I’d have liked to join you as only 15 min ride from the start out my front door but doubt I can be off work in time. But if you see someone on a Ragley Big Wig puffing up the road at the last minute
Planning to do the loop below, so if you are a bit late then it would make sense to meet you in Calver rather than you slogging up the hill then going almost straight back down it.
Have PMd you my number.
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Thanks @thegeneralist, lovely route. I’m actually the other way (towards Sheffield) but could try and intercept you at Wellington Monument right turn. Anyway don’t wait for me, if I’m there great otherwise enjoy the trails!
Count me in, see you in the carpark.
Red Hiace van.
Si
Thanks Sam, IHN and thegeneralist for a good loop! Cracking weather considering what yesterday was like!
Si
Indeed, was a good way to spend an evening.
Thanks All.
Aye, it were good, that. And I only fell off once 🙂 Cheers chaps
Aye, it were good, that. And I only
fell offwent the wrong way once 🙂
Really nice ride. Got to admit that I had to focus on the map pretty much all the time, which meant I couldn't really interact much. Really need to get some electronic wizardry to help with this. Not bothered about gpx or step by step direction, just want a detailed map that can be opened at the exact spot without faffing with paper.
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Gotta love that weather. 🤗
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Gotta learn how to hold a camera straight 🥺
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Many thanks for making the trek across the watershed chaps. As discussed, would be god to do another one next week somewhere.
Does anyone know if/when we are allowed to carshare again? I realised that what I really need is some lakes people that want to visit the Peak or Mancs that want to visit the lakes. Otherwise I end up taking people on their local trails. Would be good to do a Mancs trip to do something like...Parkamoor,Breasty,Conniston,Walna first bit, Torver loop.
But driving loads of cars up seems a bit stoopid.
Anyway, thanks again.
Anyone [not local] fancy an [afternoon?] Peak ride in the next few weeks?
Hey, get me and my gnarly watery adventures. And I'm definitely not trying to swallow my lungs back down in the background of that last pic, oh know...
Does anyone know if/when we are allowed to carshare again?
Yeah, it struck me as slightly nuts that we all drove within about a mile of each others houses, and then drove 30 odd miles to the ride, three of us in vans...
Anyone [not local] fancy an [afternoon?] Peak ride in the next few weeks?
Depending on the day I'd be very happy to fill that role. I'm a bit of a mincer mind.
I hoped you had a picture of me trying to ride up/into the wall at the end.
I was wondering about the car sharing too as we all drove home in convoy. Perhaps we'll get some news about this for May 17th.
"And I’m definitely not trying to swallow my lungs back down in the background of that last pic, oh know…"
What do you think I'm doing behind that strained smile!!!
Great pics @thegeneralist.
Would definitely be up for a lakes trip sometime btw.
Si
Would definitely be up for a lakes trip sometime btw.
How are you fixed for spare annual leave at the moment?
I'm somewhat in surplus and thinking the forecast looks ok for Tuesday/ Thursday this coming week....
Hiya- interesting thread. I’m in S.Manc and looking for some new mid-week evening ride options with folk.
Usually ride around Marlple/Hayfield/Hope and can be away from home 5.30ish, sometimes earlier with more notice.
Happy being guided on my local trails and if that goes well then a Lakes trip sounds cool.
Anyone up for doing 'owt on Wednesday this week? Keeping half an eye on the weather, obvs.
^I can probably make Wed evening. Looks like the pick of the weather.
Good, good. Anyone else?
I was thinking we could do a 6pm start from Disley Station - parking if folks need it, fairly easy wazz down the canal for local folks wanting to bike there, opportunities for post ride beer from the Bohemian Bus. I've put a route together that's 21km/670m ish, out over Bowstones, Brickworks etc that we could do
https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/8448297/Disley-Bowstones-Brickworks
Sounds good. I'm up for that.
Bohemian bus may not be open Wednesday. May be tempted to ride though, will see how the day goes. Don't wait for me, I'll either be there at 6 (or will catch up up Red Lane) or won't.
Bohemian bus may not be open Wednesday
Bugger, you might be right. Can always try the Rams Head or Dandy Cock, they may have space.
We rode Bowstones, around to Brickworks and back on Sunday (a bit of proper off roading was exciting when we went off piste), it was really enjoyable. Apart from all the bits that have been sanitised.
was really enjoyable. Apart from all the bits that have been sanitised.
How techy is it?
Vaguely thinking of riding from home, but that would mean Anthem twitchyas**** bike rather than proper MTB....
How techy is it?
Not very/at all. And I'll be on a 12 year old hardtail, you'll be fine.
you can ride it all rigid (I have), you could even ride it on a cx though the final descent might be challenging
Looks good. I don't know that route, so I'm in.
you could even ride it on a cx though keeping your teeth in on the final descent might be challenging
Am tempted to ride the CX now just for a laugh. Mostly your TBH, but hey, it's all entertainment
Room for one more?
I'll be driving over from Timperley but should be able to get there for 6
Room for one more?
Yep, come along.
For anyone driving who's not aware, make sure you turn into the station car park (off the A6), not the Ram's Head car park (off Buxton Old Road). They're right next to each other but the station car park is free, the Ram's Head isn't unless you eat/drink in the Rams Head
OK. Confirmed plan from IHN:
Informal group ride. Wednesday 12 May. 6pm start from Disley Station carpark.
21km/670m ish, out over Bowstones, Brickworks etc
https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/8448297/Disley-Bowstones-Brickworks
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I’ll be driving over from Timperley but should be able to get there for 6
No idea what bike you're on, but do you fancy a 2 up chaingang along the A555 as a warm up? ( Subject to me actually sleeping tonight)
No idea what bike you’re on, but do you fancy a 2 up chaingang along the A555 as a warm up?
