XC in Cornwall - any willing volunteers ?

orena45

I think (from memory) it's minimum of Silver BC membership which is £36 (if not, then it's 'Ride' which is £24).

Now that things are 'settling' down a bit with my 2 month old daughter, I should be able to get out more on Sundays so will be up for more rides in the future

Surf-Matt

Timmo - we both grew up around there, know everyone and always love going back. So started looking two weeks ago and confirmed a yes last night.

Also got schools to consider - the primary school in that area is excellent as is the secondary school. If the little one went to school here, it's be Truro school and nasty school fees. So we will be sort of saving money...!

Still renting and it's a bit of a wallet bruiser but the house is very nice indeed...

allthegearnoidea

andym i know what you mean fella! my littlun is 3 1/2 now! first few months were very limited into other activities lol!!! but does mean you can get a trailer, and back carrier etc. and take them out in that! my littlun Loved it!!!

Matt, saw the 'Coming home' comment on FB and made me think thats why!! dont blame you, Always love the area i grew up in even if it was St.A lol!
dont blame you one bit!¬!

orena45

Timmo - hehe, when I found out my partner was expecting, one of the first things I thought was...excuse for a new bike! I've just ordered a Kona Ute via Cyclescheme at work for child-ferrying duties!

allthegearnoidea

hahah! i just bolt the trailer bracket to the bike loL! used to run it of the carbon frame hahah! the looks you get are so funny! especially when littlun in the back pack Shouting Hello to everyone!!! she very comically shouted HELLO CAR on thursday when we were on our way down to preschool when a car came around the roundabout! hahahah!
she loves it although gets a little spooked over 20 down through the woods!! :shock: 8)
good training too! bung on an extra coupl eof pounds loL!

kernowaj

Does every Dad on here have a little girl??? I do, Timmo does and orena does. You know what they say about real men produce girls
Didnt realise your a Snozzle boy Tim.

On another note, anyone fancy doing a regular evening/night ride mid week in the St. Austell area?

orena45

Lol @ Timmo! As soon as Maya is old enough, she'll be on the back of the Ute :-D

Kernowaj - I agree, having a daughter is also the sign of a top mountain biker too ;-)

allthegearnoidea

hahah! it does also mean that we are all in for a Whole lot of trouble when 'our girls' hit the teens lol!
at the pub for tea earlier, wife asked the littlun who has the best puppy eye's, she leant her head forward, Big brown eye's up and blinked lots and said Me!! hahaha! bless her!!! (littlun not the wife!)
now i must have been the rogue that slipped into the girls = top mtb'er catagory then haha!

Aj, born in penrice fella! live in St.a for 22 years then moved down redruth way for work!

kernowaj

Thats a novelty, moving TO Redruth for work.

My girl is a Penrice baby. Just got her one of those run bikes, ie bike with no pedals. She loves it but is about 1" too short at the moment.

FSR_XC

Matt

When you've moved, you'll have to give us a call when you fancy a ride round Dunmere. Then again, I reckon we'll lose to totally to surfing pretty soon.


orena45

Have a word with Mark (Trailriders) and Andy (Cornwall MTB) - I'm sure one or the other would be happy with membership of one of the affiliates. After all, it's mainly for the insurance.
IIRC BC includes bike insurance as well as 3rd party liability, whereas CTC is only 3rd party.


I'm looking forward to Mud & Sweat at the weekend - just a week of work and 2 nights in London before hand.

allthegearnoidea

haha! yeah i know the opposite way to what most Stozzolians would say! although, to be truthful, is So mych better living down here than up there! sence of comunity etc, Proper surf coast too!! much much nicer!

littlun was riding the balance bike around the barn on sunday when we dropped down to help a mate with a flat on the trail out, very funny, although, i think the best method is to buy a normal bike and whip the crank out! saves having to buy two bikes then!

orena45

Cool, will find out if I can strike a deal with either of Mark or Andy then 8)

FSR_XC

We were nearly in danger of dropping off the first page then.

Who doing Mud and Sweat this weekend?

