Edinburgh Night Rides

might be up for this, would be riding from town if there is a group going? or are you all lifting it out?

Hey

we will be using the car up to Harlaw – Colin lives in Balerno so makes sense to do that.

There may be little point to meeting us at the shop – unless you want to race us in a car- not enough seats for more people sorry. We will be riding back into town though from the Pents.

Route wise, suck it and see!

hmmmmm, not riding out on my own. guess i'll give it a miss.

Hmm, 13thFloormonk vs. TBC car trip through the streets & byways of Edinburgh to Harlaw; anyone running a book? 🙂

we have money on monk.

Take note guys – this thread just posted.

Hmm, I stopped that sort of behaviour after I hit a car while racing one of the guys from work home 😳

Thanks TBC but I'll skip this one, probably best bleed the brakes on my Charge tonight, the novelty of levers-to-the-bar wears off fast!

on way up in 5mins , taking w-o-l path

That was a bit muddy 🙂

Nice to see a good crowd out on a damp night. Lights in the mist coming over Castlelaw looked great. So glad I'm not working tomorrow so I can get the bike and clothes hosed down though.

Good fun, although still picking lumps of mud out of my eyes.

I learned three things last night:

1. riding with a helmet mounted light in heavy mist is…interesting;

2. riding with a different group of people is always good fun – thanks all; and

3. Crank Brothers… Well, need I say anything?

Cheers guys, and hopefully see some of you again one night next week.

Aye – cheers chaps I enjoyed that. I was surprised at the turn out – 11 of us! I was even more surprised by the total lack of grip on one tree hill – where I fell fairly heavily and have a couple of bruises today.

We should make it a regular thing – although perhaps pick a different night as it almost felt like the pentlands were crowded – several other groups out

Great ride last night – thks to tbc for putting it together. Good to meet you all – lights on Castlelaw looked awesome. Not so awesome – Had to be up at 5am this morning 🙁

Spotted this too late to join last nights excursion but I'd be interested in coming along if it becomes a regular occurence, whatever night of the week that might be and whether it's the Pentlands or a wee bit further afield.

Nice to meet up with some of the other local listers even if I didn't partake of the ride itself.

Pretty much any night except Wednesday is usually quiet in the Pentlands. This Tuesday I didn't see any other bikes up there, but last night there were the 11 on the STW ride, another group of 3 assembling in the Harlaw car-park plus the 2 that came down Black Hill. I didn't see the Edinburgh RC group but they'd have been out as well, which means there could easily have been 25 people riding up there last night.

My fitness isn't up to these rides yet (but I'm working on it) however ever there are any other really slow/unfit Pentlands riders around that want to meet up for a night ride then let me know. I'll typically do something like Balerno-Maidens Cleugh-Glencorse-Green Cleugh-Black Hill-Nail Trail-Balerno (assuming the ground conditions are ok for Black Hill and the Nail Trail) at a slow pace.

Well that was a fun night. Didn't expect such a big group.

Thanks all for turning up – we will arrange some more times as the months go on.

Good route choice by Glen as well made it interesting. Not so keen on the Castelaw climb though it must be said but seeing the stream of lights on the way down made it all worthwhile.

Good to see a group of other riders up the top as well. Busy night!

Great to put some faces to names and we also saw a badger and 2 deer in the Dell on the way home. One nearly hit AntM!

Epicsteve – the idea behind the rides is to make them social and not dependant on fitness. Someone will always ride with you. We would like more people who think they might not be fast to come out- its the whole point of riding! The fun.

Epicsteve, don't worry, i'm normally slowest (on the uphills anyway) for most of these rides so we can keep each other company on the next ride 😀

As long as the ride is described as sociable they you'll be fine whatever speed.

I am a bit foobarred today, having ridden from 5pm until 9:30 or so, and finally got my dinner at 10:30 last night after hosing the bike down. Having cream carpet in the hallway is most definitely NOT a good idea at this time of year!

Was good to meet you all, and thanks again Mark for the use of your spare light!

thebikechain – Member

Epicsteve – the idea behind the rides is to make them social and not dependant on fitness. Someone will always ride with you. We would like more people who think they might not be fast to come out- its the whole point of riding! The fun.

2nded. The fast boys can either wear an extra jumper so they don't get cold waiting for me- or do the climbs twice 😈

How is Dasa today?

She is good, a good night sleep sorted her out. Although i suspect a breakfast of Monster might have helped too.

Epicsteve – use the rides to get fit! You're probably not as unfit as you think (almost certainly).

Pentlands had returned to normal last night, with no other riders apparent other than myself.

The chap in the blue Escort was in the car-park again though.

Wiash ihad made it to this, tbc, is just round the corner. Went out with a mate from the Flot side, saw a few lights in the distant, but we kept it low and fast.