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Fancy messing about with your camera, in the woods, with grown men, in lycra* then please put your hand up.
Route & timings TBA, nbt, of this parish will be planning that bit as there's more legit riding on that side of the hill.
*Purely for fun, no 'specialist website' images planned so one would hope there would be banter, sharing of tips (and of the resulting photo's) etc.
There'll certainly be a lot of 'oh. lovely, but, could you just ride that again?" and 'put yer pro elbows out a bit more' sort of stuff.
Yes please, thank you very much !
😀
Are 'women that are old enough to know better allowed'? 😉with grown men, in lycra*
Can we ban SheldonTheNicheMeister as the last two times he's been up to ride with us the weather's been atrocious?!
I'm in, pending not being either in bed with the missus or Thailand (or in bed with the missus, in Thailand).
Need to go buy an SLR though as Dad's making noises about someone having borrowed his last year and not brought it back yet.........
Fair enough (and, that's a whole different sort of photo-shoot 🙂 )I'm in, pending not being either in bed with the missus or Thailand (or in bed with the missus, in Thailand).
bunyhop - would not let the day happen without you 🙂
Sheldon - well, if he's the Bringer of Bad Weather' we'll have to take a vote 😉
Can we ban SheldonTheNicheMeister as the last two times he's been up to ride with us the weather's been atrocious?!
Bummer, I'm free that day too ;-(
you;re allowed if you promise to bring sunshine and lollipops
I'll have to think about that 😉
Funnily enough I was thinking the other day about doing a photo ride down this way.
Where is this pootle taking place?
Checks calendar..............
'fraid I'll be in London at that there Olympics gig in Hyde park.
have fun though.....
WARM UP FOR THIS POOTLE AT THE....
PEAKS POOTLE, JULY 14TH. DETAILS ON THE FORUM
Where is this pootle taking place?
it'll be somewhere around Marple / New Mills / Hayfield. I need to have a think about what locations might work well for photos and numbers
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Ooh I might be up for this, as long as I'm around... Can I be in some photos as well as taking them? I'm hardly ever in photos!
Models welcome - you could spend some time modelling and some time taking photos, certainly
Sweet deals! I suppose models are kinda essential...
I'll be just back from my hol's for this, so will need to burn off some Rioja and Chorizo... I'll try and get this one on the calendar!
bump for the friday evening crowd
- nyom, nyom ,nyom........ HIC!Rioja and Chorizo
If you're doing it somewhere fun I'll come cos I like sessioning stuff. Not too bothered about taking pics tho, don't have the patience!
mmm, I could be game 😀
Sunday evening bump - won't be doing loads more bumps but do want to give people the opportunity to come along
In fact I might also skip the photo taking bit and just come and session stuff till I fall off into a broken heap 😀
I'm going to try (yet again) to make it to a STW meet up. But being a complete wimp I demand decent weather.
Found a nice watersplash we could use...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/n_b_t/7502260540/ ]Marwood[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/n_b_t/ ]Notoriously Bad Typist[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/n_b_t/7502259718/ ]Zoe[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/n_b_t/ ]Notoriously Bad Typist[/url], on Flickr
(edit: Sim, are you only using landscape cover shots now? That top one might have been a contender for the old format covers 🙂 )
Can we find some gnar rad rocks to session too pretty please?
This is so G A Y. Although I think the OP already has a hint of just how it might look by his post.
I'm almost ashamed that I know any of you 😉
It's not wrong, mate, it's just different. Don't knock it till you've tried it. You're welcome to bring the missus if she fancies trying something different too, the bigger the bobble the better and all that
Oh and yes, Boom Gnarly trails on order
Bump for those who expressed an interest after today's pootle
I might pop along for some riding. Though, I'm not too sure about this whole lycra lark 😳
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Gives me an excuse to ride the bike and use the Slr, i'll see if i can be free on this day,
I will come out to play 🙂
I'll put it in my diary, riding as a model only. I'll tell the agency to send the invoice to STW.
