Return of the Macc-Fest. Sun Dec 16th. Pootle Content

I could be a maybe for this, but I’ve not ridden for 3 months and I need to make sure I book it off work…

bumpty bump

Don’t forget there’s a rivington pootle the week before

I should have franchised these…..

I’ll seek management approval. Once confirmed there will be a space in a car passing Cambridge, Kettering and through Chesterfield.
Watch this space.

This looks like a goer to me all things going right at home.

will try and make this one (weather permitting).

may have to fit the tinsel, as it’ll be nearly C….mas

I have approval, anyone needing a lift from the mystic East?

Where exactly is the mystic east??

That’s the mysterious bit.

where is nbt’s mystic east?

Hels, I’m starting from Ipswich. If you can bear the shame of arriving in an Audrey you’ll be fine. (Forced to drink beer last night hence the satellite delay).

Might see you there.

I’m out, family duties call.

I wont be able to come out to play 😥 christmas thingy do

after the enjoyable time we had on the Rivington pootle, hope to see a few of you out this weekend

THis is a proper pootle though, so BRING CAKE.

subject to hangover

For consideration by whoever’s in charge of route…. Charity Lane was sheet ice, pretty much from wall-to-wall, on Sat night.

Looking at the forecast and knowing how Charity Lane holds onto snow and ice, I reckon it will be snow on top of ice on Saturday.

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Macclesfield_Forest_and_Wildboarclough/long.html

I might take a stroll up there on Friday after work and see.

that’d be appreciated ta

to be fair though, there’s not much else I can think of to get us over from the Leathered Smithy to Forest Chapel, and pervious Macc-Fests have often included a frozen skate down Charity Lane!

True.

It’s more a case of “fore-warned is fore-armed“. I’ve ridden down there in all manner of foul conditions.

The worst bit was on the climb up to the top before the fun begins – that was wet, smooth ice; completely unrideable – in fact, not easy to walk on. Once over the top there was enough rock sticking through, slushy bits or running water to be rideable and fun. You just had to judge when you could/couldn’t do boring stuff like braking and steering.

does anybody have a postcode of the car park for Sat Nav purposes?

I’m a no can do, can’t get it off work so close to Christmas. That and I’m probably the least fit I’ve been in about 4 years, but mainly the work thing.

Application submitted for a day pass, could be tricky as I am using up favours pretty fast at the moment.

You could miss out much of Charity by turning right onto the footpath before you fork up to the tarmac grind (uphill skate). Depends on your views re fp riding.

Streetmap suggests SK11 0BD

I ride based on suitability, not legality. I think I’ve ridden that footpath but not for a few years – I probably won’t use it on a group ride like this

nbt – Member

to be fair though, there’s not much else I can think of to get us over from the Leathered Smithy to Forest Chapel, and pervious Macc-Fests have often included a frozen skate down Charity Lane

You could head off round the bottom end of Ridgegate Res which is ll off road, all be it a sandstone track and pick up the fireroad climb (Nessit Hill) that would bring you out at Standing Stone Carpark then its a short road section over to Forest Chapel? Granted is not as exciting as Charity but then again its also a lot less painful for you pootle’ers than Leather Smithy > Charity Lane

Carl

You could miss out much of Charity by turning right onto the footpath before you fork up to the tarmac grind (uphill skate). Depends on your views re fp riding.

I ride based on suitability, not legality. I think I’ve ridden that footpath but not for a few years – I probably won’t use it on a group ride like this.

Depends how the group feel about riding up steps. Also, I’ve only ever been ‘caught’ on a fp once and it was on that one. Came round the corner and there’s a chap in the red fleece of a Peak Park ranger. They have a base in Macc Forest and it was a sunny Sat afternoon so hardly surprising.

You could head off round the bottom end of Ridgegate Res which is ll off road, all be it a sandstone track and pick up the fireroad climb (Nessit Hill) that would bring you out at Standing Stone Carpark then its a short road section over to Forest Chapel? Granted is not as exciting as Charity but then again its also a lot less painful for you pootle’ers than Leather Smithy > Charity Lane

True but I suspect we may have just come down that way.

Humm, nearly always finish on that side of the forest, not
necessarily on the fire road though

Are you all going to ride in Christmas clobber? I think you should – it being that time of year and all!

Are you all going to ride in Christmas clobber?

No, but I will leave my humbugs at home.

Ah…. damn my complete inability to read things right in front of me….

This is Sunday isn’t it? Not Saturday as I told the wife the other day.

Let’s see how the weekend pans out domestically…..
Plans for Sunday were put up and decorate Xmas tree with kids in the morning and paint upstairs door frames in the afternoon. I see a future in which the tree gets done on Sat afternoon and the door frames remain undercoat only for another week.

looks like you’re set for decent weather

Bugga. Cant make this. As its the last balance bike sesh at the velodrome Sunday. No more for hora jnr til Jan. **** ****. 🙁

Me and the misses will be coming now we thinks 🙂

Thats bad timing….looks like we’re only going cause hora can’t make it lol

😆

Sorry, but having reviews my commitments over the next few weeks I can’t makes it!!

Somebody else will have to supply the brownies! 🙁

Booo 🙁

I can’t make it either. I did intend to come along as well 🙁
I’ve ridden charity lane quite a few times and it’s the best part of that ride, so don’t miss it out. Me and ma mate do a ride where we get the train up to macc just so we can ride that lane. The worst one once was when we got up there in winter to find the lane had been trashed by snow. like 3 foot deep. We ended up luigging our bikes along the very narrow grassy bank to the right of it, a right pain. If you clean the whole lane down to the chapel it’s loads of fun and I’ve never not come away from it grinning my head off.

Me neither – family commitments (read transport manager for 2 teenagers) have filled the day. Sorry! 🙁

I think it’s fair to say we’re not going to have a dust problem on Sunday.

Jekkyl – I agree about not missing Charity Lane – I must have ridden it 100 times in all kinds of conditions and it’s always fun of one sort or another. I don’t know the route NBT’s got planned but as we’re parking at the bottom of Cumberland Clough, I can hazard a guess and would disagree that Charity Lane is the best part of the ride.