[Closed] STW Purbecks Ride 25th April

I would love to rich but I'm going to Lincoln for a long weekend. Maybe next time 🙂

Best of luck with it though, I'm sure it'll be a great day.

i might be nearby, but not sure yet, add me to any email group for this please (in profile)

Highly likely i will be working. :cry:See what i can find out.Sunday would be no problem .

Shame Aleigh!

Here are some pics of the Purbecks:

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Corfe Castle

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Fab views from Old Harry Rocks (good name for a band)

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Old Harry Rocks

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View from 9 Barrow Down

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Me overcome with the excitement of it all

oh, shame old fart!

It looks amazing anna!

It is Aleigh! And there's a sea crossing.
You know they call it, erm, Stinky Lincoln don't you? It's not even as good as Blackpool......

hehe! I'm going to see a friend, haven't seen her since Christmas and I need a break from here. One day of riding would be great but I'd be sat at home twiddling my thumbs and climbing the walls for the rest of the weekend!

Good work with the pics! Shame that 2/3 replies so far can't make the date... I will ask again tomorrow to see if it can be either the weekend before (25/26th April) or another day in the bank holiday weekend. Was planning on using the prior weekend as a recon mission so will be there anyway!

I think you can count me out until June at least!

I might just be able to make that +1 other.
Haven't been down that way for a good 10 years, so would love to.
Does this ride go up to the open cliff edge? That was amazing.

I would be well up for this as the purbecks are fantastic but... The gorrick enduro is the next day so probably not the best preparation 😮

Gosh darn you! I have a wedding to go to that weekend 😥
I was over the Purbecks on sunday (even though my legs were shot from the Q's. Scenic rather than technical is definitely the best description for the riding and dont forget the cream teas in Corfe. If you go to the Square and Compass at Worth Matravers (which someone on the Q's ride mentioned to me) they do an excellent Cornish pasty but dont use your phone. For some reason mine thinks I am in France when I'm there.
I mentioned the possibility of an STW ride with the people i was with and there a few that would be happy to show people around.

I'd be up for a ride like this sounds great chilled out with pub lunch, but I think I may struggle like many others with the date 🙁

Yes DezB, all of those pics are on the loop. The singletrack in the second pic is not normally ridden though!

Would the 25th or 26th of April be better for those interested? Bloody bank holidays! On reflection, it's probably best to avoid it then as there will be a few walkers on the downhills. The ride down the ferry road is ace though when it's busy; at least a mile of static traffic waiting for the ferry, while you pootle past whistling smugly 🙂

yea ferry-tastic
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and Sandbanks beach is fun too
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ride along the prom anyone?

The ride down the ferry road is ace though when it's busy; at least a mile of static traffic waiting for the ferry, while you pootle past whistling smugly [:)]

OK, how do I edit the thread title 😉 Sounds like the 25th/26th would be better.

Witness my remarkable organisational skills!

Step 1: Arrange date for ride.

Step 2:Rearrange date for ride because no-one can make it.

Step 3: Anybodys guess!

Whenever it is i'm probably in. Its only 5 mins drive to the ferry from here.

Hey RichPenny - was good to meet you at the Quantocks! Would definitely be interested in a Purbecks ride but I have a little problem - the ferry. At the STW Southern Festival last year, I was forced onto a ferry with my bike. Felt really ill and queasy. Although it was reassuring to have Dr. P on board, I think he claimed he was off-duty!

Please keep us all posted!

Has anyone got a picture of that nasty grassy climb from the road up to the memorial just to the south of the castle?

Thats a doozy that one.

Elaine - the ferrt is a chain ferry, and lasts all of 3 minutes or thereabouts!
It'll be just as quick to swim across, if not colder..!

Once a date is sorted i'll check my rota to see, but I'm deffo up for it!!

DrP

I "died" on that climb on my second ever ride 5 years ago. I was on a solid ancient Raleigh with slicks, no water, a massive bike lock wrapped around the bike for which I'd lost the key....etc.

I'm better now and may be able to ride this one.

Someone on here gave me a great route about a year ago, with some excellent singletrack. Hopefully he'll be along soon.

Has this moved back a week? 25th April?
C'mon have to get the calendar sorted or I get in trouble!

