Did you put in your email address?

Your link doesn’t work for me…

Loads out in a Macclesfield Forest sunny glade yesterday 🙂

OK, I’m bored…

they think they know the answers to everything

It is the theists believe the above i.e. some form of deity.

Atheists (skeptics) are full of doubts and questions 🙂

Danny or the ‘copter pilot told me that SC provided a couple of Bronsons…carbon.

Didn’t make any of it look easier!! 🙂

Forgot how fffin good they were/are!!!

🙂

Really! Placebo, not from the U.S. Now that is a surprise…all these years.

Am also confused about the Flaming Lips, or is it the Smashing Pumpkins…

@scuttler

And there was you thinking you can’t top a blue Skye summer day.

You are so right! An amazing day made even better 🙂

Nice pics BTW. I’ll bet you were well pleased with your trip!

Thank you. Yes, unforgettable trip, the best 🙂

Cheers
Paul

Excellent music, excellent riding, excellent filming and unbelievable location!!

Glen Brittle, Skye this summer 😉

Skye by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

Skye, sublime video, amazing backdrop and some really ballsy riding

…and I was there!

Awesome footage, in the UK!

🙂

Paul

Ride out and join No 11 where it crosses the Monsal Trail at the west end.

Excellent! Thanks for the replies.

Will take a rain check before I take the OH along there 😉

Cheers
Paul

It does! 🙂

Don’t think my wife counts…

Means you can add in some road stuff too to broaden your options.

Just think of the ‘training effect’ when you pedal harder on the MTB 😉

Think you will have greater flexibility of route choice with a hard tail. Especially if you don’t know the tracks that well.

Paul

‘Ah Grasshopper, you will be at peace with the Keaveny when you have shed the hopeless optimism of youth and accepted that all you have to look forward to is a long decline into incapacity and senility’.

Variety is good!

Hope he comes back as average as ever.

Cheers
Paul

Was there a month ago. Bone dry!

Awesome place, thanks for the memories.

Paul

Hebrides last month…
Skye
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Skye by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr
Skye by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

Harris
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Outer Hebrides by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr
South Uist from Barra
Outer Hebrides by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

Damn, wish I was back there!
Paul

FWIW

I met Danny Mac. whilst on holiday last month.

He was working on a ‘homegrown’ video. Set in proper mountains (a.k.a. fffing lethal) on a Santa Cruz MTB.

Plus, at least one ‘never done before’ moment.

Will be worth watching!!

Cheers, Paul.

Try Dunsop Bridge

Explored the ace trails around Dunsop Bridge, Forest of Bowland. Perfect conditions, no other MTBers…

…well worth a visit!!!

Cheers, Paul

Easy ride with an EPIC feel, North Harris about a month ago…

Outer Hebrides by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

Outer Hebrides by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

…wish I was still there 🙂

Cheers, Paul

Read through this

Govt divorce website

several times. Then do what it says. Only costs the court fees…

Bumped into Danny M. a couple of times last week.

Filming a new video in real mountains on a real mountain bike! 🙂

Weather was fantastic and the locations are stunning…

South Uist from Barra a couple of weeks ago…
Outer Hebrides by clarkpm4242[/url], on Flickr

Oban>Barra>Uists>Harris 🙂

Magical place.

Not strictly a curry house as such, but Cachumba on Burton Road in West Didsbury is excellent.

They have a relatively small menu, made up of a combination of Far Eastern (Indian, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese) dishes, all spiced to varying degrees.

Went there last night after reading this a while back.

Yes, excellent!! We will return 🙂

Thanks for the recommendation.
Paul

Best with a brighter screen…or darkened room 🙂 aurora from Lapland.

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Look up Gemmi Pass MTB. In issue 79.

Nice bright thing to SW around sunset is Venus (but don’t tell him) 🙂

Best, assuming it gets really bright, will be in mornings 06:00 onwards.

Maybe start looking Sunday morning and through the week, in the SE.

Good luck with the clouds…

🙂

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Polmaddy Settlement Better than it reads for a stroll.

🙂

Remember the Tufty Club?

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🙂

I’m turning into a roadie…

…superb 95km around and 1800m climbing the Forest of Bowland and Yorkshire Dales in perfect weather Saturday morning 🙂 bliss!

There will be a big TV screen in Keswick

One day at Gisburn.

If you’ve got sick, rad skillz then Lee Quarry Black, downhill and jumps sections should see you right. On the way home, sort of.

If you can pedal a bit then add in a couple of loops of Cragg Quarry as well.

Polystyrene blocks!!!!!

Honest.

Classic newbie roadie error: ride the uphills too hard and the downhills too easy

Do you know me? 🙂

Working on going faster on downhills and the flat.

Hi RRR

Just started on the road myself.

I’ve a seat pack for the essentials and have one roadie type shirt. The 3 big pockets work. Also the long zip is very useful.

Currently using some inner shorts as ‘lycra’, it is better than proper MTB shorts, ‘honest’.

MTBed on flats for past 5 years, using Shimano 105 SPD setup on road bike, you’ll soon get used to it.

Running a 105 Compact double drive train with the biggest cassette it will take at the back…my first road rides were in the dark peak, you will be walking unless you have a triple setup (and be looked on as a ‘faggot’ etc.)

Still keeping the peak on my helmet, keeps the rain off my specs 😉

It is a different type of pain…

…but strangely enjoyable.

Good luck!

The best way up to the top of the short downhills that drop into the skills area at Lee Quarry is back up the easiest (most eastwards) red downhill track.

Need a quiet day/night though 😉