lol that video ...so is it easier to jump off it or roll down the board....
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Lots of pics of a Whinlatter ride :)
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Hi Dr Death - good to hear from you, I'm fine now and back riding(even though I shouldn't be) thanks to the great care of all the medical professionals at Carlisle.The consultant at Blackburn has told me never to ride a mountainbike again as they are too dangerous
The humerus will have a couple of holes in allegedly for another 10 - 16 months so i'll have to be a tad careful and have inverted elbow body armour to protect my humerus. The physio discharged me on the 2nd visit as I had recovered 100% movement back in my shoulder and elbow which she thought was astounding and told me to take it easy and build up with weights from November(i'd been using them from August and hence my quick recovery) New bike will be arriving very soon!!!! 
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is there any need for those shorts? I think not.
On the contrary, I think they should be compulsory.
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bogtrotters then is it that group...
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On the contrary, I think they should be compulsory.
I think the idea is that the poor lass wears just the leggins without the shorts, but I could be wrong.
I went out today but I couldn't find a nice leather studded belt to go with my dull-in-comparison alturas.
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bogtrotters then is it that group...
could you doubt it ?
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Folks
I am thinking of riding Whinlatter but was thinking of riding both reds and then the blue. Is this a sensible plan? Each route does not seem too long in itself - I have enough fitness to ride Kirroughtree red and black in around 4 hours - I take it I should manage this?
Thanks for any help
Si
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It'll take about 2/3 as long as the red at K'tree and it's barely worth travelling far to do less than all three. A whippet can do all three loops in 1 1/2 hrs.
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Ah right - Keswick is around an hour and a half from me. As it is getting colder, a shorter route may not be so bad
I am no xc whippet, so sounds about right for me. I just fancied something a little different and it looked pretty good fun from the photos I have seen. I had thought about joining the boggies on a few rides but they seem to be organising rides fairly far from me (Dumfries) in the coming weeks (well the shorter ones anyway).
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It's ideal for an iffy day - cafe in the middle!
I'd advise Quercus (blue), then south loop, cafe, north loop.Posted 1 year ago # -
Well Thursday is looking the least iffiest day this coming week so I may have to give it a whirl - thanks for the info.
I always have a coffee at the very end of my rides as if I have coffee and a cake I'll never feel like getting back out again!
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Is "the bridleway to Thornthwaite" the obvious one on the 25k OS map, running alongside Comb Beck further down? Is it easy to find from the red route / visitors centre.
We spent 2 days at Whinlatter last New Year, we wouldnt normally travel to the Lakes for trail centres either, but it had snowed so much very few other routes were rideable. Hoping for different weather this year....
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Is "the bridleway to Thornthwaite" the obvious one on the 25k OS map, running alongside Comb Beck further down? Is it easy to find from the red route / visitors centre.
Yes, it actually starts near the point where the start of the blue route crosses the fire road about 200m from the wooden arch, but we took the wiggly blue route section downhill and started along the fire road it leads to until it swings about 300 degrees left, and just past the apex of the bend a steep singletrack goes up steeply on the left, and this leads to the bridleway after crossing 2 bridges. The BW crosses another fire road diagonally before plunging into Comb Beck ravine
If you click the "route" button above any of the photos it'll take you to a map, or you can right click "GPX" to download the track
I am thinking of riding Whinlatter but was thinking of riding both reds and then the blue. Is this a sensible plan? Each route does not seem too long in itself
I'd be inclined to do the blue first, but you'd manage all 3
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Thanks Simon, lovely job, useful guide to riding up to the trail centre too. I've always tended to drive up from Keswick in the past, lazy really and misses what sounds like a top descent.
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I think nearly everyone agrees it's worth the stiff warm-up climb at the start to have that downhill to finish
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Well I rode the north red, the south red and the blue today and I wasn't dissapointed. I really don't have any DH skills, and would have liked a sturdier and slightly slacker bike I think (oh and some skills too obviously) but I thought there was some superb singletrack. Don't know why I didnt go sooner, maybe I had heard that it was getting worn or just wasn't that good, but plenty of smile inducing sections I have to say.
I had the same off as in one of the pics, just as you come off a tiny step off a small piece of northshore - I think there was a puddle after the step and my front wheel stayed there. I also comitted myself to that snakey steep s shaped stoney section on the north descent and that got the better of me but luckily I didnt hurt myself coming off. All in all a great day and a good ride if you do all three routes. Took me much less time that I was expecting, and I'm not fast.
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