Hi CG! As Dr P says. It's not really a sea crossing, it's just a very short and tame chain ferry ride across a mill pond like harbour. I was getting carried away with my descriptions. It's a couple of quid with a bike, maybe not even that much. (Getting on the ferry does feel a bit like going on holiday though)
A x

you can see how far it is from my pic above CG, takes seconds really

Crossing is only 4 ferry lengths C_G!

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OK, [b]Date is now 25th April.[/b] Mods, is there any way you could change the thread title to reflect this?

Elaine, ferry is a chain ferry and you can barely feel it moving, It'll be fine.

We probably won't be doing that climb, as we don't go as far as Corfe. The best singletrack I've found is nowhere near the ridge!

I might be up for it. Where's the start likely to be?

Whenever it is i'm probably in. Its only 5 mins drive to the ferry from here.

I love the purbecks and know a lot of the trails down there. Will do my best to come along with a suitable bike this time 🙂

IHN, start will be from the big car park at the end of Poole harbour, just before the Sandbanks Ferry.

Soma_rich and rusty trowel, I can email you a tracklogs file of the route I'm proposing. Or if thats no good, send you a jpeg. It would be good to get some differing views. Also, would either of you be interested in helping with the guiding?

Do i live in Sandbanks. Yeah right!! If i had that much money i wouldn't be lurking about on here for company, i'd rent some in. Rusty trowels don't earn you enough to buy much down here.

The amount of people riding regularly down here (groups of 20-50 some summers evenings), i can't believe there aren't more of them on here.

put me down as a possibility. i keep missing all the STW rides - must remember not to get a hangover this time!

I would be happy to guide if the route is one I know. Feel free to email. I will have a look when i get back home.

Cheers
Rich

Hi all, watching with interest, could possibly make the trip from western sussex for a day's ridin!

Pete aka woodsman

Excellent, I am looking forward to this already!

Thanks for reassurances re ferry crossing, sounds as though there's plenty of folk to hold my hand but keep your distance mind in case I share my breakfast 😳

I'm up for this provided the small op I've just had on my leg is fully healed and I've managed to spin the pedals a bit before hand.

woodsman - Member
Hi all, watching with interest, could possibly make the trip from western sussex for a day's ridin!

Good man! Will try to get Rob along too. His email's a bit quiet lately - I think someone spilt beer on the computer 🙂

if i come i shall probably ride via the castlemain trailway from Wimbourne (or scabbing a lift if any one's passing that locale

Dez, I hope that wasn't the beer he promised me! :0

I keep meaning to get down to Purbeck, so it'll be a good reason to.

If I'm around then I will come along. rOcKeTdOg, seeing as I'm in Verwood I could go the back way in. You will need to remind me closer to the event as only then will I know what my plans are.

Rich/Anna

I'm free that weekend and would like to come. Finances permitting of course! Oh, and as it's on a Saturday, what time are you planning to start the ride?

This sounds good fun, count me in too please?

Good evening Miss Banana !! Would love to come as i love the riding around there. If i can make it promise me you will do another handstand like in the photo. 😳

I have got a babysitter so can come along too - woohoo!

IGMC ....

cheeky 😉 😆

Great, this is really taking off! Can everyone interested please just send me a quick email so I can get a list going. That will make it easier to work out numbers, send out directions etc.

Mark, we like this to be quite a languid ride, so I'm thinking 9am meet for a 10am start. We've taken 10 hours to do it before, but I think that involved 2 pub stops 😳 If that's a mission for you to get down, you can always crash at mine on the friday.

Does anyone know if you can create JPEGS from the maps in tracklogs? I'm off to have a play to find an easy way of distributing route data.

I'm going to have a look at the fast route tonight, but I'm thinking about 5 more miles with 3-400m more climbing. That way, we might meet up at the pub for a bit.

Cool the 25th! i can make that, richpenny i got a couple of gpx routes if you need a few alternatives

We will have to pass on this one 🙁 Hope you do a later in the summer one too as it look ace.

[i]Does anyone know if you can create JPEGS from the maps in tracklogs[/i]
Do a screenshot?

Send me the Tracklog and I'll do it for ya.

Possibility of Snaps and myself coming along from Barnstaple/Braunton.

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If i can make it promise me you will do another handstand like in the photo.

errrmmmm, yes?

