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Sunday night bump.
Lights on charge. ****in big mudgaurd fit.
Kit drying so I'm in.
I was hoping to make this but my non functional kidneys have stopped me from doing anything other than feeling sorry for myself for the last two weeks so regrettably I'm out.
Got the mud tyres fitted. Looks like I'll be needing them.
Just found me lights, so I will be there tomorrow, 8.15pm you say ?
low cloud ? tut " Harry the shortcake"
I thought i was slowly getting my mojo back and in truth i am. Sadly looking out of the window its nowhere near back to standard strength! A few work issues dont help either...
Call me a wuss by all means but i'm out! Have a good one!
My left leg is more-or-less working now, albeit still a bit grumpy about bending, but I'm in. This will be my first ride for two months, near enough. Should be interesting. 🙂
doubtful for me. managed to roll my ankle yesterday, thanks to my gf's parents' dog causing me to trip over with the lad in my arms (narrowly missed ****ting his head off a piano too, then properly lost my rag with the chaotic mess everywhere but that's another story). anyway, it's pretty swollen and sore still so i'll have to see how it gets on today.
not ridden a bike for about 3 months here. it's seriously getting me down now. fitness has vanished, i've put weight (back) on, and mentally it's a strain. life, eh!
Well I'm still in! The Met Office are predicting a 3 hour break in the rain too right when we need it.
I'm still in. Compared to the previous two days of slogging through the slush and frozen mud it'll be a welcome relief 🙂
Bike lubed, kit reproofed, just waiting for my Dad to confirm he can pick the girls up for me tonight.
I doubt I'm out. I'm still reacclimatising from a week of glorious sunshine (leaving the house this morning was a shock to the system!), and catching up on all the stuff I should have been doing. I thought it might be a quaint idea to earn some cash, rather than spend it all on Rioja and tapas 🙂
However, I may use my social membership to pop down for a pint later, and to laugh at you all...
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as seeing as we're getting the band back together, what do all bands need....?
1) Hoards of screaming nymphomaniac groupies
2) Mountains of marching powder
3) A scale model of Stonehenge and some dwarves
4) T-Shirts
I will be proposing supplying one of those things.
A positive aspect of the wet weather is that the Beast of Hurst Woods only takes a victim when the sky is clear.
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Tonight it will be inside, wearing a onesie, watching repeats of Wheeler Dealers and eating Quavers.
We’ll do a route that is largely hardpack, so whilst we will all get wet nobody will actually drown.
See you at 8:15. It will be special.
We’ll do a route that is largely hardpack
But I've just fitted new mud tyres 🙁
Am oot.
No one to pick the girls up later, I think I'm more disappointed about missing out on meeting stw royalty than missing the ride.
Extra man points to anyone who turns out in this.
The forecast is still for this to die down after 7:00pm.
Seems like an ideal opportunity to resurrect this....
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Its absolutely sheeting it down horizontally here
stw royalty
Didn't Binners say he wasn't coming? 🙂
Thunder and lightning over here, when you can see it through the stair rod rain. 😯
Shall we call it off?
Well I've just read Inside New Order. The 'getting the band back together' idea seems to going as well as it did with them
*punches Harry*
*throws wine bottle at Daz's head*
In all seriousness. Taking a load of newbies out in this is stupid. There's bits of tree flying about round here.
Let's have a look at going in a fortnight if the weather allows.
I've contacted my newbies. There's nothing stopping you lot going out BTW, but I'm going to give it a swerve.
Yeah, I'm not feeling any great sense of disappointment, I think that's the right decision.
The main road is already under nearly a foot of water here. I hope Calderdale is going to be ok. 😕
Anyone fancy rivvy?
😀 you mad ****.
Anyone fancy rivvy?
No ta. I think it's wet enough to wash my house away right now.
I can already see the stern-faced Lancs Mountain Rescue bloke on tomorrows North West Tonight, stood in front of a the camera in a gale force wind, making a statement that starts with...
"Its just this kind of irresponsibility that put other peoples lives at risk...."
😀
They wouldn't be able to get the air ambulance to us in this.
I'm on 1st name terms with them.
Gonna chance a quick hour in this lovely weather...
Never mind Andy but you made the sensible decision.
Yep. We've probably done the best part of 150 MNPRs over the last few years and this is the worst weather I've seen.
Showing people round in this would put them off for life.
A night in watching the live river gauge website awaits... 🙂
the best part of 150 MNPRs
Craig will be along shortly with the exact figure, complete with number of miles travelled, average speed and pie and crisp consumption statistics.
It's an absolute minger of a night. I don't blame you.
I can already see the stern-faced Lancs Mountain Rescue bloke on tomorrows North West Tonight, stood in front of a the camera in a gale force wind, making a statement that starts with...
"Its just this kind of irresponsibility that put other peoples lives at risk...."
😆
I wish I'd said I could make now and pretend to be all disappointed.
I'm only a few miles from Rivvi and the wind is mental here, been caught once in really bad wind up there and we ended up pushing our bikes back down from the Pike, it's hardly like its the Lakes or owt. It's a hill.
Saw a bloke unpacking a bike out of a camper can on scout road...wondered if it was one of you lot.crazy
Unless it was a T6 I doubt it.
Tonight would have been stupid and irresponsible. No MNPR next week as we're riding the biggest BMX track in THE WORLD! 😀
Looks like the flooding started here already. A few roads closed. Flood warnings out for the whole area. There's water pouring off the tops.
A newbie ride tonight would be like asking someone if they fancied trying open water swimming, then throwing them out of a helicopter into the middle of lake Windermere!
😀
I''m stranded in manc. Trains are off and I've heard Tod is flooding. First f***ing storm of the winter and everything floods. Tories fault obviously. On the bright side I'm sat in Victoria station drinking a pint of Jaipur.
Some record river gauge readings already on the Tame at Uppermill, and the Irwell.
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😯
my train home from work was delayed by about 45 minutes. it's absolutely filthy over here. i really really hope duncan hasn't gone out in this, horwich is being battered by wind and rain same as everywhere else by the sounds of it.
Tame at Delph
Yikes, we'd have been driving (or floating) through there around about now. Assuming I could have got out [url= http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/three-flood-alerts-issued-holmfirth-12209907 ]through this lot[/url] in the first place that is.
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It's going to be like last winter all over again, isn't it? Great.
Is anyone out tonight ? havin me tea then ready to go, anyone ?
anyone ?