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Boooooo! 😥
Now then Julian - i'm setting my stall out to go for this, early night and an early start to get there in time. I've never been there before and have often heard it's quite good.
Car parking may be interesting, will just have to trust the sat nav.
Look forward to seeing you & Jane, can't bring cakes but will bring Haribo.
- Marcus
can someone confirm that the area highlighted in red is the car park we are meeting at?
thanks
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Yes.
Healthy meal, no booze, early night.
So...
Have I woken up in the peak of physical fitness ready to pootle hard?
Or am I full of snot with achey knees?
You're going to have to try to have fun without me, people.
Have a good one. Weather looks good. 🙂
Expecting to start +1 plus mince pie flapjacks...
Wonderful ride today Jules -thanks for guiding us around. Really nice trails up there, and I think we even saw the sun at one point!
What route did you do? I wanted to do this but am just getting over man flu, I did go out on my own but didn't see any of you.
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Also, will there be a video pook?
Thanks for today Julian. Great ride and company as always!! Nice to do some new trails. Thanks for the lend of the Flat pedals Mr Orange rider! 😀
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Next time I will set my alarm, we weren't going to make it in time so we went and did something rad instead.
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Great manageable size. Popa did you forget your shoes this time? 😆
Many many thanks for the Pootle today everyone, esp. from the tortoise 🙂
The route rode very well considering amount of rain we've been having.
Cheers and Merry Xmas!!
Paul
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well, I had a great day out, cheers all for coming. am currently enjoying the Rocky Horror Picture Show while Mrs NBT gets showered
Nice photo Paul. That's us just before we bumped into some mxers, who were in for a surprise, as a ranger was on the same track and they were illegally riding!
Great fun everyone. No rain, plenty of steep climbs, rocky descents and banter 🙂
Glad you all had fun round here. Its nice to ride it from the front door and a few great pubs on the return leg home too
What was the actual route you took then?
marsdenman - there won't be a video as I forgot my camera! I also refused to take any photos because once (just once) I wanted to just ride; it didn't help me like, as instead of stopping to film I stopped to either fall off or have a rest!
We bumped into mx'ers yesterday. It made me rerealise that the Peaks should also be theirs (ot) but they were on legal stuff.
Thanks Jules for the ride today. It was good to catch up/meet everyone. I can tell it was a good one as I've sat in front of the telly all night nodding off. Happy tired is the best tired.
Happy Days!
What was your route in the end, just to be nosey
13.6 miles, 2300ft climbed.
At a guess - Right out of Clough House carpark - Left up steep tarmac to Standing stone carpark - follow fire road on the left to the bottom - left through the gate and round the bottom of the Res to The Leather Smithy - keep left up the hill and take the metal gate on the left - fire road climb to tarmac - right up steep climb to track on the right, climb and then descend Charity Lane, left at the bottom, left at the bottom again, left at junction and follow to T junction, Turn right and climb to main road, keep right at junction and follow to Cat & Fiddle pub, follow track across Danebower Low to road, right and follow tarmac looking for a 'no car/motorbike' sign on the right, take that track and descend to gate, straight through and follow to another, straight on, through ford to gate and the back into carpark.
Could have and might well have done the additional Quarry > 3 Shires loop and hen climbed back to the no vehicle sign
Thats a pretty good night ride, but we start from a pub and finish with some nice forest ST in place of the first fire road descent
are you including that mental rock strewn downhill in front of the chapel there carlos. always gives me the fear.
that's the route carlos,
we did the drop to 3 shires head as well..
Really enjoyed it, I've not done the climb to the cat and fiddle for years, and its always nice to sometimes do stuff you know in reverse!
Not sure we'd have managed it as a night ride.. there were 19 of us and it took about 4 hours!!
As ever, nice to see some familiar faces and I hope the lads from Lancashire got back through border control/quarantine ok.
hora - MemberWe bumped into mx'ers yesterday. It made me rerealise that the Peaks should also be theirs (ot) but they were on legal stuff.
Perhaps it's time for you to join their ranks? Wouldn't it combine your love of exhaust fumes and your penchant for buying and selling things with two wheels into one cataclysmic cluster duck of a hobby? 😉
as carlos says - thats a cracking route at night 😉
i was out too, i did see you guys as i was just descending bottom o oven as you all came down chairty.....but ive had serious serious man flu and just wanted to stay warm and blast on
i did a very similar route to be honest but went further afield when i got up the c&f (for some cheekiness excellent cheekyness, as always ;))
mx'ers on 3 shires head too when i got there 🙁 proper messed up the start of it after coming in from the field side, but its all rocky and good after that as always, ive never actually heard/nor seen them go in from this side before, but clearly they have found it now and are using it in the worst weather going, its un-rideable the very fist section due to bog, which has never really been there before in the years ive done it
all in all it wasnt actually to boggy and wet neither
Ah yes, the mxers where given a 'red card' from the ranger and were made to turn back, so they didn't make it to the field (thank goodness), which was slippery as a slippery thing.
