STW Howgills Ride – Sunday 31st May – Roll Call

Utterly gutted.

Car steering packed up alarmingly between jnct 36 and 37. Limped to the lay by at the top of 37 and sat on my arse for nearly 3 hrs waiting for the AA to turn up.

Missed probably the best days cycling of the year. 😡 😈

We’re under instruction not to make Dave jealous by saying it was a good ride, so my lips are sealed, apart from telling you there were 33 riders including just 4 women, one of whom fell just 200m short of the end of the off road and had to be bandaged up after cutting her knee quite badly 🙁 Excellent cake and scones were served afterwards 🙂

565 photos taken by me, and probably hundreds more by the other participants 🙂

Wow must have been quite an epic day out looking forward to seeing the pics soon .

Bloody hell Lowey I feel for you . should have left the damn car and cycled to sedburgh .

should have left the damn car and cycled to sedburgh

if he had he would have arrived just in time for cake 🙂

Blox to any ‘instructions’!

Stunning weather, stunning scenery, stunning ride!!!

Thank you to *all*.

:))

Paul
(Specs, pads, Kona 4 delux)

Bloody hell Lowey I feel for you . should have left the damn car and cycled to sedburgh .

I could probably have made Sedbergh in about 15 mins on the bike from when I broke down. Sitting there looking over the hills in the glorious sunshine was just shit. Pure shit.

Glad you had a good one lads (and lasses). Perfect weather, perfect route.
Gutted.

I realised that without pen and paper I’d never be able to identify all the riders, but here’s my partial list:

Riders: Boggies: Chris M, Malcolm, Andrea, Stuart M, Andy G, Michael, John C, Simon B; Darlington contingent: Deejay, Steve, Trevor, Graham (??), Jackie + several unknown; Uncategorised: Jo, Tom, Mel, Stuart (retd), Robin (retd), Paul (Clark), Peter (singlespeed!), Ton(y), Danny, Johnnie, Faz, Dave (Donk) [25, leaving another 8 names please]

Ahh I’d be one of the other 8 then!. Grant (the Blue Intense blokey) :)… the one who got the nice 1″ slice in me tyre after about 500 metres from the start!. Thanks again to all those that helped – that tyre boot did the job nicely. So I got to enjoy a fantastic day out riding some awesome terrain in a new part of the world for me.
I was also with Tom and Jo and then Dave (chuckie), Paul and Mick!!!.

Thanks again for organising the day, it was very good to meet new folk and see a few familiar faces too.

Hope Tom and Jo make it back home ok and Lancaster A&E isn’t too traumatic :I… good luck.

Looking fwd to the piccies!!!.

cracking day
cracking company (even barnes ;o))
cracking ride
so to summerise, cracking

Missed probably the best days cycling of the year

Very hot – wet and muddy in places – you would have hated it – honest! 😉

so to summerise, cracking

OH YES

oh, and as stand-in ride leader I’d like to thank everyone for their easy cooperation and tolerance. I’ll confess now that I did sneak in a short non-ROW section :o)

it was worth it to see you fall off in the fords twice……
not once TWICE……… 😀

it was worth it to see you fall off in the fords twice……

I quite enjoyed the ribald laughter too. Sympathy is overrated!

Just got a text from Tom, He and Joe are in A & E waiting for some stitches and more than likely a tetanus jab in the bum.

I’m sure she will be Ok after a couple of days.

Cheers to you all, it was a cracker.

Bummer about the car Dave.

Jo before the off

what a view

Looooooong singletrack

just a super day weather /company/ride fantastic and that to55er Lowey failed to turn up how could it have been improved?

Jo after the off:

Thanks everybody for an excellent ride.

I took plenty of video today so will piece it together and bung it on youtube in due course.

John
(Not Marin’ing today, just summer-seasoning)

Not quite the quality of ‘bum shot’ you are so renowned for Simon.

but good effort

Not quite the quality of ‘bum shot’ you are so renowned for Simon

don’t worry, I have plenty of those too (thanks ladies!) but this was more informational :o)

Thanks everyone for a great ride, sorry I held you all up, I had a great time, although a bit knackered! Plan to get out on the road bike so a bit faster at the next one! Looking forward to the piccies and videos

Healing vibes to Jo.

Deejay, yeah, it looked rubbish. Good effort but sadly not cheered me up any.

Was the next ride / venue discussed ?

Was the next ride / venue discussed ?

something round Malham was suggested…

something round Malham was suggested…

Thats spooky. I was thinking about a ride from Settle over Malham moors myself. Great minds think alike (or fools seldom differ).

Simon, sorry I missed your chat on facebook, the wife was on my account.

Oh, Lowey – you could have ridden with us! We parked just up the hill at Roan Edge Quarry, and probably cycled past you. Black car, bike in boot?

I was even carrying home-made carrot cake

The video from todays ride is currently uploading onto vimeo. Should be done in an hour or so.

Enjoy The Sunshine

Lovely video of a stunning day!

Thank you John!!
Paul

Oh, Lowey – you could have ridden with us! We parked just up the hill at Roan Edge Quarry, and probably cycled past you. Black car, bike in boot?

I was even carrying home-made carrot cake

That was me Esme… you forgot to add the most recognisable aspect though… p!ssed off driver.

Loved that video, wantr to do it all again, TODAY – forget this work lark! Lowey, shame you misseds it pal, epic!

Great day, great company – cheeers all – Jo, hope your knee is ok

(Danny, white Merlin)

Well apart from myself, I think everybody featured at least a couple of times in the video – but sorry to anybody who I missed off!

Now, where to ride for the rest of this week as im Hols…… 😀

Thanks all, great day out. Stunning scenary, good company and great weather all added up to a grand day out. Will keep eyes peeled for the next one – Malham sounds good.

Now where’s that aftersun……

Cheers
Paul (initially white Meta 5 becoming a subtle shade of shitty brown). Part of vortexracing crew.

Thanks to Trevor too for kindly giving me a spare valve core when my forks had a total loss of air pressure and travel :o)

barnes, photos man, get your finger out…… 😡

ok I think we need a hands up of people who did not either crash or have a mechanical … I had two chain suck followed by chain snap.

I’m with Tony, Simon you have had a full day!!!

but a suppose unlike Tony, most of us have been working.

Next time you have a day off Tony, do you mind not rubbing it in with a thread on here. It was hard enough going to work as it was. 🙁

News about Jo

She is out of hospital and they didn’t stitch it as there wasn’t enough skin left to stitch the would (ouch!). So they have dressed it and she will have to keep having the dressings changed. She also twisted it as well, so no driving or work for a bit.

Poor Tom (Guy on Orange Hustler) will have to make Tea and everything.

Serves him right, she looks after him too well IMHO.

barnes, photos man, get your finger out

I’ve just started on them. I took 566 in all…

I’ll try to post at least the first tranche later this evening 🙂
FYI I also have a full time job, and was too knackered last night to do anything useful!

barnes, sitting at a desk, playing with a keyboard is not a full time job, it is your hobby………. 😆

I think I broke a nail, does that count John:-)

playing with a keyboard is not a full time job, it is your hobby

yeah, so much more idle than boozing in a deck chair…

If it helps Tony I have a great shot of you pushing your bike 400 metres from the start of the ride…

15 all!

yeah, so much more idle than boozing in a deck chair…

If it helps Tony I have a great shot of you pushing your bike 400 metres from the start of the ride…

jelousy will get you nowhere.
and i can push my bike far quicker than most people can ride, thats why i was eating butties at the top when you got there…. 😉