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As per my four previous posts on this, would you all agree that CG should be in good condition today?
Thinking of a semi family ride over there today.
I'll probably bottle it again and then have to endure all your updates this evening saying how good it was.
Fool that I am
Goodness it's late already.
You're good to go!
Son1 is saying 28km is too far and we promised him llandegla.
Stress
It will be good. Was up in the week. Leave him at home and go. We are halfway round our ride and just stopped for coffee in Hope
Ha ha Tracey. I can always count on you for encouragement. You replied to my last stookie post in midwinter. Anyway, we're now in Langsett and he's proper tired.
Oops
Anyway, we’re now in Langsett and he’s proper tired.
Have you given him the bad news yet?
Glad to help.
Is the ice cream van still there.
We always told our kids the distance in miles as it doesn't sound as far.
Hope you enjoyed it
Hooray, we did it, and it was good. A bit longer and harder perhaps than expected, but nonetheless good. As someone above said, gotta make the most of it, as the weather forecast for the rest of the week sucks.
Was amazingly dry, hardly any water anywhere. The Bog of Doom was a paltry puddle.
Most civilised.
The kid was gubbed even before we started, so he did well to get round. TBF the wife did good too given the amount of work stress etc around these days. We pretty much kept pace with a group of mainly ebikers on the way up.
Bit of a dozy moment through the woods at Langsett after the cafe. I was a bit wired after 400m on the A628 road from hell with the kid so screwed up the navigation a bit. Two blokes coming the other was were clearly a bit apprehensive when I asked them which way Cut Gate was at around 4:30 pm in spitting rain with a smallish kid in tow. But they pointed us in the right direction, so all good.
The return leg in the evening was funny. Like Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Trails of exhausted bikers pushing up above the zigzags at around 5:30pm
Gave half my Maryland cookies to two tired, hungry bored coppers who were standing round on top of the moor waiting for bomb disposal to come along and sort a shell that someone presumably found on the moor. I was going to say unexploded shell, but that seemed a bit obvious. Clearly it was unexploded, otherwise it wouldn't be a shell anymore, it would have been a collection of smithereens.
Rescued a bloke pushing along Ladybower with his gravel bike and a dose of snakebite. My 2.3" mtb just fitted into his 32mm tyres. Barely even needed to blow it up.
Anyway, top day out. Thanks for the encouragement all.
Oh and if that chap who was thinking about a Spec Enduro Elite 2018 reads this.... buy one, they are bloody amazing. Descending is great as you would expect, but I am perpetually gobsmacked by how well it climbs short sharp sections. I managed to get round the bloody hairpin from End Ladybower heading north onto Cut Gate for the first time. Just outstanding bike for downs and short ups.
(anything more than a short up is of course exhausting, but that's 15kg bikes for you)
PS, have they resurfaced the west fork of North America recently? We came back south up that path and it was lovely easy compared to the east fork. Managed to tow the kid the whole way to the junction (with his help obvs) which I didn't think would be possible.
Have you given him the bad news yet?
Hmmm, when putting the case for CG over Llandegla I might have promised him that if we get to the midway cafe and he is tired then he can always sit in the cafe and I'll nip back and get the car.
When he mentioned this in the cafe, I pulled out the map, showed him where we were, where the van was, the pissy windy roads I would need to take to get back, and berated him about how the hell he thought I could possibly cycle back over the top, pick up the van and drive back to the cafe before it closed.
He took it quite well considering. But I think he's going to be wiser next time. Especially as today's 28.5km turned into 40.5km once the car parking and cafe detour were factored in.
Glad you and all the family enjoyed it.
Need to do it in the snow now 😎
all the family enjoyed it
Nah, we didn't take the eleven year old. He was knackered this morning so we sent him of to a mate's house. He's a bit of a lazy bones so perhaps a bit of Antur Styniog is called for on Tuesday if the weather picks up.
Need to do it in the snow now
Not much chance of that. They've got very firm ideas on what snow is for.....
🙂
Been out the country for a couple of weeks but am thinking of doing it tomorrow. What is it like at the moment?
I’d imagine not as nice as it was. I was out with the dogs on Thurlstone Moor yesterday afternoon and came back needing to peel into the washing machine. My boots are on the line now, still soaking around the cuffs. It was a little bit wet...
Didn't get over Cut Gate today but it was moist and muddy in places around Mam Tor and the Roman Road.
I imagine it will literally suck just now.
Deeply
Is it really been that wet lately? Are all the routes up there that wet at the moment?
Is it really been that wet lately? Are all the routes up there that wet at the moment?
Where have you been for the past week?
On/off rain today
Bounced it down all day yesterday
Plus on/off heavy showers all week
On holiday for two weeks. Haven't had any contact with the UK since we left.