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Should be able to make this one, will be at Bonaly for 7. First STW ride, be gentle with me...
are you guys proper shredders? and are the trails gunna be gnarly xx black tech stuff? if so i'm up for it , patriot should be the chosen one then!
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I'll be leaving Harlaw 6.30 and riding over to Bonaly if you want to meet there. will be on a red on one. Driving back to Livingston if you need a lift.
Alan,
Thanks for the offer but other things have conspired to torpedo the run tonight!
Will try and make it over the next couple of weeks.
Enjoy.
Good wee trek through the Pentlands tonight. Discovered a few new bits and peices. Thanks to Druidh for the assistance with my puncture and Coast kid for the tube . Just wondering how long this drout is going to keep the hills so dry .
Cheers again and hopefully c'Yall next week.
Good ride again guys, cheers! Weird to be in these hills and thinking "where the **** am I" then suddenly arriving at some patch I thought I knew like the back of my hand from a totally new direction.
PS what's so surprising about carrying a brashing saw around on rides? Last weekend I had a 2 foot brushhook and folding shovel 
But I think it'd be a wee bit antisocial if I stopped the whole ride so I could chop down some nettles for half an hour 😉
great night out folks, thanks Druidh for a great route,
tonight another abyss crash,a puncture and a MECHcanical...all group bonding 😮
nice to meet some new faces too.
working on scalectrix film...
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21 blokes and the womans group...
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Big thanks to the other 21 riders that turned up tonight (I'm sure we were 22 in total). Special hugs to AntM for helping out with the broken mech. Sorry to keep so many of you hanging around - hope you all got home safely.
Any suggestion for next weeks route - it would be nice to keep some of it "fresh"?
Yes, a good run. Unfortunately work computer won't allow me to see the photos. Is the one of the errant derailleur there as I'm having difficulty explaining it to fellow cyclists in here?
In the same way that a boffin once worked out mathematically how to remove a shirt from under a jacket I still think it could be proven to be mathematically impossible for the chain to do what it did.
I know where most of those pictures are but I'm struggling to place 8 and 9, and I thought I knew the Pentlands pretty well. Where are those?
I reckon 8,9 and 10 are at the top of glencorse reservoir, on the black hill side. did you descend through White Cleugh?
Can't place 7 though...
Actually, if you linked them together like I think you did then that WAS a cracking route! (in the dry, the monsoon is happening as I look out my window 😥 )
I thought 7 was heading from Harlaw towards Black Springs.
Would anyone like a trip to the cardrona pump track next week for skills practice/playing?
Its great fun. would be a good change.
here is the mech with the chain...never seen that before!
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next week im off through to lochgilphead to bivi ride the Kintyre Way...pump track would be fun though 😮
heres film of scalectrix,ridden off the brakes on a hardtail 😮
i used the centre heather to scrub a bit speed before that left hander...
needs a berm there!, cant beat bombing through the heather, 😮
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Don't even think it...
Where does the Kintyre way lead? I've touched upon sections of the Cowal way but not hte kintyre way.
was thinking of Ben Cleugh next week while the long days remain...?
Would be up for Ben Cleugh.
I seem to be making a right meal out of my cuts from two weeks ago, the one on my ankle isn't healing at all and is starting to behave suspiciously infected, so will need to speak to the doc first...
Wowsers, I don't recognise much of that!
Ian - Savlon art thou friend.
What Scalextric needs is a few jumps...
13thfloormonk - Memberneeds a berm there!
Don't even think it...
Where does the Kintyre way lead?
Kintyre way is from Tarbet down to Campbelltown with an extra bit out to Macrihanish beach, 87 miles and cuts from coast to coast down the penulsia,gonna take a lazy 3 days with 2 nights in the bivvy
my sister and family are through there next week at a cottage so i can get a lift back to Lochgilphead after a day at the beach with the kids
here is the [url= http://www.kintyreway.com/index.php ]Kyntyre Way website[/url]
I thought 7 was heading from Harlaw towards Black Springs.
Indeed, it's splitting off from the track around Harlaw and off to Black Springs via that wee plantation bit.
8 and 9 are a way back down to the Glencorse road from White Cleugh that doesn't involve dropping down past the farm. It was new to me last night.
Good ride! 🙂
Have never ridden that section from White Cleugh, I think because I enjoy the final plummet to the gate and can never be bothered climbing back up!
