Worlds worst ride
rowlers
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Was out yesterday in a group of 15 for what sounding like a brill ride!
Parked up in Ambleside, headed off for Garburn pass, what a fooking waste of time!
The trail is 80% unrideable, unless you have balls of steel and a 180mm travel monster bike, neither of which I have
The trail is just massive loose boulders, that move as soon as you go anywhere near them, even the blokes with exotic FS, (Spicy's Orange 5's Prophets, Slayers) struggle. I had no chance on my inbred
bike/hike more like, pi$$ed off, as the weather was great and the scenery fab.
Just something to bear in mind if anyone else fancies the Garburn pass, be prepared for a hike and an off! Oh and lost of pinch flats, I think there was 6 in the 20 mins of riding!!!
Another one ticked off the list tho!
Parked up in Ambleside, headed off for Garburn pass, what a fooking waste of time!
The trail is 80% unrideable, unless you have balls of steel and a 180mm travel monster bike, neither of which I have
The trail is just massive loose boulders, that move as soon as you go anywhere near them, even the blokes with exotic FS, (Spicy's Orange 5's Prophets, Slayers) struggle. I had no chance on my inbred
bike/hike more like, pi$$ed off, as the weather was great and the scenery fab.
Just something to bear in mind if anyone else fancies the Garburn pass, be prepared for a hike and an off! Oh and lost of pinch flats, I think there was 6 in the 20 mins of riding!!!
Another one ticked off the list tho!
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Looking at the pics, it looks pretty tame.0
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doesn't look much harder than a lot of the loose descents in the peaks. Looks fun.....0
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To be fair it doesn't look that nice for a HT, but a Spicy should fly down trails like those.
You just need to pick a smoother line, even if it mean zigzagging down, don't bother following people on fully's.And now you know, and knowing is half the battle
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Deffo need to MTFU, but I've got kids and a wife to go home to at the end of day so wasn't risking anything on those rocks. I can handle and push hike if there is a reward of some sweet descent afterward, but no reward even!
Wasn't just me who pushed, so there was 15 who need to MTFU!0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:
^^THISchedabob wrote:Looking at the pics, it looks pretty tame.
Sounds like someone needs to MTFU, learn to ride, and stop mincing around like a great jessie.
which pics - show me!0 -
rowlers wrote:yeehaamcgee wrote:
^^THISchedabob wrote:Looking at the pics, it looks pretty tame.
Sounds like someone needs to MTFU, learn to ride, and stop mincing around like a great jessie.
which pics - show me!
Google images. Take your pick.0 -
Compared to Walna Scar Garburn is a long smooth fire-road
There's stuff at Whinlatter that's tougher than Garburn.
If you really want tough do Garburn,Gatesgarth and Nan-bield(3 passes) in the same ride 8)0 -
yeh seen them pics. add a few more fooking loose boulders to those pics tho.
those pics would have been a pleasure to ride on!
One guy reckoned it was something to do with footpath conservation, where they dump loads of rocks/boulders on well used tracks to prevent erosion of the paths0 -
ibbo68 wrote:Compared to Walna Scar Garburn is a long smooth fire-road
There's stuff at Whinlatter that's tougher than Garburn.
If you really want tough do Garburn,Gatesgarth and Nan-bield(3 passes) in the same ride 8)
Deffo not! ride whinlatter regularly, as do all of the others that were out with us, all were pushing!
whinlatter is a piece of pi$$ compared to that yesterday.0 -
ibbo68 wrote:.If you really want tough do Garburn,Gatesgarth and Nan-bield(3 passes) in the same ride 8)
God you like it gruelling don't you. I was struggling after gatesgarth and nan bield.0 -
Well you're all a bunch of jessies then.rowlers wrote:Deffo need to MTFU, but I've got kids and a wife to go home to at the end of day so wasn't risking anything on those rocks. I can handle and push hike if there is a reward of some sweet descent afterward, but no reward even!
Wasn't just me who pushed, so there was 15 who need to MTFU!0 -
fyldesmurf wrote:ibbo68 wrote:.If you really want tough do Garburn,Gatesgarth and Nan-bield(3 passes) in the same ride 8)
God you like it gruelling don't you. I was struggling after gatesgarth and nan bield.
Not me,I'm building up to it not fit enough yet.Some riders on another Forum do the 3 passes a couple of times a year and reckon it's the toughest ride they do.
This could be part of the problem.Maybe you're riding Whinlatter too much?rowlers wrote:
Deffo not! ride whinlatter regularly, as do all of the others that were out with us, all were pushing!
whinlatter is a piece of pi$$ compared to that yesterday.
I ride the natural stuff and do trail centres a few times a year and personally find trail centres too sanitized.They're OK for what they are(fast and flowy) but I prefer gnarly rocky and natural 8)0 -
That's just the way it is when tackling some natural stuff, and is what makes it fun in my opinion. The fact that natural trails can change dramatically with the seasons makes things all the more interesting and is one of the things I Iove about UK riding in general.
There's no shame in hike-a-biking up hill as long as you're not off the bike all the time on the downs.
Trail centres are good for a hit of focused no-nonsense riding but do get boring when ridden again and again.0 -
Just had a look at several 'Garburn Pass' videos on youtube, in all honesty I'd be looking for a few ramp shaped rocks to get some air off on the way down, looked pretty tame.0
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Garburn is fairly tame. Walna is proper rocky, and fun. Trail centres are all smooth tracks, and IMO Whinlatter is a pretty shit one as well. Grizedale is also a bit weak, but redeems itself by leading to some real, REAL good, rocky natural trails.
The worst ride I've done was from Tan Hill, where the first 4 miles was a walk across a heather moorland...0 -
You ain't been to Coedy then by the sounds of it. It's as rough, if not actually rougher, than most of the natural trails round here.0
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I have met few southeners, and many of them highly rate Afan's Whyte level. Once they ride CYB, they don't like it ... must have been the roughness thing. Since last time I was in CYB my fave bit was Tarw, was good fun on HT with 80mm forks. Rough is for men, smooth is for ladieezzz!What could have been (Video)
I'll choose not put too much stake into someone's opinion who is admittingly terrible though0 -
Assuming this isn't some weird troll... It's not a case of mtfu, just accepting your own limits and understanding that you might not be as good as you'd like to think. Almost nobody is, but most of us realise that what's unrideable to us is a piece of piss to other people. Talk of "180mm travel monster bikes" for this sort of thing just makes you look ridiculous tbh, on a trail that's widely ridden by people with XC hardtails. No offence.
You may also need to recalibrate your sense of what is a "massive boulder". "The trail is just massive loose boulders, that move as soon as you go anywhere near them" Massive boulders don't move when you ride on them, what with being massive. What you've got there is "rocks". Not even massive ones.Uncompromising extremist0 -
I really like that kind of -brainwash- Norhtwind talks about. It certainly helped me in some cases of MTFU and ride some aggressive XC trails. Thumbs up.What could have been (Video)
I'll choose not put too much stake into someone's opinion who is admittingly terrible though0 -
Did Garburn last year on my 100mm HT and loved it. Yes you have to push/carry quite alot on the way up (well we did) but coming down was brilliant.
So good that we are doing the Garburn,Gatesgarth and Nan-bield three passes this October.
We're not that fit, mostly ride XC HT's and a couple of guys are quite inexperienced, so should make for an entertaining ride
It'll be a proper high mountain adventure ride I reckon, can't wait!Mongoose Tyax Super 2008 with just a few upgrades...0
