XC in Cornwall - any willing volunteers ?

helen coakley

FSR wrote

Anyone got any plans foran evening ride next week?

off to london this week, so may be next week..

Hope you enjoyed the St Austell ride...

allthegearnoidea

mbnut, as kyle said, what area are you staying in matey??

mbnut

I'm staying in Helston but i'm happy to drive anywhere but do need to be back to Helston as i'm looking after my son so will need to be back to pik him up from school.

Cheers

FSR_XC

helen coakley wrote:

Hope you enjoyed the St Austell ride...

Oh yes - my legs will remember it for quite some time!

kyle2brown

Signed up for the Fun race in Soggy 3. Who else is gonna be there?

FSR_XC

I'll be partaking in the ol' gits race in the afternoon.

I believe Steve, Helen & Jane are going to be there too.

allthegearnoidea

mbnut, i may be able to give yo a ride on the thusday around tehidy matey, (portreath/redruth area) could extend it a bit too if needed, drop in on the lbs en route, and a couple of bridleways?
muchly depends on how i am doing during the week,

let me know if you fancy it.

mbnut

allthegearnoidea wrote:

mbnut, i may be able to give yo a ride on the thusday around tehidy matey, (portreath/redruth area) could extend it a bit too if needed, drop in on the lbs en route, and a couple of bridleways?
muchly depends on how i am doing during the week,

let me know if you fancy it.

Thursday would be great... i've always wanted to explore that area, go to Portreath quite a lot.

I'll pencil it in and PM you my number so you can let me know... sounds good though...

Thanks Timmo

allthegearnoidea

great fun ride yesterday around mount hawke, despite the Super arrogant i can do no possible wrong horse rider! (old lady) who despite what you said turned everything into our fault! even the white van spooking the horse became our fault, twice!!
but never the less, we cracked on and rode some great trails, and especially Howled down the track to chapel porth, awsoem section that!
really good fun! had that warm feeling insde when i got home and a nice windburny feeling outside!!!

next week is a tehidy ride, two loops of the tracks in the woods, just a bit of fun if anyones interested!

mbnut, hope you had a good run down if you can read this! will drop you a text later matey!

Dazzza

Did she have her hair tied back and had a real toffee nosed accent?

allthegearnoidea

she ws old and wrinkly dazz, Full of attitude! was a bit toffee nosed, lives in Mounte Hawke too by all accounts (neighbour of the guy that came for his first club ride),
she moaned that we didnt make our selves known to her, Which if we had wanted to pass her we would have done, But! as we were only mooching along the track and in no rush, we sat behind her at a decend distance, in the time we followed her, all chatting away she didnt attempt to look behind her and see what the voices were!
she said we should have Shouted to let her know we were there, yet she could barely control the horse when the van which it could see spooked it let alone us shouting from behind it! she didnt seem to grasp that a, we werent in a rush to pass so left her trot along, b, we didnt want to spook her horse by yelling at her when thining of A, c, she made no attempt to check her surroundings, and also, finally, she was Very rude to all of us, made no attempt to listen to our reasoning (she had the typical snotty horsey attitude of i am always in the right not you - brother married into a horsery set and said attitude became very apparant of all the horsery people we had the misfortune of meeting!) and wouldnt let us past! blocking the track with the animal, when she eventually moved clear of the junction on the track we passed her safely, but she had little control over the horse that it kicked out and caught yestins bike!

as much as many pedestrians complain of the minority of cyclists, she was the minority of horsey set that ruin it!

coincidentally we passed a coupl eof other horses whilst out and they were spot on! one riding fine along the road with cars passing her closely with no effect to the animal and a cheery hello as we passed!

mbnut

Hello Timmo

Seems like you get a odd pain in the backside rambler/horse rider no matter where you ride, we get the odd one up in kent.... they probably feel the same about us dreadful mountain biking types!!

Looking forward to thursday so send me a text or call and we'll arrange a meeting point.

I can start anytime from 09:30 and i have to be back in Helston by 14:30.

Cheers

Dazzza

Hmm i know there's one that rides on the bissoe tram lines that is very well known for upsetting the locals and funnily enough her horse was very spookable, had a right barney at me that was until i mention the lack of high vis gear warning of the horse not to mention red tag for it being a kicker.

