hi everyone
another 15miler maybe?
hey pook i emailed you the other day 🙂 may well come along to this one if its ok? what route are you doing? got a map of it bud? also where do you all meet?
i replied to you before I sent this. All the details will be worked out, slowly and painfully over the coming days......
Is this the thing I agreed to the other day, suggested by Hora?
If so yeah. If not, yeah.
er - yeah it is, albeit with a date change
hi,
id be up for joining some stw peaky people for a ride sometime, but so far the rides have been on my weekend at work. i work every other so maybe next time?
always welcome SR
ok hopefuly I will be up for this, hopefully conditions will be better in a few weeks!
any way I'm taking advantage of the shit weather...getting my Heckler a new paint job, complete strip down and rebuild, service my Pikes etc etc... you get the picture!
Count me in. However I would like to reserve the right to cancel.
I think I'm mountaineering that weekend, but if not...
Is it a Saturday or a Sunday (not got my diary or counting head with me)? Sundays I'm up for.
possiblly up for this, not sure yet though.
Possibly, if new boys to the patch are welcome?
Bins
..but with the right turn down the Beast then straight back up and over to the end in Edale. NO long loop with climbs over grassy hills like with the last STW ride. I cant stand climbing. The fellowship of STW pushing-brothers didnt show for the last hardcore-climby-STW ride so I had to push alone 🙁
Another ride in the Dark peak?, count me in!
Excellant, i'll stick this in the diary. Don't forget the spare brake pads!
Quite Possibly...
Possibly, depends on the snow
I'll be in a worse state fitness wise than the last ride having only done one serious ride in between .. I'll see if I can get a half decent ride in, in between.
Well you can push at the back with me
Fear not, I have not been on the Chameleon since the last Pook ride!
Longstuff
I've only done two very short rides since the last one. I'll get started on the route plans and stuff
Since our last ride I have stayed onsite at the University of Reading within their Sports Science wing. Daily I have ridden for 6hours inside an artificial Oxygen tent, eaten a closely managed microbiotic diet and had numerous squat and circuit training sessions.
I shall crush you all under my tyre tread.
No post ride burger and pint for you then Hora?
Apologies for my earlier abrubt post, was keen to join the fun but a bit rushed for time to post 🙂
Count me in.
No post ride burger and pint for you then Hora
I shall eat the burger and drink then fetch it all back up in the toilet 😉
Hi all,
Can I join you on this if you allow new faces? 🙂
If so where you all meet and timings?
Cheers
Dan
Well derr. Yes. I shall bring my spare rear mech with me again attached to my camelbak.
I have a spare mech in my bag. Dan - you're more than welcome. Not firmed up details yet though.
Ok this is the route -
10am start in the layby
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=29960
Quality,
Sad as it sounds I've only ever on my own so will be a nice change, I have more fitness than technique but ill try not to slow you down! 🙂
it's quite alright - most of us have more technique than fitness so the law of averages will work things out
🙂
10am start in the layby
19miles, nice route
Linky no worky.
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=29960
Anyone know where Riddle Rock is???
UP Blackley Hey?! Thats looks nasty ..
Can there be an option to start from Edale carpark as well and meet you say 15 mins after your start time at the turn off on the Edale road? Saves a couple of miles on the road that's all.
A few suggestions to the route:
[url] http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=29962 [/url]
Instead of Mam-tor straight to Dirtlow Rake/Pindale, go up onto Rushop Edge and down, then round on the backlanes (includes a very fast backlane, usually very quiet)
Instead of Hope Brink (lots of snow melt* wet grass) you could go up the Roman Road out of Hope
Instead of going up blackley hey, you could go up the long strightish up in the woods used last time, coming out part way up win hill, then take the fast grassy down back to hope cross (then back in edale)
*assuming the snow has actually melted a little, if at all ..
EDIT: Whoops, bikehike says its 24miles ..
I've done it before, its not that taxing, its just 4 hills spaced out a bit more than a typical peaks ride
Agree with start at Edale carpark. I still say the original route with a small detour down Beast at the end.
Cavedale is good and the road climb-bit after that isnt bad at all.
That way you get Cavedale 😀 and the Beast 😀
James- post Christmas and with the poor weather- 24miles will put alot of potential riders off. I wouldnt do it. Maybe after a few more weeks of normal riding but at the moment it would murder me. Sorry.
I'm not suggesting doing it all, it was just some suggestions around the existing route
I know but post-festive it needs to be a easier route. We had some good folk on the first Cavedale ride and dont want to put newbies off! 24miles in the Peaks at the moment with a big group of varying fitness levels in the cold would take 5hrs+ to ride I bet.
im in if im about.
