Where did you ride today?

stubs

Sunday I played round Healey Nab and White Coppice. Kept thinking I had a flat tyre bike was wobbling and sliding all over the place. Then I noticed the shock shaft was covered in oil and the bike was turning into pogo stick.

Going to send it off to Mojo in the morning hope its just a blown seal.

Kowalski675

stubs wrote:

its just a blown seal.

Or it could just be ice cream...

Today I had my first ride. 8 miles round Stainburn forest. I'm saddle sore, I need a more padded ass, lol.

rapid_donkey

Extended my bank holiday weekend by a day and spent today doing a quick 18 miles around Wakerley and Fineshade Woods. Did 2 laps of the Scar Tree red route, still needs a bit of work.
Back to work tomorrow, boohoo.

mcnultycop

Two laps of Llandegla Blue, which in my opinion is a lot more fun than one lap of Llandegla Red.

Grovsie29

mcnultycop wrote:

Two laps of Llandegla Blue, which in my opinion is a lot more fun than one lap of Llandegla Red.

You sure your a mountain biker? :?

mcnultycop

Grovsie29 wrote:

mcnultycop wrote:

Two laps of Llandegla Blue, which in my opinion is a lot more fun than one lap of Llandegla Red.

You sure your a mountain biker? :?

Absolutely. The second half of Llandegla Red gives very little reward for the effort, all short climbs and dull descents.

Two laps of the blue is two long climbs then two nice flowy descents that are good fun, without too many people knocking about.

apple eater

Mondays ride was the Gorlech trail. It was our second time down there and we shaved 25 minutes off the the first ride.

My new favourite trail!

thekickingmule

Antur Stiniog today, on my Blender.

Great fun, though horrid weather. Stuck to the blue most the time, had one off there, and rode the red route once and had a nice OTB moment when I realised a drop couldn't be rolled just as my front wheel went over the edge. Luckily landed on the grass mainly, so no injuries, but my waterproof trousers are ruined

Fantastic day out

mcnultycop

I found some really nice root ridden singletrack just off my usual route in Royton. Great fun, if a little slippy.

ditchit

Tarw Du black route, Coed y Brenin. Stones, rocks and boulders! Oh, and err, more stones, rocks and boulders!
This trail was designed to kill your bike Classic! Do it in the rain, even better!

Graham K

mcnultycop wrote:

I found some really nice root ridden singletrack just off my usual route in Royton. Great fun, if a little slippy.

Do share, I aint been out local for a good month or so, got abit bored of the same rides.

mcnultycop

Graham K wrote:

mcnultycop wrote:

I found some really nice root ridden singletrack just off my usual route in Royton. Great fun, if a little slippy.

Do share, I aint been out local for a good month or so, got abit bored of the same rides.

It was wet so there weren't many dog walkers in Tandle Hill so I just bombed all over the forest, if you stick close to the perimeter there are some nice little sections. They've even stuck some boardwalk in.

Kowalski675

Few miles round Stainburn this evening.

Graham K

Went out midweek local for the first time in a month, just a 7 or 8 mile spin up,
Today went over Dovestones resvoir, up the hill towards the moor, found some places to dump bodies, got lost, got lost again, fell over some rocks, saw the air ambulance, fell over some more rocks then came down the back of the top resevoir,
Cracking day, not big miles but long climbs and tricky rocky sections, big time granny gear.

mcnultycop

Blast on the HT up the Rochdale Canal to Hollingworth Lake, had a bit of an explore and found a nice bridleway that showed promise then deteriorated into a (marked as such) footpath. I thought it headed to Piethorne.

Back through Milnrow then found some nice little bits just opposite Jubilee Bends.

Moderately successful 38km, going to throw myself round Lee and Cragg next weekend for some gnar.

Grovsie29

Did Hopton the other week and thought it was a lot of fun, the downhill bits were great.

fat_homer

Did a 40k route from Darley Bridge in the Peaks yesterday. The weather was fantastic and the trails lovely and dry.

homers_double

mcnultycop wrote:

Blast on the HT up the Rochdale Canal to Hollingworth Lake, had a bit of an explore and found a nice bridleway that showed promise then deteriorated into a (marked as such) footpath. I thought it headed to Piethorne.

Where abouts? I know the place like the back of my hand.

felix.london

Took the DH bike out for it's first proper bash of the season. And damp, sticky trails for once 'round here...awesome!

mcnultycop

homers double wrote:

mcnultycop wrote:

Blast on the HT up the Rochdale Canal to Hollingworth Lake, had a bit of an explore and found a nice bridleway that showed promise then deteriorated into a (marked as such) footpath. I thought it headed to Piethorne.

Where abouts? I know the place like the back of my hand.