There are 2 teams from Trailriders going up, myself included.

allthegearnoidea

i did think that this morning but didnt have anytrhing worthy to post!!!
i think there are 4 teams i knopw of going up, dont know ifanyone's going up for the solo runs or not though,

allthegearnoidea

Good results from the mud and sweat today for the guys! Nick and steve Narrowly beaten to 10th by 10 points by mark and mark wright to 9th,(that'll be the 15 point penalty then!) well done guys! how does that put you overall now?? must be quite high up ont he tables surely??
Rich and Mark managed to get 15th and 16th!
brendon and natasha 18th,
si and Lee 20th and Yestin and mike 25th, all times within 20 mins of each other too which is good!
althoguh the guy that won the long solo must have been a machine lol! 840 points!
great results and seems from the reports so far a great event!

FSR_XC

It was a tricky day today. I snapped my chain just after we collected our first 'dib', then spent the rest of the ride getting chain suck. We then spent nearly 20 min trying to find one checkpoint and the got back with 20 min to spare.

Not that well organised eh!

Well done to the Cornwall MTB guys.

So you reckon we ended up 9th Timmo? Think we were 7th when we came in.

allthegearnoidea

oh, thats not so good mark, chain suck isnt nice! just swapped out my middle ring to stop mine!
yeah 9th on the results page from yesterdays event, any ideas on your overall for the series??

going to try and get out for a local loop latrer as had a pretty rough weekend, thats if i dont end up back in bed lol!!

FSR_XC

Looking at the results sheets, it looks like there has been one team that beat us both times.

Hopefully ordering my new bike of Saturday - Unless I can bring it home . . . . . .

Looks like it'll be last years Stumpy at the mo - just need a test ride.

allthegearnoidea

cooool! trip to certini's then!!
was it a HT or FS?

that effectively put you in second going intop the last round then?? (thats if its a 3 round series??) good going!!

FSR_XC

Lookin' forward to Saturday . . . . .

allthegearnoidea

goood man!!! always good having something shiny to play with!!!!

have swapped the Sid's back over for the bombers now as was getting fed up of the flexing lol! only a lb difference in weight so not too bad, but have adjusted the travel to get 120mm out of them now so extra happy especially as the sid's are only hittin 80! give a bit more confidence!!! alothough, broke the shock pump lol! sio had to whizz down the road to borrow theirs to get them up to pressure to test!! serviced/cleaned up the sid's properly too seeing as one side didnt hold air and was Full of sh#tty muddy water! needs new wiper seals but as its not used now will be okay!!!
might get out for a blast on friday, if not will be monday as away at the weekend!

FSR_XC

Timmo
Are you looking to sell the Sid's?

Might know someone interested

allthegearnoidea

no mark not really, on inspection the stantions are pretty B#ggered on one leg and the other is starting to loose its shinyness in one spot, the rebound is non operable witht he twisty knob but set at a good rate, and it really needs new wiper seals, not really worth selling imo! i'll prolly keep hold of them as spares, the insides of the lowers are very rough too, not at all smooth likt they should but they arnt new so some to be expected,
they are the Old Sid's too! '03-06 era, (xc on the inside of the legs) and as such Uber flexy!!! good light weight fork but very flexy!
served me well for the £35 i paid for them mind!!! :shock: gotta love late night ebaying

i think more to the point, i wouldnt feel confident/comfortable/happy about selling them on, the bombers yeah no probs as they are great but now keeping lol! but the sid's i'll keep hold of for the above reason!

Surf-Matt

FSR_XC wrote:

Matt

When you've moved, you'll have to give us a call when you fancy a ride round Dunmere. Then again, I reckon we'll lose to totally to surfing pretty soon.

Surf is good about 1 in 4 days at the most.

Cycling can be done any time (except in ice!)!!!

FSR_XC

Matt

Surf's supposed to be excellent over the next 3-4 days.



I was thinking about Dunmere last night. Think I need to go and ride it again sooooooon!

allthegearnoidea

was cracking thois morning at portreath, 3-4ft clean, 3 boogers outr by the wall and that was it!



was just after ten as dropped the littlun of at pre school, was tempted to sit and read the paper down there but thought i better do something a little more productive!! which failed as i went out on the bike instead hahahah!

FSR_XC

At 8am tomorrow, I will be at the Factory shop (Redruth) showing off my nice shiny new steed.

By 8.30 it should be rather dirty & muddy!

Sorry guys, but you'll have to see it in the flesh as there are no pictures!

allthegearnoidea

Nice one Mark, hope you have an uneventful but good first ride!

FSR_XC

Anyone here want to do the 24/12 in July?

It's fun . . . . . . . honest

allthegearnoidea

how was the first ride mark?????

24/12, hmmmn, i'd struggle if it were in minutes lol let alone hours!!