The Highly Anticipated And Much Awaited Ride At Cannock If Only We Can Find A Date We All Agree On And It Isn't Chucking It Down.

[All Mountain Coaching]

I might do mate, I sometimes need to remind myself just how good the FoD is...

Oooh, fighting talk

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

What time are you guys meeting and where?

Do we have numbers?

 

[Tunny]

If we're going off piste i guess Whitehouse would be best. If not then probably Marquis drive or Birches valley if people want to pay for parking. Meet at 9:30 rideout at 10:00 ??

 

[Kangr]

Do we have numbers?

1, 4, 24725425321, 5758, 24254, 2, 1

 

[Doomanic]

666

 

[JetSetDemo]

That’s my number

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

Winning lottery numbers I meant

 

[Doomanic]

I can give you 6 numbers that don’t work... ?

 

[Jaygam]

Please keep this updated when decided where to start. I'm interested in going but is a 3 hour drive away

 

[Tunny]

Please keep this updated when decided where to start. I'm interested in going but is a 3 hour drive away

All the details will be posted during the week before to confirm everything mate ??

 

[SimonLsie]

It's been a bit quiet in here so thought I'd get things moving.How does Sunday April 7th or Sunday April 14th sound?

I can't see how you set up a poll on here so this will have to do. Also, we'll need a lead rider to guide us if anyone wants to volunteer ??

Sunday 7th good for me

 

[Trail Doug]

Whichever date has the best weather

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

Whichever date has the best weather

It's looking dry for next fortnight at least. It was +18 over here today and same forecast tomorrow. The trails are drying out great. Gonna test part of a loop out tomorrow.

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

So. Where's the starting point. Just trying to piece it together.

 

[Kangr]

Probably Whitehouse carpark I'd say

 

[Doomanic]

Probably Whitehouse carpark I'd say

+1

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

Whitehouse is cool. Flip off trump.

Have you got a meeting time, I've got a few commitments I need to arrange around it.

 

[Tunny]

Whitehouse sounds good to me. I'm easy on the start time but would probably aim for 9:30 and 10:00 meetup for a decent days riding.

 

[JetSetDemo]

That works for me

 

[Doomanic]

And me.

What's the long range forecast?

 

[Kangr]

Good for me

 

[Kangr]

Sunday's BBC Weather forecast for Rugeley: Light Cloud. Max 12°C, min 4°C. Rugeley - BBC Weather

 

[Doomanic]

Is @Rob Hancill coming? If so all bets on good weather are off...

 

[All Mountain Coaching]

Well we've snow forecast the next few days

About 20-22 miles sound about right? I had a window yesterday to time and measure the route and had forgot to charge my battery the night before

With varied fitness I'm not sure there'll be much battery left for some. Except those 700w snobs

 

[Doomanic]

Depends how much climbing there is.

My battery died at about 17 miles and 3k ft at the weekend. I’m having to use eMTB Mode all the time at the moment as my left knee is fucked.

 

[Peaky Rider]

Well we've snow forecast the next few days

About 20-22 miles

With varied fitness I'm not sure there'll be much battery left for some. Except those 700w snobs

Does that make those of us with 756w of Focus TEC pack super snobs, but then I am 70 so guess that cancels it out.

Hope to make it as I'm looking forward to seeing a range of e-bikes and also having a ride without constant digs from Nonnys.

 

[Mad Mark]

I do fancy this new e-bike trail all mountain is talking about.....but don't know where you mean when you say the White House car park?
Could anybody tell me where this is !

 

[Doomanic]

Google Maps

 

[Mad Mark]

Cheers Dom will be there at 9.30 with a +1
See you all Sunday

 

[Tunny]

So then guys it looks like we have 14 Eebers hitting Cannock this Sunday 7th April. The weather is set to be decent too.

The parking location is free and has been supplied by @Doomanic above so please follow that and the plan is to meet up at 9:30 and ride out at 10:00 with @All Mountain Coaching leading the way on the ebike loop he's been scoping out.

Riders:
@Tunny
@JetSetDemo
@Doomanic
@Kangr
@Mad Mark +1
@Jaygam
@Peaky Rider
@Trail Doug
@SimonLsie
@Mattwilko92
@xcentric
@steve_sordy


Hopefully I've not missed anyone out and everyone can make it.

Also, I'll have my gopro to get some ride footage for the forum/youtube so if anyone fancies doing a bit of filming along the route for some different angles that'll be good.

See you there ??