day15

up at a wee bit past 0500 to feed the gennies keeping the specialized tent up. diesel generator immediately starts throwing a hissy fit. fucking great. fire up the spare gennie, swop plugs and off to breakfast for four cooked on a single gas burner as niall's petrol stove/bomb veers straight towards bomb.

first aid and caterers turn up on time (yay!) and i go off to tape off the rest of the demo loop and take down signs from eas dubh (the bike companies want a shorter loop to keep things moving).

do a bit of car park marshalling, then head up to the foot of cannonball run to marshal and take some photos. on with cycling gear for 3 hours of slow roving marshalling - nowt to do but wonder at the lack of skill and fitness of folks trying out £2k bikes. trails riding well, but in need of a wee bit of TLC (need to get our maintenance permission sorted properly).

main demo ends at about 1730 and bike companies want to break down tonight, so i hoon around collecting road signs and head back to the top of cannonball run to direct folks during the lupine demo. briefly open car doors and blast sabbath, but riders look a wee bit scared, so i revert to being a human direction arrow.

down hill for 2100 after collecting course signs and wave last of the trucks away at 2200.

bbq and two beers. knackered and freezing in an unwelcome easterly. in sleeping bag by 2300.