We're baaaaaack!!

thekickingmule
thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
edited August 2012 in The Crudcatcher
Hello you crudfestless losers!

Got back to Leeds a couple of hours ago, thanks to Richie 63.

Had a fooking AWESOME weekend, thanks to everyone! Really good meeting up with you all. Sorry for slowling people down on the climbs and sorry for slowing people down on the descents. My bruise is a beautiful shade of purple and still nicely swollen, my wrist is still hruting, but I got down Inners without falling! :D

I'm sure people will be posting pictures soon, for those lucky enough to have facebook, here's my right arm (with Squarepants in the background :lol: ) -
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  • Foooking aweeeessoommeee weekend :D

    Cheers chaps, sorry we didn't stay for the uplift... wouldn't have made it home!

    Total miles for the trip from Wales.... not bad going!!
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    Bike cleaned and I'm about to pass out... hope everyone got back safe lol!
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Made it!
    Awsome Gnar rad weekend
    Now about to go into a deep soak to straighten out body after stacking (x2) in the space of 200m at inners :roll: See CWNT for full commentary

    All unpacked

    Where Next?
    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • More crashes Richie?!
    I got a nice vid of you popping into a ditch for some sideways action lmao!

    Btw.. could someone add me back to the CC FB group?!
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    I'm back too. Knackered but it was well worth it. Thanks all for an excellent weekend, especially CWNT for organising and Richie for letting us smoke out his car! We'll have to do it again.

    I'll put my photos up here seeing as I'm not in the FB group.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • cazmotron
    cazmotron Posts: 161
    Was an awesome weekend! Glad you've all made it back down safe, don't know how you managed it I was shattered driving back to paisley.

    Setting Up Base Camp Crud.

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    Think Richie made the curry too strong

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    Attention all planets of the Solar Federation - We have assumed control.
  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    Amazing weekend!!

    Got back home at 7:30pm after dropping the Cat at Liverscouse Docks for some Hooker action...

    James & Ben - understand you had a long drive back, but you missed out!! The DH was superb - alright I admit that I only did Make or Break 4 times, but that was my comfort zone well & truly pushed - managed to improve throughout the runs and Strava tells me that I'm 53rd out of 283 people down the Cadonbank section.

    Glad everyone (so far) is back in one piece, you'll need that hot bath Ritchie!! My eye's beginning to swell up and I'm starting to look like I've been battling with some of the finest from Caz & Andy's home town!! Have got away with it with the misses though, she expected me to be in a much worse state.

    Looking forward to seeing the rest of the photos, especially the ones of us getting massive air, hitting the Gnar and being generally quite rad.
  • I know am gutted... If we had 1 more night in GT would have def stayed :(

    You lot will have to come down here next time... Afan, Cwmcarn and FOD to blast round - plus all the hidden away stuff!
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    I know am gutted... If we had 1 more night in GT would have def stayed :(

    You lot will have to come down here next time... Afan, Cwmcarn and FOD to blast round - plus all the hidden away stuff!

    Wot Maddie!

    Yep, another weekend do would be superb . I'll put photos up on here tomoz.

    Great piccys Cam

    Found I had an imprint of my pressure suit on my back along with all the other scaring!! Look like a fkn chequer board.
    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • Richie, I thought you saw Maddie in the ditch? Figured thats why you went for a closer look! (screen shot from one of the only vids that worked haha!)

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  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Excellent
    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
    http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss14 ... 010362.jpg
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Hey homos!

    Just got back now. Pics to follow soon.

    Yes Richie did an excellent getoff on make or brake near the top going otb on a double and ending up in a ditch with his head on sideways (didn't manage the full rotation so the dutch judge marked him down). Keith did a splendid dismount on some slippy boardwalk, and Mark managed a nice one on Spooky wood. In all 3 cases I was the one following.
    Some say I was riding round with big sticks in my bag to throw in peoples wheels. All I know is that when we came to do the BBQ, we had no messtins.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Pics:

