[Closed] PEAKS POOTLE: 14th July - it's been a while

I'm sure is wasn't that loose last time either.

The rain will have done a lot of damage. The smaller stuff that filled the gaps was a lot more washed out leaving just the big rocks to ping about off.

It's a service I provide this making up excuses for you 😉

Thank you. It is appreciated. It sounds so much more convincing coming from you.

😀

forgot to say folks, that thanks to your generosity the pootle raised just shy of £40 for edale mountain rescue.

cheers

See, now, having seen all three videos I'm really sad to have missed that. Never mind, maybe when I become wealthy enough to own a car I can pop along. Either that or save for trains and plan ahead... oh who am I kidding?

hora - Member

I was actually admiring your large magnific[b]e[/b]nt testicles.

Understandable, but they do catch on my pedals and slow me down.

bit of a thrill though eh?

swampy - where are you based?

Next time I hope to join you

Next time I hope to join you

We have space if you need to kip over. We'll ride tandem too. That kind of leads to the conclusion it should be somewhere near marple to make it easier for the tandemeers. There's a station in Marple so you don't even need to hire a car, if you can get the tandem on a train...

Oi. don't you go taking away the non-tandemers entertainment by gazumping a steady route.... I've never seen a tandem on the beast.....

You've never been on the back of a tandem, so I'll forgive your assumption that the beast would be more difficult. The length of the wheelbase makes "hard" things much easier, tt's "tight" things you have to worry about (*). Getting a tandem round a switchback is not easy. Thank **** we ride in the peak district where we can't afford corners.

* fnaaaar fnaaaar

tandems are not allowed on trains basically.

Ta for the offer NBT

That looked Pootletastically amusing as ever. Unfortunately I was somewhere overhead between Zurich and Manchester, but I thought fondly of you all as I marvelled at the number of big-boned holidaymakers reading Fifty Shades of Filth. At least I got big air, or something. I'm sure there's a flying over the Peak joke there somewhere. Anyway, next time...

I have been on the back (and front) of a tandem

:op

I have been on the back (and front) of a tandem

My apologies, I do recall seeing the pictures. How much offroad have you done? The Last Drop to Rowarth went pretty well so I'd be happy to try the beast, not sure Mrs NBT would be as sanguine about it though

I rode the old railway from wadebridge to padstow.

it was well gnar.

Here's my cut and stick effort. Youtube wanted 6 hours of my life for a HD upload, so it's normal, crappy, standard quality. I hope your eyeballs are glued in, the camera work is a bit shaky 😳

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We need an update on the effects of the [b][i]Gary Ewing Infinite Mechanicals Scenario[/i][/b]. For those who haven't heard of it, Gary's theorem suggests that as the number of riders in a group increases, the probability of a mechanical failure increases, as does the chance that the failure will be serious - e.g. if you ride a alone, you might not get a puncture for years, but send a thousand people out on a ride and you'll see some broken frames

From what people said at the time and on this thread we had:

[list]
[*]at least four punctures[/*]
[*]a snapped bar end[/*]
[*]a broken mech hanger[/*]
[*]two broken spokes[/*]
[*]a broken pedal[/*]
[*]a blown damping cartridge[/*]
[/list]

Anything else?

As regards the damping cartridge, I'm sure the guy (ChrissyJ?) said he'd only been riding since August - if that's true, I'd be talking to the retailer about getting it looked at under warranty. The guy with the broken mech hanger also broke some spokes (and I htin kit was him with pedal issues) and should consider a new bike 😛 😆

Didn't Hora's crank fall off on the way up the Roman road?

I had a pinch flat, put in a new tube and ripped the core out when it was nearly up, started again... Fingers crossed that the dented rim will still work tubeless, I've remembered why I took that option in the first place.

Should add, thanks for the tube donation. Would have been a long and miserable walk to the pub.

Be interesting to tally up what tyres punctured and whether or not they were tubeless.

@Onzadog, Larsen TT and tubed, probably not the best idea but i couldn't be arsed changing it.

Andeh, you appear to be the Les Dawson of the filming world, your playing the right bits just not necessarily in the right order 😀

My legs broke 3/4 up Chapel Gate does that count?