Ah, at last I get the Bike Coop slogan " The Revolution will not be MECHanized"!! Another convert to Sram chains???
Was I alone in NOT drooling at the mouth after Scalectrix??
Only ever seen myself fall off a bike: The swallow dive down the waterfall followed by bike landing on head, round the back of Clubbiedean was most spectacular!!
Oh-oh, did clubbidean claim another victim? Kit and my mate John have both left quantities of themselves in that ditch (john lost two teeth!).
Since I obviously don't heal very fast I tend to walk that little bit now 😳
Only ever seen myself fall off a bike: The swallow dive down the waterfall followed by bike landing on head, round the back of Clubbiedean was most spectacular!!
Aye, you should've seen it from my angle. Bloody feeling it today too. Cheers to everyone who pulled me and my bike out.
On the plus side, I reckon it's my best comedy fall yet. 😀
Great night despite that, I did take it a bit easy on the downs mind you seeing as I was feeling a bit fragile. I'd be up for a play on a pump track, a bit of a skills recap might be no bad thing. 😕
Since I obviously don't heal very fast I tend to walk that little bit now
Yeah lesson learned.
I only took one photo, purely because I love to see grown men gather round to shake their heads at stuff.
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Resin42, happy healing, your a lucky laddie falling down there head first and walking away...next time give me some pre warning and i will get the camera ready!, 😮
8 and 9 are a way back down to the Glencorse road from White Cleugh that doesn't involve dropping down past the farm. It was new to me last night.
Hmm - must look out for that. I haven't been through there for ages but is it some kind of continuation on after the gate instead of dropping down to the tarmac?
Only ever seen myself fall off a bike: The swallow dive down the waterfall followed by bike landing on head, round the back of Clubbiedean was most spectacular!!
Was that on the eroded corner right in the middle? I have to admit that when I was round there at the weekend I got off for that! I used to ride it years back but it's eroded a lot since then and I think there is also now a little log or something on the approach to it.
your a lucky laddie falling down there head first and walking away
Right leg and shoulder took the brunt, I saved damaging the bike by stopping it with my head. 8)
Ben Cleugh would be my choice for next week.
Hey - you all sped off from the water shed before I could get in this weeks bit of Pentlands trivia...
Did you realise that the marhs at Black Springs drains into both Threipmuir - and therefore into the Harlaw Burn/Water of Leith - and also into Glencorse - and therefore the GlenCorse Burn/North Esk/River Esk?
That effectively makes the South East of Edinburgh and half of Musselburgh into a small island!!
i always wonder why they dont have (small) information signs at watersheds...only walking books tell you these things,
and why has Edinburgh area have so high a council tax when it has so much water on tap too? never knew there were so many resovoirs up there! 😮
I fell off there once, trying my best Danny Mac impression. Was trackstanding thinking I was just going to do a rear wheel hop to straighten up and the hole just sucked me in. Went to put my foot down but there was nothing there. Managed to leap clear of the bike and landed foot first in the rock infested pool at the bottom, lucky not to break and ankle.
I don't think most of the reservoirs up in the Pentlands are used for drinking water.
Some will no doubt complain about "trail sanitisation", but expect to see a new line appearing there soon(ish).
I am fairly sure it does come from Glencourse - where do you think it comes from?
Edit - some further googling seems to say that much comes from Talla in teh borders. 😳
Glencourse still provides some
I thought most of the water from Edinburgh came from the reservoirs further south - Talla and Megget etc.
Talla (and the Megget/Fruid) flow into Glencorse (the inflow is just above the dam), from where it is fed into Edinburgh.
The observant might have noticed a big new water treatment works being built opposite the Flotterstone Inn - and a big new pipe from there to Mortonhall.
Anyone who has been on the Castle Esplanade might also have been told the myth of cannonball house - that a cannonball fired from the castle became embedded in the wall. Actually, the building with the ball in it is a water cistern and the ball is at the same elevation as Glencorse Reservoir - i.e. the highest point in Edinburgh to which water will flow by gravity.
Harlaw and Threipmuir were built as water compensation reservoirs for the mills on the Water of Leith - to ensure continuity of water flow. The current work being done on them is to do this in reverse - to act as temporary storage facilities for rainwater, ensuring that the water levels on the WoL do not suddenly rise and cause floods at Roseburn etc.
It's a right education on here! 🙂
well that's just great. looks like i missed some great riding! i'm hoping for next week, assuming it's not a car drive away...