Crudcatcher Ride @ Llandegla 24/4

The Northern Monkey

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Filling up on pasta tonight

pastey_boy

i find the cafes double expresso gets me up and going. just got all me new bits on ready for the morning

-liam-

pastey_boy wrote:

i find the cafes double expresso gets me up and going. just got all me new bits on ready for the morning

I'm pondering whether I should even clean mine. Its got a very dusty look about it from Coed y Brenin last Friday and up the woods on Sunday and Wednesday....

No need I think

pastey_boy

-Liam- wrote:

pastey_boy wrote:

i find the cafes double expresso gets me up and going. just got all me new bits on ready for the morning

I'm pondering whether I should even clean mine. Its got a very dusty look about it from Coed y Brenin last Friday and up the woods on Sunday and Wednesday....

No need I think

but im assuming you didnt plough through a huge dog turd like me yesterday. :?
better get the hose out methinks

-liam-

ewww, burn it....

And the dog

-liam-

Where was you all ?!!

Just got home. Fab day. I got there about 10.45 and met up with Mysteryh (Earl) and we hung around outside the visitor centre till about 11.40ish. Think both of us were both looking out for bigbenj' white P7 but nowt so we headed out.

Moment of drama was me taking a jump a little to quickly and having a big off. Lovely lump on my right thigh which is currently dead and seizing up everytime I stop moving and a few grazes here and there. Thanks to the couple of chaps that stopped and helped me back up the bank and collected my bike while I got my breathing sorted

Finished the rest no probs doing all the black sections dragging my leg behind me(I'm after sympathy here), good stuff though and we went and sat outside the visitor centre drinking coffee and eating cake. Caught sight of bigbenj and who I assume was cat with no tail 2 mins before we headed off...Assume you chaps were heading up to the jump tracks.

Off for beer and bbq now to numb the pain

Richie63

Ah Ha!
I woz there at the same time the lack of shouting ment we didn't meet up Webbo!/Potato
anyway CWNT and Ben showed up at around 12.30 and the 3 of us set off to be met up by pasty_boy just after the first diversion.
As you know lads the weather was excellent and the riding fine took us a few hours to get around as numerous stops for chatting/ playing on skills sections etc.


Cwnt/ Ben did you just shoot of to catch a ferry - went and grabbed a coffee then you'd disappeared :!:

zedhead

As I had to be home shortly after 1 I went early, got there at 10.20-ish and had to try to push on and get the red under my belt before noon. Nearly bloody killed myself going up, even though I was overtaken my every man, woman, child and his dog...
Made better progress on the downhills though, passed a few that had flown pass me on the ups... which pleased me!

The Northern Monkey

Richie63 wrote:

Ah Ha!
I woz there at the same time the lack of shouting ment we didn't meet up Webbo!/Potato
anyway CWNT and Ben showed up at around 12.30 and the 3 of us set off to be met up by pasty_boy just after the first diversion.
As you know lads the weather was excellent and the riding fine took us a few hours to get around as numerous stops for chatting/ playing on skills sections etc.


Cwnt/ Ben did you just shoot of to catch a ferry - went and grabbed a coffee then you'd disappeared :!:

Ay good day

Sorry I was a bit slow today... just couldn't get hydrated and my granny ring was PISSING me off..... I want a bigger one!

Well we went over to the skills area by the car lol. Had a little play on there and went and slowly packed the car

Got back to the ferry about 6pm so spot on timing!

Great day out guys, really enjoyed it.... should do it again sometime!

Rich, get them photos up haha. I wanna see my fail-face on the climb

cat_with_no_tail

Yo dudes, just got back in.

Fully awesome day despite my severe lack of mad skillz and rolling most of the black :oops: Should definately do it again!!!!!!!

Just looking through some of the cam footage, nothing special, but I'll do an edit and stick it up when I get chance.

Pastey, don't forget that you NEED one of those cameras!

Right, I'm thirsty now so I'm off to milk a badger.

The Northern Monkey

hehe.... Vanessa Feltz!

cat_with_no_tail

Here's the only picture I took all day:



Here is Richie63 being a motorbike
http://www.vimeo.com/11197194

And here is a quick edit of some of the footage I got on the camera (if you don't like AC/DC you're best watching with the sound off :oops: )
http://www.vimeo.com/11203021

The Northern Monkey

hahaha major LOL at Rich

Check out my boardwalk fail!! Damn I couldn't figure out my bloody gears. Half tempted to sack off the granny ring!

