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[IndigoUnicorn]

Evening ride with our local women’s group, the Doña Ana She Wolves. As usual, I’m the only ebike around. Yes, that’s my fat ass leaning on the red and black Trek.

 

[#lazy]

Update .. felt a bit rough morning after ride and shrugged it off as rude was very bumpy . Monday morning felt the same achy back and legs so did a Covid test and FAILED it ? Supposed to be away next week !

Update on the update….test came back positive !
No caravan holiday with the in-laws next week so look on the bright side

 

[The Hodge]

Update on the update….test came back positive !
No caravan holiday with the in-laws next week so look on the bright side ☺

Two positive results ??

 

[Doomanic]

Update on the update….test came back positive !
No caravan holiday with the in-laws next week so look on the bright side ☺

I’d see that as a win. ?

 

[Doomanic]

Nearing the end of the slab i dropped into the chute to the berm and was so tense i got a major cramp in my leg.

You tensed up enough to give yourself cramp??? ?

 

[penguinni]

Tollymore, Co Down, N Ireland. Yesterday.

 

[Dirtnvert]

You tensed up enough to give yourself cramp??? ?

Never had that happen during a ride or that bad. Strange. I guess it was getting on in the day. Did 2 laps of the first trail that was ez to find then that happened on the other trail but it was hard to find and i climbed probably 5km/2000ft above the enterance looking for it looking in every logging road. Came back down and found it up an overgrown logging road with my battery somewhere in the last bar. A bit tired but not bad but that, the pucker factor and the remoteness got in my head and thus my leg. Potassium shortage? Idk. Made it, it went away and was a good trail. Went around a couple sketchy gaps so ill have to go back for a lap or 3 on it soon

 

[Mike D.]

Evening ride with our local women’s group, the Doña Ana She Wolves. As usual, I’m the only ebike around. Yes, that’s my fat ass leaning on the red and black Trek. View attachment 70348

Glad to see you're still making the rockin' world go round... ?

 

[CBSTD]

Don’t come riding in the Cairngorms the trails are all dusty, savagely loose, full of stones, you’ll get punctures ,

life is nearly bearable

 

[#lazy]

Scottish dust ….. we’ll all be up there soonish ?

 

[The Hodge]

Don’t come riding in the Cairngorms the trails are all dusty, savagely loose, full of stones, you’ll get punctures , View attachment 70430 View attachment 70431 View attachment 70432 View attachment 70433 View attachment 70434 View attachment 70435 View attachment 70436 View attachment 70437 View attachment 70438 View attachment 70439 View attachment 70440 View attachment 70441 life is nearly bearable

Yeah ..looks pretty shite..I will give that a miss this year ( ?)..until normal pissing down weather resumes ..hopefully by next year ?
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p.s....lucky b--tard !
pic 6 ..immediately after a wee dram ??

 

[The Hodge]

Let me spin a small yarn...

On Saturday, my wife and I decided to go up to Gisburn Forest for a ride - she would do the Blue and me the Reds (The Eight circuit). Well Bank Holiday traffic meant the motorway was at a standstill so we went across country and saw some lovely parts of rural Lancashire but got to Gisburn OK, if a little longer than anticipated.

My wife says, I've not had much breakfast, lets have the sandwiches now. She packed some for the end of our ride before we set off.

OK, we unload the bikes, go and sit at a picnic table and start on our wholemeal wraps.

I take a bite and my front bridge work (already coming loose) came out completely. So now I have two of my front teeth missing! I turn to show her and there was a little blood. She faints, falls sideways, bangs her head off her bike and knocks herself unconscious!

I'm trying to get her to come round, which she eventually does, not knowing where she is or what happened.

Manage to get her and the bikes back to the car and go back home...

So lost a day's biking and have no front teeth!

Not all lost as the Red Arrows came over on their way back to Scampston from their show at the Isle of Man.

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Went back on Sunday and did Gisburn on my own. Wife still a bit woozy...

Check out the Footage thread for a small excerpt with an innocuous OTB at the end (less than 2 mins)...

Great feeling though to know you can still make the ladies swoon ...??

 

[Rahr85]

Back again... Uh oh ?

 

[Jackware]

Back again... Uh oh ?

You'll smash it.. Have a great time

 

[Doomanic]

You could at least look happy about it, some of us are stuck in work!

 

[Rahr85]

You could at least look happy about it, some of us are stuck in work!

Well I did have to take time off work. How they let 4 of us go to Wales is beyond me after last time ?

 

[Hobo Mikey]

Did you get flashbacks. Hope you had a good one.

 

[thebarber]

Old man o' storr

 

[Doomanic]

Did you send the drop?

 

[thebarber]

Didn't have me lid.
Or any fosters....

 

[Doomanic]

Or any fosters....

Is that some sort of reverse carrot and stick affair? You put the Fosters in your backpack and ride really fast trying to get away?

 

[Jackware]

Well I did have to take time off work. How they let 4 of us go to Wales is beyond me after last time ?

So how was your day, we can't take the stress of not seeing a post much longer and hoping it's not from A&E!

 

[thebarber]

Is that some sort of reverse carrot and stick affair? You put the Fosters in your backpack and ride really fast trying to get away?

I luv it, if I ate cereal.......

 

[Rahr85]

Update: i'm back home and fully alive, my knees took a hammering from all the climbing. ?

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[Burnsey]

Just 16 miles before dinner on some great lanes with my son and his non e bike - he smashed it.

 

[The Hodge]

Just 16 miles before dinner on some great lanes with my son and his non e bike - he smashed it.

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Non e-bike ?..hell when you compare the two its like looking at a Ferrari & a Model T Ford ..?
Well done to you both ..

 

[ant0]

A few pics from Cairngorm and Macdui riding out and back from the doorstep last weekend
Single battery, 4% left.
Riding with friends on acoustic bikes, hence the ride time.

 

[The Hodge]

A few pics from Cairngorm and Macdui riding out and back from the doorstep last weekend
Single battery, 4% left.
Riding with friends on acoustic bikes, hence the ride time.

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Looks fantastic ..but that first pic..could you not find something at least a little bit technical ..???
As boulder fields go ..thats right up there !
It will be next year now before we can hope to get up there ( as long as Covid doesnt kick off again ) ..it's been 2years + since I have ventured that way anyway ..really looking forward to visiting on an ebike ..

 

[Zimmerframe]

An ancient spring in the woods :

Put phone back on clamp but didn't tighten properly .. snuck off for a moments relief and watched as the bike fell over into the spring - fortunately landing on the rocks, but the phone fell off and sank ..

By some miracle .. it still works, for now anyway .. so straight after - part of the spring trail ..

 

[ant0]

Looks fantastic ..but that first pic..could you not find something at least a little bit technical ..???
As boulder fields go ..thats right up there !
It will be next year now before we can hope to get up there ( as long as Covid doesnt kick off again ) ..it's been 2years + since I have ventured that way anyway ..really looking forward to visiting on an ebike ..

Yeah, I definitely prefer riding there on the ebike than the acoustic. And coming down the back of Cairngorm through that boulderfield is never the same, always end up on a different line each time. Past two rides have been in super dry conditions and so so loose ?