Bridleway starts from the corner sort of opposite The Fish on the far dam wall if that makes sense, you have to open a gate to access it. It then climbs up past a really nice house (looks like a former farm) then drops back on itself. The footpath was nice singletrack, I followed it but then there was a narrow wooden bridge, signs saying "footpath" and some dog walkers, so I wrote it off and went back.

If you know a decent off-road route from Hollingworth Lake to Piethorne I'd appreciate it. Looking on maps when I got home I think if you go along the back of the campsite (where the play area and ice cream van are) then instead of following the lakeside path go straight on that is the general direction. There seems to be a trail through the woods there.

I know there is loads of nice riding up there; I just don't seem to find it!

bennett_346

felix.london wrote:

Took the DH bike out for it's first proper bash of the season. And damp, sticky trails for once 'round here...awesome!

I like that shot, real sense of motion and speed to it. Where's the cam mounted?

felix.london

bennett_346 wrote:

felix.london wrote:

Took the DH bike out for it's first proper bash of the season. And damp, sticky trails for once 'round here...awesome!

I like that shot, real sense of motion and speed to it. Where's the cam mounted?

Yeah, thought so too. It's a 1st gen GoPro Hero mounted on the bars of my mates bike

stubs

Went to Healey Nab for a play. Did one run on the red route and was halfway up on pedalup when I came across a campfire some bellends had left. It was smoking so I called the fire bobbies to come and damp it down. Had to hang around till they came to guide them. The fire was on top of bone dry pine needles and the tree's were also bone dry, if the wind had changed no more Healey Nab trails. Why the feck dont these people just stay away from the countryside and leave it to those who appreciate it.

felix.london

stubs wrote:

Went to Healey Nab for a play. Did one run on the red route and was halfway up on pedalup when I came across a campfire some bellends had left. It was smoking so I called the fire bobbies to come and damp it down. Had to hang around till they came to guide them. The fire was on top of bone dry pine needles and the tree's were also bone dry, if the wind had changed no more Healey Nab trails. Why the feck dont these people just stay away from the countryside and leave it to those who appreciate it.

Unbelievable!...why oh why are there so many morons on this planet!?

stubs

felix.london wrote:

stubs wrote:

Went to Healey Nab for a play. Did one run on the red route and was halfway up on pedalup when I came across a campfire some bellends had left. It was smoking so I called the fire bobbies to come and damp it down. Had to hang around till they came to guide them. The fire was on top of bone dry pine needles and the tree's were also bone dry, if the wind had changed no more Healey Nab trails. Why the feck dont these people just stay away from the countryside and leave it to those who appreciate it.

Unbelievable!...why oh why are there so many morons on this planet!?

We have had quite a few fires in the Rivington/Healey Nab area in the last couple of years, there are black patches everywhere. One ride we were on we had to turn back because the heather was burning right across the track and it ended up burning acres of moorland and only went out when the wind dropped and it started raining. There were 12 fire engines plus 2 helicopters fighting the fire at one point and they had to lay literally miles of hose with fire brigade pumps every half mile or so to get water up onto the fells. Personally if anyone gets caught setting fires I would tie them to a post and leave them for 48 hours.

Anonymous

hardwick heath :P

Kowalski675

Gisburn on Saturday and Stainburn this afternoon. My legs hate me now, lol.

Anonymous

going down king's forest later. for a mess around

brought a cheapish digital camera so hopefully I get a few nice pics

Lagrange

our team at work have all been given a nike fuel band and have been told to do 3500 points per day. Took the bike out for an hour on the old railway line - and hour! At 4am. Puncture half way and fixed it. Downloaded the forking fuel band and it came up with - after an hour - 200points - in a spike corrsponding to when I was pumping the tyre. Blx fuel band does not work for cyclists.

Lagrange

stubs wrote:

felix.london wrote:

stubs wrote:

Went to Healey Nab for a play. Did one run on the red route and was halfway up on pedalup when I came across a campfire some bellends had left. It was smoking so I called the fire bobbies to come and damp it down. Had to hang around till they came to guide them. The fire was on top of bone dry pine needles and the tree's were also bone dry, if the wind had changed no more Healey Nab trails. Why the feck dont these people just stay away from the countryside and leave it to those who appreciate it.

Unbelievable!...why oh why are there so many morons on this planet!?

We have had quite a few fires in the Rivington/Healey Nab area in the last couple of years, there are black patches everywhere. One ride we were on we had to turn back because the heather was burning right across the track and it ended up burning acres of moorland and only went out when the wind dropped and it started raining. There were 12 fire engines plus 2 helicopters fighting the fire at one point and they had to lay literally miles of hose with fire brigade pumps every half mile or so to get water up onto the fells. Personally if anyone gets caught setting fires I would tie them to a post and leave them for 48 hours.

I would burn them.