*quickly googles handstand fetishists, just in case*

Rich look what I'm having to promise in order to get people to come along on your bike ride! 😉

I'm interested in this as well. Will drop you an email RichPenny.

Have sent some route data to DezB, soma_rich and dobo. If anyone else wants a look, just let me know. Cheers for the e-mails, have harvested some from here to so I can keep everyone informed.

Ah, sorry. My Tracklogs doesn't cover that far west. Doh!
Maybe Rich or dobo can screenshot and send a jpg.

RichPenny - cant see your email?

The 25th will probably be a no no as well .Ho hum.I'll see my boss and try a bit of horsetrading/crawling!

There is a word doc with screenshots in the email DezB.

Andy, I'll send you the email now.

Good luck with the grovelling oldfart, would be good to see you there. Perhaps a group handstand pic?

The best guys for routes and ride leading would be the fellas from Ride Cycleworks who run rides over there every week of the year. If its a Saturday i guess they'll be working though.

If the numbers get high, all stopping in one place for food/drink could be tricky, especially if its wet. No problem in dry as plenty of big pub gardens.

Corfe's really not very far from ferry, especially on an all dayer. For non-locals it would be a nice place for a stop as its got some decent places for food/drink and a certain WOW factor if you haven't been there before. I guess you take castles a bit for granted when you see them every week.

The climb from their back up to the ridge will sort a few out too, me included, especially with a belly full of cake.

Mark, we like this to be quite a languid ride, so I'm thinking 9am meet for a 10am start. We've taken 10 hours to do it before, but I think that involved 2 pub stops [:oops:] If that's a mission for you to get down, you can always crash at mine on the friday.

10 hours for 30 miles! That's almost as leisurely as the ride we did over Salisbury Plain the other weekend 😉 Sorry, joking!

No way in this earth, if I'm able to come, would I be able to make it to the south coast by 9am!!! Christ, I'd have to leave mine before 6am I expect. A floor/sofa to kip on would be much appreciated mate. Though if Aleigh can make it too, I'll speak with her and see what her plans for travel are first, as no point in everybody driving down individually.

Cheers

Yeah we'll sort sommat out mboy 🙂

As long as the route involves the climb UP from Corfe to 9 barrow down, then the hooning DH from 9BD towards Ulwell, I'm in!!!

DrP

Note - if route doesn't involve this, I may still be in....

I think Ashley was the chap who gave me a map to ride last year. It was excellent.

A top route should include Frank's Tank, the bridleway down into Swanage from the NW and the rock garden bridleway into the campsite near Corfe.

Rich - cannot see your email either

i don't want to ride the road up from swanage to the ferry in 29 degree heat with no water , like i did 2 years ago (had to go to a cash point as i thought i'd got enough money for the ferry back but hadn't and wasn't about to try the long way back to Poole) as it's a pain, especially as i had to ride back to wimbourne too*

*actually it was a bloomin lovely day out!

RichPenny, how do I email you, can't seem to find your addy in this new forum?

Pete
(Petey777@hotmail.co.uk)

I would love to come however I will be MTBing in Morocco celebrating my 30th!!! Maybe next time.

woodsman - Member
RichPenny, how do I email you, can't seem to find your addy in this new forum?
Pete

It's in his first post 🙂

OK, will mail vd and Ashley the route to get more feedback.

Rocky bridleway to woodyhyde farm is in, as is Nine Barrow Down as a descent, but not as a full climb.

Not familiar with Franks Tank, is it the one at the top of this map from Ballard Down to New Swanage?

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Damn you red cross!

Franks tank is the descent / climb from the top of the golf course down to the tank, funnily enough with frank on it, in rempstone forest. Bit rocky in places, but a must do on most decents rides over that way (as long as its not too wet)

Which way are you planning on going along 9 barrow? towards Swanage or Corfe? Are you going up or down 5 spoke, rooty or that 'orrible rocky thing down Swanage end that i cant remember the name of?

Guys, if I may be so bold as to join in on this one if I can square it away with family and work commitments. Sounds great and doable from where I am in Sussex.

MUTD's

Rusty - Frank's Tank could only ever be a climb for the mentally ill.

Rusty - Frank's Tank could only ever be a climb for the mentally ill.

Sounds perfect 😉

I Ride there most weekends so it would be cool to see some new faces. Ok to tag along ?