XC in Cornwall - any willing volunteers ?

kyle2brown

allthegearnoidea wrote:

so fingers crossed! and i wont fall off hahaha!

Sorry mate I may be turning up on Sunday, so you may have falling off competition

allthegearnoidea

ideal! i owe you some cider too for finding my gps that time!!

Surf-Matt

Would love to come along but very much "on call!"

Have fun all! Did a different morning ride this morning - ended up VERY much off road - huge amounts of fun!

allthegearnoidea

no worries matt! know how it is! never going too far away just incase!!!
best of luck though matey! looking forward t hte Uber cute baby pics soon!

allthegearnoidea

will be a little wet on the bridleway tomorow and the last section a little slippery!! but should be a good ride with amy luck!!
should be dry and quite warm!! about time hahah!

allthegearnoidea

good ride today guys and girls!
thanks to all that made it, really good turn out! and thanks to the guys for the section from portreath over the cliffs to norh cliffs! (sorry really bad with names!!!)
sorry my markings had washed away ont he singletrack section in illogan woods though! should have gone through yesterday i suppose to make sure! one for next time hey!!

Kyle, hope yo got back alright matey, the car was gone when we got back s figured yo uhad! and thanks for the extra Humour you always bring! invaluable matey! allways makes me laugh!!!

14.8 mile sin the end and i think about 10 were offroad too!

hopefully see some of you at Bissoe next week!

Matt, Any news matey?? are you a dad yet??? have you already got the littlun a helmet??;)

Dazzza

Gutted i couldn't ride today, did a few miles yesterday so not a total loss.

Ive been busy on the bike, stripped and greased the headset, plus i fitted new bearings to one of the rear triangle pivots, still have another pair of bearings that need looking at, oh and i cleaned pretty much everything and fitted the black shark mud tyres, looking rather menacing now, never did look right with those fire xc pro's on.

Good to see you had a good ride tim, watch out as i'll be around the bissoe area come next week. :P

kyle2brown

allthegearnoidea wrote:

Kyle, hope yo got back alright matey, the car was gone when we got back s figured yo uhad! and thanks for the extra Humour you always bring! invaluable matey! allways makes me laugh!!!

Cheers Tim. Good ride, but not enough climbs like the one out of Portreath. Pain baby, yeah.

Not sure I went back the way you suggested, but kept on going and asked in a shop. Not sure they were too chuffed with all the mud dropping off me.

Thanks for the cider by the way.

allthegearnoidea

yeah it appears the yellow paint markings i put out on thursday got rained off! a few others went on a slight detour! haha!
guess the shop was the co-op! there a bit odd in there anyways lol! humour isnt one of the strong points for staff there thats for sure!!

hmmn, climbs like the one out of portreath, hmmn, yeah, erm, Unfortunately, i cant think of any more like that!;)
haha!

Surf-Matt

Timmo - glad it went well and amazed at your planning skills! Much much better than mine (grab a map, hope for the best...!).

No baby yet - went for a surf (just about within the "safe" time limits if anything happens!!) and it was utterly brilliant - big, clean and lovely at Porthtowan.

Will shout loudly when stuff happens - it WILL be soon (after what happened before, they aren't going to hang around if Mrs Matt gets to the due date on Saturday - induction time!).

allthegearnoidea

nice one matt!
i did think when we were up on the headland the godrevy side of portreath that porthtowan would be good!

so its Curry, pinaple, bumpy car rides and lastly what caused the bump in the first place all this week then!!;)

Surf-Matt

Ahem - yep!
Mind you, heading out in choppy water to see the Tall Ships on Saturday didn't work...!

allthegearnoidea

hahahah!
good on you for trying though!

Surf-Matt

Excuse the dreadful pic (taking pics while chopping around on a little speedboat is REALLY hard - and our camera is crap!) but it was pretty impressive!

allthegearnoidea

they are majestic looking boats!
ive been lucky enough to sail on one of them! first trip across the channel for a coup eof days and back and second was around the canary islands!
being out on the end of the second Yard up (bits that go across the mast!!) pulling the sails in in a swell is good fun!

