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Water Pigs Dirt (WPD)

A fun route which we hosted before for Rapha’s “A Day in Hell” event. One ride, held on the same weekend as Paris Roubaix around multiple locations worldwide in celebration of the cobbled classic. Riders pushed their limits and our route tried to be inclusive of different rider levels with a few tough off road sections and short steep sections. Cobbles were not tasted but the essence of a Day in Hell was with stunning local landscape, good coffee and cake enroute with a short water crossing and challenging sections.

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Something Sharp (and slippery)

Clean #1

It rained, then rained more and then stopped raining for the race but rain was still coming off the mountains with rain running down the rain covered roads. This made the little concrete roads super slippery which resulted in people getting a bit too touchy with their brakes and slipping over. Lesson learned for both us and the participants. We won’t run this course again during the spring or wet seasons. Participants need to heed our warnings on tire choice and pressure and work on their steep decent braking skills. Regardless a fun and challenging day was had by all and thankfully nothing was broken, other than an exploding wheel!

Ladies Results:

Men Results:

Other Results:

2024 Queen & King Awards:

The current standings for the Specialized’s bikes King & Queen award: ShawnC and JoelleT are first place and in line to win some great Sworks gear. One race down and three to go so it’s still early days and anyone’s taking!

Next up is Clean #2: Beast of East. 99% good tarmac! 28 race tires are fine but 32s are more comfy and quicker?

Sponsors

Many thanks to all our supporters for their great awards, time and energy. A shout out to our long term partner Specialized for their top prizes. To Toby of FeverCycling for his maintenance and group support over the entire weekend. To SpineC for their great stretches and health advice. To Shokz for their prizes and headphone trials. To iGPSport for their GPS devices. To xCadey for their electric pumps and prizes. To D2E for their cleaning produce. To Namedsports for their hydration products. To the entire wildhomestay team who help make this happen. To Miranda for her social media and to all the other individuals who have helped out. Thanks to all for supporting the more adventurous community driving side of our cycling.

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Spring Tea

Our tea is all hand picked in the mountains around the homestay and hand cooked by the locals in small batches in their homes.

Small scale tea Feilds all around the homestay.
Picking
Takes time!
Family industry
Sorting
Traditional wok cooking
More modern cooking
Final dried product – a great cup of tea!
We also cook with it

Picture of product.

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2023 DC Sauna Slate Recap

Not too hot but lots of water, sweat and hills. I personally think this is the most stunning route but that’s up for debate. 135km of riding with a 1km freshly cut walk down to the river linked various routes we had been doing for a few years. We had our first fixed gear challengers and hopefully next time a ebiker? Very much look forward to expanding on this area and the next Dirty on the 28th of October.

Mens Awards

#1 Scott
#2 Shawn
#3 Eugene

Womens

#1 Joelle
#2 Ingrid
#3 Clair

Masters and best photo to Paul

Best shoe Fail to Dirk

Crazy fixed gear ride to  Pengchaowei 

Most spectacular crash to Rudong

Best I don’t know how to ride to Blair

Most lost but not to Schalk

Best Gravel passion to 张雨青

And

Many Thanks to our Sponsors for their award prizes:

Specialized
the clinic | 2WS

Many thanks to Paul, Shawn and the rest of the participants for their great pictures!

Many thanks to Shawn for another video giving a great overview of the day!