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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 05/06/19 at 3:00pm	Print Post
	Posting this because last time yall flaked out, can we support this since it's our only "local" XC race?

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TrillWill IB Room In The Loop Project Board Offline THTB Board member 16'-23' LKN TC Posts: 1027 Location: Cornelius Joined: 06/14/11	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #1 - 05/06/19 at 4:27pm	Print Post
	If someone wants to use a Trialblazers tent to pit with we have two.

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DG Small Cog Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 438 Location: Matthews Joined: 03/01/16	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #2 - 05/14/19 at 1:39pm	Print Post
	Nice unfortunately I will not be there! Going to two races in Italy! (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) My army association (Alpini are the mountain Troops) have their annual MTB race and this other (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) And still evaluating the (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) I am not really feel prepared for this one this year.

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #3 - 07/22/19 at 9:06pm	Print Post
	well, this is this weekend! anyone planning on going?

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sCvHeaVens Small Cog Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 447 Location: Charlotte, NC Joined: 02/12/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #4 - 07/23/19 at 5:31pm	Print Post
	me and some of my crew are tentatively planning on it!

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team_ssr Big Ring Offline Do hard things Posts: 1251 Location: Rockwell, NC Joined: 01/07/08	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #5 - 07/24/19 at 10:09am	Print Post
	I plan to go. May do a pre-ride, as I've never been there before. They released a Strava map of the course, but it didn't seem to line up with the .pdf map on the Rock Hill site very well. Any idea which parts of the trail will be used for the race?

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #6 - 07/24/19 at 1:55pm	Print Post
	I would rely on the strava map, I can share my file from the race in November. There isn't a lot of trail to follow or get mixed up on, so it should be pretty straight forward. It will dump onto some fire roads and such every once and a while; you aren't lost!

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ride 24_7 Newbie Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 34 Location: Charlotte Joined: 08/29/10	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #7 - 07/24/19 at 6:01pm	Print Post
	Never ridden the trail either, thoughts on Hardtail or Full suspension (XC bike) for the race?

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #8 - 07/24/19 at 7:51pm	Print Post
	A hard tail would be fine, but I also raced singlespeed and thought it was a great course for it too. There isn't tons of rocks where you need the full suspension. I'll be riding my scalpel just because its the only mountain bike with gears, but a hard tail would be perfect.

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #9 - 07/26/19 at 7:45pm	Print Post
	just signed up, weather looks amazing!

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #10 - 07/28/19 at 7:50pm	Print Post
	Descent crowd from what I saw! Sadly I had to jet in the middle of the Cat 2 race. Well run event and an even more challenging race course. For your viewing pleasure: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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sCvHeaVens Small Cog Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 447 Location: Charlotte, NC Joined: 02/12/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #11 - 07/29/19 at 12:03pm	Print Post
	Admittedly I haven't done a lot of the races but that was one of the more demanding races for me. Those hills "weren't &^&^" on the pre ride but after a couple laps the rooty one hurt and the last one SUCKED. Really felt for the SSers, got to see first hand how bad it sucked for my buddy on the last lap lol!

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DavidM Little Ring Offline Work & Ride with THTB! Posts: 659 Location: Ft Mill, SC Joined: 04/15/09	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #12 - 07/29/19 at 1:32pm	Print Post
	You guys scalded that trail! It looks like the race was run in the clockwise direction, opposite if how I normally rode it. I started riding there in '11 after it 1st opened & loved it. Sadly the developers cut off a large portion of the trail which was approx 8 miles in length. I moved to OH 2 months ago so it's been a while since I've been there but will go back when I go home to L. Wylie to visit family. Good vid...

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #13 - 07/29/19 at 1:55pm	Print Post
	Thanks man! Yes, I think this is a great race course, solid mix of everything, with plenty of places to pass and make up time. The only hard part (to me) was riding the single track even faster, I feel that at some point you can only go so fast on the single track, its techy and twisty enough that its hard to really get the power down on it. I mean, the faster guys obviously had no problems, but I did The climbs do add up, the one single track climb before the steep Toms Revenge one is deceivingly draining.

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IntheBush Big Ring Offline Posts: 2031 Location: South of the border Joined: 10/30/09	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #14 - 07/30/19 at 1:12am	Print Post
	Cool. Appreciate the vid.. Looks like they've cleaned things up a good bit. That's not the same Rock Hill trail I bush whacked on the SS rigid a few years ago. That entrance off the criterion track is the normal/best entrance now?
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sCvHeaVens Small Cog Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 447 Location: Charlotte, NC Joined: 02/12/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #15 - 07/31/19 at 12:49pm	Print Post
	pearl wrote on 07/29/19 at 1:55pm: Thanks man! Yes, I think this is a great race course, solid mix of everything, with plenty of places to pass and make up time. The only hard part (to me) was riding the single track even faster, I feel that at some point you can only go so fast on the single track, its techy and twisty enough that its hard to really get the power down on it. I mean, the faster guys obviously had no problems, but I did The climbs do add up, the one single track climb before the steep Toms Revenge one is deceivingly draining. Tom's revenge probably wasn't too bad for you skinny folk, I was suffering!

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pearl Little Ring Offline Posts: 542 Location: Charlotte Joined: 11/10/15	Re: Southern Classic MTB - Rock Hill July 28 Reply #16 - 07/31/19 at 1:41pm	Print Post
	sCvHeaVens wrote on 07/31/19 at 12:49pm: Tom's revenge probably wasn't too bad for you skinny folk, I was suffering! ha, i found the back of my cassette quickly, you really just had to "outlast" it and then get back on the gas on the less steep grades... or at least that is what worked for me

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