[Closed] PEAKS POOTLE - 22nd January

I am tempted to come just for the Beef & Onion Roll + Onion Rings at the Ladybower Inn......

where was the special bus parked to collect the people in the pic from?

Ralph, we call it a Magic Bus.

Drat! I'm in Herts doing a skills day with Jedi.
I'll be on the next one if possible with new skills and prowess. Probably no faster uphill though. 🙁

ooh, I could be OK for that 🙂

I'd like to see how you get on Robdob.

If I go on this pootle I'll be in the company of ourkidsam who is also known as el 'snakehip' nino.

If I have a working bike and I can arrange transport I may well join y'all for this...

Hora - yeah no problem - going with PeterPoddy so should be ace!!

I'll be there.

Oh hang on, no I won't. Dang, I forgot.

I'm in San Di Freakin Ego!

I'll be thinking of you in the cold wet peaks, slithering down The Beast as I cruise Laguna Mountain in 22 degree with baby blue skies.

Yeah, and you'll be jealous.

I'm working. Sounds crap anyway.

well i'm thinking of doing your route tom so you're probably right

Toms route without the sand-blasting wind and searing ice coldness? 😆

Yep I'm in as long as I'm not working

Busy, sadly, can't make it 🙁

I think I can make it

Yours, El 'snakehips' Nino

oo - I might be able to make this!!!!

Rachel

Yeah, and you'll be jealous.

Pook would love to join you, seriously. Next time though.

😉 always welcome old chap.

Like I say folks - these are social rides. If you're a race snake, be prepared to wait in good humour!

But most of you know the drill anyway.

I'm thinking....

Ladybower,
Thornhill,
Hope Brink,
Hope Cross,
The beast OR potato alley
Rowlee farm
Lockerbrook
Fairholmes for a cuppa
Derwent Edge,
Whinstone Lee Tor,
Ladybower Pub descent
Ladybower.

It's about 15 miles on varied terrain.

If the wind is anything like last week the Beast would be a much better option. Not sure how Whinstone is at the moment either, it was awful boggy a few weeks ago but it may have dried up now.

We went up last week. Even coming off Win Hill was tough thanks to the wind. I'm offering up potato alley as lots of pootles have been down the beast already as you can see up there ^^^

Whinstone is surprisingly alright in the main (except the constantly muddy bottom bit)

I'm in!

Let's push the proverbial boat out and go UP the Beast. I want to practice my trials skills 😆

Ha ha! up the beast - that'd be.....fun.

Another suggestion. nearly all my Ladybower rides end up being cut short due to (lack of) time so I very rarely end up on Derwent Edge/Whinstone Lee Tor. Is there any scope for fitting that in earlier on?

Feel free to shoot me down 🙂

Oh no, can't make it.

Need to get fit for the next one though. Have fun everyone.

means we wouldn't end on a descent then....

I wish people would give Whinstone Lee Tor and Cut Throat Bridge a break over the winter. We dont ride there from Nov - March for a reason.

Unless its frozen solid, its muddy and no fun to ride, so I dont know why people do.

It gets wider and wider every year and does not recover in the summer anymore either.

That's a valid point Rik - but I ride it and get muddy. I don't widen the trail by riding round things puddles and I actively encourage people to do the same.

If we were to avoid all the sloppy sections in the peak over winter though there wouldn't be much riding going on at all.

At the moment this is purely a suggested loop - feel free to offer alternatives.

perhaps one of these pootles could be a trail maintenance ride

I take it this will be a cheek free version of 'my' ride chris? Ie missing the best bit?

Not that I'm coming but I reckon a pooch pootle would be ace to do wlt the other way, get people on each gate to hold em and warn ramblers and give the majority a clean run top to bottom. You could then go up the fire road, down hagg, up the permissive and down the [s]tree head butting descent[/s] hope brink or something?

see where you're coming from....

Avoiding it would be like saying the whole of the Isle of Man is going to ban all cars.....whilst China puts another million new cars on the road....

I think I'll be OK for this too ...count me in, Pook.

Cool - hopefully it'll be drier than today

If wifey isn't recovering from night shift, I'm in (3rd attempt)

yes please

may come along

I shall be rocking out and having a curry in Bradford that day / night

Hopefully should be okay for this.
I`ll check with the gaffer first
to be sure.

I might be able to make this, perhaps with one or a few others. I'll see

When you say "Ladybower Pub descent"
Do you mean cutthroat bridge or the 'other' one (which can be rather good, not sure in slop though) as they both come out behind the pub onto the road in front?

How long will it be before somebody sanitises the bottom of WLT-cutthraot - I'd bet they sanitise all the way to the road (at cutthroat) though, which would be a shame

Normally in winter after gores fm descent I head up the fireroad next the dam just above fairholmes (could drop down to fairholmes cafe via the stepped path and back up the road) back upto near lockerbrook farm and back down hagg, then up and down the permissive b.way (with the extra bit at the end) back to ladybower dam if not parkd in the A57 layby below 2 thorn fields farm. That'd bring it upto 4 hills (last one not being full size and easily ridden parallel next to the resevior)

WLT to Cutthroat.

I know where you mean - yeah it's a clear option, but the permissive is a bog too so it's six of one....

If WLT were to be sanitised, I don't think anything we could do would make a difference. From my own experience, it's more often walkers that avoid the puddles than cyclists.

Yeh... might show up

The permissive is more sloppy/slimey than boggy so shouldn't result in axle deep over the bars stuff. Plus you get Hagg Farm
Both climbs are all rideable too

Only a suggestion anyway