Where's everyone riding this weekend?

MrGeebs
MrGeebs Posts: 62
edited October 2011 in MTB general
Where & what sort of riding are you up to this weekend?

Have a good one!!
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  • GSP1984
    GSP1984 Posts: 79
    Just a last minute jaunt across to Llandelga for me, I don't have time for anything more interesting :(
  • miss notax
    miss notax Posts: 2,572
    We were meant to be riding in Scotland this weekend, but we had to cancel at the last minute (hence I am sat at my desk instead of MTBing :( ) :?

    A quick blat around the forest on Sunday afternoon is the best I can hope for I think!
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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    To the marina and back to get on the boat and go racing. Big Boat Weekend so it's both days.
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  • MrGeebs
    MrGeebs Posts: 62
    I'm riding from my house in stoke to stourport which is about 9 miles south of wolverhampton on saturday, staying over & drinking & merry making and then cycling back on sunday. It's about 45 miles so 90 round trip, I'll spend most of sat morning scanning the OS maps for possible bridleways, quiet roads and canals I can traverse to stay off the main roads.
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  • ashleymp777
    ashleymp777 Posts: 1,212
    Err, a road ride around the Isle of Wight! Mmm........
  • Dan Dare
    Dan Dare Posts: 367
    To work and back, Saturday AND Sunday :(
  • I will hopefully be able to get a ride in this weekend, but I have a slight feeling it will only be on the road bike due to time.

    Out in the mountains though, so should be cool.
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I've decided that the best way to improve my results in the innerleithen enduro races, is to cheat. So tomorrow I'm heading down with the big bike and the video camera and hopefully Elliot'll have some spaces in the uplift bus and I can spend all day bussing and riding up and down and gain a gigantic unfair advantage :lol:

    Course, I will still get decimated by all the better riders. Which now I think of it, is practically everyone else. Being in the same age class as Crawford Carrick-Anderson seems a bit unfair :lol:

    Then on sunday perhaps a gentle XC spin in the hills behind my house.
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  • felix.london
    felix.london Posts: 4,067
    Just had a week in The Netherlands for a wedding, eating & drinking way too much

    Currently waiting in the bar at Stansted airport for my flight back to the Alps

    Found a great DH run / evil climb before I left so will do a few circuits of that Sat & Sun I reckon

    Bit of snow around too so should be a blast! :D
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  • Northwind wrote:
    I've decided that the best way to improve my results in the innerleithen enduro races, is to cheat. So tomorrow I'm heading down with the big bike and the video camera and hopefully Elliot'll have some spaces in the uplift bus and I can spend all day bussing and riding up and down and gain a gigantic unfair advantage :lol:

    Course, I will still get decimated by all the better riders. Which now I think of it, is practically everyone else. Being in the same age class as Crawford Carrick-Anderson seems a bit unfair :lol:

    Then on sunday perhaps a gentle XC spin in the hills behind my house.

    I have never heard of that guy, but the first part of my last name is Crawford, so I like his name!
  • South lakes for me on Sunday. Garburn pass, gatesgarth pass, nan bield pass then ack over garburn. Big day out with (hopefully) big views too.
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Settle and Malham tarn loop I think depends on the weather if its crud then it will be Gisburn
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  • KulaBen
    KulaBen Posts: 220
    Llandegla saturday, Sunday i'll break out the road bike and head round alderly edge and on to the peaks.
    Hoping the weather stays good!
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I have never heard of that guy, but the first part of my last name is Crawford, so I like his name!

    OT but, he's a DH legend from the turn of the century. It's funny racing at Innerleithen because of all the faces that turn up- frinstance til recently, if you were racing in Juniors you'd have Ruaridh Cunningham to beat, in his world champion colours, but now he's in seniors and so the others have a chance, oh no wait, here's Lewis Buchanan. But hey, at least he's only the 4th best junior in the world. I'm old so I should be up against other fat weekend warriors with all the gear no idea, oh no, there's people who were winning championships before most of this forum were born :lol:

    But it's a good crack. And no amount of cheaty practice will stop my ass from getting whipped, again. :lol:
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  • lee96
    lee96 Posts: 164
    I am not riding at all this weekend for the 5th weekend in a row :(

    Can't wait to get back on the bike. Might head into town tomorrow for an urban downhill session.
  • Well then, no matter what you do Northwind, make sure you end with a smilee! At least if you know you won't come first, then you just focus on having a good time :)
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    This is the plan. And hey, who knows, he might break a leg or something, then it'll be quite close.
    Uncompromising extremist
  • Gisburn sunday Again. So see a fatty on a spark pushing his bike up the hills again.. Then say hi.

    I'm getting further up the hills each week so heading in the right direction
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Down a hill, in the mud.
  • adun1408
    adun1408 Posts: 123
    will be riding round hamsterley, haven't been out on bike for months so looking forward to it
  • Llandegla Sunday.
  • Cannock tomorrow and Sunday...
  • SUPERSUTT
    SUPERSUTT Posts: 292
    not out this weekend away in blackpool with the wife and kid
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  • Hoping to get round cannock this weekend, see if i can stay uninjured this time. :oops: :oops:

    Off to Llandegla on Thursday for a long weekend, bring it on. :D:D
  • ilovedirt
    ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    Bit of XC somewhere in North Wales tomorrow, and then hopefully a bit of downhill at Foel Gasnach on sunday if the weather holds up. Looking forward to it!
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  • Stu Coops
    Stu Coops Posts: 426
    Brecon tomorrow for me the Gap, nice route can't wait just hope it stays dry
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  • bluechair84
    bluechair84 Posts: 4,352
    My first DH race tomorrow! The lovely Misses is coming with a camera to take some snaps of me in the bottom quartile of the rankings (I suspect).
  • sabrezx
    sabrezx Posts: 20
    Drumlanrig for me tomorrow, not been there with the 29er so looking forward to it. Should be like a pig in you know what (or mud!).
  • Northwind wrote:
    OT but, he's a DH legend from the turn of the century. It's funny racing at Innerleithen because of all the faces that turn up- frinstance til recently, if you were racing in Juniors you'd have Ruaridh Cunningham to beat, in his world champion colours, but now he's in seniors and so the others have a chance, oh no wait, here's Lewis Buchanan. But hey, at least he's only the 4th best junior in the world. I'm old so I should be up against other fat weekend warriors with all the gear no idea, oh no, there's people who were winning championships before most of this forum were born :lol:

    RC is in elite
    Buchanan is in juniors
    But neither of them race enduros, dh only
    CCA races vets category ...

    Don't let any of these facts get in the way of a good internet story tho :shock: :D
  • miss notax
    miss notax Posts: 2,572
    My first DH race tomorrow! The lovely Misses is coming with a camera to take some snaps of me in the bottom quartile of the rankings (I suspect).

    Good luck :D
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