Slow Rides For Unfit People - Rutland ROAD Ride Sun 9th Sept

rottitera02

Those maps have slightly different routes to the last ones i saw.....are they the new updated trails Roo?

kangaroo

yes these are the latest versions

rottitera02

Nice one....can't wait to hit cannock....as long as i don't hit it literally...''

have me knee pads ready...do you reckon elbow pads will be needed?

kangaroo

i would go for some type of elbow protection, cause if your going to come off you nearly always go flying forward. they aren't overly necessary though i ride it both with and without, sometimes just a couple of layers of clothes is enough

here is some info to help you decide if you want elbow pads or not
the first half of the day you could leave them behind cause we will be doing the natural stuff and the ground will be mostly soil and will give a soft landing, but there will be opportunity to push your speed on some descents. don't worry if you don't want to do the descents fast cause you will be able to do these at whatever speed you want and still enjoy them
the second half the day will be on ftd and the monkey, the trail surface is a lot harder and pebblier with some rockgardens. the chances are that if you fall off here you will be hitting a hard gritty surface and some sections just want you to go fast on them, especially a series of berms on the new end to ftd

if enough people want to we can stop at the cars half way through without going much out of our way at all. this would be just before our stop at one of the cafes, so you could leave your food behind and top up on water if you so wished as well
if you have elbow pads bring them it never huts to have extra protection

kevens64

Hello all. Here's a short clip of Tammy taking a trip down the werewolf drop.

http://www.vimeo.com/11383810

No damage done and she had a good laugh about it after

kevens64

A couple more Monkey trail video's

http://www.vimeo.com/11396555

http://www.vimeo.com/11397298

A fun mornings riding. Big thanks to the Trail builders!

kangaroo

nice videos
if your interested of the ones in your second post, the first video is of upper cliff and the second of lower cliff
both brilliant sections of the monkey

rottitera02

Hi keven...nice vids there of cannock.....see tammy had to beat the bike down the weirwolf !!! ...good fun you both had,, i looked at the pie run - glentress whilst watching the others, i take it thats a red run.....it was more techy in places than cannock with lots of roots, skinnies and boardwalks, the scottish reds seem to be more like our black runs in places.

donkeysled

awesome vids there kevens64, looking forward to the 15th

mountain mick

Cheshley wrote:

X-Fusion but not sure which one without going out to he garage n having a look, but that's not gonna happen at this hour.

Have you been chatting wi Lynn? I messaged her on Facebook a while ago but not had owt back.

Hi Cheshley
If you need any help just let me know i'm off work this coming wed/thurs but could be out testing my handy work at either gisburn or sherwood depends on how i feel and the weather but probably be gisburn.

oh and by the way kevens64 great vids i cannot wait now till the 15th really looking forward to riding that monkey trail

sparrowlegs78

I have my veho muvi extreme bracket set now, so tomorrow I'll hopefully have some vids of Rivington, I am going out alone on a fact finding mission, I may be some time
Caz xx

sandomingo

Evening all, hope you are all well, can anyone recommend a cheap bike computer? Mainly to record mileage, have been poorly over the last two weeks and need to get some miles in before the 15th!

mountain mick

i must be one of the lucky one's to own a contour hd cam

So good in the hd setting but not yet had a go with the standard setting yet

sparrowlegs78

sandomingo wrote:

Evening all, hope you are all well, can anyone recommend a cheap bike computer? Mainly to record mileage, have been poorly over the last two weeks and need to get some miles in before the 15th!

I didn't infect you at Llandegla did i !!!!..I was a mass of germs then
Caz xx

sandomingo

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

sandomingo wrote:

Evening all, hope you are all well, can anyone recommend a cheap bike computer? Mainly to record mileage, have been poorly over the last two weeks and need to get some miles in before the 15th!

I didn't infect you at Llandegla did i !!!!..I was a mass of germs then
Caz xx

Ha, probably, had a bad throat infection for a week but didn't finish my anti biotics course and got it back 4 days later, gutted! I've heard on the grapevine you don't need your granny ring anymore, looks like I'm gonna be last in May and June!!

sparrowlegs78

I still need the old granny ring at times, I can't churn out the big gears for long, so no need to worry about being last, my place as the tail gun Charlie is not up for grabs yet
Caz xx

kangaroo

you will want your granny ring at cannock, even if you can climb without it, it does make it easier on some of the tight switchbacks just to get around them

there is a bloke who has just started riding with us and he doesnt have a granny but after a few goes of the monkey, he has put it back on purley to get around the swithcbacks

sandomingo

Well, I'll do the honours in May then and we can battle it out for last in June then, Where is it gonna be I'm not on facebook.

sandomingo

To save me trawling the interweb, has anyone got any suggestions for knee/shinpads? Budget ones of course.

sparrowlegs78

sandomingo wrote:

To save me trawling the interweb, has anyone got any suggestions for knee/shinpads? Budget ones of course.