    Started on thursday with a Peaks Ride:
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    Richie and Keith looking at something in a ditch:
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    We had ice-cream, and I had a phallic Calippo, which I didn't eat with a knife and fork, thus making me gay for a day, these 2 seemed very excited at that prospect:
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    Richie didn't seem to understand what this strange thing was, it confused and aroused him:
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    Next day, we start the drive to Scotland:
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    This is Scotland:
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    and this is a man wearing a skirt on the border blowing into a bag with some sticks in it. I think he might have been mental, so I stayed in the car:
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    Finally we arrived, and basecamp crud was assembled. Thanks to Richie for providing the 5* Tent:
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    On Panorama tonight:
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    Summer in Scotland:
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    Somewhere along the way, a bike ride broke out, which seemed like a novel idea:
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    A rare picture of Richie not crashing:
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    Then we decided that what we really needed to do was completely ruin someones new car with smoke from an open fire, but who ever would let us do such a thing???:
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    He says he crashed, but I think the moths have been at it:
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  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    More to come tomorrow, including (if I can find them) a picture of some paella, our little pink cakes and a mule in a murderers hat.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    basecamp crud:
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    a brazier:
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    chicken and chorizo paella:
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    Flapjacks, biscuits and caaaaaaake!:
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  • pilch
    pilch Posts: 1,136
    Hey guys what a top weekend, big thanks to Cat for organising and paying for our accom and ritchie for providing michelin style cooking... the paella was fantastic and the brandy chocolate thing was out of this world.

    Also cheers to Caz & Andy for their guiding skills and good humour... and to everybody else who eat & drank, rode in ditches and generally made it a legendary weekend... looking forwards to the next one already....heres to awesome riding with a great bunch of C.U.N.Ts - thats crudders united in new trails of course :lol:
    A berm? were you expecting one?

    29er race

    29er bouncer
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
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    Who took the photo of my arse?! Perverts! :lol:

    I've just remembered the two scottish blokes me and Mule kept bumping into on the XC at Inners.
    Argh, tha f***in' midges mon. Ah would nae mind if they sucked ma c*ck, tha c**ts just suck every other bit o' ya though. Bunch o' f***in' c**ts
    :lol:
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
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    Actually I just spotted Richie in the back of this picture. Had you just been in another ditch?

    You look like you're about to beat the living shlt out of your bike. :lol:
  • Squarepants
    Squarepants Posts: 1,019
    Cheers guys top weekend and cheers to Cat for the accomadation; it was superb and BEn for getting us up and back safely.

    Echo Ben, was gutted we couldn't do the uplift day but i for one was on my knees before Sunday and I think the uplift day would have finished me off! Next time..

    My conclusion on Scotland - Wales, but bigger :lol:
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    It's not that I'm over over biked, my bike is under personed...
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Photos
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    Caz
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    Too much for some! :roll:
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    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Forgot this one of Andy

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    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    that looks to have been an ace couple of days.

    nice cakes.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Richie63 wrote:
    Too much for some! :roll:
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    It certainly was (pic taken at about 3pm):

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    :lol:
  • pilch
    pilch Posts: 1,136
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    Is that the Jones brothers?
    A berm? were you expecting one?

    29er race

    29er bouncer
  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    Just got in my car to get a sarnie for lunch and it stinks of woodsmoke and there's also a faint aroma of melted plastic tarpaulin...

    I can't (or don't want to) imagine what Ritchie's Disco is like inside - his poor family when they have to drive to Morzine in it next week :)
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    Update on the injuries: The nurse (not worth a photo sadly) thinks I've just jarred my wrist, which may have bruised the nerve in my hand, but it should be better within 6 weeks. The bruise, well, even she was impressed by it, it covers half of my forearm now and is still swollen
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    Ritchie's Disco didn't smell too bad really. Every now and then there was the faint smell of a BBQ. Mmmmm
    It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
    Join us on UK-MTB we won't bite, but bring cake!
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  • pilch
    pilch Posts: 1,136
    That's a muther of a bruise man :shock:
    A berm? were you expecting one?

    29er race

    29er bouncer
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    More photos

    Ice Lolly Gayness
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    Kicking mule with ice cream
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    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    Richie63 wrote:
    More photos

    Kicking mule with ice cream
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    Can someone Photoshop Keith out of this (sorry mate)? Then I can stare at the MILFfest that you were surrounded by :D

    Flies round sh!t springs to mind...
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    And some more
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    Andy Air
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    Now for some mug shots
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    Group at Glentress before the carnage
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    Broke back Scotland
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    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Some More
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    I'm going to blow the bank on a new build ( within reason ) NOW DONE!!
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