HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Well, I said I’d do one so here we go.

On the 22nd January I’ll do a pootle. 15 miles of Dark Peak trundling starting from somewhere I’ll think of soon.

Pace: slow and inclusive. Pootle pace.

10am start in the Ladybower area though.

Who’s in?

Previous pootles:

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I am tempted to come just for the Beef & Onion Roll + Onion Rings at the Ladybower Inn……

where was the special bus parked to collect the people in the pic from?

Ralph, we call it a Magic Bus.

Drat! I’m in Herts doing a skills day with Jedi.
I’ll be on the next one if possible with new skills and prowess. Probably no faster uphill though. 🙁

ooh, I could be OK for that 🙂

I’d like to see how you get on Robdob.

If I go on this pootle I’ll be in the company of ourkidsam who is also known as el ‘snakehip’ nino.

If I have a working bike and I can arrange transport I may well join y’all for this…

Hora – yeah no problem – going with PeterPoddy so should be ace!!

I’ll be there.

Oh hang on, no I won’t. Dang, I forgot.

I’m in San Di Freakin Ego!

I’ll be thinking of you in the cold wet peaks, slithering down The Beast as I cruise Laguna Mountain in 22 degree with baby blue skies.

Yeah, and you’ll be jealous.

I’m working. Sounds crap anyway.

well i’m thinking of doing your route tom so you’re probably right

Toms route without the sand-blasting wind and searing ice coldness? 😆

Yep I’m in as long as I’m not working

Busy, sadly, can’t make it 🙁

I think I can make it

Yours, El ‘snakehips’ Nino

oo – I might be able to make this!!!!

Rachel

Yeah, and you’ll be jealous.

Pook would love to join you, seriously. Next time though.

😉 always welcome old chap.

Like I say folks – these are social rides. If you’re a race snake, be prepared to wait in good humour!

But most of you know the drill anyway.

I’m thinking….

Ladybower,
Thornhill,
Hope Brink,
Hope Cross,
The beast OR potato alley
Rowlee farm
Lockerbrook
Fairholmes for a cuppa
Derwent Edge,
Whinstone Lee Tor,
Ladybower Pub descent
Ladybower.

It’s about 15 miles on varied terrain.

If the wind is anything like last week the Beast would be a much better option. Not sure how Whinstone is at the moment either, it was awful boggy a few weeks ago but it may have dried up now.

We went up last week. Even coming off Win Hill was tough thanks to the wind. I’m offering up potato alley as lots of pootles have been down the beast already as you can see up there ^^^

Whinstone is surprisingly alright in the main (except the constantly muddy bottom bit)

I’m in!

Let’s push the proverbial boat out and go UP the Beast. I want to practice my trials skills 😆

Ha ha! up the beast – that’d be…..fun.

Another suggestion. nearly all my Ladybower rides end up being cut short due to (lack of) time so I very rarely end up on Derwent Edge/Whinstone Lee Tor. Is there any scope for fitting that in earlier on?

Feel free to shoot me down 🙂

Oh no, can’t make it.

Need to get fit for the next one though. Have fun everyone.

means we wouldn’t end on a descent then….

I wish people would give Whinstone Lee Tor and Cut Throat Bridge a break over the winter. We dont ride there from Nov – March for a reason.

Unless its frozen solid, its muddy and no fun to ride, so I dont know why people do.

It gets wider and wider every year and does not recover in the summer anymore either.

That’s a valid point Rik – but I ride it and get muddy. I don’t widen the trail by riding round things puddles and I actively encourage people to do the same.

If we were to avoid all the sloppy sections in the peak over winter though there wouldn’t be much riding going on at all.

At the moment this is purely a suggested loop – feel free to offer alternatives.

perhaps one of these pootles could be a trail maintenance ride

I take it this will be a cheek free version of ‘my’ ride chris? Ie missing the best bit?

Not that I’m coming but I reckon a pooch pootle would be ace to do wlt the other way, get people on each gate to hold em and warn ramblers and give the majority a clean run top to bottom. You could then go up the fire road, down hagg, up the permissive and down the tree head butting descent hope brink or something?

see where you’re coming from….

Avoiding it would be like saying the whole of the Isle of Man is going to ban all cars…..whilst China puts another million new cars on the road….

I think I’ll be OK for this too …count me in, Pook.

Cool – hopefully it’ll be drier than today

If wifey isn’t recovering from night shift, I’m in (3rd attempt)

yes please

may come along

I shall be rocking out and having a curry in Bradford that day / night