Riding Dalby this Saturday

EddieHitler
EddieHitler Posts: 47
edited March 2011 in Routes
Doing the Dalby red route on Saturday, would like to know before hand what the conditions are like, has anyone ridden it since it re-opened a week or so back?
if so could you let me know what it was like?
Did it roughly the same time last year and it was OK but think it might be a bit of a mud fest at the moment

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  • Hairy Bob
    Hairy Bob Posts: 22
    Was up there last week, did it in the sleet and rain. Not many parts were muddy and certainly non were un rideable. Due to the terrain it was very dirty and gritty but not boggy. Was frozen to the core but still had a blast. Also went out a couple of days later after the bad weather and the trail was well drained due to the tracks been slightly raised. Never had any trouble with it been a mudfest. Have a blast:)
  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Brilliant, thanks :D
  • Royal Dragoon
    Royal Dragoon Posts: 270
    Have a look here at what happened at Dalby last weekend when some Boro Boys went down there................. :wink:

    http://www.mtbe.co.uk/scott-and-bones-h ... 11942.html
  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Ha ha good write up :lol: Sounds like my mate the last time he did it, snapped his seat post a mile in, mangled his front rotor, carried on and finished the whole 20 odd miles stood up and hungover!
  • stevie_
    stevie_ Posts: 19
    dalby's never killed my bike, just deteriorates it rapidly :lol:

    dalby is fine for every single second of the year that it isn't under ice/snow. the hard makeup of the trails means it rides fine no matter how much of a downpour there's been, it just gets rather, rather sandy.
  • altern_8
    altern_8 Posts: 1,562
    was at dalby last sunday,not sure what the red is like from visitors centre to the bickley entrance,as we made up our own route to there.......from there back was a mixture of puddles and a lot of mud,cut up bad in places at mo due to the ground not getting a chance to dry out.
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  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    altern_8 I see from your photos you ride the NY moors a lot. i ride there regular but coming from Teesside tend to stick more to the west side (clay bank, urra, farndale, kildale, ostmotherley etc) but keen to explore a lot more, where do you ride on the moors?
  • altern_8
    altern_8 Posts: 1,562
    we have a few rides based from cockayne(nth. helmsley),church houses(lion inn,blakey ridge),hawnby(black hambleton),chop gate(bilsdale) and flyingdales,myself and my bro bought os maps for north york moors and make up our own rides,we try to avoid roads as much as we can.
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  • JAGGY
    JAGGY Posts: 167
    Sick of wearing out pads in the winter at Dalby. However it's a good ride in all conditions. Back third of red route muddy as hell last Wednesday but still rideable. Had a big tumble over bars in the mud down medusas drop.

    The red route is now fully open with parts of the world cup course shut to get it ready for the world cup.

    Does anyone else seem to wear out pads on the full red route in the winter?

    Cheers
  • will2580
    will2580 Posts: 86
    i did the red route at the start of november and it destroyed my brake pads
    commencal meta 5.5.3
  • Andy B
    Andy B Posts: 8,115
    Been riding Dalby for years, never had any brake pad issues, same for any trails I've ridden, I don't seem to suffer with brake issues anywhere.

    Are you dragging your brakes? wrong pad compound?
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  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Just bought an os map for the west side so gonna head up there at the end of this month or early April, terrified of getting lost up there though as it looks like I will be doing it solo as my mate is out of action for a while. My normal ride up there takes in a few decent climbs, the incline, dickons howe, the one out towards bilsdale with the switchbacks (tripsdale beck I think its called)

    Where would you suggest that isnt too easy to get lost and has some good climbing?
  • Giggsmaster
    Giggsmaster Posts: 632
    EddieHitler wrote:
    Just bought an os map for the west side so gonna head up there at the end of this month or early April, terrified of getting lost up there though as it looks like I will be doing it solo as my mate is out of action for a while. My normal ride up there takes in a few decent climbs, the incline, dickons howe, the one out towards bilsdale with the switchbacks (tripsdale beck I think its called)

    Where would you suggest that isnt too easy to get lost and has some good climbing?

    Well the incline says it all really... Don't think you can get any tougher than that beast, can you....?

    We are off up to the Moors on Saturday (myself, altern 8 and another). Doing a route that starts in Hawnby that takes in Black Hambleton and Arden Moor, it's not too hard a route, but we are just getting back into it from having a break over the New Year.

    There are a few routes we do, probably the same as you by the looks of it. There is a good one round Cockayne but it needs to have been dry for a couple weeks to really enjoy it.
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  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    yeh the incline is a fearsome climb for sure, dont usually tackle it until a few months riding under my belt. Where does the hawnby route start? Hawnby inn? Or hawnby moor? Gonna attempt to map it on the os map
  • altern_8
    altern_8 Posts: 1,562
    ill go with you and giggsmaster on the incline,love it or hate it,prob tried it round 10 times now,and only cleared it 3 times all the way.

    we start the hawnby ride at the village hall car park,the hawnby inn is just round the corner.(i think, :lol: )
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  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    The incline was my "everest" until last year when I nailed it three weeks in a row! I notice the Hawnby trail goes around Hawnby in a ring, Do you do it clockwise or anti clockwise cos as sure as shit if i do it will be the wrong way... :o
  • altern_8
    altern_8 Posts: 1,562
    you can do it either way round,this is the route we are doing 2mor........
    Giggsmaster wrote:
    Arden Moor & Black Hambleton
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  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Brilliant that, thanks a lot
  • JAGGY
    JAGGY Posts: 167
    No I don't drag the brakes but break Late into the berms etc. Changed to sintered which still disintegrated. Never had a problem in the summer up there and got 7 months out of original formula pads.
  • DickBarton
    DickBarton Posts: 201
    How is Dalby riding? I'm down there in 2 weeks as a stop in on the way to a party in Leeds...
    The Quest for Singletrack is Endless...
  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Had to postone it unfortunatley :cry: until next Saturday due to very heavy rain here on Saturday morning so will let you know....
  • Royal Dragoon
    Royal Dragoon Posts: 270
    I didn't see any rain up here............ :? :? :? :?
  • EddieHitler
    EddieHitler Posts: 47
    Rode the red today, near perfect conditions after last weeks black route Hamsterley mud bath. Another great Dalby ride (with the exception of getting held up at the start a few times by fat knackers riding top end bikes with their fat arsed birds riding Appollo's!) :lol:
  • ctrlaltdel
    ctrlaltdel Posts: 114
    I thought I'd post some impressions from riding at Dalby today.

    Just come back from my first ride at Dalby and I'm still grinning ear to ear :D:D I feel like a big kid lol

    I'm used to Sherwood Pines but this was just in another league! Far rockier than what I usually ride, but the conditions were just perfect - dry trails, blue sky, couldn't ask for more.

    I'm definitely going back soon... all those drops and switchback climbs were fantastic to ride. I think I managed a pretty quick time round the red route - 2 hours 10 minutes including drink stops. As I get fitter and more used to this sort of trail riding I'd like to get that below 2 hours by the end of summer.

    If you haven't ridden it before I would definitely recommend it!

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