[Closed] PEAKS POOTLE - 22nd January

I am tempted to come just for the Beef & Onion Roll + Onion Rings at the Ladybower Inn......

where was the special bus parked to collect the people in the pic from?

Ralph, we call it a Magic Bus.

Drat! I'm in Herts doing a skills day with Jedi.
I'll be on the next one if possible with new skills and prowess. Probably no faster uphill though. 🙁

ooh, I could be OK for that 🙂

I'd like to see how you get on Robdob.

If I go on this pootle I'll be in the company of ourkidsam who is also known as el 'snakehip' nino.

If I have a working bike and I can arrange transport I may well join y'all for this...

Hora - yeah no problem - going with PeterPoddy so should be ace!!

I'll be there.

Oh hang on, no I won't. Dang, I forgot.

I'm in San Di Freakin Ego!

I'll be thinking of you in the cold wet peaks, slithering down The Beast as I cruise Laguna Mountain in 22 degree with baby blue skies.

Yeah, and you'll be jealous.

I'm working. Sounds crap anyway.

well i'm thinking of doing your route tom so you're probably right

Toms route without the sand-blasting wind and searing ice coldness? 😆

Yep I'm in as long as I'm not working

Busy, sadly, can't make it 🙁

I think I can make it

Yours, El 'snakehips' Nino

oo - I might be able to make this!!!!

Rachel

Yeah, and you'll be jealous.

Pook would love to join you, seriously. Next time though.

😉 always welcome old chap.

Like I say folks - these are social rides. If you're a race snake, be prepared to wait in good humour!

But most of you know the drill anyway.

I'm thinking....

Ladybower,
Thornhill,
Hope Brink,
Hope Cross,
The beast OR potato alley
Rowlee farm
Lockerbrook
Fairholmes for a cuppa
Derwent Edge,
Whinstone Lee Tor,
Ladybower Pub descent
Ladybower.

It's about 15 miles on varied terrain.

If the wind is anything like last week the Beast would be a much better option. Not sure how Whinstone is at the moment either, it was awful boggy a few weeks ago but it may have dried up now.

We went up last week. Even coming off Win Hill was tough thanks to the wind. I'm offering up potato alley as lots of pootles have been down the beast already as you can see up there ^^^

Whinstone is surprisingly alright in the main (except the constantly muddy bottom bit)

I'm in!

Let's push the proverbial boat out and go UP the Beast. I want to practice my trials skills 😆

Ha ha! up the beast - that'd be.....fun.

Another suggestion. nearly all my Ladybower rides end up being cut short due to (lack of) time so I very rarely end up on Derwent Edge/Whinstone Lee Tor. Is there any scope for fitting that in earlier on?

Feel free to shoot me down 🙂

Oh no, can't make it.

Need to get fit for the next one though. Have fun everyone.

means we wouldn't end on a descent then....

I wish people would give Whinstone Lee Tor and Cut Throat Bridge a break over the winter. We dont ride there from Nov - March for a reason.

Unless its frozen solid, its muddy and no fun to ride, so I dont know why people do.

It gets wider and wider every year and does not recover in the summer anymore either.

That's a valid point Rik - but I ride it and get muddy. I don't widen the trail by riding round things puddles and I actively encourage people to do the same.

If we were to avoid all the sloppy sections in the peak over winter though there wouldn't be much riding going on at all.

At the moment this is purely a suggested loop - feel free to offer alternatives.

perhaps one of these pootles could be a trail maintenance ride

I take it this will be a cheek free version of 'my' ride chris? Ie missing the best bit?

Not that I'm coming but I reckon a pooch pootle would be ace to do wlt the other way, get people on each gate to hold em and warn ramblers and give the majority a clean run top to bottom. You could then go up the fire road, down hagg, up the permissive and down the [s]tree head butting descent[/s] hope brink or something?

see where you're coming from....

Avoiding it would be like saying the whole of the Isle of Man is going to ban all cars.....whilst China puts another million new cars on the road....

I think I'll be OK for this too ...count me in, Pook.

Cool - hopefully it'll be drier than today

If wifey isn't recovering from night shift, I'm in (3rd attempt)

yes please

may come along

I shall be rocking out and having a curry in Bradford that day / night

Hopefully should be okay for this.
I`ll check with the gaffer first
to be sure.

I might be able to make this, perhaps with one or a few others. I'll see

When you say "Ladybower Pub descent"
Do you mean cutthroat bridge or the 'other' one (which can be rather good, not sure in slop though) as they both come out behind the pub onto the road in front?

