Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...

lost_in_thought

I got stuck here, bailed out, bike stayed like that.





Off-road in the snow is fun! On-road in the snow is fun but not quite as much. Also, on gritted roads, MTBs are hella slow. Dude.

jonginge

That's like totally gnarly but sweeeet!

rolf_f

Not as wobbly as me - just kept wipin' out man



Stuck to the roads today around Baildon - snow is just hard work!

cjcp

Riding in snow is knackering. The compact stuff is much, much better.

lost_in_thought

Agreed, definitely hard work. Good fun though, you can just stand up and push!

fjellrunner

Rolf, I can see those rabbit prints by the side of you - trotting along in a straight line, not a care in the world. Was he mocking you?

stuaff

Chapeau both of you! I don't really have the bike for that stuff (the Cadenza would be OK-ish, just not with a Marathon/Sport Contact tyre combo) but looks like fun....definitely not jealous of ITB & co today mind you!!

rolf_f

fjellrunner wrote:

Rolf, I can see those rabbit prints by the side of you - trotting along in a straight line, not a care in the world. Was he mocking you?

He was - but note where the prints end....... (I photoshopped out the red stains to protect the squeamish :twisted: )

redvee

Note the dice valve caps LiT took off the Viner and put on the Muddy fox for the snow ride

TommyEss

Yeah, a few of us from the club went offroad today with a couple of guys from Reading CTC - was fun, then really hard, then scary and unnerving, then really hard again.

The two CTC guys seemed fine, and we had a couple of good cyclo-cross racers who were coping fine, then there was me and the club president - he on a Surly 1x1 - and when he stopped cos of the gearing, I'd stop behind, and not be able to get going again.

Still, was a good excuse to cover for the fact that I was blowing out my arse and not very happy on the slippy stuff.

We left the four to ride back into Reading on the road - it should take about 20 minutes - it took us an hour and a half!!! :shock:

Still - fat tyres and low low pressure worked pretty well in the proper snow, and was ok on the roads, but yeah, hella-slow!

Only came off twice in the powder - one clipless moment when trying to restart, and another where I flatly just carked it! Managed to avoid landing on the tree stump though.

Anyone else finding their core muscles are really really achey now - from fighting all the time to keep the bike rubber-side down?

cjcp

TommyEss wrote:

Anyone else finding their core muscles are really really achey now - from fighting all the time to keep the bike rubber-side down?

Mine were ok last week, but didn't have to cope with the stuff you did. I found had to concentrate a lot harder though!

itboffin

StuAff wrote:

Chapeau both of you! I don't really have the bike for that stuff (the Cadenza would be OK-ish, just not with a Marathon/Sport Contact tyre combo) but looks like fun....definitely not jealous of ITB & co today mind you!!

You should be we had a total blast, but def MTB's only

Soooooooo much fun, hammering downhill not know how deep the snow or ruts are or even where they are, ace! like being a kid all over again.

Clever Pun

I have nothing to add

stuaff

itboffin wrote:

StuAff wrote:

Chapeau both of you! I don't really have the bike for that stuff (the Cadenza would be OK-ish, just not with a Marathon/Sport Contact tyre combo) but looks like fun....definitely not jealous of ITB & co today mind you!!

You should be we had a total blast, but def MTB's only

Soooooooo much fun, hammering downhill not know how deep the snow or ruts are or even where they are, ace! like being a kid all over again.

Nope, I'm not jealous, really! Was indeed fun for you loonies, quite clearly. Full suspension of the properly working kind probably rather handy for those downhills (I don't think my 20" soft-tail would cut it!)....

TommyEss

Clever Pun wrote:

I have nothing to add

You've already given so much!

mtb-idle

Twas indeed fun out on the MTB today. Here's my edited video of our ride incuding a few comedy crashes:

"My White Bicycle"

Stevo_666

Off road in almost any conditions is fun 8)

JonEdwards

Spent 5 hours up Leith Hill on Saturday.

Getting UP the hill sucked (not helped by riding a bike with a lowest gear or 36/32 and sporting a 160mm fork). Coming back down again - absofookinlutely hilarious. Especially if you did the same run a few times to pack the snow down a little. Hitting jumps in the snow was amusing too. No idea what the bike was going to do on landing.

Foot out, flat out, pinned. Duuuuuuude...

lost_in_thought

Having been amazed at the sheer weight of that muddy fox (dice valve caps not helping) I really think I'd wuss out of jumping it. If I could even get it off the ground, that is.

Saying that, I think I'd wuss out of jumping pretty much any bike.

:oops:

Stevo_666

L_i_T,

Sounds as if the bike is not yours - so apologies to the owner - but Muddy Fox probably qualifies as a mountain bike shaped object. These things are usually pretty damn heavy even by MTB standards! And the snow would have made it feel even heavier.

lost_in_thought

Stevo 666 wrote:

L_i_T,

Sounds as if the bike is not yours - so apologies to the owner - but Muddy Fox probably qualifies as a mountain bike shaped object. These things are usually pretty damn heavy even by MTB standards! And the snow would have made it feel even heavier.

Ahhh well that explains it! It's my brother's crappy old MTB - ie the one he lets me borrow!

God it's heavy...

Stevo_666

At least it's not yours

Cafewanda

LiT, think of the bike as helping to develop your upper body strength

il_principe

Erm, what is all this MTB garbage? I almost lost my lunch when I spied that Muddy Fox.

Keep it clean please guys, this is a civilized forum.*

*mostly.

Cafewanda

itboffin

Il Principe wrote:

Erm, what is all this MTB garbage? I almost lost my lunch when I spied that Muddy Fox.

Keep it clean please guys, this is a civilized forum.*

*mostly.

fancy as race then? Your prince vs my "hybrid" - I'll pick the venue

always_tyred

lost_in_thought wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

L_i_T,

Sounds as if the bike is not yours - so apologies to the owner - but Muddy Fox probably qualifies as a mountain bike shaped object. These things are usually pretty damn heavy even by MTB standards! And the snow would have made it feel even heavier.

Ahhh well that explains it! It's my brother's crappy old MTB - ie the one he lets me borrow!

God it's heavy...

Back when I was a kid, a Muddy Fox was the bike to have. Choppers and Grifters went out of fashion. You could either jump bmx's or look like a pillock doing 130rpm and 10mph on the way to school. But a Muddy Fox had a cool logo, manly tyres and had like loads of gears man.

I mean, how cool is this? (remember, its 1986)

Stevo_666

Always Tyred wrote:

Back when I was a kid, a Muddy Fox was the bike to have. Choppers and Grifters went out of fashion. You could either jump bmx's or look like a pillock doing 130rpm and 10mph on the way to school. But a Muddy Fox had a cool logo, manly tyres and had like loads of gears man.

I mean, how cool is this? (remember, its 1986)

Yep, that would be cool in 1986 - mind you, the Escort XR3i was a cool car in 1986 :P