Richie63

Right a few of the photos

and we can't ride till we've compared each and every bit

A sterling pose from Matt

A fine end of ride face from Ben

The Northern Monkey

haha classic

Can't believe how long we were stood on that berm for

Richie63

2 days :roll:

Richie63

In fact it was only when I fell of my bike we moved on

The Northern Monkey

We had to wait for the comedy moment.... your timing was aweful

Richie63

Class day though

pastey_boy

not forgetting ben doing one with my lock rings and rear mech :evil: ........... on a plus note i discovered my next gadget and saved a young boy from certain death ha ha ha ha

The Northern Monkey

pastey_boy wrote:

not forgetting ben doing one with my lock rings and rear mech :evil: ........... on a plus note i discovered my next gadget and saved a young boy from certain death ha ha ha ha

PM me your details and I'll send you the lock rings :P

Aint having my mech though biatch

cat_with_no_tail

Richie63 "Falling off" implies that you were moving at the time. "Falling over" is more accurate I'd say

I just had a thought, that kid drank the water from that bottle having assumed the bag had been left there by someone. But that bag was full of rubbish! He's probably got dysentery now.

"yeh, it's pretty good for a rental bike" *SNAP* Best. Timing. Ev-Ar!

pastey_boy

i think whinlatter has to be next boys. ben send me your paypal addy and i will send you a couple of english quids to cover postage for them lockrings. the rental bike saga was indeed funny. but the bravery of the young dehydrated idiots drinking from that bottle has to be daft moment of the ride ! gotta go now im fitting a new bb, stem, frontmech and barend caps to the beast. managed to track down a pimpy red/black sdg belair saddle too. ben and cat you missed out on sweet burgers too. and richie actually stole another persons meal :shock:

cat_with_no_tail

pastey_boy wrote:

i think whinlatter has to be next boys. ben send me your paypal addy and i will send you a couple of english quids to cover postage for them lockrings. the rental bike saga was indeed funny. but the bravery of the young dehydrated idiots drinking from that bottle has to be daft moment of the ride ! gotta go now im fitting a new bb, stem, frontmech and barend caps to the beast. managed to track down a pimpy red/black sdg belair saddle too. ben and cat you missed out on sweet burgers too. and richie actually stole another persons meal :shock:

Those burgers did indeed sound tasty, but I didnt want to eat too early as I knew I'd not be getting home until late.

I'll probably not be doing another one now until next year (unless you count Bike Radar Live in July).

I'm quite liking the idea of taking a few days and doing Inners and Glentress. Could rent a Transit or double cab pickup or something and all go up in that. Could even stop off at Whinlatter on the way up there.

Itsari

Did some kid drink some sewer juice or something then?

I'll have to try harder to get to the next crudcatcher meet up (over slept for this one!)

Looked like you lot had a good day

mrfmilo

Looks like you had fun

Any ideas where we could have a forum ride further down south? :P

Richie63

Hi all I didn't technically steal the meal as I never got a chance to eat any of it before the owner stole it back
I've been trying to get some video footage on to you all and have got it on Vimeo -Richard Brooks, not quite found out how to link to this page yet. Just give me a mo and I'll sort it out.
Pasty-boy yeah I'll do Whinlatter given Half a chance but back to work next monday so best time for me after the 18/05 the for 2 weeks.

The Northern Monkey

Cat With No Tail wrote:

pastey_boy wrote:

i think whinlatter has to be next boys. ben send me your paypal addy and i will send you a couple of english quids to cover postage for them lockrings. the rental bike saga was indeed funny. but the bravery of the young dehydrated idiots drinking from that bottle has to be daft moment of the ride ! gotta go now im fitting a new bb, stem, frontmech and barend caps to the beast. managed to track down a pimpy red/black sdg belair saddle too. ben and cat you missed out on sweet burgers too. and richie actually stole another persons meal :shock:

Those burgers did indeed sound tasty, but I didnt want to eat too early as I knew I'd not be getting home until late.

I'll probably not be doing another one now until next year (unless you count Bike Radar Live in July).

I'm quite liking the idea of taking a few days and doing Inners and Glentress. Could rent a Transit or double cab pickup or something and all go up in that. Could even stop off at Whinlatter on the way up there.

Roooaaaaaddd trriiiipppp!!!

Richie63

Get a Date

The Northern Monkey

I shall get some ideas/prices tonight haha!

Oh and i'll definately need to take 2 bikes
Which meeaaannnsssssss.....................................................