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Lane below Pike

An inch or so of snow on Rivington today. Not really a big fan of the Pike but it was very pleasant today-very few walkers and the new Specialized Storm Controls performed faultlessly in compacted and fresh snow as well as the few ice patches dotted about.

Looked like a cyclocross bike had been out on the bridleway up to the Nab.

Rivvy is the nuts…..

Sunday was ridic for dogs and walkers – never ever seen it like that.

Get off my land!.

Tend to avoid the place ove the weekend. Full of cocks with generic fighting dogs swigging wife beater.

Lowey, was out with KKF , was getting shouted at by dog walkers who were probably up there for the first time this year and thinking they owned the place.

Saw 3 seperate groups coming up the ‘eliminator’

which bit is the Eliminator?
Caz xx

I was up over Darwen moor on Sunday. Bikeless for a change. I was hoping to see some of you lot so I could shout at you like an indignant rambler 🙂

Rivvy good for one thing ? The frigging good full on fast downhill from the tv mast & back to the pub ! good views but full off arrogant local bikers with chips or is it a JOHN BULL on there shoulders ! Blackburn bikers will know what i mean & my riding buddies from the rivvy area will also agree ! anyway, Must walk my american akitas up there more often lol ! maybe monday, wednesday & thurday night before i go home & beat up the wife ehh ! GET A LIFE LOWEY !

I was up there on Sunday and it was fine – descents were all walker free and everyone seemed happy and friendly. There was two scallies in a probably nicked escort trying to drive up what I think is called the ice cream run though. It didn’t go well.

Bloody ell sutty, chill out a bit pal.

Eliminator – ice cream run I think.

We call it elimiator from when Bolton Mountain Bikes ran a duel eliminator from the Pike down to the car park…..with Peat,Longden et al in attendance.

Ahhh the ice cream walk in my case lol…I’ve yet to be brave enough to try it again lol
Caz xxx

LOL ! superchilled now ! just warming up with a whiskey ! think i’ll have to go out for a ride & de-stress ehh !

Wow, that eliminator was my first ever race…96 or 97 I think, lots of people got mullered, and I won a set of Hope Ti Skewers….£50 at the time, still have them in the garage

Intense- good effort.

I was the starter at the pike….96 it was.

A lot of broken wheels that day.

I get the feeling that I’ve yet to be a proper Mountain biker, once I’ve ridden the Ice Cream Run, will I have passed the test? lol
Caz xx

ha ha …..if only it was that easy.

me & Rivvy do have a past ? it’s very fast & fun but it’s one of the places i do tend to get my downhill confidence back ! eek, that usually ends up in a big stack & broken bones ! it could be that i’m just getting old so therefore better to stick to the other local routes eh, like the mary townley loop or gisburn forest lol !

I’ve sacrificed blood ot the Rivington trail gods too…bloomin hurts !
Caz xx

once I’ve ridden the Ice Cream Run, will I have passed the test?

only when you have done it in the dark 😆

I might manage better in the dark, if I can’t see it, I can’t wimp out 😆
Caz xx

yeah pretty damn good in the dark ! not done it this year, i can feel a visit coming on ! should be lots of bikers up there at this time of year & all lit up like xmas trees lol !

you need to ride it rigid SS for the full badge. You need to jump the tarmac drop – better to the right IMHO- not roll it . One of the few places I have yet to crash – wrecked two wheels there though but yet to stack badly. Not nice when icey. I have walked it as well there are no lines just hold on.
NOT ME

you need to ride it rigid SS for the full badge

That’s just for the beginner badge.
You *know* what the next, and fully qualified step is to that one. 😉

surely not a white (on-one) dropped bar fixie? 8)

that would just be daft 😆

The very same.. And at the top of a familiar hill.

pompino-icr by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr

You need to jump the tarmac drop – better to the right IMHO- not roll it .

I did that on Sunday when it was all iced/frosted up – I must get a good few man points.

I’m assuming that photo wasn’t taken this week

I think it’s better to jump to the left. The kennels descent from the two lads is my fave.

wors…..best line is to the right, high up he bank like a berm…many will disagree.

good descent though.

Junkyard,that first picture was taken by me,you been right clicking on my old flickr account?
MARKF

we saw an old bloke go down the icr on a unicycle

btw the belmont descent wants leaving alone until spring, and then it will want some serious work

btw the belmont descent wants leaving alone until spring, and then it will want some serious work

I doubt it will get it. I’d just get used to its new, slightly more technical state

(assuming by extrapolation from the last two times I’ve been down it how much more it has eroded by now)

I played chicken with a dog walker on sunday that was shouting at me ‘this is a footpath get off and walk!’ He stood across the path arms folded refusing to move….he moved when I got within about 3 feet of him and didn’t stop 😈

Footpath or bridleway, you must give way to walkers. Plus, if you are talking about the ‘Belmont descent’, that is indeed a footpath so it’s best not to create friction with ramblers when riding it.

I played chicken with a dog walker on sunday that was shouting at me ‘this is a footpath get off and walk!’ He stood across the path arms folded refusing to move….he moved when I got within about 3 feet of him and didn’t stop

Good to see people are still helping to improve relations between walkers and cyclists there then…

I find it better to explain the error of their ways than to appear moronic, aggressive and intimidating. But whatever floats your boat I guess…

Aww danny got a telling off.

It is always possible it was unintentional and he just couldn’t stop but is now bluffing it out 🙂

I’m not sure if it was a footway or bridleway, it was one of those paths near Leverhulme Castle, you know the big wide ones. I always do give way and had moved over to the side of the path. The walker then moved in my line, took his folded arm stance and began shouting taking me by surprise – if you’re prepared to do that then you’ve got to be prepared for me not to stop.

If this doesn’t comply with MTB/walker etiquette then I don’t care.

It is true that there are some very headstrong walkers around that area who think they are right no matter what. Personally, I’d have run away crying, which may have made them realise what a nasty bully they really are.

memory map shows only dashed lines down round the castle so I’d say you’ve won that one 🙂
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Junkyard,that first picture was taken by me,you been right clicking on my old flickr account?

No I googled ice cream run rivington – images and the pic comes up – you are famous google loves you!

They are all concessionary bridelways around that Reervoir even the ones not marked as Bridleways. They wer ein the wrong
you did remember to shout I am SimonfBarnes now out of my way didnt you?