I like my 661 tom cat knee pads...they were a good buy..think they were just over £30 from my LBS
Caz xx

sparrowlegs78

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... delID=3539
£25 from CRC ,,they are comfy and don't rub
Caz xx

rottitera02

sandomingo wrote:

Evening all, hope you are all well, can anyone recommend a cheap bike computer? Mainly to record mileage, have been poorly over the last two weeks and need to get some miles in before the 15th!

Aldi have some bike gear in this thursday...they normally have bike computers in.
Or try halfords.....they have some from £9.99 upwards.



Oh and good eve Kyle..

Cheshley

sandomingo wrote:

Well, I'll do the honours in May then and we can battle it out for last in June then, Where is it gonna be I'm not on facebook.

June hasn't been confirmed yet, should be sorted by the end of this week tho.

I think I have a wireless cycling computer still in it's box in the garage. If you want I'll try to remember to bring it to cannock for you to have a look at and if you want it just give us £10 for it if that's acceptable.

Budget pads? Try these..... http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Stif Cycles is also where I got mine from: http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Mrsbeonetrek

kevens64 wrote:

Hello all. Here's a short clip of Tammy taking a trip down the werewolf drop.

http://www.vimeo.com/11383810

No damage done and she had a good laugh about it after

good job I have a good sense humour, having you put vids of me falling when not on my bike. lmao

rottitera02

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=3539
£25 from CRC ,,they are comfy and don't rub
Caz xx

Bugger....i wanted a set of these but at the time they only had the small size in so i got the 'veggie' 661 pads....they are slightly large for me but i put some extra velcro on 'em and they sit on well now.

sandomingo

Caz, Steve, thanks for the info, will make sure I invest in the knee pads before the 15th wouldn't want to bleed on your leather seats Steve. Am gonna try doing the blue run twice at Llandegla next week to try and tackle that hill twice. Hopefully that'll help for Cannock.

rottitera02

Mrsbeonetrek wrote:

kevens64 wrote:

Hello all. Here's a short clip of Tammy taking a trip down the werewolf drop.

http://www.vimeo.com/11383810

No damage done and she had a good laugh about it after

good job I have a good sense humour, having you put vids of me falling when not on my bike. lmao

Thats nothing Tammy...have a look at the pics of me falling in the stream on the facebook slow rides group page........ahh well someone has to give ;em all a laugh.......

You should have said you were testing the jump before you rode it ....':!:'

sandomingo

Cheshley wrote:

sandomingo wrote:

Well, I'll do the honours in May then and we can battle it out for last in June then, Where is it gonna be I'm not on facebook.

June hasn't been confirmed yet, should be sorted by the end of this week tho.

I think I have a wireless cycling computer still in it's box in the garage. If you want I'll try to remember to bring it to cannock for you to have a look at and if you want it just give us £10 for it if that's acceptable.

Budget pads? Try these..... http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Stif Cycles is also where I got mine from: http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Cheers Cheshley. yea if you don't mind I'd be interested in the computer, just hope you don't blow the proceeds on oatcakes! Those pads are the business, proper Darth Vader, I like the shin pads kept crackin my shins with my pedals at Llandegla, could be worth an investment, are they ok to ride in?

sparrowlegs78

We all giggle at eath other, well I would giggle if I actually had and breath left
Caz xx

Cheshley

sandomingo wrote:

Cheshley wrote:

sandomingo wrote:

Well, I'll do the honours in May then and we can battle it out for last in June then, Where is it gonna be I'm not on facebook.

June hasn't been confirmed yet, should be sorted by the end of this week tho.

I think I have a wireless cycling computer still in it's box in the garage. If you want I'll try to remember to bring it to cannock for you to have a look at and if you want it just give us £10 for it if that's acceptable.

Budget pads? Try these..... http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Stif Cycles is also where I got mine from: http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_optio ... &store=mtb

Cheers Cheshley. yea if you don't mind I'd be interested in the computer, just hope you don't blow the proceeds on oatcakes! Those pads are the business, proper Darth Vader, I like the shin pads kept crackin my shins with my pedals at Llandegla, could be worth an investment, are they ok to ride in?

I find the Titans to be very comfy mate. First time out it felt a bit wierd having something strapped to my legs but within a mile I'd forgotten they were there.