Cracking ride up Darwen tower last night – Piccies

Don't you just love this summer 😆

Decided on a ride up Darwen and Play through rodlesworth woods instead of the usual Rivvy.

Jo posing at the top near the tower

Grant playing 'king of the castle' and 'Master of all he surveys'

Fab view from the top

Managing to get over the gate and planks (poser) He claimed it was skill I reckon it was luck

Tom not quite making it

I attempted the same gate/planks by the 'no skill and speed method' this however proved painful as the distance between the planks is exactly the wheelbase of a Cotic BFe with Lyriks on. Result = over the bars, a skuffed elbow and broken pride 😳

Great single track in Roddlesworth woods

and to finish a VERY steep and rooty chute that Jo made look really easy.

The trails are perfect round here at the moment, can't wait for Friday afternoon, Grizedale here we come. 😆

shweeet! looks mint!

Looking at that last pic, Jo made it look easy cos she cheated – looks like she has laser guiding eyes…. 😉

maybe she is one of these in disguise (and in a petit package)

Get of my land.

We had and evening of poaching cheeky suburban trails in the badlands of north Bolton. Arms are stinging nicely from shit loads of nettles. Brilliant!

I thought I had a lifetime pass for lord Loweys land, as long as you have access to the 'garage of porn' 😆

Besides I thought you owned Rivvy, are you making a hostile takeover of Blackburn?

Yay, we're going Roddlesworth tomorrow again, looks good.
That chute is now on the list of things to conquer. I would not want to do that in the wet. At all.

Try the gate and planks, I made a right ****t of myself.

seemed to hover on the balance point of 'I'm ok', 'no i'm not' for ages than over the bars I went 😳

and to add insult to injury I got spat off on some roots 100yrds later.

I'm too old for this riding $hit 😥

Word from the bruise easily camp. Aloe Vera gel. None of that random shite, the proper decent stuff from Holland and Barrett. It helps, honestly. Stick it on before bed, no one will be the wiser. :O)

The thing with that gate is, the beams are at least a foot higher than they look in that picture. Honest.

*cough*

cheers, it's on the shopping list for Mrs Chuck for Saturdays shop.

Lowey – your land??

spot on cougar, they are massive 😉

ok ok, whilst ownership of the tower may be in doubt, the moor is mine, all mine.

Seriously though, Darwen moor is in prime condition at the moment, just brilliant. Only problem we have is that we have to pass "blow job alley" on the way back and after a "horrendous" experience a few weeks ago, we are kind of reluctant to go back 😳

Come on spill the beans Dave, you can't tease us with a snippet of a story and not tell the whole saga.

Although the phrase "blow job alley" probably give some of the content away

Yeah, I'm thinking public service announcements are needed on this one so we don't end up having 'horrendous' experiences this evening too. I think I'd quite like to go up to the tower, I've not been to the top yet and it needs done.

The full horror is revealed here.

"waiting their turn" 😆
Lowey, you should write a book, love reading your blog

Lowey and Wors shall hereby be refered to as the "spectators"

Great pics, jealous of some of the places you guys have on your doorstep (not bj alley obviously)

lowey – I've witnessed similar up by the lodge where the chavs go to swim in the sun, up by Delph sailing club. It was a group of guys and a lady though, not a blue-on-blue act.

Where is this DH to Longworth Clough you speak of? Can you point to it on a map?

Chuck… This is the one… just a short rocky track to the bridge, good fun if you hit it as fast as you can.

Also, at the top of it take a left turn down some steep steps and then down to the river. Nice little techy drop.

I can handle "vanilla" dogging, but what we witnessed was hideous 😆

Lowey, I was born in Darwen and I would have to say that those people you speak of are probably from Blackburn with Darwen being quite homophobic and all! very funny indeed. I have forwarded it to my mate who still lives there !

did 50 miles on the road bike last night from Blackburn over moors and looping round Rivvy/Belmont /bolton end a couple of times what is this mountain biking you speak of?

Nice one lowey, new local trails. I assume that there is somewhere rideable to cross the river and come up on the other side.

Bridge at the bottom mate.

Where do you live ??

Lowey, I was born in Darwen and I would have to say that those people you speak of are probably from Blackburn with Darwen being quite homophobic and all! very funny indeed. I have forwarded it to my mate who still lives there !

Cheeky Sod, they might be from Blackburn but defo not Darwen it is a town of respectable Smack Heads and lazy B-st-rds not Bum Bashers 😀

Lowey, just read your blog very very funny it is as well. We pass through there quite a lot on our Tuesday night rides so come across a lot of them hanging about waiting for there fellow Bum Bashers 😯
During winter we purposely shine our lights into the cars as we ride by making them all cover there faces or duck down 😈

It really is about time the cops cleared this lot off, it used to be the main place for young guys to take their girlfreinds for a good time 🙂

Bridge at the bottom mate.

Where do you live ??
Cool, I shall try it out.

I live in Bromley Cross.

Just read Lowey's blog 😳
Only ever seen worried looking sheep on the North Yorks Moors

Eeew! Lowey – the 'b*stard' as you call it is only a likkle bump. Get a SS and thrutch up it!

PMSL at Loweys blog.

Do you still wake up in cold sweats thinking about it?

must remember not to stop for a Pi$$ around there just in case 🙄

Isn't a "smorgasbord" a selection of cheeses, cold meat and grease?

Wait…

Bridge at the bottom mate.

careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in Bromley Cross.

Sharples here mate. Let me know f you fancy a ride sometime.

Cool, yes up for that. I'm away on holiday next week but will be up for it after that, just drop me a mail.

dont do it chuck before you know it you will be drinking every Thursday under thei guise of riding

See Lowey, Your reputation precedes you 😆

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You KNOW it makes sense.

You should be are a salesman for that landlord in Belmont.

I must admit it is a nice pint.

I regularly trespass on Loweys land. But he does keep intruding on MY singletrack at Rivi. The Whitten (?) Weavers way over from the tower of an afternoon is the height of cheek, but irresistible. Rutted gully-tastic 😀

When we going out riding Dave? We must have passed within 100 yards of each other about a million times round there. I'm starting to take it personally

After witnessing photographic evidence of your elevated levels of bestiality in Morzine I think I'll take a rain check 😛

I know mate… we need to organise something. Give me a week or so and I'll see what I can get together. Maybe a night ride from the Barn, get Junkyard and Chucky along too.

Whatever happened to the Thursday night Yew Tree'ers ?

As to being a sales person, I must confess my allegencies have shifted somewhat since Bank Top Brewery opened their very own pub, The Bank Top Tap!

£2.00 per pint for the champagne of the north!