went for a quick spin round Llandegla lumchtime never seen so many grown men pushing their bikes at the mere sugestion of a slight incline
I wouldnt mind but its not exactly Everest 
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its a bike your supposed to err ride it
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riding uphill is the best part! (took me nearly 20 years to realise that though)
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I know, we're far too nice to the feeble. Really you should be allowed to cut them down with a sabre as you pass.
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went for a quick spin round Llandegla
Which explains all.
I've seen guys on long travel full sus bikes in full armour walking down slight inclines that most beginners wouldn't think twice about there too.
But hey, at least they're out having fun... So it's all good
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They're probably wannabe xc racers...
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I got really really pissed off at llandegla today.
Did the last black, but there were so many people pushing the climbs. I got stuck behind someone pushing whilst plugged into a loud mp3 player. I just couldn't get past.
Sooooooooooo annoying.. The climbs aren't that hard either!
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oldgit- Really you should be allowed to cut them down with a sabre as you pass.
Didn't some old guy get done in california for this practise?
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It's ok, I saw a guy there on a lovely Carbon Nomad, gore bike clothing, pads, etc....all immaculate...
FFS he was riding it like Fooking girl.....all the gear no idea, Jesus! Then when he finished he drove off in his Porsche Cayenne WTF!!!!
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there was one guy I bumped into who had hit a tree and snapped the top tube clean through and the forks and head tube were hanging on by about a third of the down tube, amazingly he only had a graze on his leg
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I got really really pissed off at llandegla today.
Did the last black, but there were so many people pushing the climbs. I got stuck behind someone pushing whilst plugged into a loud mp3 player. I just couldn't get past.
Sooooooooooo annoying.. The climbs aren't that hard either!
Errr, in fairness, it's a trail centre, we all have equal right to ride there at whatever pace we please. If someone else's pace is annoying you, then just hang back and give them 5 minutes breathing space so you can go at your chosen pace before catching them again, or go at a time when you know it's not going to be busy.
Llandegla is a great place for a social ride, and its good for getting beginners riding stuff slightly more technical than they may have encountered on a gentle local loop whilst still being pretty safe, but it's a very busy place which means don't go there expecting to be able to ride flat out unhindered...
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If they're enjoying themselves, then all well and good. As a local to Llandegla I to have noticed the increasing numer of full sus riding, body armour and fag smoking riders. Just makes me look faster
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Sometimes I walk downhill, too.
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Llandegla is a great place for a social ride, and its good for getting beginners riding stuff slightly more technical than they may have encountered on a gentle local loop whilst still being pretty safe, but it's a very busy place which means don't go there expecting to be able to ride flat out unhindered...
It was the case of, i was shouting for him to let me by when there was lots of space, but he was ignorant due to earphones that pished me off. I gave a good amount of time, but due to the length of the climb, it's inevitable that you're going to catch someone up. And not everyone runs 20/36. (My granny ring which gets me up everything is 26/28)
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My granny ring that gets me up everything is 34-32.
How do you feel about that, Anto?
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Well done, have a medal.
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Thanks!
If you want, I can let you look at it while we wait around for the slower walking types to clear the way.
Or we can cut it in half, do some double dragon magic to it and weave around the walkers as we climber better than they do.Posted 4 months ago # -
Got off and pushed about ten meters at the top of Fremington edge due to cramp, i hate myself now
NOT! Happy new year stw moaners
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Who cares, not everyone has the same ability level. Just ride and enjoy.
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Why go and ride where everybody else wants to ride? I thought mountain bikes were all about getting out into wild places and setting yourself a bit of a challenge?
I've never understood the allure of trail centres, boring, manufactured, covered in plastic bottles, completely artificial and sanitised and full of muppets who have got the idea of going there from some crap outdoor magazine.
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I went there a couple of years back. Full of detestably ugly people.
I've never been back. Disgusting folk.
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Any sympathy I may have had for the OP was lost when they missed an apostrophe in 'its' and used 'your' in the thread title.
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I push up climbs, but descend twice as fast as you. It really annoys me when people get in my way on the downs
Swings and roundabouts
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Trail centres should be reserved for the righteous. If you're not worthy you can suck your dad's rooster or something.
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blimey, any thread on hear seems to desend into a slanging match, I wasn't slagging them off just an observation really hence the smiley face!
I push up climbs, but descend twice as fast as you. It really annoys me when people get in my way on the downs
Good point, well made!
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Sometimes I ride up the hills and then get myself a downlift
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It's their shit as long as it doesn't interfere with yours, it's all good.
If it does interfere with yours, do what you gotta do
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Sometimes when I have been at work until midnight I fancy a ride the next morning to clear my head. If it's been a busy few days I often have leaden legs and will walk up hills so I have the energy to go fast on the downs.
On other days, I'll happily do 30odd + miles on the South Downs on my singlespeed without stopping.
My wife has a properly pimpy bike, smothered in high end parts and all the gear but a knee op this year means she can't put much power down through her left leg, she often walks the hills too.
Everyone is different, as long as they enjoy their version of mountainbiking where's the issue?Posted 4 months ago # -
I ride a push bike,so I'm allowed.......you'RE not your btw.
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I think everyone should ride trail centres.
Leaving the rest of the wild places for me. Posted 4 months ago # -
So what if they want to push their bike up a hill, I know plenty of good cross country riders who nail it up hills, can't ride down for s**t and many of them walk the steep stuff.
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I do find these threads quite bizarre as I'm never quite sure of the OP's message.
Who's the verb thief?Posted 4 months ago # -
It's ok, I saw a guy there on a lovely Carbon Nomad, gore bike clothing, pads, etc....all immaculate...
FFS he was riding it like Fooking girl.....all the gear no idea, Jesus! Then when he finished he drove off in his Porsche Cayenne WTF!!!!
He has loads of money, why should he buy a crap bike even if he's not (yet) very skilled?
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Agreed - jealousy is a bad thing.
Did remind me of this though, which is worth posting (again)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQyJeJgIw8Posted 4 months ago # -
about this time 2 years ago, lad and girl pushingbikes along the cobbled bit of llandegla,new bikes and gear they where wearing, me following behind riding, somebody rides past and splashes them, she goes mental, and screams at the lad and the rider, as he has splattered a bit of mud on them.
She then throws bike down, and storms off, shouting she is goin to the car to get clean, to his question what to do with the spare bike, she shouts i didnt want a bike for christmas.
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If you do have to get off and push, you should at least run up....
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