Rostron Arms, Edenfield.
BL0 0JZ

8:15 blast off

Bring money for beer

If the weather’s clear (as if!), don’t bother with lights 🙂

http://www.moongiant.com/phase/2/22/2016

out on the moors with no light, i’m in!

Ooh, what an all-weather suggestion!

Ooh, what an all-weather suggestion!

Yep. Crazy idea huh?

Yep crazy idea! Shoot whoever suggested that one!

Provisionally in. Just getting over a serious dose of the flu.

I like that. It would make a great t shirt.

I didn’t fare very well on the stupid no lights across the moors idea.

I’m in though.

To be fair, you didn’t fare too well on the ride up the coal road either. If you remember though, the fayre in the Roston Arms wasnt too shabby and that was just the barmaid… 😀

i’m bloody working til midnight again next monday.

Harry – I may have procured myself some silk screen printing equipment today. Fingers crossed. I’m thinking it’d make a nice print on a canvas or a t shirt. As would a few others. I’ve been wanting to do some silly screen printing for a while, but it’s normally prohibitively expensive. 🙂

Oooh. Cragg, you say? Up for a bit of that, lovely.

Good choice, I’m in.

Never been to Cragg, I’m in!

Looking 50-50 for moonlit no lights possibilities. Fingers crossed.

Are we doing the same route as last time or are we going for a masochist ascent of the coal road?

My vote would be for the same as last time.

I’m in for anything, it absolutely cannot be worse than saturday nights attempt at a ride.

Having not even been near my bike for weeks, I vote for anything except the coal road!

I’m now out. Everyone in the house has some kind of lurgy except me, so I’m on nursing duties.

Having not even looked at my bike since throwing it in the shed, coated in filth, after the Somme-like Tour de Reservoirs MNPR, I thought I best go and have a look at it.

Anyone with a shred of mechanical sensibility would weep at the sight of my drive chain. Not me though. I’ve freed up the chain with a lump hammer and covered in various oily substances. It’ll be reet! 😀

We did this months ration of mechanicals last week so despite your best attempts to curse us, I’m expecting an incident free ride.

MNPR Gents, I have done this route a couple of times with you, each time I suffered on the initial ascent. So if don’t you mind a very slow rear gunner this evening then I’m in?

I’m going to Karate.

Gav – you should know by now that we are group of highly trained athletes and your presence at the back is nothing but a hindrance to our long term Olympic / World Championship ambitions.

See you at 8.15 😀

And Daz, that was a somewhat silly thing to say…

Thick fog and stupidly bright lights doesn’t really work does it?

After the various dithering over next week’s location, what about The Whitehouse in Littlebrough? It was alright last time, much better beer than the Wine Press, there are 3 or 4 possible routes we could do from there depending on the conditions, and the weather is due to be dry and cold for the next week.

Hmmm tough going last night i thought! I had suggested that route on a firm belief that even in bad weather it would be largely unaffected with ground water. Possible mistake!

The forecast for the next few days / week isn’t bad at the moment so yes i would be happy with the White House.

I’m hoping to get out. I’ve seriously lost my mojo.

I’ve not been out for 2weeks…

I always thought the coal road was the easiest way to get up to Cragg from Edenfield. Not saying its easy, but easier than any of the alternatives.