She promptly shut up then as she never expected a fellow horse rider to be riding an mtb. :roll:

Thing is what on earth was she doing riding a spookable horse on one of the busiest trails on cornwall.

allthegearnoidea

dazz, some of them think they are beyond reproach matey! does appear that a ot of horsey types believe because they ride a horse they ar eof a higher being to other lesser cyclists etc.

brothers wedding was a complete Nightmare, room of horsey people and a room of sailing peoples! really didnt mix at all!

Surf-Matt

Used to run and MTB ride with Mrs Matt when she was horseriding around Frogpool - what a great horse that was!

No big rides for me this weekend but has this surf on Saturday (tis me in the top pics):






Then did a 8.5 miles coast run around Polzeath on Sunday - BRUTAL hills and legs still aching but it was stunning weather and one of my all time favourite bits of coast (grew up around there). 1hr 4mins so 7.5 minute miles - fairly happy with that as it was so damn challenging! Would be fun but almost deadly on a bike!

Still doing my 10m a day on the bike.

allthegearnoidea

awsome pics matt! looks like a classic surfing day! shame the last one's slightly out of focus, would be a great pic! greta times for the running! especially on that terrain!

if anyone else is interested, quick blast around tehidy on thursday and down to the bike barn, possibly up to cambrose for some bridleways and back, 10:30 meet at east lodge carpark tehidy, meeting mbnut there!

Surf-Matt

Jusssst as it was starting to really dry out, the heavens have opened

Timmo - I took the last pic (a mate took the others) and got a bit overexcited and pushed the shutter without focussing properly first - oops!

allthegearnoidea

haha! yeah all of the those would be an awsome picture i have taken have been umch the same! many years ago, i was taking pics opf the sailing in the winter series brother was in, pops said all you'll get are small boats and mostly out of focus, i ignored him and got exactly that hahaha! cost me a fortune to get them developed too and all to find i had about a dozen infocus but they were pants hahaha!

has been raingin all day here! so have been productive, stripped, cleaned and regreased pedals, baked 'Dora the explorer' buns with littlun, been nosing ebay at random bike bits! (thinking of going a bit shorter ont he stem?? ) and done the washing lol!

Surf-Matt

I'm waiting for my new toy - an RC car - to be delivered. Should arrive tomorrow!

In the meantime I'm pretending to be a grown up running a business.

allthegearnoidea

haha! so you bought stanley one then! good man! expecting pictures!

Mk1Tony

allthegearnoidea - Im interested in a quick blast tomorrow m8 but don't know where East Lodge Carpark is, is it anywhere near the golf course? I'm riding in from Pool, if you know the post code i can probably find it!

Cheers

- Tony

allthegearnoidea

Tony, yes matey, instead of pulling in the entrance for the golf course, follow the road towards portreath, you'll pass east lodge(thatched cottage ) and then about 400yards downt he road is the carpark,
will pm you my mobile number incase you need it,
i dont know the exact postcode but i am a mile from the entrance and am TR16.

Surf-Matt

Timmo - it has arrived and it's SO fast!!

allthegearnoidea

nice! looks rapid too!
battery or Nitro?? and you really put it on a cream carpet after ragging it around the garden!! i'd get in som much trouble for that hahah! (remembers when the wife came home from work to find my truck in bits on the coffee table when i was cleaning it hahaha!)

most importantly! does stanley like it!

Surf-Matt

Timmo - he errrrrrmmm loves it!

It's electric but has a "brushless" motor (98% efficient as opposed to 48%) which means it's nitro quick - especially when I put my mad new battery in it (11.1v) - just on charge. I'm a bit nervous as they can explode if not treated correctly! You have to charge them in a fireproof "lipo sack!"

allthegearnoidea

haha! yeah just seen on FB! awsome matey! lipo's can be dangerous but Serious fun too! will make it Silly quick hahah!
used to run my emaxx on brushless but returned it to stockish after getting a little bored of bits breaking lol! now run it on a Dwealt drill 970 motor! (std one was 550 sized!) Awsome fun!

Mk1Tony

Right i've done a little exploring in the old motor vehicle and have found the car park, I shall be there half ten sharp!

Nice RC car

allthegearnoidea

nice one tony!
see you in the morning!

mbnut

Looking forward to the morning... the RC stuff sounds fun.... all i need is another hobby to spend money on!!

see you at 10:30

allthegearnoidea

hahah! the rc thing is nearly as expensive as the bike one lol although instead of carbon it was alloy parts! all shiny and blue! well it was, its more blue with a hint of Beat to death now! :twisted:

if we get the overnight frost then could make the ST int he woods Fast! which will be good!