Going anywhere nice this weekend?

Chaka Ping

I'm off to the Lakes first thing tomorrow for a couple of days' riding with a friend who lives in Cumbria.

Rather looking forward to taking my bike up some actual mountains for a change.

Bikerbaboon

i think that dalby could be looking good or a loop round nid valley could also be good.

gazvenn

DUB bmx street jam in liverpool, meeting at the courts 1pm (advert over)

but yeah.. should be good

grumsta

Helvellyn on Sunday is the plan - can't wait!

Kiwi Kranker

Does Liverpool count???

didnt think so.

gthang

Aston Hill tomorrow morning (as long as it stays dry)

shin0r

Skyline!

bells0

Dalby for the 1st time on Sunday

lunaeventer

Pentlands for an adventure race tomorrow - 8 hours worth!

schmako

Lunaeventer wrote:

Pentlands for an adventure race tomorrow - 8 hours worth!

Pretty slippy up there! Was up to silverburn Wednesday and nearly washed out so many times. Sadly no riding this weekend, tonight work 4 - 9, 7 - 4 saturday and 8 - 6 sunday

Surf-Matt

Local hospital to have our first baby.
Mrs Matt being induced.

Luckily the surf is cr4p.

GHill

Should be heading to the Gower (near Swansea) on Sunday assuming the weather holds.

Supposed to be some natural trails with great views down there.

smokiewmb

A pootle on the blue and red at Mabie, then back to the cafe for coffee and cake

Chaka Ping

Surf-Matt wrote:

Local hospital to have our first baby.
Mrs Matt being induced.

Good luck!

I'm going for my first proper ride since our first baby came two months ago.

TheRevOlutionary

Surf-Matt wrote:

Local hospital to have our first baby.
Mrs Matt being induced.

Luckily the surf is cr4p.

Congrats life-changing but worth it!

Steve_b77

I'm off to the Marin

Tara911

Gonna get on the trans pennine trail I think...

willy b

Small local ride tomorrow morning, then back to uni :roll:

Yukon Lad

congrats surf matt, am hoping to get onto the altura trail, might have a look at a bit of exploring or do high street or helvellyn

Yukon Lad

Nodnol

Cannock Chase, my normal stomping ground.

altern_8

check youre pads if you have discs after dalby ride,mine where gone after 1 ride there,yet my bros where fine.....

went to edale today(friday),did this months killer loop in mbr,now i know why they call it killer loop,lol

hopper1

I'm going for my first proper ride since our first baby came two months ago.

Whoa! CP, your baby should be about normal birth size, by now, then?
My little one was born 2 months prem, too (3lb 4oz). That was 3 years ago, and you wouldn't know it now.
Nappies start to get really nasty from now on though! :oops:

Good luck Matt and Mrs.Matt!

I wish I could get out this w/end, Edale would be nice...
But, I'm stuck in f*ckin' Nigeria! :evil:

P-Jay

Brecfa! Should be dry for once...............................Fingers crossed

deeptheory

did a nice a nice 15 miles last night on a route i have round here. got it down to 54min, so im really pleased with that.

match today (sunderland-middlesbrough) then a 'few' beers this afternoon/tonight.

will try and get out on sunday but im not fussed if i cant make it. played football mon-thurs and as i said bike last night so my knees have taking a hammering.

ragtop

Going out for an easy ride up the Thames today to make sure my newly built bike is up to the trails i'm gonna explore tomorrow.
Thank goodness the summer has arrived!

redvee

Going to be stripping my GT down and building up my On One Inbred will need to go out on sunday for a test ride. Nothing really to set-up apart from the disc pads, can't be bothered with these new fangled gear thingies.

lunaeventer

Perfect weekend in store - finished really well in the adventure race today & now have some rock climbing in Northumberland lined up for tomorrow!! Fantastic!

Just as well I have Monday off to recover......... 8)

Tara911

deeptheory wrote:

did a nice a nice 15 miles last night on a route i have round here. got it down to 54min, so im really pleased with that.

match today (sunderland-middlesbrough) then a 'few' beers this afternoon/tonight.

will try and get out on sunday but im not fussed if i cant make it. played football mon-thurs and as i said bike last night so my knees have taking a hammering.

I look at this post and think... wtf... I didn't do 15 miles....

maybe I need a new avatar :evil:

Anonymous

i thought i had seen that avatar somewhere before, i think you should both be banned so i can use it

also, good luck/congrats to mrs and mr surf-matt and remember, pics (of the new born) or it didnt happen.

motherhucker

Just come back from my first visit to Chicksands today, Was absolutely immense! Would do the 2 hour drive again tomorrow if could still stand up

realnumber 1

Well I've just come back from a long weekend away and on Friday went up Helvellyn (did the route that was in summer 08 MBR). It was an interesting ride to say the least :?
It started off a nice day and we where expecting the cloud we could see to clear by the time we got up. Well it didn't and as we got half way up we went in it. Most of the time I don't think you could see more than 20 yards.
It was a very strange place to be (like another world). Quite scary at times because you couldn't tell how big the drops where a few feet away on both sides of the trail. It also made it very tricky to tell if we where on the right track still at times.
On the way up the last rocky climb just before the summit my mates fear of heights got the better of him which seemed to spoil the rest of the ride for him.
The drop down to Grisedale Tarn was tough going due to the visibility (and the very large rocks)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nx7OWHbkA54
Overall I enjoyed the ride but had to do a little to much stop/starting waiting for others to catch up. Would have been much nicer on a clear day but it was one hell of an experience.
Hope things went well Surf