Onzadog and me will come along for a bit of modullin! We've managed to find some more colourful cycling attire to wear too (well, tops at least). I'll be in lovely red and OD will be in green.
Blue.
I wanted green to match my hope brakes but I'm not buying a new top for it.
Is this still on for next weekend?
Is this still on for next weekend?
Oh my goodness, how time flies when you're having fun - like we did today, a rather nice and quite dry ride round the local trails followed by a pint of mild in the pub while the brass band played a Bond medley. Eeee, we know 'ow to live round these parts.
Time flies even faster when you're manically busy at work - I completely forgot that I hadn't updated this thread, and had not realised it was so close. Anyway, today I've finalised the plans with the aid of the Junior Deputy Apprentice RouteMeister MartynS.
We'll be starting from the [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=403575&Y=386931&A=Y&Z=120&ax=403575&ay=386931 ]Sett Valley Trail car park[/url] in Hayfield. Meet around 9.30 for a 10am PROMPT departure.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=403575&Y=386931&A=Y&Z=120&ax=403575&ay=386931
It's a pay and display car park, so bring change for the machines. There are toilets there, and it's close enough to the village for us to grab a pint or something afterwards.
I've planned a route with many many options for early finishes or extensions, depending on how time goes.
If you're coming along to model, it looks really good if you can wear bright, primary colours - e.g. a solid blue jacket, or a nice bright yellow top. Don't worry if you haven't got anything like that, you're still likely to come out of the day with a good pic or two. You might be asked to push up and ride down the same piece of trail a dozen times or more, so bring plenty of food and drink!
If you're coming to take photos, then you'll probably get better results with an SLR or a camera with a degree of manual control. If you are not familiar with your camera, it might be worth while spending a while learning what the main controls do - I'll be honest though, I've still not got to grips with things like second curtain shutter sync and Flash exposure compensation
I'll be shooting Canon as will Tollah (if he's able to make it). Marsdenman bats for the other side, he's a Nikon shooter. He makes money from it so he must be able to get some good photos from it, imaging what he'd be able to do with proper gear ! 🙂
Any other questions, post then up here
[b]People who've piped up so far[/b] - It'd be handy if you could confirm
marsdenman
GRAEMEJONES
Bunnyhop
NBT
thisisnotaspoon
tollah
flyingmonkeycorps
hp_source
vixalot
portlyone
slowrider
grahamh
grum
andeh
MartynS
shindiggy
onzadog
redwods
Argh. Would have been up for this but am in France, oh well. Have fun!
Tollah, you still going? I could pick you up on the way..
Sounds great! We're also bringing our mate Rob with us, who does a bit of professional photographering on the side.
I'll be shooting Canon as will Tollah (if he's able to make it).
Of Course
Tollah, you still going? I could pick you up on the way..
Thanks Graham but will be travelling up with Mandi as its the only way we seem to be able to spend time together recently 🙂
On saying all that I'll be there if the weather holds out, can't be bothered to drive for 2.5 hrs to get soaked and not get the camera out!
can't be bothered to drive for 2.5 hrs to get soaked and not get the camera out!
+ 1 for me but I will be driving closer to 5 (from Cardiff).
Will there be some good riding too - like a reasonable distance?
Never ridden the peaks but always wanted to. I'm happy to come down Friday - have a decent ride Sat with somebody and the photo thing Sun?
I'm Australian, dont know anybody, or the trails but I'm going home in 2 weeks!
I'll post up a link tomorrow with the route I have in mind. If you can read maps, the route is:
Hayfield - Twentytrees - Middlemoor - Little Hayfield (optional cut out)- Blackshaw Head - Lantern Pike - Rowarth - Matley Moor - Lantern Pike (again, figure of 8) - Sett Valley Trail (optional cut out) - New Allotments (optional cut out) - Far Phoside (optional cut out) - Ashes Bank - PUB.
In honesty, if we get to New Allotments I'll be amazed. There's some great riding around and if you can spend the weekend up here then go for it - I can plan a route or two or you but if you post up on the main forum you'll quite possibly get an offer of guiding