I've ridden around that area for over 13 years and it's the first time I've seem motor crossers around - shame.
bunnyhop - do you mean you've never seen them on the field side of 3 shires in 13 years or any of the descents/climbs into 3 shires? cos if so i see them mostly eveytime i go there on a sunday if im in that area, ive never seen them on that field descent one before, but they are ALWAYS on the 2 long mains climbs/descents
i would say this was about 1pm ish or something like that and i think there were 3 of them, i'd hazard a guess to say they climbed up to the gate from the bridge and instead of going up through the field they just section that bit and turn around and descend what they have just rode up and back down to the bridge (so not climbing out into the field)...
what time did they get done by the ranger then? they have knackered the bit by the gate near the fields, bit gutting, its only a little section, but its still got another 5 months of mud and wet to go, i;ve not seen any damage like that in any previous winter, so they must have only started using that section just recently
i crossed a few walkers and they had to skim around the bog, didnt look happy at all, i even got off to go round it to (first time ever!)
we saw them at about 1. I had a little 'chat' with them
well in that case id say that i got there just before you guys then, they were ( as they always are) going up and down, up and down, up and down the sections (so they had done it at least once before you even got there), when i saw them descending it , there certainly were no rangers about, nor did they look like they had been told off to get off the area....dont think ive ever seen a ranger down there mind, glad he give em a telling off though, motorised engines on that sort of terrain do it no good at all, i bet the farmer would be fuming if they went through his field too (hes a reet grumpy barsteward even with walkers/cyclists)
[quote=Oscillate Wildly ]well in that case id say that i got there just before you guys then
You must have been the random who went through our group at the quarry at the end of danebower hollow then?
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i crossed a few walkers and they had to skim around the bog, didnt look happy at all, i even got off to go round it to (first time ever!)
One of our lads tried to ride it - was it Graham? Whoever it was went hub deep and straight over the bars 😆
Sound like my regular route
My only differance are that I take the singletrack through the forest, and at 3 shires head I do a loop, going over the bridge and climbing up the right/east side. Before looping around Knotbury farm and come back to 3 shires down the cheeky path from the west (directly inline with the bridge). Then continue up Cut thorn as you did.
Fantastic area and a great route.
I was under the impression that both track across the river were entirely legal for all users
we saw them at about 1. I had a little 'chat' with them
[i]Listen here, I am the Assistant-Keeper of The Peaks and I know when I am right. A footpath is mine to ride when I like but no one else can discuss its general location even if it is indicated on a OS map. [/i]
😆 8)
nob
Nbt,
I know that the track up to around Cut Thorn is legal, as is the track round Turn edge is.
The one I am unsure of, is the path that comes from East, from the T junction down the rocky path to the metal gate at 3 shires. GR SK012686 to SK009685.
I can't tell if the map marks it as a "path" or a "footpath"
If anyone knows, please do tell
OS map shows it as a footpath along a walled lane. Legally then it's a footpath, but as the OS maps says, what shows in the map is not definitive. I know I've followed a published route down it before now, albeit several years ago. Personally speaking, the fact that it's a walled lane tells me it should be a bridleway as it use to be used by carts
Notice how I hold podge in higher regard 😉nob
My recollection is that it depends where you join it. I think it is all 'legal' from SK014683 but part fp from SK015688.
The latter is the better riding.
Cheers Nbt,
and Higgo
podge loves you too hora :op
Podge loves NO ONE. Hes a killer Cyborg created in a Sheffield factory just before they were closed down.
AFAIK - all those descents/climbs to the bridge are all legal for mtber's? ive done them for years, i cant see how one would be and not the other, but i could be wrong of course! theres a bit around the back of the quarry thats a FP so im told, that eventually leads to the descent parallel to the bridge, whether or not theres a legal way to get to that descent i dont know, but the descent itself is legal.
NBT - ahhhhh yeah! there was only a group of 5 or so of you? i assumed it wasnt the pootle as id seen loads of you before?? i would have stopped but i just thought it was a random group of guys out lol, i did say hi mind! where were the rest of the pootlers then? cos they werent down 3 shires and thats where i went next?
and NBT yep sounds like the same little section, i could well imagine going otb there, it full of rocks pointing upwards hidden in the bog now lol