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Woah! You're all mad 😆
Assume you can clear it with ease?
nope..... been a while since I tried though!
What tyres for 'Cavedale'?
Will come if I'm fit enough.
Route tbd, where the d means decided by me, not derided, discussed, debated, deemed useless, decried crap or disappointingly put down by you lot.
So nerr.
Suggestions welcome though
I'll ride whatever is the route. I remember once before pook posted up a route and received numerous amendment requests..
Cavedale isn't slippy though- its very grippy. Its the loose stone over the top of the limesrtone that is the scary stuff! Plus if skiprat goes his falls always have me in tears of laughter 😀
pook,
e-mail'd you my current fave route to have a think about!!
Will is Hebden reachable on Sunday or just abit too far to drive?
Or.....Ladybower+Win Hill cheeky? We could also do the top of Parkin..
Assume you can clear it with ease?
I think you're missing the point. I simply don't like it in the way I dislike celery, the very dull climb that comes out near Hope Brink and being savaged by badgers. I can do all those things, I just don't want to. I realise that you espouse a sort of Nietzschean philosophy of mountain biking where difficulty is all and by transcending those difficulties, you attain some sort of higher level of being - at least in your own mind.
However, I suffer from none of these delusions. I simply enjoy riding my bike on nice trails and smiling and generally would rather blast down Dirtlow Rake and Pindale rather than mixing it with fat, dozy day-trippers stumbling up Cavedale and polishing the rock with their designed shell suits.
That said, I'm not telling anyone else what they should or shouldn't like, though I think it's telling that both Julian and Martyn agree with me, while the only person who supports your viewpoint is, erm, Hora. I rest my case 😉
Sunday would be So much better, childcare issues on Sat's...sadly.
Saturday is good for me. Currently at least.
Dunno. Pooks routes are always good though and its about a social ride 🙂
Hey - I might be able to make it...
Rachel
Could do both
wow, at least it got to the second page before a route rant!
hora - MemberOr.....Ladybower+Win Hill cheeky? We could also do the top of Parkin..
Bit of a ****tish thing to do at the weekend in a big group!!
yeah hora, whoever showed you those trails clearly wasn't thinking straight!
I wuz only joking about Cavedale btw. I don't really like it, but I'll happily ride it.
I'm in, probably. Depends when i go up to the 3 Peaks CX. But count me in for now 🙂
Will/Ladybower is to Will for THIS Sunday.
fair enough bwd, sounded genuine!
FWIW cavedale is a good one to show non-peaks folk IMO as its a bit different to the usual fare, pluse its only one brief section that people struggle with. the run down to it is quite a laid back laugh.
pook, currently working but if i can wriggle out of it then ill be there
fair enough bwd, sounded genuine!
I'm genuine in the sense that I think Cavedale's rubbish, but I don't mind riding it for a change.
This is the bit I most enjoy about pootles.
I always worry you lot are going to kill each other in the car park.
First part of Cavedale beats all of pindale hands down. Second part awakens you and makes you laugh at the bottom. 😀
Hora's bottom that is, sticking up out of a nettle patch
<checks diary>
Working....
Have fun all 🙂
I'm in! Never done cavedale before,mainly because i have no idea where it is!!
Be good to catch up with you all though!
hora - Member
Will/Ladybower is to Will for THIS Sunday
No go mate 🙁 staying in the big smoke!
Cavedale as it really is...
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Nah, Cavedale as it really is 😉
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🙂
Nice and dry:
See, if we [i]don't[/i] go down Cavedale now, people will be disappointed. 😉
On my video by the way, Cavedale is from 2mins in 😉
I remember the first time I rode it. Winter pootle- everyone gathered around the battered gate and I arrived and thought sod stopping its freezin and entering it abit too quick and suddenly thinking 'oh **** what is this'!!!
We'd only stopped cos we were waiting for you.
Looks like I should be on for this - it'll be my first STW ride since a STW Sherwood Pines gathering!
Looks good to me. Hope my tyres are up to the job though! I only have summer tyres as I don't ride in the winter much and just make do if I go out on the odd ride!
good vids AndyPaice,
Love our Cavedale looks like a pebbly bridleway 8)
I've picked a route.
Is someone missing a Skiprat? I'm in, falls and all!!
Pook is it possible that a group could go down Pindale and the other go down Cavedale then regroup? That way everyone is happy and people can decide 'on the day' how fruity they feel?
Cavedale from top to bottom is a lovely long descent. Yes there can be walkers but tbh theres not that many actually on the rocky section.
Hora - no comment.
right then pook... without giving to much away..
What tyres do I need?
Personally I reckon a deep-tread front.
What tyres do I need?
2.4 ADvantage would be ideal I reckon.
Failing that (and more realistic) whatever's on your bike 😉