PEAKS POOTLE: Saturday 25th February

got room for a little one pook? reckon i can squeeze a pass out for this 😆

Crikey! Course we have. And ‘little one’?? who you kidding?

;o)

Woop. Can probably get a lift too now it’s from this end 🙂

Wahoo!!! A route!

nothing to see here, move along 😉

Sorry… 😳 nowt to see here either.

Yeah. And now instead of keeping it to yourself you’ve gone and told everyone. It’ll fill up at 6am. 🙄

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Cut Gate in February, not that long after snow melt. Can’t believe there hasn’t yet been complaint it’ll be a boggy ‘mare and a big group will wreck it to death etc

Given you’re starting ending with lots of fireroad, is there yet any plan to do anything beyond ‘north america’ on the langsett side? ie drop down to the bridge and/or loop around langsett reservior, or would this be upping the distance too much?

Yes.

It’s too long since you last went on a pootle James, 17 miles is plenty long enough for us lot.

Yes please Pook.

Think I might be up for this and I’ll be bringing one or two others with me if that’s cool.

Course it is.

Sambob, it is
Need to not sleep through my alarm and sort a car out
17miles, fair do’s, first 5 and last 5 are ‘only’ fireroad though? ‘only’ 2 ‘proper’ hills?

I’m not getting anywhere with this am I

You’ll not win, I only do it for the jelly babies.

James – yes, two proper hills. 8 miles of fireroad – brings us back to Pootle distance really

Anyone au fait with the Ulster delights that are Fifteens? I am negotiating a pass and these will be along for the post match scoff.
New bearings and tyres on the bike too. I’ll be like greased pooh on a shiny shovel.

there’ll be another post ride feast….

Anyone going through or near Whaley Bridge to get there?

Erm… – http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cutgate

everywhere round Ladybower was a bog tonight too.

I may come on the Angry bike on this.

Is Ladybower a rideable bog at the moment? I was debating heading over there today.

So will the route be changing? I can ride clag in Suffolk, with added sticky clay too for extra weight. It’s a long way to drive for gritty clag.

A riding bud of mine was out yesterday, and apparently Ladybower’s not too bad. Probably worth avoiding Whinstone Lee Tor, but the rest should be ok with the usual boggy spots.

If its not raining or super windy I’m in. if its either/both of those….tatty bye! 😆

and this is precisely why I stopped naming the route until the week of the ride.

I’m wasn’t intending on changing it.

Working out one route which is not too hard, not too easy, with good transport links, a cafe, parking, a nearby pub, that won’t be choked with walkers, has some fun sections, steady climbs with a variety of fast descents, and that we haven’t already done to death in previous pootles is faff enough.

Sorry Pook. Looks like borrowing a fatbike might be a good idea then

😉

It might freeze yet.

Shame on you lot! 😉 Sandwich, It’d be worth coming up for the social and pub afterwards, and plenty of it will be rideable, probably only a few very boggy bits. Unless it snows, it which case it wont be worth it. But this all in my opinion and I’m in no way responsible if you change your mind when we finish the ride and attack me with a chainring :D.

Fraid I cant join you any more 🙁 as last week’s cancelled Trailquest has been rearranged for that weekend 😀

Enjoy and hope to see you at another one!

:o(

Sambob, it will be the mountain morph. I shall lure you in with fifteens first mind 😉

It’s not like you’re committed to Cut Gate and there are no other route starting from Ladybower, erm, is it? As someone who really only comes along for a chat and a gentle roll around, I’m not too bothered about the exact route. Why not do Cut Gate if it’s frozen and something else if it’s not? Or is that too flexible… 😉

nope. the meeting point and time remains the same though!

I also have a Mountain Morph. Sword fight it is. Winner gets the others bike.

BWD you could serenade us with your blog poetry

Can we use them like a mace while riding the bike? A more entertaining spectator sport.

bwd poetry, bike jousting…. its a medieval revival. Who’s bringing the lute?

BWD you could serenade us with your blog poetry

And you could read aloud from your collection of selected classifieds ads. 🙄