Slimmed down route of suggestions (Again not suggesting this as a whole (though might be good) but as a way to include stuff)
took Hollins X out (usually quite sloppy), put in Rushop Edge
Included Cave Dale AND pindale (so take ~1mile off (And half a climb) if you only did 1
Roman Road instead of Hope Brink
Short cut Push(/ride) up after the beast (the beast could be an optional extra near the end)
[url] http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=29963 [/url]
ABout 17.5miles with one of Cavedale or Pindale. 18.5 with both
I'll stop now. Extra route posting is just confusing things
See how the weather develops- some parts of Peaks will be better than others. I still favour the original route- Pook did good there 🙂
I am up for this as well if you don't mind me joining. I will show you how to REALLY push a bike up hills, so there.
18 miles absolute max for me too. Better to be shorter and fun for all than a slog where everyones miserable.
18 miles absolute max for me too. Better to be shorter and fun for all than a slog where everyones miserable.
+1.
There could be a alternative ride for fitter riders.
+1.There could be a alternative ride for fitter riders.
alternative for fitter riders including beast loop.
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=29971
😉
I think long hard rides are best suited to small groups of maybe 4 max. You are more likely to be able to match each others abilities together with less people. Big groups are more suited to the "hey let's ride down that bit again to see if we can all clear it" sort of ride. 18 miles is PLENTY in the dark peak.
Agree. I do feel bad holding people up who have worked hard at their fitness.
Yep i should be ok for this one.
Think i might bring a lighter bike this time to make pushing up the hills a little easier!! 😀 Oh and the chest infection has gone now so i hope to push at twice the speed!!!
Yeah, cheers for leaving me to push alone on the second Ladybower STW ride. I was the only pusher!
PUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH now breathe.....
Sorry hora, i'll be here for this then just to keep you company!!
I will be pushing up a lot of the hlls!!! Glad to hear someone else will be. 😀
On group rides- when I notice a smoker has come along I always smile knowing that there will be breathers at least ontop of some climbs 😀
i think all of the climbs this time Hora.
I may be there. If I am, I will make sure my bike actually works this time...
Maybe make sure you actually have a bike that's assembled AND working ? 🙂
Did someone say pushing up hills? Count me in for that!
I live in edale so can let you know how the weather is looking that morning.
You live in Edale? Stifles the Todmorden jokes 😀
No reply from Will yet?
Maybe he could come out on a road bike this time 😯
Only been here since March so am not related to everyone in the village.
Although before that I lived on the Roaches and before that in Cheshire so muchos joke material for you there. 🙂
I say keep it short, partly because i'm lazy and partly because last time the non pushers were getting cold waiting at the top of the hills. making it longer means that the group will end up getting really strung out.
I'm keen on coming out on this. Put some names to faces and have a good ride about.
I say keep it short, partly because i'm lazy and partly because last time the non pushers were getting cold waiting at the top of the hills. making it longer means that the group will end up getting really strung out.
Amen.
ah 'tis shaping up nicely!
a smoker has come along
*waves*
Hope you've got some good chat hora as I'll be keeping you company
not been sent to Coventry then?
I'm off now
ourkidsam, ah I will be your smokers familiar 8)
I'll be along for this one. I shall be bringing up the rear with The Enigma that is Hora
On the subject of catching up....there have been rides where I've been dying for a slash but everytime Ive caught up the group (now getting cold) has set off so Ive had to endure 3hills of holding my bladder in 😉
I thought your colostomy bag took care of that
Difficult whilst wearing a corset!
I've found my snood.
Ah 😀
I will of course be coming.
Chris - Like the original route.
I'm very tempted but frightened of the difficult descents ( have only ever ridden bits of the Beast, never the whole of it) and the fact of holding people up, even Hora.
Come along Bunnyhop. We're always more than happy to wait/shout instructions/mark falls out of ten/fix broken bones
😉
Seriously, join us - noone will push you to do anything you don't feel comfortable with and like an armada, we're only as fast as our slowest ship. We like it that way, gives us more time to chat and enjoy the view.
Thanks. Will see how how the snow is.
Have done a few local rides ( edge of the Peaks) here and am enjoying the white stuff, finding it hard to get enough bottle to ride the descents.
The thing I found with group rides is that as Pook says there is always lots of encouragment. I was last down the beast before, and arrive to claps...
You'll be fine Bunnyhop. More of social ride I think! Speed is not key 🙂
Very much a social ride...for some more than others 😀
Will be a good day out with a good bunch of lads. Loads of different abbilities so you'll defo fit in somewhere!!