WRPT. The Suns Out And The Colours Look Great Edition.

This morning was my second consecutive early Sunday solo singletrack right – last weekend was literally the first ride I’d ever started in the dark and watched dawn break, despite years of doing the other end of the day. Too much family life getting in the way and I do prefer riding with others but I’m rather liking the early solo thing.

Glad I changed the rear tyre to my winter one after last week’s uphill wheelspin moments. Pretty muddy in the woods, and plenty of wet leaves on wet roots moments of getting loose…

It’s funny how when I look at photos of solo rides it always looks like I’ve gone for an XC bimble even though I’m usually just lapping singletrack, trying to hit the turns etc as fast as possible. Never any action shots!

P.S. Yes, that is a mud prevention sock on my water bottle…

Out with the pup up on the Blacks. Glorious weather and colours. A last hoorah before the cold and grey of a Welsh winter set in.

@daverhp Looks like Alum Pot? If so it was my first SRT trip way back in the late 80s after a quick demonstration on a tree in the Ingelton caravan site. Did the direct free-hang North-West route. Think it was a 60 meter drop. Pretty intimidating and took a good 30 minutes to prussik back up!

Looks like Alum Pot?

That would be correct! It’s just up the road so a regular haunt for an easy day underground (or in this case to get some snaps for our caving club slide show this coming weekend).

Monday is my weekend. Pictures don’t show how rough Devil’s Elbow is.

Finished off my weekend this morning.

Started off nice them became increasingly greasier as the rain came in.

After many many months Flat White is open again.

Pump track smooth until tomorrow at the latest.

😯

Last day sneaking rides into family holiday in North Wales. It rained overnight so I fancied something well surfaced. Went to llandegla as I’d not been before and I was just about whelmed.

Started really really boringly. No fun at all. It was all the same and all meh. Blue meh red meh black meh.

Then got to the black off piste bit and that was waaaaaay better but only a few runs of it – which I lapped a few times on’t eeb. Trail quality improved generally after that, however some of the tables/gaps are really weirdly spaced and not trail speed at all, which made hitting them blind problematic. The big new jump line is good though, I would really .like to go back for a proper go. but weirdly it’s absolutely miles from the trail centre hub but yet must be a massive investment and draw on the yoot (?)

Trail gradings also seems to have no resemblance to what was happening on the ground. Some of the black bits were no more than blue to my mind, but then also some of the black off piste and jumps were properly committing(?)

So all in all I’m glad I went to see what was there. I had fun, but it was a bit of an odd setup. To be honest I wouldn’t exactly rush back.

I’ll stick this one up it’s better than mine.