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will try and make this one (weather permitting).
may have to fit the tinsel, as it'll be nearly C....mas
I have approval, anyone needing a lift from the mystic East?
Where exactly is the mystic east??
That's the mysterious bit.
where is nbt's mystic east?
Hels, I'm starting from Ipswich. If you can bear the shame of arriving in an Audrey you'll be fine. (Forced to drink beer last night hence the satellite delay).
Might see you there.
I'm out, family duties call.
I wont be able to come out to play 😥 christmas thingy do
after the enjoyable time we had on the [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/rivington-forum-ridepootle-sunday-9-th-december-with-1030-start/page/3#post-4452623 ]Rivington pootle[/url], hope to see a few of you out this weekend
THis is a proper pootle though, so [b][i]BRING CAKE[/i][/b].
subject to hangover
For consideration by whoever's in charge of route.... Charity Lane was sheet ice, pretty much from wall-to-wall, on Sat night.
Looking at the forecast and knowing how Charity Lane holds onto snow and ice, I reckon it will be snow on top of ice on Saturday.
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Macclesfield_Forest_and_Wildboarclough/long.html
I might take a stroll up there on Friday after work and see.
that'd be appreciated ta
to be fair though, there's not much else I can think of to get us over from the Leathered Smithy to Forest Chapel, and pervious Macc-Fests have often included a frozen skate down Charity Lane!
True.
It's more a case of "[i]fore-warned is fore-armed[/i]". I've ridden down there in all manner of foul conditions.
The worst bit was on the climb up to the top before the fun begins - that was wet, smooth ice; completely unrideable - in fact, not easy to walk on. Once over the top there was enough rock sticking through, slushy bits or running water to be rideable and fun. You just had to judge when you could/couldn't do boring stuff like braking and steering.
does anybody have a postcode of the car park for Sat Nav purposes?
I'm a no can do, can't get it off work so close to Christmas. That and I'm probably the least fit I've been in about 4 years, but mainly the work thing.
Application submitted for a day pass, could be tricky as I am using up favours pretty fast at the moment.
You could miss out much of Charity by turning right onto the footpath before you fork up to the tarmac grind (uphill skate). Depends on your views re fp riding.
[quote=dawson ]does anybody have a postcode of the car park for Sat Nav purposes?
Streetmap suggests [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=398715&Y=369885&A=Y&Z=120 ]SK11 0BD[/url]
[quote=cb ]You could miss out much of Charity by turning right onto the footpath before you fork up to the tarmac grind (uphill skate). Depends on your views re fp riding.
I ride based on suitability, not legality. I think I've ridden that footpath but not for a few years - I probably won't use it on a group ride like this
nbt - Memberto be fair though, there's not much else I can think of to get us over from the Leathered Smithy to Forest Chapel, and pervious Macc-Fests have often included a frozen skate down Charity Lane
You could head off round the bottom end of Ridgegate Res which is ll off road, all be it a sandstone track and pick up the fireroad climb (Nessit Hill) that would bring you out at Standing Stone Carpark then its a short road section over to Forest Chapel? Granted is not as exciting as Charity but then again its also a lot less painful for you pootle'ers than Leather Smithy > Charity Lane
Carl
You could miss out much of Charity by turning right onto the footpath before you fork up to the tarmac grind (uphill skate). Depends on your views re fp riding.
I ride based on suitability, not legality. I think I've ridden that footpath but not for a few years - I probably won't use it on a group ride like this.
Depends how the group feel about riding up steps. Also, I've only ever been 'caught' on a fp once and it was on that one. Came round the corner and there's a chap in the red fleece of a Peak Park ranger. They have a base in Macc Forest and it was a sunny Sat afternoon so hardly surprising.
You could head off round the bottom end of Ridgegate Res which is ll off road, all be it a sandstone track and pick up the fireroad climb (Nessit Hill) that would bring you out at Standing Stone Carpark then its a short road section over to Forest Chapel? Granted is not as exciting as Charity but then again its also a lot less painful for you pootle'ers than Leather Smithy > Charity Lane
True but I suspect we may have just come down that way.