How long will it be before somebody sanitises the bottom of WLT-cutthraot - I'd bet they sanitise all the way to the road (at cutthroat) though, which would be a shame

Normally in winter after gores fm descent I head up the fireroad next the dam just above fairholmes (could drop down to fairholmes cafe via the stepped path and back up the road) back upto near lockerbrook farm and back down hagg, then up and down the permissive b.way (with the extra bit at the end) back to ladybower dam if not parkd in the A57 layby below 2 thorn fields farm. That'd bring it upto 4 hills (last one not being full size and easily ridden parallel next to the resevior)

WLT to Cutthroat.

I know where you mean - yeah it's a clear option, but the permissive is a bog too so it's six of one....

If WLT were to be sanitised, I don't think anything we could do would make a difference. From my own experience, it's more often walkers that avoid the puddles than cyclists.

Yeh... might show up

The permissive is more sloppy/slimey than boggy so shouldn't result in axle deep over the bars stuff. Plus you get Hagg Farm
Both climbs are all rideable too

Only a suggestion anyway

We should have a round of hora's excuse bingo on this thread, the prize being wiping his arse after his obligatory mid-ride dump. So glad I'm not coming!

I'll be there. Anyone going through Whaley Bridge i can steal a lift from?

very welcome suggestion James. Sambob - pack your own bloody jelly babies this time.

Will do. And i promise i didn't mean to throw yours all over the road...

Twice

😉

Oi I didn't poo last week! I'm saving it...

I thought i only did it once?

Bump.

I'll be there and i can give you a lift Sambob.

Nice one. I've still got your number, do you want my postcode again?

You might have dropped two jelly babies. Pook doesn't like sweetie genocide 😮

I really, really would like to join you for one of these rides some time, but I already have plans and I doubt my mates would be up for joining in. :-S
Next time, maybe.

At the bottom of the old Mam Tor road i dropped two thirds of a packet. I should probably turn up in disguise so he doesn't realise it's me....

What sort of time you usually set off Pook? Be driving a couple of hours is all, so if it's first first thing then would probably have to give it a miss.

Yeah. Should be able to make it.

Cheers

Matt

Mebbe.

I think its normally 1030?

Anyone going from Sheffield who fancies giving a lift to a 30 yr old who, for no particular reason has never bothered to learn to drive ?!

:-S

I never bothered to learn either (well it looks that way)

May just be up for this, will let you know later in the week whether I can make it or not.

Anyone going from Sheffield who fancies giving a lift to a 30 yr old who, for no particular reason has never bothered to learn to drive ?!

I didn't pass my test till I was 30...still pissed off now I didn't do it sooner.

Fancy this but not sure I'll be in any fit state after Friday night, got a rearranged Christmas do so might be a bit worse for wear.

Will see later in the week how drunk I need to get

Slight threa hijack - big thanks to Pook, Podge et al - met them all at Stainburn yesterday and cheered me up loads. Struggling to enjoy riding my bike at the moment due to being ill for 2 months and putting all the weight I had lost back on in a flash. I had to ride on my own yesterday which was depressing and meeting them was fantastic. Only rode for 1.5hrs but was shattered afterwards.
If anyone is thinking of coming on a ride with this lot just go for it. You'll be made welcome and encouraged along if you struggling. There are a few bailout options on this ride you can take if the Dark Peak grinds you down too much but stick with it and youll have a blast.

Wondering if I come will I be travelling the furthest. Anyone beat 200 mile round trip? 8)

As lovely as it would be to see you all again I was working away at the London Bike Show this weekend so I think my GF would kill me if I buggered off biking on Saturday.

Wondering if I come will I be travelling the furthest. Anyone beat 200 mile round trip?

It'll be worth it

Looking like a good week between now and the pootle, dry and brightso should help a lot with trail conditions. 200 mile round trip would be worth it IMO, the peaks is always a good ride.

robdod, we must have only seen you for about 10 minutes and half that was oggling the gold bar / stem combo.

glad it cheered you up

Well it seems like frightfully bad form not to put in an appearance.

And someone has to give Hora a wedgie at the top of every climb. Count me in

I'd been there about an hour before you said hello and was thinking about going home as I felt cack. Another run at the descent line was fun and made it all wirthwhile.
It's going to be my main aim to jump off the big rock by the time summer comes.

really? that's a bloody big rock

I've been doing stuff maybe 2/3rds that size nearer home, it's just a mind game really.

I want to jump off the rock without crapping myself, im hoping pooks video of that bit doesn't come out well.

It's worth noting for all potential pootlers that pook has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with rolls Royce which is bordering on delusional. He has been through claiming to be a chauffeur, a test pilot and a head badge polisher and now claims to have started work today as their international communications bloke. It's best to just humour him, poor fella.

Well its progress from his whole alien abduction/anal probe stories.

To be honest they were getting a bit tedious. Especially when he insisted on showing you the scars 😯