I can bet you I’ve done a hell lot more technical riding than you mr wonder! I’ve guided in the alps for the last 7 years as well as being a part of a skills course team.

Fight, fight, fight!!!

Let’s hope map reading wasn’t required during guiding 🙂

You can get both tyres off the ground in a few places on Blue Pig – I’d be interested to know why its described as not technical though….. Its got the opportunity to mug you around two bends.

….especially when it’s coated (literally) in ice.

It was oddly grippy on Sun, don’t know why! Same cannot be said for the Blue Pig car park and the bridge though!

I think it’s pretty techy in places, especially if you take the wrong line 😉

We had a good ride on sunday but it was more about having the crack and socializing that willy- waving. Every down hill is technical for me cos I’m shite at it .

That’s what I love most about this place, the way a topic can suddenly veer off into an argument about something completely subjective 😆

We had a good ride on sunday but it was more about having the crack and socializing that willy- waving. Every down hill is technical for me cos I’m shite at it .

There are people who will ride down a trail as fast as they can to try and prove to everyone in the group something about them. For me its not speed its a laugh, joking, mickey-taking …destressing from work.

There are people out there (alot) who can ride waaaaaaaaay better than many of us so why bust our balls trying to over-impress? No one is going to pay the bills if we ride at over 100% of our ability.

Christ, what have I done…

Blue Pig is a good, fast descent. Technical (when compared to a LOT of other Hebden trails), it ain’t. Which is why its a honey pot trail – easily rideable for all abilities and why people read about it on the internet and flock to it…

Hora – I don’t ride to the best of my abilities to prove anything to anyone. I ride at my pace because thats the pace I enjoy riding at. Riding slowly down hills but “having a laugh” isn’t something that I get. Riding as fast as possible whilst scaring yourself silly duelling with mates and then having a laugh at the bottom makes more sense to me.

It was a reply to mrpotatohead and generalising…

calm your factory team boots down 8) 😉

I’m just too gnarly (obviously). I read your reply and was sooo stoked I had to release a shed load of rad to this thread…

Come and play on the 16th 😉

I will sit at the feet of a Master on the 16th.

Ace.

Anyone else? The 16th? We’ll ride Blue Pig and I’ll backflip all the way down?

We’ll also visit the shrine of the beautiful for coffee and cake and ride some other funky stuff.

I’ll try and make it Dave and drag my bro along too. I’m not pedalling all the way there and back like I did yesterday though, 25 mile of canal bank with a super tacky minion on the front=pain! 😉

Still, that’ll teach me for assuming that the perfectly good train service that runs all week would also be running on a Sunday 🙄

16th is Macc-fest

Perfectly good train service? I’m guessing thats not the same as the one I use for work each day?!

Well, semi regular at least (once an hour) and only takes 15 minutes. Easier than driving and no muddy bike in/on the car 🙂

I’m easily pleased!

True, Blue pig aint technical in as much as anyone can ride it BUT it’s a case of a what speed. Flat out I’d say it’s pretty challenging for most levels of rider just due to the speed that can be had. It’s one thing to pootle down it but another to fly down it!

I find Blue pig and Pecket well both technical and challenging, however I’m a lady and don’t have ego, balls or nuts 🙂

hora wrote

I will sit at the feet of a Master on the 16th.

whatever………… 🙄

16th is Macc-fest

Depends where the weather is safest- I imagine the 16th may be in the grips of ice sheets and snow storms in some parts of the country!

Bunny you and me too. I washed out on Pecket Well infront of three lads pushing up. They asked me three times if I was alright as it must have looked comical.

coffee and cake

sounds fab to me,hope i can make this outing now.
i may even see if my wife may bake us a cake to nibble too 8)

Hmmm as for the Blue pig i was always under the impression that this was a technical downhill,

Ive gone down technical DH on my ass after bottling it 8)

I would say Bluepig is techish trail.

It’s not a smooth flat motorway, to be sure, it’s good fun off-road riding, but it really isn’t overly technical

We had a good ride on sunday but it was more about having the crack and socializing that willy- waving. Every down hill is technical for me cos I’m shite at it .

Martypotatohead… Socialising FFS

Sorry Tony don’t know what came over me !!!!!!!

When is the next venture out tony? I really would like to join in on this event but would need to book it early enough with my other half, he’s always got something on lately! 🙄 I can show you some other great bridleways I did a lot of my skills classes over there before I went over to the alps guiding.

Blue Pig is techy if you’re riding up it !

not that it matters but Blue Pig is probably equivalent to a red trail centre, you can roll the lot but it takes concentration.

I’ll be in Tod that weekend so may pop along and regale you with tales of what the area was like before it was famous