[Closed] Monday Night Pub Ride – July 7th

I may be able to make this one as I have my annual monday night pass out as apparently a free trip to Barcelona is more fun that me....hard to believe this

Off to negotiate Suarez's new contract? It'll be good to see you anyway mate. Its been a while. Still modelling?

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Because he's worth it. Apparently.

In!!!

Ignore them Junkyard, they're only jealous 😀

This might be a bit premature. But then I'm often guilty of that. You did say we were meeting at [url= http://www.kaypage.co.uk/sheps/ ]The Shepherds Rest[/url]?

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those breast look more like yours than mine 😉

Swishes hair nonchalantly as he flounces away

Ooo. Todmorden? I could probably make it to this. What time do you usually meet for these things?

8:15.

As of tomorrow I'll be a 'local' (obviously I won't be seen as such by the proper locals until I've grown an extra toe), so I'll be there.

High six dazh!!!!!!! 😀

8:15.

Smashing, ta. Can definitely do that, hooray.

Indeed...

The Shepherd's Rest, Lumbutts Road, Todmorden OL14 6JJ

8.15pm

There's loads of parking at the pub, and we'll be doing a couple of loops around the pike. It'll be some packhorse track and some singletrack, ending in a nice pint. What can possibly go wrong?

I'm there!!! New bike has arrived (minus the reverb as they forgot to pack it) so I shall show my face. I'll be on the silver/green cube frittz.

Hope to be there again. If anyone is leaving from the city centre the first pint (for the lift giver) is on me!

Train from Victoria takes 28 minutes. Get off at Walsden, it's about 15 mins at most up the hill.

Great. Cheers Clover, you've saved me a pint of mild there.

*Checks in*

Ill be there, if I can get my jabs up to date for that far north.

Squeaking away, again. Despite new frame bearings.

I'll be there with my showing-people-round head on. Clover's currently ill in bed so she might not make it. However, she'll pass on the secret co-ordinates to me and I'll make sure you get a nice tour o'valley.

Might be damp, might not...

I might not be able to get out tonight i'm afraid 🙁

I wont know until the last minute - so don't wait for me. If I'm coming I will be there in good time!

Binners, do you want a lift?

Just mailed you mate. Lets hope I have a bit more luck than my last Tod visit, where, somewhat unusually for me, I trashed my bike

It was a very nice walk back to the car though

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Hope Clover's feeling better soon Chipps

If anyone is leaving from the city centre

The Mrs isn't getting back til late-ish tonight so a bit pushed for time on the way, but I can give you a lift back if that's any good?

eightyeight - where in the city centre are you?

I should have time on the way up, I've only got to retubeless a tyre when i get home, what could go wrong? 😐

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The Shepherd's Rest? That's well over 100m of climbing from the train station! [i]Before we start![/i] Good grief, whatever next 😉

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He went to this uni, ya' know...

Luckily some of us have a sense of humor!

dazh - thanks that would be great. I'm the one on the Boardman FS looking sheepish.

scaled - I'm just opposite Beetham Tower (Dmitris). A lift would be grea! I was going to get the 19.26 train from Victoria to arrive at Walsden for 19.59 so no worries if not.

Binners - quite the coincidence, I'm from the South West and used to take Badgerline X37 from Keynsham. Good times.

Also, no one motioned the 100m climb! That lift is looking even more appealing scaled....

Talking of good times. For those who haven't read, or just wanted to revisit that particular piece of [url= http://www.lost-soul.co.uk/drac/Singletrack%20-%20Mountain%20Bike%20Magazine.htm ]STW Gold[/url]

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Ah go on then - drop me an email (in profile) with your address and phone number and i'll pick you up about 7ish?

Google says 45 mins drive from yours

Thanks Scaled, YGM.

Please don't worry if it is a bit of a faff, just let me know and I'll get the train.

I think I'm in this evening. I'll be on the train so if you see a big lad wheezing up the hill to the pub, give us a wave!

whatever next?

How about The Urn / The Rake / The Tower?

That'll show these Yarkshur types that they don't have a monopoly on hills. Waddaya think Binners?

I think I'm in this evening. I'll be on the train so if you see a big lad wheezing up the hill to the pub, give us a wave!

I'll be driving through Walsden at about 8:00 ish. The first one of you that I see can have a lift up the hill. I'll be in a black SMax.

We can certainly do that next week, if you fancy? I think most people have only done it after dark, when its a bit sloppy. So a blast down in the dry, when you can see, would be a novelty.

We'd have to reign in the cheekiness aspect slightly. But we could do a loop of the out and out dossing about variety. The 3 brutal climbs, subsequently brill descents, but take in a loop over the (now dry) moors over Bull Hill - just to add in another massive climb, as there clearly not enough already 😀

Or the long descent down to Irwell Vale. If you mention Bucky Woods I'll punch you up the bracket 😉

Also, no one motioned the 100m climb!

