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[Closed] A few photos from a loop around Jacobs Ladder yesterday

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Did a crackin ride around Hope Valley, Roych Clough, Jacobs Ladder and back to Hollins Cross. Warm and sunny with mostly dry trails ๐Ÿ™‚ Click on the photos to go to flickr

Jacobs loop

Jacobs loop

Jacobs loop


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 11:42 am
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Jacobs loop

Jacobs loop


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 11:49 am
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Looks a lot nicer out there this weekend than it was when we did it last weekend. We had horizontal hail driving down our lugholes at one point.

Good pics, I'm jealous. My shock was in for servicing this w/e so road bike only ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 12:27 pm
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Posted : 16/03/2009 12:30 pm
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Jeez, how high up is that drop off ???

great pics BTW.


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 12:44 pm
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Agree with Lowey. where the hell did you land?

it looks at least 10ft if it was the bottom.

hat's off in respect


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 2:32 pm
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Great pics, weather looked perfect.


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 2:41 pm
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that drop off is the old road up mam tor where the drop offs range from a manageable by me 2ft, to the bigger 7 or 8 foot drops like that one - great pics Andy


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 3:30 pm
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Cheers all ๐Ÿ™‚ was a lovelly day out

That drop is about 3-4 ft where he dropped off (landing on the slope in the background). You need to be careful which bit you drop off, as if you drop off the high bit you would come to grief as there is no run out IIRC, just large sharp blocks of tarmac.

Here it is from another angle. The bit he's dropping off in the photo above is the far right of this photo.

Andy on Mam Tor Drop


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 4:50 pm
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Now that looks a little more manageable. The 1st pic looks like he's 20' in the bloody air.... I'd be posting that all over the place if it was me :p


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 5:29 pm
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bear in mind we can all jump off things that high

it's the landing that i have trouble with


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 6:17 pm
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The landing's tarmac too so the downside of crashing is you get good scabs after a couple of weeks.


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 7:03 pm
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me neither


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 7:22 pm
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"The landing's tarmac too so the downside of crashing is you get good scabs after a couple of weeks. "

just like this then ๐Ÿ˜‰ Really dont want to get this one wrong :-O And that is as big as it looks

Mam Tor Drop

Kev on road drop


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 9:49 pm
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More balls than me doing that, even on a big FS like that Yeti.

good on ya


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 9:55 pm
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not me, it's a lad I ride with. He's the one we point at stuff we're not sure about and say "that'll go" and he then rides off it. Username is 'Spiderman tyres' on here.


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 9:57 pm
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look at the second photo, it's a hardtail ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 9:58 pm
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More props! (see 'Dartmoor - Sick' thread).

You've got to love those crash test dummy types. We owe them a lot - latterday Chuck Yeagers they are.


 
Posted : 16/03/2009 10:26 pm