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Can a fire road really be described as a "trail"?
Fair enough TJ , but 100 of what sort of miles . If the Pentlands has 100 miles the Lammermuirs must have almost double that stretching south to Lauder and east to Dunbar. Lets be honest most of us locals all know the good parts of the Pentlands and at best a decent 30 miler is possible. That sai d im sure some of the posters down south would die for those hills 20 odd minutes from the city centre.
I fear this is wandering off topic.
Riding bikes the pies the pints.
And being social.
These are good things. It matters not wether its a mile or 100miles of gnar if the company is good.
if the company is good.
For my part, I can't guarantee that 😎
I was thinking as i wrote that... seems kind of rude to turn up now and spoil it for everyone 😀
Put down your snow globe tinkerbell
No one is planning on turning up and "spoiling" anything.
Glad Bigjim took the bait before I did, sometimes hard to tell when someone is trolling or not and I get awfully defensive of my beloved Pentlands! 😎
#oh take me back to the Pentlands
Yes the climbs are long
And the descents are short
But that’s where I belong#Getting sentimental now, midweek evening Pentlands rides finishing at pubs are but the fevered dream of a madman for me
This has all been very confusing.
I am also dreaming of an evening Pentlands ride these days, longest 'descent'/bit you don't have to pedal on I have here in the flatlands is about 20 seconds I reckon.
Where's that Jim?
Put down your snow globe tinkerbell
No one is planning on turning up and “spoiling” anything.
I think you missunderstooded my self deprecating humour.
I'll turn up on my fatbike and ruin the whole gravel ethos with my mad skillz
Turn up on your home made "whisker off as good as a dedecated" Ebike
Jesus I’m not sure we’ve been asserting we live in bloody Whistler, it’s a load of Moundains in our back garden. You can be from desk to peak in an hour. And then in the boozer in another hour. Turn up if you want, don’t bother if you want to to be gnar. Saying that I’m away this week 😂
Where’s that Jim?
København
Bigjim- I actually have a friend who lives in Copenhagen who has said he's really jealous having seen some RDP photos. You could start your own contingent!
This sounds like fun - where would like minded souls meet up?
Who's coming to play on bikes in the sun tonight then? Just so I know how long to wait around for.
I'll pop along. 6.30 at the shop half way up the hill to bonaly carpark right? You on mtb or gravel bike?
I'll be on a gravel bike but some will be on mountain bikes. If anyone has a route they fancy then I'm keen for recommendations.
I am out i'm afraid got some stuff to do.
Will be there one day soon!
I'll be there! No dinner so need pies
I'm riding tmrow so not tonight now. Nice evening for it.
Where? Why that's https://w3w.co/saving.types.gain
I was hoping to make it but only just home.
I'm pretty sure we all had a nice time, even if some of us were underbiked (in some cases deliberately) and some of us probably overbiked. The weather was lovely, the trails in pretty good nick and we even got to sit outside for a bit at the pub.
There definitely weren't loads of crashes...
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Yeah, but what about the pie?
We had too much fun on the ride bit and arrived 5 minutes late for pie!
It's never too late for pie.
As an aside, who sits drinking a pint whilst wearing a sweaty helmet? Get it took aff!
I'd agree about it never being too late for pie but the pub seemed to think pie has a very specific window that ends at 8.45pm.
I leave my helmet on. Putting it back on for the ride home is grim.
It's this sort of deviant pie-window, pint-helmet behaviour that gives me a headache everytime I venture east beyond the safety of Harthill services into the land of solnsoss.
You've got wan fit in the east anyway.....
Aye, but it's only got five toes on it.
7 on the other? ya big lop sided bastard ye!
At least they're no webbed like your Uncle Dad's
Your maws goat baws and yer da loves it.
OP, you've succeeded where many others have failed btw, actually assembling the saltnsossers for a bike ride! 🙂
Yer Da sells the Avon.
Yer Da sells the Avon.
Steady on!
Yeah, that was probably a step too far.... 😉
lol, did ye ever see the Twitter rumour that Aberdeen had signed a young Tunisian superstar? his name was apparently Yerda Selzavon, and he was going to be the Messi of North Africa! Was all over the Aberdeen fan forums before someone clocked it!
OP, you’ve succeeded where many others have failed btw,
...by taking pictures that make the Pentlands look good!
harsh!
Also in the 'soft spot for Pentlands' camp, default haunt for decades after first found MTBs.
2 degrees of separation, wasn't me but Gary - part of our usual bike lot - that coined Puke Hill (see also The Swoop, Scaletrix, and a handful of others).
harsh!
Very true, I felt bad even as I posted it
Edit: I think I was there when the rooty singletrack down to Balerno was christened 'nail trail'. My buddy kept puncturing on one section until we unearthed a plank full of nails!
lol! Always wondered about that one.
Camouflage Path was another. Was up from the Dreghorn tracks but round the front of Capelaw Hill - dusk - grinding our way up the singletrack path, and one by one a platoon of squaddies emerge from the ditch beside the trail - heart jumped a huge spike at the first one as you can imagine 🙂
Apparently ruts and jumps has been tarmacced. That's another one you can do on your gravel bikes now.
In case anyone's interested, this week's route was Phanton's Clough, Flotterstone, Black Hill, Harbour Hill, Scalextric then a bit through the woods.