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[Closed] My longest day off road - with pics!

robdob · 2013-11-24T08:26:49Z

Yesterday I rode from Huddersfield to Brighouse then got the train to Hebden Bridge then rode back to Hudds along the Pennine bridleway, via Marsden then the Huddersfield narrow canal back home. Wow that was hard work but so satisfying to finish. I've never ridden this far off-road in a day and I admit I was ruined when I got home. I did have to walk up a lot of the hills as I didn't want to tire myself out and be stranded after hitting the wall and I'm glad I was careful. 33 miles, 95% offroad, 4500ft of climbing. It was an amazing day weather wise - in the first half of the ride the ground was frozen so no mud but as the day went on it melted so it got steadily more wet and muddy. The descent down into Marsden was especially precarious and I went OTB on one bit into a big muddy hole so I ended up looked like some sort of monster from the deep! Looking towards Stoodley Pike: [URLLooking back to the same: [URLMore packhorse trail.... [URLChillin' at the Rochdale Canal: [URL[URLHollingsworth Lake: [URLStart of the uphill to go above the M62: [URLI love massive civil engineering stuff like this, scary and awesome at the same time: [URL[URL[URLReservoir in middle of nowhere. Met Rochdale Cycling club members here who were taking out kids who had learning difficulties/disabilities/blindness (didn't know which) and they were riding Thorn tandems with the kids on the back with semi slicks and mudguards! Bouncing and slithering down the muddy bridleway but they looked like they were having fun. Nice work guys! [URLOne of the last NEVER ENDING up hills. [URL

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scotroutes

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[quote=iainc ]Looks a good route for a [s]CX[/s] fat bike
😆

Posted : 24/11/2013 10:52 pm

robdob

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I hit the slabs and the bike landed on top of me! Feel like I've been beaten up today..... 😉

Thankfully 25 years of falling off MTB's meant I had just time to roll rather than do a KERSPLAT on the slabs. 😀

Posted : 24/11/2013 11:10 pm

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