7pm start, meet on the road that connects the two barns.
My car's a grey Mondeo estate and the bike will be either blue Rockhopper or black Five.
Cleaning bike and fitting a new front mech tonight. Wish me luck.
Oh, are there going to be lots of steep rocky bits btw?
Binners, San Marino was riding fine a week or so back (after the deluge)
Molgrips only one rocky bit of any note and you should be able to middle ring it all or SS if you want
Right I'll bring my 5 then 🙂
Molly, We'll find you as steep and rocky as we can but tbh there's nothing steep anywhere on Rivi.
Probably do a route something like... up the Pike; down Wilderswood; Up Wilders Moor; down Burnt Edge; up Smithhills Moor; San Marino (down and back up); Two Lads; Dog Kennels; ICR or Gardens.
not with Binners there you wont 😉
Please don't make me ride up the San Marino 🙁
Edit: This my become a two-tier group fairly quickly. EEK!!!
wuss!
edit - plenty of options to modify route according to group
Its a fair point, well put 😀
Can't see this being a fast paced ride, so we might not get all that lot in anyway.
My Five's now been "Mega-ised" and has got a bit lardy as a consequence (36lbs!!), which is why I might yet leave it at home in favour of the hardtail.
I'm going to pretend I might come then flake out at the merest hint of bad weather or feeling a bit tired, like I do for every STW meetup. That ok with everyone?
(Though if I were to come I would be joining binners in the 'glacial' speed category.)
Molly, We'll find you as steep and rocky as we can but tbh there's nothing steep anywhere on Rivi.
Just want to know if I should bring my XC-ish 5 or my Patriot. Which seems to weigh a lot less than your 5! Wtf have you got on it?
Bring the 5. Patriot is overkill.
Maybe it's just that I've got cheap nasty scales then, but it's definately at least 10lbs heavier than the hardtail.
2.5 Dual Plys, coil fork and Reverb, all add up... and all totally unnecessary for a Rivi ride!!!
SS rigid wil ride everything so no need for a big bike. I rarely use my FS there tbh
Just so we're clear,
Are you meeting on the road up to Rivi Barn, with the parking bays all the way up? Would it not make more sense to meet up at a specific point, say the roundabouty bit further up where the (motor)bikers hang out?
Thinking of tagging along, team Binners' Mincers.
We'll all be easy enough to spot. We'll be the only ones not in a Vauxhall Corsa, sporting a baseball cap at a jaunty angle, playing happy hardcore above the threshold of pain
'Binners' Mincers? Hmmmmmm. I feel a t shirt design coming on 😀
Cougar,
Yes, it's the road with the parking bays on the left.
For the avoidance of any doubt [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=363010&Y=414055&A=Y&Z=120 ]here's a very specific point[/url] for you
Ah right, got you now. I'd completely overlooked that adjoining road till now.
its the same road just a specific point on it
I have a prior arrangement i forgot about but I will try and get out of it to be there..i know this means a lot to you all
Binners mincers
Beer and fags and chips and gravy tour?
you can choose the font 😉
Are you definitely coming, Cougar?
I'm thinking about it. (-:
I wouldn't go as far as to say 'definitely', it depends whether I can get out of work at a sensible hour, whether I can overcome a debilitating fear of people I don't know, what the weather's doing, and whether I can come up with any other tangible excuses between now and then. But yeah, all things being equal I don't see why not, sounds like a giggle.
I'm not particularly fit or blessed with l33t skilz, so if you're all rad to the power of sick then there's little point in me coming other than to say hello. But if there's other bimblers then it should be cool. If all else fails, I went walking up there at the weekend so will at least have a vague idea of where the hell I am.
so if you're all rad to the power of sick
Well, I don't know the fellow but Binners' legendary lack of ability precedes him.
Anyway, you need to come, I've got that laptop needs fixing. I'll bring it along.
Weather is currently looking favourable so i might just make the effort for this.
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Bolton/
Binners mincers
Beer and fags and chips and gravy tour?
you can choose the font
Comic sans obviously.
Oh yeah, and my bike is massively overkill for Rivington but my only other bike is a road bike.
Anyway, you need to come, I've got that laptop needs fixing. I'll bring it along.
*snort* that's probably going to be my epitaph. "Oh, you work with computers? Only, mine's really slow..."
Binners mincers
[STW mode] and where exactly has the apostrophe gone? 🙄 [/STW mode]
I refer the honourable gentleman to my post at the top of this very page.
Cougar, you're in the clear. The evidence suggests that it woz Junkyard wot dunnit.
He's been in the bedroom with candlesticks again, hasn't he.
Well I was going to take the hardtail, but the last time I rode it down the San Marino I blew not one, not two, but three rear tubes with my precise line choices and aerial finesse. Riding as I do with the grace and elegance of a three legged giraffe
Bouncy bike it is then?
5 clean and drying in the garage, prepped for its frontmech-ectomy.
I'll be on a HT, given that my bike is a HT.
Do you lot all know each other, or should we wear poppies in buttonholes or something? Maybe some sort of identifying pe(n)dant?
I don't know any of them.
Although some of you might be the loud-mouthed northerners that typically annoy me at bike races.
I'm not loud-mouthed, just Northern and annoying.
I'm load-mouthed, northern and annoying, but extremely unlikely to be found at race meetings
Bouncy bike it is then?
Yeah take the bouncy bike so if I do come I won't feel out of place. Mind you JY always goes on about how he's normally on a rigid singlespeed but I've never seen it.
I am northern and annoying but also terribly middle class so my northern accent isn't that pronounced compared to the scummers from southern Lancashire.
By the way molgrips, remember to bring a chain, or a bike with a chain.
I dont actually own a rigid SS that would be madness ...its got bombers on it
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Not looked at the rest of the posts, just saw preston, clicked on last page and then saw ride round rivington, have i missed the ride?
Nope, you've not missed it. Come and join us.
Wednesday night 11th July . 7pm meet [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=363010&Y=414055&A=Y&Z=120 ]here[/url]
Lights shouldn't be needed but always better to play safe and throw 'em in the bag in case of any protracted mechanicals.
Hmm wednesday damn, and 7pm a bit after my bed time :D, If i do come ill have to come on my ss as my new bike aint ready yet. I take it thats the long lane up to the top barn?
yep
Umm.. got a bit of a problem. Can anyone lend me a front mech? I have a spare, I was going to replace it tonight but I forgot to bring it with me.
yes for what bike- ie down tube size and pull type
I think there's a well-used (read that as "tired") Deore top-swing in my parts bin. Should fit a Five.
I plan to be in Preston later tonight. Let me know where you're staying and I can drop it in.
