Well you've got it better than us today ..Heavy showers with thunder & lightning !
Off to Inners tomorrow with an mtb mate ..doing the red route and incorporating Minch Moor Road / Three Bretheren ..with a 10% chance that it wont rain ..deep joy ?
I saw the signs for the "Boltby Bash" and did wonder.
Regrettably, as I was passing on my way to the "yawn" Garden Centre...
I am racking the miles up on the new Gravel Mule though.
This was the straw that broke the camels back on Friday…..
RESPECT
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….so a mate and I headed out on Sunday morning to hit the trails….in his car.
We loaded it up with strimmer, hedge trimmer and chainsaw and spent 2 hours cutting back 2 of the worst overgrown bridleways on our regular routes. We also got rid of a nasty tree stump which hides in the brambles inviting nasty pedal strikes. If you ride bridleways in Cane End, Berkshire you’ll know it!!
This was pretty much impossible to ride through thanks to the rain and the sun.
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He came off on the first berm of the entire lap?!Good times today; went back to Degla to rescue @JetSetDemo SC Bullit and took it for a cheeky lap. Here it is half way up the first climb;
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And here it is, having made it 10m further than it did yesterday...
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Yep.He came off on the first berm of the entire lap?!
Thoroughly Hodged .Great ride out today with my non ebiking mate Nick ..still he does have some taste as he rides a Whyte 9000 series hardtail..?
We started the ride from Innerleithen trail head which was really busy with the downhill boys on an uplift service ..not for us though ..we headed out on the red trail taking in Minch Moor dropped down onto The Southern Upland Way and Minch Moor Road to Yarrowford ( great drop ) then the horrendous rocky climb from Broadmeadows on the side of Foulshiel Hill where I nearly turned back when we met Bully his harem ..and some of his new offspring ..scary as fook ..we eventually got brave enough to head on up to The Three Bretheren ..back along the SUW with another couple of steep climbs to the point where we left the red route this morning taking in Caddon Bank etc ..I had forgotten just how good this series of drops were ..imo ..leaving any of the reds up the road at Glentress for dead ..( no pics on this section though) ..
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The cairn & trig point at the top of Minch Moor
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Crackin day out ..my thanks to Nick for his craic & company ..
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..well its been a while since I gave a full dose..?Thoroughly Hodged .
Yeah, it's becoming an accepted understanding around here that absolutely nothing in the mountains makes for half the threat that reckless or incompetent drivers pose.Maybe MTB is safer ... a friend was on his way home from work in Cambridge yesterday .. He was standing waiting to cross when a car started heading towards him. He thought it would stop .. it's going to stop .. it will stop .... naaaaa
Really relieved to hear that. That looks absolutely horrific!Amazingly just ripped clothes ! Lucky B4stard !!!!
Unless a novel and catastrophic medical condition suddenly manifested itself, I don't think it's unreasonable to presume responsibility when a driver whacks a stationary rider at a crosswalk.Glad your friend is ok Zimmer..
Without knowing the full facts as to why that car crashed I wouldnt be too quick to judge Gyre..
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