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I will be moving to Hebden bridge in the next month and wondered if there are any groups/clubs/loners that wouldnt mind a tag along?
Need to get out on the bike and explore the area, find the trails and hoepfully meet like minded bikeophiles! LOL
Cheers!
Most of the Hebdon Groups are run by
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And tend to revolve around knitting hemp flavour yoghurt n stuff
The rest of us do fly-by raids, and get in and out before the dungaree wearing hoardes chase the 'potential rapists' out with pitchforks
hahaha not really sure what to make of that! or whether moving there is a good idea!! LOL
Not sure about groups/clubs/loners..but there are plenty of weirdos! 🙂
Blazing Saddles (local bike shop) do an evening ride, or at least they used to.
Despite being the wrong side of the border, We do pretty regular runs over there. You're in trail heaven round there. You can't go wrong. Get yourself an OS and get out there. Look out for posts of rides on here. I'll keep you posted of our sortees if you like
cheers, certainly will keep my eyes peeled for rides on here. And yea, please do keep me posted!
will be buying an OS map having just looked online, the mary towneley loop looks to have some sweet trails etc.
not so sure about the steepness of the climbs round there though! 😉
Every ride out of Hebdon starts with something brutal. Worth it though. A good one is to head up to Heptonstall, then head down the Blue Pig, then over to Pecketts Well. Great fun!
And tend to revolve around knitting hemp flavour yoghurt n stuffThe rest of us do fly-by raids, and get in and out before the dungaree wearing hoardes chase the 'potential rapists' out with pitchforks
One of the engineers at work lives in Hebden bridge and he said it was full of hippies and lesbians.
That's about the size of it neils.
I watched a player for the local football team start on a (dickhead) spectator the other week. It's different.
So far as riding goes I hope you like hills. Good place to just explore
Loads of riding, loads of riders, can't really go wrong. Lovely place.
Hebden Brige is one of the best bases for MTB action in the UK.
It also seems to be one of the best bases if you're a complete social misfit 🙂
Hebden Bridge - lovely place. A stones throw from where I come from 🙂
Just avoid the nutter at the bottom of a certain trail!
You lurvve him, you waaant to kiiisss hiiiiimmm.....
hora im intruiged... elaborate please! ??
yea from past visits to Hebden, ive noticed plenty of hippies and lesbian-looking woman (not to stereotype how they look), that doesnt really bother me to be honest, i thiink its quirky.. and defo better than chav filled towns!
may have a blast over the blue pig this weekend then, if current plans for the lakes fall through)!
cheers guys!
Plus Moyles restaurant is very nice too.
Talk with a cockney accent in a ll the bars and you'll be fine. They embrace 'outsiders'
haha will do, although im literally from two valleys away, so sadly have the same accent! ...Even still it feels like im miles away from home and travelled back 20 years!
Well I'm from Outlane. It feels like I've descended into the 80's.
I sat next two a group of hemp-wearing, rasta-haired ladies and all they talked about was their art workshops, picture making and going out. Then one mentioned what day they were due to sign on/doing after it.
I almost coughed into my drink 😆
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Greetland.
Hebden seems to have got a lot less edgy after dark. With the new skate park it seems to have given the yoof something positive to do.
haha Hora that thread is brilliant! what a nutter. ive trained in thai boxing the last 4 years, so am sure il be fine. like you say though, not giving him the reaction he wants is the best way!
the 20-30 sized group, was that a local club?
You'll love it. My old 2004 silver Subaru Forester 'works' around there delivering food/milk. I miss it 🙁
billysugar, your pretty much a Hebdener then arent you? 😉
im from Ilkley, so thats far enough to be called an 'outsider'
you miss what? the forester?
Yes. Two years of love and trying to kill me (and passengers) 8)
lol i work for subaru, so as far im concerned, you were in the safest car on the road! 😉
Golden? I'm looking out for a oldish Subaru with 1 owner/good history and mechanics. If you see any that you wont forecourt due to age and probably straight to auction give me a shout? 🙂 (mail in profile).
I've had a newshape Legacy Sportswagon and the Forester.
no i dont work for a dealership. work for subaru uk
so your wanting another forester? petrol is assuming if you want old?
I'd love another Forester. (or Impreza 5door).
The only neg on the Forester was the gearchange but that was the only thing. The way it pulled into bends. ****.
Check out the Blazing Saddles ride on Wednesdays. There's another one that goes out of the Stubbing Wharf pub on Thursdays (can't remember the time -Blazings will probably know). I'm not organised enough about riding to go but quite often bump into them on the tops.
A friend of mine runs a ride for girls on Mondays. I take it you're not a girl though?
I've never seen anyone chasing blokes with pitchforks. Shame really, I have a shop on Market Street and a bit of entertainment doesn't go amiss.
This is a beautiful part of the world - the only way is steep up and that takes getting used to. But you will. You're hitting it at the coldest darkest patch of the year so you're really going to appreciate the spring!
cheers for that Clover, and no, im not a girl, although my hill climbing ability has been likened to that of! (no offence intended girls)!
il be sure to get along to some of the rides!
if anyone on here is planning a ride any time soon, give us a shout! 🙂
Hora, i work closely with the dealerships so will keep my eyes open for you mate.
Yes. Two years of love and trying to kill me
Don't you have to get a car above 20mph for it to become dangerous? You have a bloke walking in front of yours with a red flag. Grandma!
Your hill climbing ability will improve. There is no option.
Lee and Cragg Quarry are on your doorstep too if you're up by the 20th there's a ride being organised (on another thread) - it'll be a blast.
would have loved to Clover, but im riding coed y brenin and llandegla that weekend! thanks though!
my climbing isnt that bad, just my mates ride plastic bikes and are a foot shorter than me! haha 😉
billysugar, your pretty much a Hebdener then arent you?
My mum grew up there. Explains a lot about me really.
I'll be there tomorrow slipping and sliding around Hardcastle Craggs area on me green filing cabinet.
aah, a fellow orange rider. lol what you on?
also, who started this filing cabinet malarkey?! heard it a few times today when a mate was going to orange factory for the dealer day!
Not sure about the filing cabinet thing. Might have been funny the thousandth time. Yeah people who buy because of hysteria should be mocked but I only live less than a mile from the factory and a mate works there so I can feel all warm inside about making his job secure for the fraction of time he worked on mine.
2011 Five Pro in apple green.
Cheers 🙂
If your near Manchester tomorrow come for a drink with us all
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Greetland.
Hebden seems to have got a lot less edgy after dark. With the new skate park it seems to have given the yoof something positive to do.
Yes, the troublesome yoofs now all hang around there so don't go to Calder Holmes Park after dark, or early evening for that matter. Last time I rode through with a group of 5 or 6, all 20+ of em were effin and jeffin at us. Nutters, propers scrotes.
I think it the park is a bit of a no-go area at now.
loads of crack / smack head according to the BBC
oh yes, and moving to the calder valley means you will soon know someone who works at Orange and will be looking to buy one cheap. Mother-in-law lives in same block of apartments as Steve Wade's mum. There's my connection!
a good intro to a lung buster is to leave the park at the train station end, head up past wood top, then climb the cobbled Spencer Lane (runs alongside a steep field previously used as a downhill track!) then straight up to Stoodley Pike via Jonny Gap. I don't think there are many routes where you gain such altitude in such a short burst.
Done that in reverse rockhopper. Really slowly, desperately looking for a trail off that cobbled road. That's a waste of a steep hill.
HEBDEN BRIDGE IS A DRUG TOWN WITH A TOURIST PROBLEM....
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