The NEMBA race at langbgough on tees was my finest racing hour. A first in the trails, well joint first with will cogger and jez avery, but cos i was still only 16 i got the the top spot.
Then later on that day i bagged a second in dual event.
so my biggest ever results, and i missed prize giving! Cos i wanted a pot noodle, and can of skol!
Got all the results sheets from NEMBA 91 and 92 in the attic i think.

zone in blackpool, then preston.
Feel at preston uni, briliant atmosphere. where i first danced with samcamsmum.
starlight in bowness, crap, but great memories growing up, going there every sat night.
cream was ok, but full of coked up nobs!

Stopped at the eurocamp site near letty, just outside benodet three years ago. Nice area, quite flat from what i remember. didn’t look much for cycling but as i didn’t have a bike i wasn’t really looking.
Benodet is really nice, but quite expensive if your eating out, especially if your there with kids.

booked my yeti 29er at wheelbase the other day, no mention of money. What day are you out rich? 12 sunday for me.

Cheers tom, i was a bit slow there. My wife seems really keen to have a go, its finding the time to train thats the problem.
Not one i think you could just turn up and have a go!

Ill watch that as soon as the kids are in bed, cheers.

This is the seascale to whitby route also 150 miles.
Only had a road bike a couple of months, so think this might kill me!

The last bike race I went to that had a Dj playing, had some bloke called Zak tempest? Anyone heard what happend to him. Or vaguely remember a Jesus jones dj set at malverns one year. That was a good night!

Steve peat, fort bill, 2005. Enough said.

Cheers, most of my work at the moment is stone facing, so bashing stone with a hammer wont be good for recovery. I think ill be looking at 2 weeks off, at worst. were you ok drive the day after?

I own a dh bike, orange 224, but i@d not call myself a downhiller. only gets used 3 or 4 times a year.
Used it a lot more before kids. Regular at hamsterly, setmurthy, and local bridleways in the lakes. love riding at inners, but don’t get up there enough now.

Howdens units, and worktop are ok, but don’t use there apliances. Replaced washing machine, dishwasher and oven, within 4 years of fitting. Fridge is not far off knackard. After sales is also very poor. Buy units off howdens, but find a decent fitter, and you’ll be alright

Superstar plasma fits nicely to my blood, a little noisy, but fits well.

Try the Sam houghton challenge route, have a look at the web site for a map, maybe a little shorter than 5 hours but a great route. And with all the rain recently, it’ll still all be rideable, bar garburn and style end climbs.

here’s a couple from the recent past.

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Raf, are regular over here, its awesome watching chinooks fly about 50 ft above the lake.
Is that brantfell in the photos?

I was on one of these. think this was taken at the kielder classic 92

Rode this today with my wife and 3 kids, who are 2, 4, and 7. we can now ride from home, all the way to wray castle, without much trouble. To be fair it was never that technical, but the kids would have struggled before they’ve done the work. All the decent stuff is up in woods, or on the top. If they touch that I’ll be annoyed tho!

It’s not called gods waiting room for nothing! Check out higginsons for the best pies in cumbria!
There’s a recent route around chapel house woods/cartel fell that’s not to far from grange. Otherwise its a short drive up in to grizedale, ambleside, staveley or windermere, to get some riding in.

claife heights, from either bowness or hawkshead.

Aye, should be in bed, but grandmaster flash just came on. Just one more stella, then bed!

Will.I.am. ****.right.off.
Apart from that, not a bad program!

thank you for my friend sam, been looking for the name of that tune since 92!
asha jj tribune, is a ZONE classic. goosebumps every time.

I’ll try again.

evening crowd bump!

Bumpy!

Cheers bud, ill have a look at that.

There’s another version on pinkbike without the woobly frame edit, I hope!
This black trail is only about a minute 30 long, but well worth riding.

Don’t think so, been riding down there for years!

arggh, not supposed to be wobbly like that, dunno whats happened there. you tubes buggerd it!

wobbly feel down to camera attached to my goggles,need a better fixing. only had the camera a week, so its a work in progress.

nope, the last bit is not speeded up. unless there’s a glitch with the software.

Fairly new to making films, so not sure of all the features on any software. just downloaded videopad, so ill see how that goes.

The spinnery do a good steak, was in there sat night, angel also is nice. Not keen on portos, didn’t like the atmosphere, food was average also. As a local the spinnery is my first choice for an evening out, mote reasonable prices compared with the rest.

Avoid the north face loop as a full ride, as pridds said use as a link to the good bridleways.
You can also link grizedale to other areas close by, like claife, iron keld, and hodge close. All well worth venturing out the forest for.

hmmm, my drive to work is 3.5 miles, down a south lakes a road.
Not many good deals about on the hylux, but i’ll keep a look out.

thanks for the reply’s. the one im looking at has 48,000 on the clock, so the belts will need sorting soon, something to consider when hagling the price.
Chewkw, why is the hylux a better option?

Seen this outside wilfs (staveley) a few months ago, looks ace. Fairplay on getting down the dh track on it. Missed the weekender this year, sounds like a good one

Gutted about the lack of coverage on the roses new gigs, but the shane meadows film is something to look forward to.
Noel gallagher on now, sounding good.

Uplift at inners on Saturday for me, gt on Sunday.
Will the freeride park be closed with the air maiden event on?