Bad-Latitude
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Quick ride on some local trails. These trails used to be an amazing single track jump line on the top of a ridge but the last few rain storms did some crazy damage to the trails. Super overgrown and huge ruts.
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billwarwick
E*POWAH Elite
as with most photos, the steps are steeper than they look and the bridge arch is lower than it looks. So even if you got down the steps, completed the tight left turn with aplomb, you would then crack your head on the bridge, fall gracefully into the canal, then catch Weils Disease and die. It’s for this reason that I decided that discretion is the greater part of valour and bottled out.That's a head f**k right there! If that was a brick wall instead of a kerb on the edge of the canal, I'd do it without hesitation. But the possibility of a drop into the water just sets me on edge.
It's a bit like riding a white line on the road, easy-peasy. Put a 12" wide plank ten feet in the air and it's a no-no.
Perfect candidate to be awarded in Thread 'Who's got the biggest ruts?'
Who's got the biggest ruts?
Good example for what happens when there is no vegetation stabilizing the ground when rain keeps flooding.
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
It would not be a graceful fall! There would be heroic flailing about while I tried to avoid the inevitable, then a lot of wailing as I recognised the inevitable, followed by an enormous splash. Then some gasping and splashing as I swam to the side and heaved myself out. Followed by a pause whilst I dripped and checked that I still had my Oakleys on. Followed by another splash I as I jumped back in to retrieve my bike. Followed by yet more splashing and heaving as I got the bike onto the towpath. Followed by a series of foul and sulphurous curses as I realised that my bike was toast and it was a long push home.
So, I agree that you were correct to bottle out. Discretion was the correct course of action.
You've probably seen these before ? 
Love this tree ..its the only one around for miles and if the bastard who cut the icon down at Sycamore Gap ever lays a finger on this one I will hunt him down like a dog and end his days ..
Looking back to where I started ..and as it was a there and back ..knowing that it's going to be a blast on the return
The trig point & Cairn at the top of Bolts Law looking north towards the Cheviot Hills in the very far distance ..
..on zoom ..
This was supposed to be part one ..with a loop out of Blanchland to follow ..however when I was about a half mile from the car just prior to a sharp right into a stream crossing I notice there was nowt happening with the rear brake ..upon inspection it became obvious why ..no pads or pin..could have been interesting !
3 sets of pads sitting at home but none in my back pack ..so that was that ..
Eagle eyed folks will also have noticed a fully extended piston ..very strange as nothing remotely like this has ever happened previously.
Love this tree ..its the only one around for miles and if the bastard who cut the icon down at Sycamore Gap ever lays a finger on this one I will hunt him down like a dog and end his days ..
Looking back to where I started ..and as it was a there and back ..knowing that it's going to be a blast on the return
The trig point & Cairn at the top of Bolts Law looking north towards the Cheviot Hills in the very far distance ..
..on zoom ..
This was supposed to be part one ..with a loop out of Blanchland to follow ..however when I was about a half mile from the car just prior to a sharp right into a stream crossing I notice there was nowt happening with the rear brake ..upon inspection it became obvious why ..no pads or pin..could have been interesting !
3 sets of pads sitting at home but none in my back pack ..so that was that ..
Eagle eyed folks will also have noticed a fully extended piston ..very strange as nothing remotely like this has ever happened previously.
Having to use the front without the rear could have been a bit more than just interesting!
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I'm surprised you noticed! I've never seen you go fast enough to ever use brakes!
No, seriously, could have ended in a not very nice situation and/or outcome.
Rear had about 4mm wobble so took it off and cleaned it enough to true it. Won't be truing this which was moved from my analog bike to my Rail about 3,000 miles ago. Obviously not up to repeated eMTB downhill abuse.
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Is this what happens if the valve is not positioned between the X‘s? 🫣
billwarwick
E*POWAH Elite
Journey to the centre of the earth…….not really, I made that up!
What does that ^^^ mean?Is this what happens if the valve is not positioned between the X‘s? 🫣
Mcharza
E*POWAH BOSS
Not what you could be hoping forWhat does that ^^^ mean?
It started somewhere around here, the Wisdom of Maxxis-Zen by master Stihldog.
Don't know how you managed to fool the organisers if that's your wife in first place on the podium ..
Well done to you both..
Well done to you both..
Tubby G
❤️🔥 Hot Stuff ❤️🔥
Someone was kind enough to take these of me & the misses yesterday
Canyon Strive & Orbea Rise
Canyon Strive & Orbea Rise
Cathedral Rock, Superstition Mountains, just south of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine!
Sorry mate ..just can't bring myself to " like" a drop handle bar bike of any description..but hope it does the trick for you ..
Head down arse up . Just waiting for the lycra morph suit to arrive.Sorry mate ..just can't bring myself to " like" a drop handle bar bike of any description..but hope it does the trick for you ..
Congratulations, enjoy!
Talked lately with the owner of a small but fine bike shop about the revival of cross-country race bikes. I just can not understand why I would use such a bike on non-asphalt roads when having a fully resp. why run such tyres when riding on a race bike.
I think it's fake..they seem to have carrots for legs ..
I never started itNot what you could be hoping for
It started somewhere around here, the Wisdom of Maxxis-Zen by master Stihldog.
…I just notice it ALL THE FRIGGEN TIME! 
Triggered?
What’s wrong with me? I just wanna be normal.
I’m trying to stop playing that card
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You and I think alike (worrying thought)! I was about to ask when her next shave was...Don't know how you managed to fool the organisers if that's your wife in first place on the podium ..
Well done to you both..
I agree i won't be doing anything harder than a decent forestry road it will be for touring on quiet traffic free country roads . Same with the drop bars you have no control when it goes wrong .Congratulations, enjoy!
Talked lately with the owner of a small but fine bike shop about the revival of cross-country race bikes. I just can not understand why I would use such a bike on non-asphalt roads when having a fully resp. why run such tyres when riding on a race bike.
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You might turn the drop bars upside down, like we did in the….70s?
So why not a simple trekking bike?
Finally out on the fatbike - Peak District near Hartington
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