Was that why you fell over at the top then 😀

Well I had a pinch flat too, tyres are Geax Saguaro on FSA XC-500 Tubeless Wheelset but wasn't running them as tubeless.

Rim looks to be OK, no obvious damage!

Specialized something or other, run with tubes. Usually tubeless (and bigger volume) but ripped a sidewall the week before, didn't get round to swapping the tyre until Saturday morning and decided to take the quick option.

Xar - Member

Was that why you fell over at the top then

I think you'll find it was a technical dismount and scores an 8.3 level of difficulty. 😀

My blue Heckler developed a serious case of chain suck/rear mech issues.

It's needed a full service for a while now though. Next time I'll bring the Chameleon!

andeh - Member
Here's my cut and stick effort. Youtube wanted 6 hours of my life for a HD upload, so it's normal, crappy, standard quality. I hope your eyeballs are glued in, the camera work is a bit shaky

You are Dr Who and you ride a Tardis, ICMFP. 😀

Dodders (on the cube) flatted a Hans dampf with inner tube on the last decent.

Me and the wife were both running nevegal 2.1 ust on flow rims and faired well.

Chrissyj was on conti rq-bc-ust on flow tubeless and survived.

I sometimes get a bit bored when It's just one descent after another on a video......I thought I'd mix them up a bit 8)

Minion DHF dual ply on the front, tubeless. Swalbe Rocket Ron on the back, with one of them tube things in, whilst I get around to replacing the rim…

No punctures, but then I ran the same in Morzine last year and didn't have punctures there, either. I guess I'm just lucky that way (or not riding hard enough!!!)

Oh - and the Rohloff was amazingly brilliant!!! (sorry if I offended your ears, [b]Hora[/b]!)

Rachel

Tubed Nobby Nics, I pinched the rear coming down pindale and do the same on most rides with a bit of rock involved.

Need new tyres so I can set them up tubless as the current sidewalls are ****ed! Can't decide which tyres to get though!

Rachel, hora offends peoples' eyes so call it karma.

This forum so needs a like button on occasion… 😉

I can't believe I've been trying to link up with one of your Pootles for over, what 5 years now 😯

They ALWAYS fall when I've got the children *bashing head against the wall smiley*

Pook are you glad I stayed quiet and hidden mainly on Sat?

Someone even commented that I'm quieter in person/real life.

I'd try a Rodolholf (smashes keyboard to enable spelling) - the only issue is the cost/outlay for me.

I missed you you hunk of love you

"onward Julian. Tally ho!" had thinking we were some sort of mock fox hunt.

Well done Pook! The pootles look like a lot of fun and it is great that you include "all abilities". I did think I might be 'too old', but will try to make the next outing and see how it goes.
Have enjoyed following the banter and watching the videos - Chest mounts are new to me, but seem a much better option.
I recognize some of the route from videos - think it is roughly what is shown below.
[img] http://www.heavygoods.org.uk/images/Pootle_route copy.jpg[/img]

Ah but some of us had mechanical failure and many punctures a few days before the pootle, so it would have been most unfortunate to have even more on the day.

Chest mounts are new to me, but seem a much better option.

From what people said at the time and on this thread we had:

at least four punctures
a snapped bar end
a broken mech hanger
two broken spokes
a broken pedal
a blown damping cartridge

Anything else?

And in fairness, 1 of the punctures, the broken spokes, the broken mech hanger and the broken pedal were all down to one rider. It really, really is time he got a new bike (the fugly Marin tied together with bits of shoelace :wink:)

I recognize some of the route from videos - think it is roughly what is shown below.

that link ain't working, but [b]h4muf[/b] posted a link to the route on his Strava further up the thread. It was Edale - Chapel Gate - Sunken Track - along rushups edge on the closed road - past Rowter Farm - Dirtlow Rake - Pin dale - Hope - Roman Road - Hope Cross - Jaggers Clough - Edale - Cake - pub

tollah didn't need a chest mount he rested it on his wok -runs away fast and hides.

Ahem..........That's what helps me with momentum on the descents BH