We'll leave Bucky Woods for the next time it snows then 😉

The descent off Bull Hill is a belter in either direction. We can string tougether a great up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down route. Might be best to start from the H&H, then we finish on the descent through Reddisher to the pub.

That'd miss out the Rake (sorry about that) but still leave you to climb the side of Holcombe Hill twice (at least)

Sounds like a plan.

Me and my KOM* legs will be there 🙂

*only so called cos they're white and covered in red spots. Bloody midgies.

Buckden woods is ace. Why would you want to avoid it?

Buckden woods is ace

That is a matter of opinion. Your opinion is wrong.

Is this another circular route? Can I leave my lock at the pub, or should I leave it at Tod station?

How tough will this be? I pulled a muscle a couple of weeks ago and haven't ridden since so probably going to slow everyone down (Bear in mind I probably would have anyway.)

Quite tempted to jump in the car and come along

I'll be there. 🙂

Running late, still trying but might not make it in time. Struggle on without me if I don't...

Is this another circular route?

I hope so. I'm not going to cycle for 2 hours in a straight line away from the car.

Yes. All rides return to the pub 🙂
Chipps (for an ill Clover...)

I'm pootling up the hill.... There's some sort of LWB waymarker... I must be on the right track 😉

You lot and your cars! I left it at the station!

Missed the train, definitely out. Might see you on the hills though. I'll be the one wheezing etc.etc.etc.

Just FYI definitely won't be there. Hope to be more organised and make it next week though

Top stuff!

A little bit battered and bruised though. I'm not saying that I flew a long way in the shunt near then end... but it showed up on my Strava trace.

Zoom in about 100m from the finish 😀

http://app.strava.com/activities/163038381

It was a good stack - and at least it had a witness. I'd put it as a 'wrong-rutted and sliding but i-can-get-it-back to full-on out the front door' and into a hole... Gracefully done!
Nice to see everyone out. Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons. 😉

That was ace fun, thanks Chipps for guiding and everyone else for the good company, I had a smashing time. (Tom, beardy git on the green Cotic Soul.) 😀

Quality stack Harry! Though it confused me a bit. Getting down the last descent, in sight of the pub, seeing a bike lying on the trail, but no rider. I presumed it'd been abandoned in the rush for the holy grail of a cold pint. Then the swamp thing emerged from the ditch. Some considerable distance away. Well... Actually... Hauled out by Chipps! Good effort! 🙂

Great ride tonight though! Cheers Chipps!

Yeah cheers for the route chipps. Good fun that and that last descent definitely provided a few buttock clenching moments with that drop on the right.

Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons.

These early Tuesday starts aren't very conducive to the late Monday evenings 😕

if i didnt work away id have had this - can someone describe the route you took?

Dark and rocky with a bit that made your brakes smoke.

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had on, im confused. i thought you were talking about the H&H, bull hill & bucky woods etc? (just looked at the strava thing)

H&H, bull hill & bucky woods etc?

That's next week.

early starts

I just set off for work, but I was home at 1230 and eating reheated curry at 1:45!

Great ride, though my knee is now going blue and I need to order me some brake pads.

Got to bed at 1.15.

Up at 5.10 😯

...mate...

I find post night rides, wired, with no chance of sleep, to be the perfect time to catch up on [s]porn[/s] whatever I've recorded during the last week. The stuff that would get the eye-rolling, tutting, stern look, or flat-out refusal if tentatively suggested for an evenings communal viewing

So I watched the Armstrong Lie, then weird BBC4 cycling documentary Velorama last night. With a couple of ales. Sod getting up at 5. I don't know. You lot and your proper jobs? 😀

I was in bed by 11:45 and up at 5:40, with a wake up at 4:00 when me daughter went for a wee and shouted the house down because she couldn't get a balloon to stay on the top of the lift tower on her toy garage.

Aaaah... the old balloon and lift tower conundrum? To be fair to her, its baffled some of the worlds greatest thinkers

The balloon will stay there now. 👿

Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons

Hmmm yes, got a bit carried away last night. Probably why I ended up in a ditch 🙂

Brilliant route though. Nowt like a bit of exposed, high consequence techy-ness in the dark to focus the mind!

<Update on the results of my "flying lesson">

Moving my head to the left is causing a noise that sounds like snapping carrots.

Will I die?

Dunno, - ask a doctor!

What would Jensie do? I'm not hanging about in a waiting room full of sick people coughing at me.

I'll be reet.

Holcombe Hill next week. Dead flat. Dead slow. Oh... hang on.

What would Jensie do?

Obviously he'd shout 'Shut up neck!'.

This is getting frustrating! Managed to get a lift sorted for the mrs so that I could come out and play - then we had an emergency at work and I had to stay on site until about 9.

Gutted!