New Year Pudding Burner - Saturday 10th Jan - Lancs/Yorks

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  • Hothouse
    Hothouse Posts: 27
    Hi Guys

    New to the forum. Does any of you guys get out on Sundays up round Littleboro. Me and my mate get up round Pietrhorne, Ogden etc most sunday mornings if anyone fancies meeting up. Early start though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Cheers :shock:
  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Try these guys.


    http://www.badforum.co.uk/
    Frank Yates
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    OK final update -

    Saturday 10th January, meet 9:30am for 10:00am start at Todmorden Leisure Centre top car park on Ewood Lane, just off the A646 Burnley Road.

    Post code for tw@t-nav users is OL14 7DF

    Weather forecast is for -3 degrees overnight with maximum during the day plus 3, fine but overcast.

    Those attending so far -

    Myself
    Stumpyjon
    Topsey Turvey
    joe1983 + A N Other
    pete higham

    Hope to see you there!

    Oh, and it's not a race. Pushing up hills, pushing down hills, passing out through oxygen starvation and stopping to admire the view are all acceptable.
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  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Is the car park free, or pay and display? If P&D how much change do we need?
    Frank Yates
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    Topsey Turvey wrote:
    Is the car park free, or pay and display? If P&D how much change do we need?

    It's free gratis. There is a barrier that is shut and locked at 6pm but we'll be back long before that.
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  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 4,069
    We hope :shock:

    See you all tomorrow :lol: .
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

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  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    Gits - And I bet it was dead hard on the ground today, so the riding was good.

    Hope you all enjoyed it.
    500 Miles in 5 days
  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 4,069
    Certainly was when I hit the ground after losing an argument with a patch of ice. Bit of a winter wonderland, bl**dy cold, especially when the wind got up. Everything was covered in frost, still is now :shock: .

    Ended up doing pretty much the same route as we did in November, introduced a few more forumites to the joys of Calderdale and real hills.

    I'm sure we'll be out again before too long so watch this space.
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

    I've bought a new bike....ouch - result
    Can I buy a new bike?...No - no result
  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Hi guys, thanks for today. A good ride, in fact, given the conditions it was an excellent ride. Think we all ended upon the ground at some point.

    Must do it again.

    (Only downside was that we had to go into Yorkshire.)
    Frank Yates
  • joe1983
    joe1983 Posts: 440
    Just got home - absolutely knackered! Big thanks to DaveHill (aka John) for organising a great ride and all the boys who came along. Have to do it again when I recover!

    Cheers,

    Joe

    Ps. I think you will find that as no one saw my tumble, technically it didn't happen!
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  • pete higham
    pete higham Posts: 134
    i have collapsed onto my bed and cannot move, my lungs feel like they are twice the size than normal and my legs are like lead :D wouldnt want it any other way 8)

    awesome day! the downhills were quality even tho they were icy 8) id rather forget about the uphills tho :lol: (especially the first when i nearly was sick)

    big thanks to dave hill (john) for the route and to the other lads who made it a quality day :D
  • pete higham
    pete higham Posts: 134
    oh and everyone seen my tumble! twice and i wasnt even riding at the time :oops:
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    Thanks for coming chaps, glad you all enjoyed it.

    I'm sorry I turned into such a wet blanket but I'm quite obviously not well at all - I'm still coughing and wheezing like a busted accordion now, five hours later. Off to bed with a stiff drink and tub of Vicks I think!

    I'll e-mail you all shortly with a copy of the route that we did. Just so you know, we did 19 miles and 2860 feet of climbing.
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  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    Theres nowt wrong with Yorkshire!

    Glad you all enjoyed it - Make sure you post up again for the next one.
    500 Miles in 5 days
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    GT Destroyer wrote:
    Theres nowt wrong with Yorkshire!

    Glad you all enjoyed it - Make sure you post up again for the next one.

    Best thing that came out of Yorkshire is the road to Lancashire.
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  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    GT Destroyer wrote:
    Theres nowt wrong with Yorkshire!

    As a true born Lancastrian I challenge you to drawn roses at dawn.
    Frank Yates
  • pete higham
    pete higham Posts: 134
    dave_hill wrote:
    Thanks for coming chaps, glad you all enjoyed it.

