I can’t make this, but anyone who’s a National Trust member might like to know that there’s a National Trust car park just below Mam Nick – where the road cuts past Rushup Edge and heads down to Edale. There’s a direct off-road descent from there to Edale. Of course you’d have ride bak up at the end of the day, but you’d have free car-parking with your NT sticker. And a bonus climb. Win/win… 🙂

But if you do that you HAVE to be in edale on time or we’ll abandon you! ;o)

Are you divulging the route, or is it a surprise on the day?

Surprise on the day. That’s when I tend to make it up

oooh goody, Edale = starting with a big climb out

… and also a descent back in as a result

Jacobs? 🙂

It’s a surprise on the day you cheeky scamp

flyingmonkeycorps – Member
Ooh I might be up for this, the last one was fun. Just need to check with the boss if I’m free that weekend, and hopefully rope in some other ‘Ull folk…

I could be tempted Willhelm. Try no to flat on the Roych this time…

I seem to remember us both repairing punctures on the Roych… After I’d fixed your headset in the car park 😀

Wild route speculation.

I don’t ride an Orange Five, can I still come?

P.S. Starting in Edale, can you blame us 😉

I ride a Specialized with 26″ wheels and 3×9, can I still come? 😉

‘If’ I make it, it will be one of my first rides after having my bicep re-attached, totally unfit and put a stone on since summer (getting the excuses in early) – on that basis, it will be nice to have a ‘pootle’, rather than a Strava obsessed balls out blast. Will probably still try and go downhill slightly faster than my capabilities cater for though!

so it’s not the cut gate/ doctors’s gate loop we discussed then?

😉

I suspect its a carry up Grindsbrook to start and back down Ringing Roger, I could be wrong.

As it’s a novice ride I thought round the car park and down the steps next to the toilets.

Jacobs?

Please not that annoying climb upto Hope Cross!!!! (Plus the equally annoying descent back from it) 😆

😯 all the steps?

All the steps rog. Maybe even a kerb.

Ooh I should be able to make this. Never actually been on a ride with anyone off here so it’ll be a new one for me.

For anyone planning on getting the train from Manc. Sometimes the conductor on that train can be a right grumpy b*stard and will not let more than the regulation (only 4 I think!) no of bikes on the train. I’ve seen people turned away before. On the other hand I’ve also seen occasions where about 15 bikes are stacked on top of each other and stuffed in every corner 🙂

Pook – Member
All the steps rog. Maybe even a kerb.

Better get a full susser then.

I thought you had a SS full suspension.

I still can’t decide which bike to bring. Alfine trance or SS hardtail

Two weekends ago I ‘dragged’ my failing carcass up Jacobs. There was construction work being conducted on the section after Coldwell Clough. No probs, they workmen let us through (welcome rest TBH)…but there were only three of us mind.

Let me worry about the route. You lot sort the cake

thepodge – Member
I thought you had a SS full suspension.

Cannibalised for the Corratec, but can be rebuilt if we are doing curbs as well!

Pook – Member
Let me worry about the route. You lot sort the cake

We’re riding over the cakes too?

Can I suggest about 5 route changes?

…just like you **** do with mine every other week Pook 😉 😆

Yours? It’s the same route EVERY week

Are we keeping the Movember look for this?

I was thinking this. Yes. Why not?

It’s a necessity to come on the ride

I’m hoping to show up. On my mums bike. Possibly with a newbie and/or a couple of regulars

Will you have a mo?

No mo’ than usual.

In my line of work it doesn’t pay to look pedophillic

No mo for me either – couldn’t be arsed this year

Cant be arsed? Your not weight lifting it. It just kinda sits there looking fruity.

Some of us have facial hair all year round

But some of us may struggle with producing a discernable amount of facial hair . . .. I could let my eyebrows run wild for a few days I guess …

just kinda sits there looking fruity.

That was in my school report. Every. Single. Year.

@aw a female Bernard Ingham look? 😯

Hurray!!, can do that date, so hope to join you.

Cake is no problem, facial hair might be. Clown’s nose might be more appropriate as I fell off about five times last time I was in the Peaks 😳

Travelling from Northants/Daventry – happy to pick-up/take others.