Did the zipline at Easter, its steady away. Those karts look good fun.

Worth checking the air pressure?

I find my hardtail really comes into it’s own in the winter as quite often after a ride it might be a few days before it gets washed, if I had to leave the full susser like that I’m sure it would take its toll.

Hungry little fella

The canal

I agree Pete, it’s one of my favourite events and this is largely due to the limited numbers.

Hope you get it sorted. Just sold my trigger a few weeks ago and a few frame spares.

I’m a convert to the brand x dropper, mine has developed some play but its had zero maintenance done in 2 years.
Yours will be a 30.9, crc are selling brand x posts for £99.99 at the moment.

Yes the 2019 event did sell out with a couple of hours, the year before however tickets could still be had months afterwards. Unfortunately demand far outstrips supply which can be said about most of these events.

Yes I had a bit of bother with the payment too. I did notice atleast one name duplicated on the entry list unless its 2 people with the same name.

Colournoise if you did get multiple entries I have a friend that will take it off your hands

Yep… me and 2 mates, usually a few more of us but people were slack and the enduro sold out in an hour.

Just doing gisburn again, think that round sold out in 4 minutes!

Ah yes surely the old lead mine!

Some great riding in that area. Wonder if basecamp will be at Longside Farm, it’s been used as part of a downhill series in the past!

Yeah I just looked and tickets were available.

Booked!

Yeah not sure how well a trials bike would go down at an indoor skate park. Might be worth checking with them before you buy it.

Usually looking at about £58 for a ticket I think. Camping at Ard Moors has been an additional £10.

Yeah 2017… dragged myself around the enduro loop, not sure I’ll make next years as got something booked on the 19th.

Yes i think i’d agree that most are stripped and frames disposed of as that is the easiest part to trace/identify. A few mates have had bikes stolen and they have never emerged again although one mate who had a bike stolen ended up buying his back for £150 as it was the easiest/cheapest option.

On the sofa having a ‘few’ beers. With this weather I dont think I’ll be doing much biking tomorrow.

Aye got the email today. Asked a friend if he wants to buy my intro ticket (Sunday 4 stage) if not I’ll be advertising it in the free ads.

My mate does it all the time. He has a good sized motorhome though. Hes currently camped out at Knaresboro and rides into Harrogate for work.

Yes very easy to stitch together a good ride in that area.

Should have been titled 6.0…

Cheaper bikes – gumtree. Some people hate it but I’ve done well in the past.
I find Pinkbike good and very easy to use. I refrain from adding my phone number as that means only PB users can contact you which weeds out timewasters as they must create a profile if they want to contact you and dont have one.

oh that probably won’t work for me which is a shame.

They kindly transferred my ticket to next year but I haven’t got the date of the event, anybody got any info on which weekend Ard Rock will take place?

Another one for Brentacre, as mentioned any mods you just ring them to let them no and there is no cost involved unless it improves performance of greatly increases the price.

Probably not any on at this time of year but theres some great events which would be a good place to get started. I went to Buttermere Bash at Easter with a friend who is into paramotoring. Full of friendly folk.

Both door mirrors from a mates Audi S3, happened on 2 occasions and cost about £1000 each time!

Good to see your not too precious about the lawn.

I’ve been meaning to get to one of these for the past few years.

What sort of info are you after? The stages are fairly well spread out. In the past the most popular spectator stage has been what I think is stage 5. It is closest to camp and starts on a hill overlooking the camp and finishes in the valley bottom.

I’d be tempted to give it a little longer, this might allow you time to build up relations with staff and students which will hopefully be positive.
If you do decide to move on then I’d be honest about your current role. Its surprising who knows who in education and getting found out could have a negative impact on any applications you submit.

As mentioned cheap to replace, used a vice to crush/lock the old one and turned the wheel to remove it.

I had a very similar failure to that many years ago on my GT Zaskar, it was the first Zaskar frame to have disc mounts and did not have the appropriate amount of bracing/reinforcement. To be fair the frame failed after about 6 years.
That shouldn’t happen on a modern frame.

Recently found a crack in my rear rim. Sidelined the bike until I could replace it. Even on the road I just don’t think it’s worth the risk.

I can see your thinking, if your travelling to pick the bike up you might aswell make the most of the journey.
I’m always very wary when buying a used bike and usually do a loop local to home to check all is well. If you do a trail centre on the way home just make sure you are well tooled up. If the centre has a skills loop near the carpark I’d spend 30 minutes in there just to check the bike is ok.

He went to university in Bangor so it’s highly likely.