    I'm sorry I turned into such a wet blanket but I'm quite obviously not well at all - I'm still coughing and wheezing like a busted accordion now, five hours later. Off to bed with a stiff drink and tub of Vicks I think!

    I'll e-mail you all shortly with a copy of the route that we did. Just so you know, we did 19 miles and 2860 feet of climbing.


    are you gonna upload the video anywhere?

    im contemplating going out tomorrow for an hour or 2 down the irwell but i will see if i still feel like i have been raped of energy. :D

    i forgot to mention before but when i took my bike out of the car before i found that i had got a puncture on the front wheel! thank god i didnt get it going over the top! i wouldnt have liked to repair that whilst being that exposed.
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    pete higham wrote:
    are you gonna upload the video anywhere?

    I'll stick it on YouTube and post the link here. Unfortunately I didn't get as much as I'd hoped - I don't know if it was the cold but the batteries in my helmet camera died very quickly yesterday.

    Anyhoo, I'll post what I've got.
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  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Are there any stills available? I thought I saw you snapping at various times.
    Frank Yates
  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    Topsey Turvey wrote:
    GT Destroyer wrote:
    Theres nowt wrong with Yorkshire!

    As a true born Lancastrian I challenge you to drawn roses at dawn.

    I will crush you
    500 Miles in 5 days
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    I know it's not much, but here's the vid...

    No stills I'm afraid Frank!
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    Sounds like you guys had a very good time. jealous!

    I'll make it one day! Won't be till summer now cus i'm suck in London till then :(
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Well I've just got back from riding the original planned route.

    I think that I have never had as bad a day on the hills as I've had today. Whether fell walking, fell running, doing mountain marathons, orienteering, rock climbing or mountain biking I've never disliked a day out as much as this morning. I will never, ever go back over those tracks.

    If I wasn't going up near vertical tarmac I was going over a trackless bottomless morass. It took me nearly 2 hours to do the first 6 miles. I had been thinking that something was wrong, and suddenly it came to me. There were no tyre tracks anywhere to be seen. I can only put this down to the locals knowing what a sh1t place this is.

    By the time I reached Ditches Farm I'd had enough, and when I saw a Post Office van I knew there must be an easy way down, so I took it.

    This would have been a bad walk on it's own, but pushing a bike was purgatory.

    Please shoot me if I ever think of going anywhere near those trails in future!

    (With apologies to Dave Hill :cry: )
    Frank Yates
  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 4,069
    I think you must have got a bit off route, there are some good trails on both sides of the valley, bit exposed in places but pretty rideable (admittedly a bit steep in places). If you do get on the wrong track it easy to end up axle deep if you're unlucky, you need local knowledge :wink: .
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

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  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    No he's right, there are certain places over Freeholds top and down towards Ditches which are a bit "sketchy", shall we say?

    I find it doesn't help round here when the weather's as dank as it has been recently, it's not too bad during summer (whatever that might be).

    That said, I am monumentally fed up with it being wet :( !
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  • topsey_turvey
    topsey_turvey Posts: 420
    Thank you for reassuring me. The stretch to Holden Gate was also ***** I was following a line of posts, but they suddenly disappeared and left me in a reed bed that looks as if it will never dry out.

    I was seriously questioning my sanity, and bike riding ability :cry:
    Frank Yates
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    Very often, you'll find in this area that you can find the start of a trail and the end of it too, but you've got to make the bit inbetween up as you go along.

    It helps if you have a 1:25000 scale map and an inate ability to relate features marked on it with what's actually there. I find that field boundaries and power lines are invaluable markers for doing this - if I'm on the LH side of a powerline and the trail is marked on the RH side, I know I'm in the wrong place.
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  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 4,069
    Second the use of 1:25000 OS maps, the field boundaries are really useful for working out exactly where you are.
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

    I've bought a new bike....ouch - result
    Can I buy a new bike?...No - no result
  • joe1983
    joe1983 Posts: 440
    Can't agree more on the usefullness of 1:25k OS maps. Wait a minute, aren't I selling some at very reasonable prices on the classifieds?!!
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  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 4,069
    I'll expect my commission in the post for setting that up so nicely for you :wink:
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

    I've bought a new bike....ouch - result
    Can I buy a new bike?...No - no result

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