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About time we had another don't you think?
Route etc tbc, but there's a call for 'technical bits'. For that, assume wondrous cavedale. But the emphasis will still be on it being a relaxed social ride.
Oh, and this is officially my birthday pootle. So be nice!
Possibly. We'll see how things go...
Regarding turning up or being nice jules?
Me, I'm in. Also my Birthday weekend 😀
I'm doing to hope valley challenge, otherwise I'd have turned up.
Turning up! I'm always nice, me 😉
Hope valley challenge that weekend, so you *may* want to consider route choices and even ride location!
Damnit. Right. That's a spanner in the works.
Keep tuned in folks. May relocate over the hill.
Probably a curse (for me) but if I can slip the child-care monster’s grasp, I’m in 😈 This would be my 4th attempt to join in with you guys and so I successful, I may have to bake 😯
How many people 'do this challenge? I can't imagine its a motorway and even the walkers stay away 🙄
Chris was literally just in the process of sending you a message!
I think you should move this to sunday! Then i'll show my face. Could do with some real riding instead of tarmac and muddy fields!
That's 2 of us allowed Birthday cake then, Triple chocolatey thing with added chocolatey bits I think . 😮
Can't do Sunday William. Sorry!
I might be able to come. Can I also issue a heart-felt plea to people not to go on about how slow they are in this thread. Which hill were you thinking of re-locating over? I'm really, really slow and unfit by the way...
I fancy that- will seak to Graham .This may call for extra cakeage
Mart
I'm in. I'll see if I can get mrshora to remake the lemon drizzle cake she made a week or two ago..
Chances of Hora still having the 5 spot by the time this comes round?
Arsecakes (not what I'm bringing along for food!) - I can't make this. I've got a work reunion the night before. Old faces + booze + chat + more booze..repeat to fade. Will not be in a fit state to drive & ride.
Slim and none?
Probably slowly relocate to the slow hills over Ladybower way. Slowly, mind.
Spoke to graham , he will be working can't do saturday .we will stick to our usual sunday spot .let us know if it does get changed for any reason .I can do either day but not both
Mart
Oh I fancied Cavedale.
Does the race take in Cavedale?
Is it up for sale yet? How much do you want for it?
I could do with tagging along on one of these rides. I'm not sure on the routes up there. I only ever ride over cut gate when I'm over that way.
Is this an open invitation or is it the boys club?
Binners I'll do you mates rates at £999.
Seth I hate clicques (I can't even spell it)
You bought it for less than that, you goggle-eyed freak! Seriously; are you selling it?
And anyway.... you only hate cliques because you've never been allowed to be in one 😛
Is this an open invitation or is it the boys club?
It's utterly open and inclusive. Anyone can and does come along, even Hora... The pace is gentle-ish and cake is compulsory 🙂
binners- they are £1900 new. Mine represents a bargain 😉
binners- they are £1900 new. Mine represents a bargain*
* to anyone incapable of using google or picking up a phone
FTFY 😉
Is this an open invitation or is it the boys club?
What is the 'boys club' anyway?
..sold out there ...hee hee
I'm not even sure BWD I have just heard the expression used a few times! I think its something David Cameron might have been in when he was a pupil at Eaton!
So is there a specific location and time date as I can see there is a bit of tweaking needed with things going on etc. I'm a fair weather rider me so If I go it would probably be the last proper ride till next spring.
Its you lot out riding in tweeds with one trouser leg rolled up, and your remarkably similar ties, Don't think we haven't noticed
Ooooooo, quite possibly, will get the paperwork filed with the missus in triplicate and get back to you.
Anyone for Gin and Tonic cake?
G&T cake ? That's a new one, got to be worth a go. 🙂
If I'm around I'm in...if the weather is cracking the flags I may be elsewhere!
(birthday rider as well.!)
however with due deference to BWD I'm so fast I'll have done 4 laps by the time everyone else has got to the top of the first hill. I'm so fast time actually goes a bit backwards when I ride..
martyn I was bimbing along the top of Rivi yesterday and two riders on the lightist/weakest looking hardtails blew past me and down the ice cream run and disapeared. 😯
Seth - you'll be welcomed with open arms. Hora loves new blood.
PLAN AS ABOVE. Their route is hope, edale, hayfield and back. We'll stay mostly castleton side.
I'll try and make this one (i think i've only managed the second pootle so far).
A map of the Hope Valley Challenge is [url= http://www.hvcollege.com/documents/ptfa/HVMBC_2011.pdf ]here[/url]. Looks like you should be able to avoid the worst of it and still do Cavedale.
