 at last count). A few women from the “Team Not Team” cyclocross group are heading down as well.

I chatted with the Ridge Supply guys at Monster Cross last weekend and they seemed pretty stoked about this race. They really want to put on “the most awesome gravel race ever”, and I think they have the potential to make it happen. So if anyone is on the fence, I really think you should come down and do it. *cough*Judd*cough*

[Tania]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJK6RAqzlk

Ima just gonna leave this here. It looks like it could be a flat Hilly Billy as far as “road” conditions.

[AFHokie]

@Tania 175223 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJK6RAqzlk

Ima just gonna leave this here. It looks like it could be a flat Hilly Billy as far as “road” conditions.

I’m trying to figure out if the Schwalbe G-One Allround’s I have are adequate or if I should get tires with a more aggressive tread.

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[Tania]

That’s funny, I was just having this same conversation with myself this am. I’ve got massive Rock N Roads (awesomely knobbed), the G-Ones and then the ubiquitous MSO’s. I think the G-Ones are going back on my cx bike so it’s down to the MSO’s and Rock N Roads (currently mounted on gravel bike).

[hozn]

@AFHokie 175226 wrote:

I’m trying to figure out if the Schwalbe G-One Allround’s I have are adequate or if I should get tires with a more aggressive tread.

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I’m not doing the race (if I could squeeze it into a single day, I would go, but that looks extremely impractical if not impossible), but based on that footage and the idea of it being like a “flat HBR”, I’d do the G-One Allrounds myself. I loved those tires in HBR. Now if it was really muddy — not just big-puddles to ride around, but inescapable mud — then probably a different tire would be a better choice. But even on HBR (which had some extremely muddy sections), the G-One Allround were fine. You slide around a little, but that’s fun. There were only a couple of spots where I lost traction on a climb, but those tires are so much faster on anything paved, that it would still be my hands-down choice for HBR, regardless of how sloppy.

I’m sad that I have to miss HBR this year for family vacation; I was really looking forward to riding that again [and better] this year.

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