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This weather! Local trails last night are now officially [b]too dry[/b]
All the exposed rock is now loose and pinging all over the place. The normally buff and fast singletrack is now a sandpit, making it waaaayyy too draggy on the climbs, and terrible to control on the descents.
Add in the factor of it being too warm and getting a heck of a sweat on and getting dehydrated, and it takes all the fun out of it.
Bring back the rain 🙁
GET OUT.
No pleasing some people 😉 The rain you ask for will turn all that sand into a grindy paste which will do wonders for your nice bike...
Be off with you! Its bloody perfect out there!
I think you are about to get a flaming bandito..............
BURN HIM!!!
28 miles of beautifully dry singletrack and trails last night.
Begone with you!
A large swathe of my local loop is still as soggy as an otter's pocket.
🙁
Burn the troll!
I don't think this is the right forum for you, have you tried mumsnet?
I had one crash and a couple of hairy moments last night losing traction in all the dust and marble-sized stones over Rivington.
I wasn't complaining though...
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It's not too dry until cut gate, cave dale and bradwell edge are all dry at the same time.
At which point, planets align, demons decend and trail conditions become the least of your worries.
After the long cold winter I’ve endured this mild dry spell is just perfect. Riding in shorts and a t-shirt, throwing a dusty (not muddy) bike in the back of the car, sweat dripping into the lenses of my glasses, warm sunshine beaming down on me at the top of my local hill…..bliss.
I'm actually wondering what to lube my chain with right now. I normally use putoline wax in winter and squirt in summer.
Should I do one last hot wax or trust in and use squirt?
That's called fun, deal with it!
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Oznadog. It's happened!
Anyone?
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I can't take it any more
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Banks, I was told cut get still had wet patches on top. Not sure about the other two right now.
Weirdo!!
It's the dried out 2 ft deep hoof holes and CAT track ruts that are he biggest issue.
On one local trail the FC have dumped a 1ft layer of loose topsoil on a 1 mile section of lovely dry trail 🙄
The Edinburgh defence?
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The Edinburgh defence
No.
The gauntlet was laid down (by a fellow STW user) to see how people would respond. More like "Trolling by proxy" 😀
Can't quite get over how few accusations of troll I got. You take it too seriously.
Sorry, there should have been a winking smiley on that but my phone doesn't like playing that game. (or is that the Edinburgh defence?)
Been on hear long enough to not take it too seriously and I'm smart enough to walk away when others do.
Cut gate was like a rocky fast-flowing river between the boggy parts last thursday. I'd be amazed if all that has dried out by now.
Try living Western Australia hot, dusty and slippery all year round. After rain the trails transform into being fast and grippy, and it has started to rain more now 🙂
I have the shot....... 😀
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I'm off to do the W2 and a few other bits at Afan after work this afternoon 8)
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Get out!
*reported*
😆*reported*
Fear not. I predict that this dry spell shall only last for exactly the same length of time as my current dose of the dreaded lurgy which means I have to remain within 10 feet of a toilet. 😐
😯Trails too dry?
Hanging's too good for you man!
[b]POIDH[/b]
I assume thats not aimed at me, Jon? 😯
oooh definately too dry;im not going through a set of pads in a weekend, my camelbak hose isnt freezing up, my back wheel isnt jamming in the frame because its so caked in mud, yeah march/april were wonderful
I assume thats not aimed at me
No sorry, just trying to wind up the OP. I'll go read the rest of the thread no to see what offence I may have caused.
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Bregante you have a sick mind 😆
No pics of trails Jon, Ian's got some of (more) puncture and chain fixing - I'll send them to you. Route on strava...
Looks nice 🙂
You may have won with the riding this week but my season pass to the ski fields arrived today 😀
@onzadog dry as mate, there's always gonna be running water on cut gate & cavedale just wish I had the legs to ride 12hrs a day everyday
The only bad thing about Summer is overgrown cheeky singletrack 😀
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The trails were a teeeeny bit too dry last night in that a shooting access road up on the moor has gone from Regular gravel track to sandy mini beach with little windblown dunes. 😯 It was too draggy. I needed a fat bike. 🙂 Oh and dry ground makes you go too fast and crash. But otherwise it's lovely. Why do I have to come to work...
STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW DRY IT IS!
training for 100-miler road event in two weeks, so the MTB's been mothballed.
i won't enter a sportive again. too much staring at tarmac...
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Target acquired, cleared for launch... well done!
Funnily enough, as we were moaning about the dessicated state of the trails last night, a live firing exercise was whoomping away over at Otterburn. We could see the flares going up as Mr Bandito fixed his second pinch flat of the evening. Fortunately the big guns weren't aimed at us...
Dare I say it, but Mayhem is next weekend, so this dry spell isn't going to last for much longer.
Well, I got up the axles in mud on tuesday night, so not all dry and dusty. 🙄
No mention of taking mudguards off though. The OP was nicely TIC but jinxing it like that is way too serious!
eh? MTB riding is still training, you just need to make sure you ride a [b]LOT[/b], win win.training for 100-miler road event in two weeks, so the MTB's been mothballed.
training for 100-miler road event in two weeks, so the MTB's been mothballed
I'm training for a 950 mile road ride, but am still out on the mtb while the going is good. Tarmac can wait...
I'm training for a 950 mile road ride
well that slashed on my bonfire didn't it 😀
can't resist, going to go out tomorrow evening for some Dartmoor loveliness...
can't resist, going to go out tomorrow evening for some Dartmoor loveliness...
I can see Dartmoor from my office window, I just can't get to them until Saturday 🙁
I'm craving the trails!
Has the OP not been banned yet?!
Rode Torridon a couple of weeks ago on a hardtail, bone dry and very quick trails. Downside was my new shimano brakes are now super sharp, so might have to back to Hopes to get used to that crappy am I gonna stop feeling. Other disadvantages are that I have to spend more time with the wife and less time cleaning the bike, look further ahead when riding local trails, start wearing body armour again and worst of all, I have to go out more.
Its just all so depressing
Has the OP not been banned yet?!
Not yet.
And hopefully not at all. 🙂
The normally buff and fast singletrack is now a sandpit............and terrible to control on the descents.
learn how to control the bike?
I rode on the Quantocks last night, very dusty and I didn't have to clean the bike when I got home, it felt like I was cheating. It was quite foggy up there at 7 this morning, which damped the dust down for an hour or so.
I'm out every night like an addict..twitching all day long, family jobs done out the door like a rocket!
Too dry, no not at all. Moved area last year after a long time riding in the Peak. It's been slopnfester to the point I thought I'd take up road riding, now its all dry fast and blue bells.
Trails here in South Wales are superb, dusty and very fast 🙂