Yep that's what I just checked. Their marshals will be confused though!
Cavedale is cack though, awash with walkers, slippery with blood and just messy. Can't we do Dirtlow Rake and Pindale instead please... I volunteer to lead a splinter group for anyone else who shares my dislike of crappy Cavedale with its nasty slippy as soap wet limestone garbage surface... 😉
What!! Cavedale is brilliant.
Assume you can clear it with ease?
I have to agree with bwd, Cavedale is full of fat walkers who think because they're half a mile from the car they're in the great outdoors, when in actual fact they are just in the way..!
And it is a nasty, slippy as soap wet limestone garbage surface
however I go where I'm told!!
I prefer dirtlow rake and pindale too, and I'm not ashamed to say so
Woah! You're all mad 😆
Assume you can clear it with ease?
nope..... been a while since I tried though!
What tyres for 'Cavedale'?
Will come if I'm fit enough.
Route tbd, where the d means decided by me, not derided, discussed, debated, deemed useless, decried crap or disappointingly put down by you lot.
So nerr.
Suggestions welcome though
I'll ride whatever is the route. I remember once before pook posted up a route and received numerous amendment requests..
Cavedale isn't slippy though- its very grippy. Its the loose stone over the top of the limesrtone that is the scary stuff! Plus if skiprat goes his falls always have me in tears of laughter 😀
pook,
e-mail'd you my current fave route to have a think about!!
Will is Hebden reachable on Sunday or just abit too far to drive?
Or.....Ladybower+Win Hill cheeky? We could also do the top of Parkin..
Assume you can clear it with ease?
I think you're missing the point. I simply don't like it in the way I dislike celery, the very dull climb that comes out near Hope Brink and being savaged by badgers. I can do all those things, I just don't want to. I realise that you espouse a sort of Nietzschean philosophy of mountain biking where difficulty is all and by transcending those difficulties, you attain some sort of higher level of being - at least in your own mind.
However, I suffer from none of these delusions. I simply enjoy riding my bike on nice trails and smiling and generally would rather blast down Dirtlow Rake and Pindale rather than mixing it with fat, dozy day-trippers stumbling up Cavedale and polishing the rock with their designed shell suits.
That said, I'm not telling anyone else what they should or shouldn't like, though I think it's telling that both Julian and Martyn agree with me, while the only person who supports your viewpoint is, erm, Hora. I rest my case 😉
Sunday would be So much better, childcare issues on Sat's...sadly.
Saturday is good for me. Currently at least.
Dunno. Pooks routes are always good though and its about a social ride 🙂
Hey - I might be able to make it...
Rachel
Could do both
wow, at least it got to the second page before a route rant!
hora - MemberOr.....Ladybower+Win Hill cheeky? We could also do the top of Parkin..
Bit of a ****tish thing to do at the weekend in a big group!!
yeah hora, whoever showed you those trails clearly wasn't thinking straight!
I wuz only joking about Cavedale btw. I don't really like it, but I'll happily ride it.
I'm in, probably. Depends when i go up to the 3 Peaks CX. But count me in for now 🙂
Will/Ladybower is to Will for THIS Sunday.
fair enough bwd, sounded genuine!
FWIW cavedale is a good one to show non-peaks folk IMO as its a bit different to the usual fare, pluse its only one brief section that people struggle with. the run down to it is quite a laid back laugh.
pook, currently working but if i can wriggle out of it then ill be there
fair enough bwd, sounded genuine!
I'm genuine in the sense that I think Cavedale's rubbish, but I don't mind riding it for a change.
This is the bit I most enjoy about pootles.
I always worry you lot are going to kill each other in the car park.
First part of Cavedale beats all of pindale hands down. Second part awakens you and makes you laugh at the bottom. 😀
Hora's bottom that is, sticking up out of a nettle patch
<checks diary>
Working....
Have fun all 🙂
I'm in! Never done cavedale before,mainly because i have no idea where it is!!
Be good to catch up with you all though!
hora - Member
Will/Ladybower is to Will for THIS Sunday
No go mate 🙁 staying in the big smoke!
Cavedale as it really is...
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Nah, Cavedale as it really is 😉
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🙂
Nice and dry:
See, if we [i]don't[/i] go down Cavedale now, people will be disappointed. 😉
On my video by the way, Cavedale is from 2mins in 😉
I remember the first time I rode it. Winter pootle- everyone gathered around the battered gate and I arrived and thought sod stopping its freezin and entering it abit too quick and suddenly thinking 'oh **** what is this'!!!
We'd only stopped cos we were waiting for you.