[Closed] Goodbye dry & dusty trails.

Been good hasn't it? Sigh........

Yeah said farewell Saturday afternoon and again yesterday 🙂

Unless you live in the southern hemisphere... In which case "hello dustier dryer trails, scorpions, spiders, snakes and eye gouging spinifex and skin melting sunshine...." Yay.

sniff.

Bring on the mud, my shorty wasn't getting anywhere near enough grip at Drumlanrig yesterday, mud and gloop required!.

Managed a final fling last night at least...
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Blinking excellent weekend on the bike, so much so I ran out of oomph an hour away from home and had to pace right off and for a change enjoy the view 😆

Pissing down here, properly.

Yay!

Autumn!! 8)

Nobeerinthefridge - Member
Bring on the mud, my shorty wasn't getting anywhere near enough grip at Drumlanrig yesterday, mud and gloop required!.

didn't seem to slow you down too much ...... 🙂

Still dry here. Its the light thats the problem for the after work ride.

I wasn't really well enough for it but I managed a few runs at BPW on Saturday, bone dry bar a few bits which are always a bit damp.

Better dig out my mud guard from wherever it's been hiding.

Swinley and Jump Gully ride yesterday. Warm, but not hot and a bit dusty. Perfect!

I woke up to a rainstorm this morning and it was almost dark. Thought I'd set the alarm too early.

Last week was ace! Managed to cram 4 rides into 7 days and Thursday night was the first proper night ride of the season. Awesome skies above Tod 😀

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Felt like that last night. Had a long session all round the Punchbowl, Gibbet, Bonb Holes in several figures of 8 to make the most of the end of the season. Had a feel of change all around. Trails still great though!

Gloomy by 6:45 though

See you next year - it's been a good one this year - not hot but generally fairly dry
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Am I the only person who like wet and slick trails as much as dry and dusty? Well at trail centres and harder/rockier trails anyway. Not a fan of mud fest all the time, but sometimes sliding around on muddy tracks (or snow if we're lucky) is great fun and it does wonders for bike handling skills.

Tom KP.

Ps - I'm sure we'll have a dry/cold snap before X as and then it'll be fast hard packed trails again.

Trail centres were basically invented for winter riding, and if the weather isn't great all the crowds stay at home.

I played a blinder on my Friday ride and managed to cherry-pick several trails that were still quite gloopy even before this rain came. My bike came home in winter garb of mud and cow poo (and is still unwashed in the shed!)

I'll be thinking of you all when I'm riding in the Perth hills in a couple of weeks, and I'm not talking about our Scottish friends 😉

zero cool - Member

Am I the only person who like wet and slick trails as much as dry and dusty? Well at trail centres and harder/rockier trails anyway. Not a fan of mud fest all the time, but sometimes sliding around on muddy tracks (or snow if we're lucky) is great fun and it does wonders for bike handling skills.

Tom KP.

Ps - I'm sure we'll have a dry/cold snap before X as and then it'll be fast hard packed trails again.

Trail centres were basically invented for winter riding, and if the weather isn't great all the crowds stay at home.

Nah I'm with you, all part of the rich tapestry of riding - but wet weather pretty much closes my local trails, they're pretty much unridable and they're all built and maintained under the radar so I'll feel a right tool tearing them up with spikes.

Mostly though it's the cold I hate, -3.5c recorded (by my car) at Cwmcarn last winter, the trail still ride fine, but they're have the width with a thick layer of ice/frost at the edges waiting to ruin your day, makes me wish I stayed in bed before I start, I'm okay when I get going though.

Am I the only person who like wet and slick trails as much as dry and dusty?

Nah, I love it. Wet, steep, off camber, rooty trails in particular!

I like slippy mud too - I don't particularly enjoy the clean up after though and proper clagfests aren't much fun either.

Even after some rain our trails are still rock hard.
We might get a few more days.

this time in 2006 I was doing the same dusty route as yesterday and at one point I was axle deep in the mud. I know which I prefer.

Ah, if only I could ride my favourite trails at Torridon and in the Cairngorms which are predominately rocky surfaces. Then I'd only have to cope with the rain, dark and the cold.

Golfy had gone all crumbly yesterday, needs a bit of watering, bring it on 😆 Was my first ride of the "season" where I lost the daylight before I ran out of riding time though.

On the wet trails idea - v glad to have ridden secret squirrel on Holmbury last weekend before the roots became slippy!!

Beautiful day up Snowdon yesterday.
Managed two ascents and two descents. Up Rangers; Down Rhyd Ddu; Up Telegraph/Llanberis; Down Rangers.
Never knows the weather to be so kind. Usually almost need to peg your bike down to stop it blowing off the top!

Well, I fell off on Sunday in those nice dry dusty trails, now I cant walk, let alone ride my bike (bike is fine though)

So there is a good chance the mud will dry up / freeze or disappear due to Global Warming before I'm back on the bike.

So perhaps there is a sliver lining to every cloud after all 🙂

We've managed to avoid any kind of moisture at all so far this year. We also went to the Alps and suffered the choking dust clouds of their local heatwave.

I don't mind sliding around in the mud, it's good fun. I just hate all the mess and cleaning and washing and getting naked in icy car parks. I'd happily live somewhere that doesn't have a winter.

Yup its was nice knowing you ...

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