PEAKS POOTLE: 14TH OCTOBER – Praise the lord it's on a sunday

@ Hora who needs “Strava!” on downhills when there’s “LANCE!” for the climbs. 😉

Mint ride out! Cheers to Pook and NBT for making it happen!

Technical guff here:

http://app.strava.com/rides/25018493

Cracking pootle eh? The loooong push up is worth it. Just about!
Cheers all – you lot make these rides for me. Special cheers to Jules for co-pilot and counting duties, and to all the rest who held gates and counted.

And for every single one of you who gave an encouraging word to someone else – cheers. That’s what it’s all about.

We put £27 in the Edale Mountain Rescue pot too today, so on behalf of them, thanks!

Video coming up at some point. 😉

Huge thanks to Mr Pook, my first ever pootle and it was great fun! Will get some photos online in a bit when I’ve had my tea, we had to leave pre-pub ‘cos I had to film a video for a job application… Long story.

Lee I rue not buying your ST, when you come to sell the 3′..or phil57 😀

Lol @ Hora!

Russ and I loved it, thanks to everyone who helped look for my missing cleat (that wasn’t!) and for fixing it for me. Also cheers for all the encouragement going up (and down!) those hills. What a lovely bunch of peeps you are 🙂

We’ll be back and I’ll try and be a bit less pathetic next time!

Thanks pook for organising this pootle, my first one! Jacobs ladder was exquisite from start to finish 😀

Who was it that took the pictures on all the drop offs? I would like a few for the collection 🙂

I took a few, just uploading them now. I shall supply a link forthwith!

Had a great day out on our first ever pootle. Think Cat enjoyed herself too as she’s fast asleep on the sofa now (Thanks for that guys – bit of piece and quiet lol)

We’ll be back for the next pootle.

Karl & Cat

Thanks Chris and Jules, and everyone else who made today such great fun. We had a great time, the company even made the uphills fun!

Chears chaps and chapesses! Jacobs ladder was a highlight, I couldn’t let go of my handlebars at then end. My fingers cramped shut!

I took pics, just leafing through them now to see if anything is reasonable enough to publish

Thanks again to Pook and the gang. Roast dinner didn’t touch the sides when I got home. Apologies to those waiting at the bottom while I minced down some bits, my helmet has been safe and warm in the porch all day. One of these I’ll make it to a pootle with full working kit. 😳

I won’t claim they’re any good, but most of you are in there:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCtfYrU

If anyone wants full size versions let me know and I’ll process them and email them over 🙂

thepodge

One of the reasons I don’t do big group rides anymore is I can’t be doing with 5 hour rides that would normally take me 2.5

Sounds good, when do we go? I keep trying to find people that want to ride in a group and push each other, rather than their bikes, and do some good no faff rides.

Pick a date

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I’d be up for that! Must be at least 50/60/70 milers, 70% off road.

Great day out with really friendly folk in decent weather.

Thanks to Chris and Jules for guiding, sweeping, bad jokes, photos, video and collecting money for a really good cause.

Looking forward to the next one already.

Dammit that all looks like too much fun – gutted to have missed this year’s Autumn Pootle… Pook, if you can give me enough notice I shall reschedule my work oop north ( and by extension the whole of Manchester uni s freshers week) to make it next year!

Big shout out to Pook, Nbt, Bunnyhop and Flyingmonkeycorps as well as anyone else I have met and not id’d yet.

Invite to Devon still stands!

Had another really fab time everyone – thank you to all!!

Rachel

h4muf – Member
I’d be up for that! Must be at least 50/60/70 milers, 70% off road.

Probably too far for me to be honest. How far is the Jacob’s ladder route? 13 miles via Chapel Gate.
I aint doing that 5 times in a day.

But it would be good to do something reasonable at a decent rate.

Thanks to Pook for organizing and Jules for counting. I’ll put some photos up later (including photographic evidence of Bunnyhop’s sprint for the last brownie)

Gutted I lost my flapjack on a descent!!!! I was looking forward to it.

Small pics uploaded here (our interweb connections is not really that fast)

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Peaks Pootle Oct 2012[/url] by Notoriously Bad Typist[/url], on Flickr

If anyone wants full size pics, drop me a mail

EDIT: Oh I forgot, any captions for this or any other pics most welcome 🙂

I’m liking this pic of kbrpro

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Peaks Pootle Oct 2012[/url] by Notoriously Bad Typist[/url], on Flickr

Check the compression on the forks, and the way the rim’s almost touching the rock as the tyre is so squashed…

Sounds good, when do we go? I keep trying to find people that want to ride in a group and push each other, rather than their bikes, and do some good no faff rides.

Will you feed off each other?

My photos from today are here http://imgur.com/a/DGSB1

I took this one pre-pootle from Hollins Cross, looking across to the cement works – quite pleased with how it came out

@dawson, pleased you should be, nice.

Thegenralist, I think you’ve missed my point

I like to ride at my own pace, not other’s

Cracking ride, didnt realise how blood skinny I am till now though!

ace pic Dawson!

Cracking day out gents, cant beat a little peak grit! Look forward to the next one when I’ll hopefully be without chest infection!

Mark – the white Titus el guapo

Cheers

Awesome day out, really enjoyed it – don’t know why I left it so long to get back on a mountain bike!

Cheers,

Sam

This is my favourite I think, and he wasn’t even one of ours!

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IMG_0357[/url] by Will Slater[/url], on Flickr

+1 on the picture – can’t of ended very nicely 🙂

I assume that’s the “step” on Roych Clough?

EEK- I took the lesser step down to the left of that big un!

I *think* this is Hora doing the same step only much more successfully! It is the one on Roych Clough, caught a few people out. Chap was ok though, could have been a lot worse!

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IMG_0356[/url] by Will Slater[/url], on Flickr

Oh look, i missed a great one.
Again…. 😥
Looks like a truly top day out, folks, and some top photo’s, too!

Next time 🙂