When you can quite easily walk – push up the back, seems to be the in thing lately.

a. they are lost ( and having an epic)
b. a right of passage for all wannabe mtb adventurers.
c. aspirational marketing hype.

Will this lead to more tubby weekend warriors getting out of their depth.

Has someone done this? I’ve not heard of doing and certainly wouldn’t contemplate it.

Because it’s there

kepple cove nearly did me in….a very severe walk. 😀

get fergal the mtb god looking down on all he surveys

****@r

personally i think it is c, aspirational marketing hype.

Last winter there was a promotional video from hope, with two of their young stars battling up the edge in a blizzard after taking a wrong turn, they were inadequetly dressed and clearly hypothermic.

The latest Singletrack magazine has an advert double spread of dudes manfully carrying thier bikes up Swirral, i guess this is a trend now?.

Is this the Saracen ad in STW?

Yep

The Saracen ad I know of with Manon Carpenter and Sam Dale is on this bit of the Birk Side descent.

Which is just a good, legal, fun bike ride.

Swirral doesn’t sound enjoyable, and any bike advert using a photo of people carrying their bikes is doing it wrong (see: Total Women’s Cycling)

Quite impressive to get hyperthermic in a blizzard.

Quite impressive to get hyperthermic in a blizzard.

It’s the effort of carrying the bikes.

to late, corrected.

Too…..
😉

cripes the grammar nazis have descended.

I was being a tad tongue in cheek, maybe see you at the weekend, i’m thinking of carrying my bike along the Aonach Eagach to descend Clachaig gully 🙂

😉

Well as a younger and stupider MTb artist circa 1986 and working at OB Ullswater, I might have carried a Marin Nail trail up Striding Edge to ride down off the top via the zig zags to Kepel Cove….

Once.

seems to be the in thing lately.

Do go on…

If you want to start and finish on the Glenridding side, Swirral is the quickest route to the Helvellyn summit. Most folk want to tick the summit and descend Sticks Pass Eastward, so it gets both those things done in a loop without any out-and-back riding. That Hope video definitely made it more popular, I know of at least one visiting rider ascending Striding Edge instead due to navigational error 😆

As kettle said. Easiest way

Yep, used to go up that way all the time-if you can shoulder a bike it really isn’t that difficult. Wouldn’t attempt it with an icy surface or high winds though! Don’t think it was technically more difficult than shouldering up to Nan Bield from Haweswater-just the consequences of getting it wrong are worse.

Don’t think it was technically more difficult than shouldering up to Nan Bield from Haweswater

That climb is bloody hard work!

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Well as a younger and stupider MTb artist circa 1986 and working at OB Ullswater, I might have carried a Marin Nail trail up Striding Edge to ride down off the top via the zig zags to Kepel Cove….

Once.
In 1990/1991 I too may have lugged a Raleigh up there, or a borrowed Clockwork from Lester Noble at the Yacht club up there (ex Glenridding Sailing School boy here). Along with many other inappropriate hills and routes in the are. 😳 8)

not the hardest thing in the world to carry up,

I carried mine up the other year. The hardest thing was waiting for all the tubbies to climb the last bit to the top of Helvellyn, then I could get up. 😆