Kev's riding pics

welshkev

went for a ride last Thursday after work, did the twrch climb to the freeride/airstream section. the I looped around the moors to the top of that cafall trail and did those descents and then climbed back up to do the final descent of the twrch. good ride, but a bit foggy on top

welshkev

went for a local xc spin last night, was good

craker

Nice! I've never tried getting up there after work (since I cycle home I'd probably be a bit knacked anyway). Best it's nice and quiet that time of the day?

welshkev

craker wrote:

Nice! I've never tried getting up there after work (since I cycle home I'd probably be a bit knacked anyway). Best it's nice and quiet that time of the day?

I got to cwmcarn at about 4.30 and I saw 4 other cars in the car park and no one on the trail

I left my house at about 6.30 for the local spin and saw 2 people on horses

welshkev

went out again yesterday, weather was perfect and then I did this :x

pesky_jones

How the hell did you manage that? Real bad crash? That can't just be from a rough landing surely

welshkev

Pesky Jones wrote:

How the hell did you manage that? Real bad crash? That can't just be from a rough landing surely

it was pretty bad yeah. but I walked away relatively unscathed

welshkev

rode llandegla on Friday and then travelled over to ride up Snowdon on Saturday, up llanberis path and down ranger path/telegraph valley

it was bloody hard work!

jimothy78

How long did the Snowdon climb take you, kev?

welshkev

jimothy78 wrote:

How long did the Snowdon climb take you, kev?

just under 2 hours jim. I think sean was fastest up in about 1 hr 30.

bigmitch41

Looks ace! How many ft altitude is this?

welshkev

BigMitch41 wrote:

Looks ace! How many ft altitude is this?

iirc the summit is about a 1000m, so what's that? 2200 ft?

JBA

More like 3,300ft.

jimothy78

welshkev wrote:

I think sean was fastest up in about 1 hr 30.

Lol - no surprises there, then

You did well to do under 2hrs, mate, fair play. What sort of ratio ride:carry was it?

welshkev

JBA wrote:

More like 3,300ft.

ah yeah, I'm thinking 2.2 lbs to a kilo :oops:

jimothy78 wrote:

You did well to do under 2hrs, mate, fair play. What sort of ratio ride:carry was it?

for me it was about 1/4 ride and 3/4 push. the others carried about a 1/4 but my legs were fecked and I couldn't walk up carrying my bike

I think the fit ones rode about 1/2 of it though. a lot is rideable but quite steep, some bits are just too steep and rocky to ride.

jimothy78

Cool - definitely gonna do it next year - sounds like I'd better get training :shock:

welshkev

jimothy78 wrote:

Cool - definitely gonna do it next year - sounds like I'd better get training :shock:

I wish I'd done more training tbh. it was hard going on the way up. but was fun and absolutely nuts in equal measure on the way back down

Ferrals

looks like it was worth the climb from your pics on the top!!

3/4 pushing up 1000m - I'd need a lot of cake to get me up that

welshkev

last night before the bog snorkelling commenced

jimothy78

Lol - looks like Stubbsy needs to lose a few pounds or put a bit more air in that rear tyre!

ilovedirt

welshkev wrote:

BigMitch41 wrote:

Looks ace! How many ft altitude is this?

iirc the summit is about a 1000m, so what's that? 2200 ft?

1085m to be exact Excellent descent down the rangers

welshkev

Quick local XC spin yesterday over to the lower side of the valley. Still over 400 metres of climbing though!



Northern Monkey conquering the climb

welshkev

My mate niel at FoD last night

welshkev

ilovedirt wrote:

welshkev wrote:

BigMitch41 wrote:

Looks ace! How many ft altitude is this?

iirc the summit is about a 1000m, so what's that? 2200 ft?

1085m to be exact Excellent descent down the rangers

yeah, parts of it were much more technical than anything I've ridden before! but superb. I also like the flat out descent down telegraph valley

welshkev

antur stiniog:





local ride with northern monkey:

welshkev

Had a good evening at Bike Park Wales last night, my opinion of the place may be changing :shock:

Me:


Northern Monkey:


Our mate Niel:


apologies for the quality, they're stills taken from a video

welshkev

northern monkey going so fast he's blurry (not my camera skills at all)



a few old pics of me that I found:

welshkev

rode cwmcarn last night. you couldn't see further than 10 feet in front of you on the top it was that foggy, lights were pretty much useless. we were going to do a longish route that takes in twrch, natural moors and then down cafall. we had to bin that idea off as it was just too foggy to risk taking a wrong turn on the moors and getting lost. so we did the twrch climb as a descent instead (shhhh, don't tell anyone )

jimothy78

Kev - when it's foggy, you're better off turning your helmet-mounted light off altogether - it just illluminates the droplets in front of your eyes, which shine straight back at you, reducing the visibility further. Your bar-mounted lights do the same thing, but to a much lesser extent because of the greater angle between them and your eyes.

It's the same theory as fog lights on a car - they're always positioned as low down as possible, to reduce the effects of thrown-back glare.

welshkev

jimothy78 wrote:

Kev - when it's foggy, you're better off turning your helmet-mounted light off altogether - it just illluminates the droplets in front of your eyes, which shine straight back at you, reducing the visibility further. Your bar-mounted lights do the same thing, but to a much lesser extent because of the greater angle between them and your eyes.

It's the same theory as fog lights on a car - they're always positioned as low down as possible, to reduce the effects of thrown-back glare.

yeah, sorry jim I thought I wrote that. yeah we turned off the helmet lights. I only put it on for the pic as you couldn't see me when it was off haha

jimothy78

Sorry - didn't mean to sound naggy