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Great day. Cheers to Pook and NBT for organising. Everyone was lovely as usual. Look forward to todays pics/video.
Andy
Echo the above, cheers for sorting it all out Pook et al.
Actually managed to ride some of the sections today (til my mech issues!). Few little grainy pics coming up soon.
Great ride, thanks to Pook & NBT for the great organisation and to everyone else for making it enjoyable!
as above, was a nice day out in good company. thanks to pook and nbt.
Cheers everyone, particularly our guides, for the day. Great ride! I'm looking forward to doing it again sometime.
I'll get some shonky video up when I get it sorted.
rogerthecat - glad you enjoyed the walnut, date and apple cake. Will try and remember to put the recipe up tomorrow.
Hells - have just finished the chocolate brownie you gave me, it really is the nicest I've had for ages 🙂
Weather fairy was really kind to us today, it looks like most of the country was under rain clouds and wet again!
Thanks Pook and NBT, 😆 as above what a great ride I have never done anything like that before, and thanks for all the words of wisdom as I pootled along as fast as my legs would go, I loved it 😆
Great ride, great company, even great weather. 🙂
And cake. Lots of cake.
Still smiling!..........
Great day, great people. The look on some peoples face as we KEPT comming past. One bloke thought we were a race.
Good job we ended it when we did as was getting carried away. Leg now has two new bumps great!
Many thanks to everyone involved can't wait for the next one.
Thankfully the weather played on our side. Who arranged that?
And the road closure?
Glad you all enjoyed it today everyone - I really enjoyed leading it. Always good to put faces to names and it was nice to see so many smiles.
Thanks to Jules as always for the help with guiding - and to all the bakers for the amazing cakes; you can all come again!
I've had a look at the vids and they're looking good. I'll get the edit done this week sometime.
😀
cheers all
today has been spoiled only by the rugby league semifinal. the riding and company and everything was great, but i'm sad now 🙁
Oh BTW...
STRAVA!!!
Sorry for dreadful pic quality - iPhone lens is a wee bit scratched!
Starting to Wonder if I was a little 'underequipped' as the kit came out in the car park!
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Our glorious leader surveys his riders!
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Farewell dear friend, it's been a good ride but perhaps after 20 years I should upgrade!!
Also, think I may need that photography coaching ride, when is it again? 😀
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Was great to tag along again, haven't ridden xc in a while. Proper enjoyed it 😀
Thanks so much to everyone for yet another fabulous Pootle!
I went through some spectacular weather on the way home so we were so lucky. Oh - and Bunnyhop, your cake was delicious! (I didn't get to try any others)
Rachel
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Some taken at the pub too.
Yep, that was a grand day out as usual. Thanks as ever to Pook and nbt for route-deciding and cat-herding duties carried out faultlessly, and thanks to everyone else for being ace fun to ride with. Sorry I couldn't hang around for a pint, had to get home to entertain a small person for a bit. Cheers!
For the record I can now confirm, having lent him my pump, that Hora is in fact actually a real person...
(Tom, on the black and green Cotic.)
Oh Jog on Martyn you Northern pigeon fancying flat cap wearing git.
Thanks to Pook, NBT and everyone else, just going through the video now maybe it'll be up later 😉
Definately a very pleasant surprise this whole pootle lark! Even though I was initially a bit nervous at the concept of riding in such a humungazoid group, I thoroughly enjoyed it and how fantastic was the weather?! Big thumbs up to Pook for organising and leading it - top banana 🙂 (edited to add: and Jules too!!)
Do you know, I may even have got a touch of sunburn!
First time that's happened this "summer".
Do you know, I may even have got a touch of sunburn!
Me too! Strange.
Is it normal to try and get off the couch to go to the loo and nearly fall over? Am I [i]That[/i] unfit?? My legs are not working normally!
Still smiling...... 🙂
All gotta be good!!
Enjoy 🙂
Solarpowered. Should always finished tired, if a short ride climb harder!
Fantastic vid Tollah
+1 great vid that. good music too
Fantastic vid Tollah
Indeed, smashing stuff! I like it where he blasts past me like I'm doing a trackstand. Twice. I thought I was going quite well on those bits too. 😯
Indeed, smashing stuff! I like it where he blasts past me like I'm doing a trackstand. Twice. I thought I was going quite well on those bits too.
😳 sorry
Blimey thats a lot of riders
+1 great video.
😳 sorry
Not at all, I managed to get onto your wheel on the last hill, it was highly entertaining and educational. I really need to brake less. 🙂
rocketdog - we had 37 very well behaved riders. Walkers were great all day too - top day out.
Great video. I shall be dining out all week on the fact it took SEVERAL SECONDS to get past me at 6:00 🙂
Rachel
Lovely day. Was there a disagreement at the top of Cavedale involving the big puddles? I said nowt but it was a wee handbag moment between two riders 😆 (not me)
Onzadog and I (who ride together a lot) were playing silly buggers and splashing about like loons... That might have been us! Cracking ride btw... Forks are gonna cost a bit to be repaired.. Oh well.. I'll link my poor efforts at video making ASAP.
*shakes head sadly*
first thing on the video by the southerner is him riding the singletrack and avoiding the rocks
ach, for shame!
*shakes head sadly*
first thing on the video by the southerner is him riding the singletrack and avoiding the rocks
ach, for shame!
Ah! I need new cranks. Checking last night everything is loose spline/threadwise. Ive never had a crankarml
fall off before
I jumped in a puddle to soak Morton if that's what you mean?
^ answer above Pooky ^
I did too to soak my mate Ian. I inadvertently mis-timed it and got somebody else 😳
😆