[Closed] Edinburgh - Wednesday Night ride

Definitely (providing I can get everything ready for heading south straight from work on Thursday). Which route did ye's take last week, looked like up'n'over Harbour I thought?

Last week IIRC - clubbiedean / over to kinleith / maidens, green cleugh, black hill, nail trail ( still a bit wet and rather trashed 😳 )

Must have been someone else on Harbour hill

Oh, asking the wrong guy but Jeremy will put me right....maidens, black hill....nail run ???

still a bit wet and rather trashed

I know, I had a look a few weeks ago, its a mess 😥 My favourite two corner combo is now a two mud-pit combo.

Gutted.

Doing a 2 dayer in the gorms tomorrow then in Amsterdam next wednesday...hopefully the week after. I reckon the Pentlands will be in pretty good nick just now so have fun!

I'll try and be by Cargo at 18:30 otherwise i'll be at Bonaly by 7ish.

ahhhjrene If you're game for your low-volume secret ride (earlier?) I'm interested. Most evenings fine in fact, I take it a cx bike would not cope?

I'll be out from Holyrood riding the local hill from 18:30 tonight if anyone fancies a quick 2 hour blast.

J-Hatch, Monkey and I are going full lycra for some road action if anyone fancies that instead.

5ish.

I'm not saying you couldn't ride it on a CX bike, you wouldn't enjoy as much through. You'd be fine on anything with a bit of front squish and a dropped saddle.

Splittists

tbc have you lost the ability to reply to pms and text messages? 😡

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Where you riding?

ahhhjrene - Member
You'd be fine on anything with a bit of front squish and a dropped saddle.

That rules out the cx bike then...I'll be in touch if I can make it tonight, I've a lot to do in the house and was planning some hill reps.

J-Hatch, Monkey and I are going full lycra for some road action if anyone fancies that instead.

Miles or hill reps? I'm meant doing a few [i]very easy[/i] hill reps with the her(r)velos tonight but its a bit late for my liking.

Edit: durr, i guess you mean tomorrow not tonight? i'm wishing the days of this week away so i can be on leave! 🙄

I'll hang by Holyrood till 18:35 or there about before heading off.

Ta both, ahhhhhhhhhhhjrene I'll be there 6:30 if at all, DGOAB I was thinking up and down AS maybe 5 times but not full laps, prob there about 6pm or a bit later if I go to TKMaxx on the way.

Decisions, decisions...

Al - i replied this morning @09:05... are you actually in clinical fail mode? (p.s like your Green helmet by the way)

cynic-al, will probably be there between 6-630 too - official start time is 6.30pm but if i wait that long to go out, chances are the sofa will have eaten me by then. 😀

Miles or hill reps? I'm meant doing a few very easy

Tonight - couple of slow hill reps to show the guns
Tomorrow - some miles. Not many maybe 30 slow ones.

Ah so you did, my MSM app never told me, it is teh poop 😡

DGOAB I'll keep an eye out for you passing me.

I'm planning to make my first ever appearance tomorrow night.

What kind of mileage and pace are you likely to be going? Not a problem if I have to drop off and head home if the pace is too high...

Hopefully see you tomorrow night.
Steve

I am going to try and make out tomorrow as well.

Will be at Cargo if i do.

Cheers
Iain

steve - its a social ride. Anyone thats too fast has to wait at the top of the climbs or do the climbs twice 😈 . From cargo around 20 odd miles generally - its a few miles out to the hills. Pace? How long is a piece of string. I think around 7 mph average riding speed + time for faffage

bit later if I go to TKMaxx on the way

get you, classy guy!

I'm hoping to make Weds night up Pentlands, should be noice and dry, depends on work but should make it.

stevemtb, I manage the rides and I've only ridden about 12 times in the last year. Jeremy's surprisingly fast for an oldie 😮 but I can keep up. No jelly babies for me tomorrow then!

Sounds ideal, short of any disasters I'll be there!

Cheers
Steve

For once there is a non-zero chance I may make it tomorrow evening. I'd be at the Bonaly shop if I did.

What kind of mileage and pace are you likely to be going?

Sounds like another opportunity to post up the 'Best video collection of Bike-Chain 2010 Wednesday night rides by a male riding a geared hard-tail' award winning visual experience....

A waxing appointment, not mine I may add, has put an end to my ride tomorrow night, so I won't be joining you all. I will likely get out around 4pm from Cargo if anyone like me can't get out later, perhaps hook up ?.....see you next week though, have a good one.

Is it just the upper part of the Nail Trail that's still muddy? If so you can join it at the plank bridge by either using the trail that comes in from the road near the water treatment place, or by doing the western loop (although that means lifting over a couple of fences).

Nah, the lower part looks like its taken a lot of abuse over the winter, big churned bits lower down and a general widening of the trail around a lot of the muddy bits.

I only see it on a bi-monthly basis though so maybe it was just more apparent to me, probably doesn't ride any different, just looks a mess.

Cheers - I've been avoiding it for months now (same with Black Hill) but was expecting it to be ready for use soon. I'm missing it as it's my favourite way to end a ride from the house!

I'll maybe leave it another week or two then go and have a look.

Guess I'm about 50/50 for tomorrow...

Oh, wear on Nail Trail might be to do with MBR including it in a ride route the other month 😐

Really? I did see a group of about 10 folk at the bottom of it a while ago, covered in mud too.

Can't be too precious about nice trails I suppose, I just used it as a rare summer session trail, rag up and down it a few times until the legs had nothing left and the callouses were getting sore. Taught you how to conserve speed through corners!

Whats the weather like southside? its a thick haar here - can hardly see over the street. Might be nice in the hills tho

So - I'll be heading off in an hour - 6.30 at cargo at Lochrin basin or 7 at the wee shoppe at bonally

Sunny in town, but you can see it's a bit muggy when looking at the Shitlands.

See you there.

cracking in town. 13 minutes to go til run out the office leg it home and make bike work!

Don't forget your ball gag Al
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Fine wee ride that, glad we found some mud despite the almost totally dry ground. Feel more invigorated than I have for aaaaggeeesss. Though that may may be down to TJ's luxuriant growth. Of hair. On his head. Cheers men.

Nothing to do with my fine swan dive into a bog? Two OTB moments in bogs today. Not good

As usual with rob a fine ride even if most of it seemed to be vertical

Excellent ride indeed, summer conditions, good trails, crashes, what more could you want!

Hey guys, good to ride with you / see you again / meet you. That was a good solid ride there, great to see the ground so dry.

Just had a shower and licked my wounds - think I'll live to fight another day, but that OTHB moment on the rocky steep descent into the darkness was a bit annoying - my fault, think if I had remembered my bloomin light bracket and had the big light on, I may have taken a better line and avoided the rock that stalled me... ah well, shoulda woulda coulda... DIDN'T!

The route back up the Water Of Leith was quite quick in fact, I was surprised how close it brought me out - thanks for the route tip.

Anyway, knee got it's medicine (Germolene fixes all), and brain getting it's medicine (Kloster Andechs Weissbier), well deserved 🙂

mmmm beer. I forgot I had some in specially

I'm onto the Konig Ludwig Weissbier now Jeremy, do keep up 🙂

Just reading about wee scrapes and dry Pentlands has made me miss the TBC rides gonna try and head up next week . Might try and persuade Coasty and some of the Winton arms Massif to make a maiden voyage next week.. Good to see It's alive and kicking . Who is going to be first in to 'Clubbie-Doom'.

Stanfree - come up and join us again.

I have found a few choice bruises and I will be stiff tomorrow I think.