Surf-Matt

Good fun?!

Crossed the Channel is a force 9 (!) and 15ft swell on a 1917 Bristol Clipper (Jolie Briese) and was ill for ten hours solid!!

Never, ever again! Not a single sailing craft was out and a huge race was cancelled when 15 boats got in trouble. The JB set her all time speed record too.

Amazing but it was SO puke inducing!

My sea legs (except of really small boats or big ferries) are about as useful as my "downhill MTBing" legs!

FSR_XC

Hey! Cornwall MTB getting quiet?

We're on page 2 again!

Anyone thinking of riding Soggy Bottom?

First round is 16th Nov

mattyj

Hi
What time is the bissoe meet on sunday would like to come along if thats ok, mind you will have to check my trail bag first as i was out yesterday doing my local circuit when hissssssssssssss big puncture......no probs i thought have a spare tube only to my surprise my 3 year old son had replaced said tube for a 6" power ranger toy.........ah well it was a nice 5 mile walk home L.O.L.......

allthegearnoidea

sundays ride is 09:30 in the layby opposite Smokey Joes transport cafe just up from Dales garages at Scorrier,

Tesco in pool have inner tubes for £1.86 at th emo if your in the redruth area (iirc your redruth from the forum posts??) worth picking a couple up at that price!!

had a cracking blast around the tramways yesterday morning! Such a lovely morning for a ride! sunshine and cloud free, no wind! perfect!

FSR_XC

Timmo
You should have done the ride I did to work this morning.

First taste of the cold weather - there was a blanket of mist around the clay pits in St Austell.

Note to self - when it's cold outside, wear full finger gloves.

allthegearnoidea

tis lovely when its like that though! nice and fresh! gives you a good feeling when your out in the fresh air!
although, yeah, full finger gloveds in that weatgher help a lot! especially at the speed you'll be going at!

helen coakley

FSR- sounds like your doing really well in your riding..looking to get the night rides going again but not until Nov as have exams and boring things like that..hope to catch up then....

might do soggy bottom or the stinger....will see how much riding i get in.....

cant have a winter with out night rides...

Cøøkster

Hi guys,

Newbie to the forum and ur club. OK if I join you on Sunday?

FSR_XC

A bit of news for Sunday -

A PRESENTATION WILL BE MADE THIS SUNDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER.AT THE BISSOE BIKE HIRE CENTRE, TO WENDY HOUVENAGHEL FOR HER ACHIEVEMENTS AT THE OLYMPICS.

You'll need to call Ricci @ Bike Chain to find out when.

FSR_XC

Helen
Missed seeing you about. Did first night ride tonight. Looking forward to when it gets really dark!

Cookster
It's an open invite. If you check the web link under half the guys posting on this thread (not mine though) you'll get the club website. That has some rules etc along with more info about us.

Dazzza

FSR_XC wrote:

A bit of news for Sunday -

A PRESENTATION WILL BE MADE THIS SUNDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER.AT THE BISSOE BIKE HIRE CENTRE, TO WENDY HOUVENAGHEL FOR HER ACHIEVEMENTS AT THE OLYMPICS.

You'll need to call Ricci @ Bike Chain to find out when.

Aah excellent, will be down bissoe come tomorrow so will be great to see this.

Im really looking forward to the night rides especially idless woods, now that'll be an interesting ride.

Im half tempted to do soggy as well, i feel more up to it.

paynts

Anyone know were i can get info on soggy bottom.
All i seem to be able to find is results from previous years.
Cheers Andy

Dazzza

http://www.xcracer.com/content.php?pid=2482

http://www.xcracer.com/jn_raceentry/ind ... eries_id=9

http://www.xcracer.com/forum.php?pgid=8 ... ic&id=1940

allthegearnoidea

cookster,
as mark said, its an open invite to all every week,
always good to have new members! and the weather looks good for tomorow too! which will be nice!!!!
follow the link in my sig for the club site!

Cøøkster

Thanks guys, see you there