Humm, nearly always finish on that side of the forest, not
necessarily on the fire road though
Are you all going to ride in Christmas clobber? I think you should - it being that time of year and all!
Are you all going to ride in Christmas clobber?
No, but I will leave my humbugs at home.
Ah.... damn my complete inability to read things right in front of me....
This is [b]Sunday[/b] isn't it? Not Saturday as I told the wife the other day.
Let's see how the weekend pans out domestically.....
Plans for Sunday [i]were[/i] put up and decorate Xmas tree with kids in the morning and paint upstairs door frames in the afternoon. I see a future in which the tree gets done on Sat afternoon and the door frames remain undercoat only for another week.
looks like you're set for decent weather
Bugga. Cant make this. As its the last balance bike sesh at the velodrome Sunday. No more for hora jnr til Jan. **** ****. 🙁
Me and the misses will be coming now we thinks 🙂
Thats bad timing....looks like we're only going cause hora can't make it lol
😆
Sorry, but having reviews my commitments over the next few weeks I can't makes it!!
Somebody else will have to supply the brownies! 🙁
Booo 🙁
I can't make it either. I did intend to come along as well 🙁
I've ridden charity lane quite a few times and it's the best part of that ride, so don't miss it out. Me and ma mate do a ride where we get the train up to macc just so we can ride that lane. The worst one once was when we got up there in winter to find the lane had been trashed by snow. like 3 foot deep. We ended up luigging our bikes along the very narrow grassy bank to the right of it, a right pain. If you clean the whole lane down to the chapel it's loads of fun and I've never not come away from it grinning my head off.
Me neither - family commitments (read transport manager for 2 teenagers) have filled the day. Sorry! 🙁
I think it's fair to say we're not going to have a dust problem on Sunday.
Jekkyl - I agree about not missing Charity Lane - I must have ridden it 100 times in [b]all[/b] kinds of conditions and it's always fun of one sort or another. I don't know the route NBT's got planned but as we're parking at the bottom of Cumberland Clough, I can hazard a guess and would disagree that Charity Lane is the best part of the ride.
*rasises eyebrows* this sounds interesting? I missed the magazine and so didn't see the route in the mag. Where is this ride that is better than charity lane? I would be most interested in cycling it.
thanks.
Well, I didn't pay too much attention to the mag route as it's my back yard but I remember a pic of someone on Cumberland Clough, we're meeting at the bottom of Cumberland Clough and NBT's first post talks about "[i]... finish with the best downhill[/i]".
well if it ends there and is offroad, just checking a map it can only be a sidetrack off to the right from danebower hollow, that track that runs away over the moor directly opposite the cat n fiddle. Looking on an OS map that sidetrack has small dashes and not big ones. OOh cheeky!
If you guys are going up to charity lane from the leathersmithy [i]AND[/i] going up to the cat n fiddle you will need your climbing legs on and then some. lol.
I'd really like to come but I'm not going to.
Jekkyl - that's certainly an option but I doubt it's the mag route.
They prob continued all the way on the track from the Cat until the road, did a right and went the 'legal' way into Cumberland Clough.
Either is good riding - preference depends on conditions.
we'll be staying mostly legal, and will be doing the full length of cimberland clough to finish - depending how the weather holds, we'll consider whether Three Shires Head is on the agenda.
Charity Lane is great but I think Cumberland Clough edges it 🙂
I agree that Cumberland edges charity lane.
Still not impressed. Been watching these pootle threads, mainly Pooks and have been working for every single one for a year. Then alast one comes that I am not working, it is fairley local to me and is infact my most regular route. Happy days I think. Then I check the calendar to find out I have been commandeered for a kids christmas party.....bugger.
Maybe next time, have fun everyone and enjoy what is a fantastic route.
We'll most likely be there.
Maybe next time,
There will be more thorlz, there will be more 😀
Been looking forward to this but I've been poorly all week so it looks like me and Onzadog won't be able to make it afterall 🙁