Err, no thanks. Pretty much my idea of hell. Cycling there as well as doing the ride would probably lead to me sleeping in the carpark, too knackered to cycle home.
I'll be in the stw unapproved silver trafic
Only just seen this - I'm up for tomorrow as long as that doesn't take us over 6?
Si
Should be fine, looks like it's
Me
You
NBT
Sam
Alex
Sharkey
I'm all excited about this. Last time I did a road ride up brickworks I looked to the left and thought " ooh that looks good, wonder if there's any good cycling there"
Also only just seen this, may I tag along also? I’m in to Disley too.
Ed
Well, strictly speaking, it would mean we were over the Rule Of Six. Personally, I'm fine with that, as two nights a week my wife runs with more than six people as it's classed as 'training' because it's led by a qualified coach, which is perfectly within the brilliantly consistent rules, and from Monday it doesn't matter anyway.
Oooh have fun everyone. Due to an infected horsefly bite I'm a bit poorly, but I probably would hold you all up anyway (Bowstones is a wee steep climb). Maybe next time.
IHN I think I know your wife, she runs with Disley runners on Thursdays right? Me too.
If anyone has any objections then i'll give it a miss and wait until next week or whenever, failing that see you all tonight! Look forward to it, it'll be nice to see some new faces for once 🙂
Personally, I’m fine with that
This.
failing that see you all tonight
Cool
No objections from me.
We could always roll as a 3 and a 4 with a wee gap in between.
IHN I think I know your wife, she runs with Disley runners on Thursdays right? Me too.
Ah, cool. You may have seen me then, cos I normally meet her at the Bus after Scouts (well, I have for the last three weeks since I started at the Scouts)
If you're the fella that recommended the wraps from East to West, I definitely owe you a pint. Whole-lee-mother they're good 🙂
I'm sure this is just a passing shower and it'll be dry by six...
And they're not hailstones :-0
Bone dry this side of the ridge
The Rain Today app shows the rain cloud to be gone in a few minutes
Still to decide what to ride - FS, HT or CX...
You're clearly in our rain shadow, it's persisting down over here
Still to decide what to ride – FS, HT or CX…
Do any of them come with a snorkel?
Finally stopped raining here....
The sun's out. I'm sure it'll last.
(for a little while)
Well that worked out splendidly. Sun came out just in time.
Many thanks for coming up with an excellent route IHN.
LL1: don't just follow the green highlighter pen on the map. Work out which is the outward direction and follow that.😔
LL2: Get some sort of electronic map thing. The route we did changed from South Peak to North Peak mapabout eight times. I managed to drop the map on one of the downhills, oops.😟
LL3: Multi tool screwdrivers are shit for forcing apart overextended brake pistons. Whassname's brake pads fell out on one section and he said he'd lost his split pin. I managed to get the pads back in with a replacement split pin only to realise that the spring was also missing. So took it apart again and rummaged around before luckily finding a spare set of Shim4pot pads with the right spring. All sorted.😃
Cracking ride in the best traditions of the old Chilterns 1XV @alex: ride bikes, drink beer, talk bollocks
Let's do it again
Cheers for sorting my brake Alex! I wasn’t looking forward to finishing that ride with only a front brake.
Hopefully see you all again at some point.
Ed
Cheers all - good to get out and to ride in a new location.
Beer went down well too!
Si
Yeah, I enjoyed that. Good to meet you all. Be great to do another
Aye, smashing evening, cheers all. I rounded it off on the ride home by saving an 'ickle baby lamb that had got stuck in the wrong field, and couldn't get back to its mum. Fast buggers, lambs 🙂
There was talk of a WhatsApp group. I've now leapt into 2003 and got WhatsApp, but I don't know how to set these things up, so over to someone else...
In dereference to the Marple Riders yahoo group of yesteryear, I've set up Disley Riders on WA.
PM me your numbers if you want in.
Got IHN, SC999, Samhay
Didn't fall in the canal on way home, so was all grand. Thanks All and see you on WhatsApp.
I set a few PBs along the canal on the way home - in fact I set some PBs along the whole ride
https://www.strava.com/activities/5286353603
PMed you my number
I hope there is room for a small, slow one at the back next time.
Saving the lamb has made me very happy. nbt and I have experience of doing this on many a ride. Once it was too late and nbt had to pull a dead lamb out of the mother (she was in a bad way). But that's a story for another day.
I might tag along, sounds fun. I’ll pm you my number.
Chris
Well, finally managed to fulfil a long time agreement from 3 months ago to show Bigyim and his mate a bit of the Peak District.
Despite the mediocre forecast, and double colds, the two of them made the longish drive oop north. The great thing was that they have never cycled the Peak before so was genuinely showing them something new. Gave me a chance to try out my favourite tarmac minimisation, van assisted loop.
As part of my push to be more accurate and focussed with ride lengths I had put the base route onto OSApp and measured it at around 22km with 470hm. I then had 4 other optional sections to add on if things were going well. Normally I just use a map and then cycle till I fall over but I've realised that not everyone wants to cycle til they're exhausted and then realise it's still another 15km to go... and post Covid, neither do I.
We met at bottom of broken road and did some cunning shenaigans with cars which left one of theirs there and the rest of us at the far west end of Rushup edge. (inlcuding my mate Dave) Quickly warmed up on the bridleway, which was suprisingly dry. By Mam Nick it appeared that everyone was solid so we did Optional extra 1 straight down to Greenlands Farm, which is brilliant descent with loads of ditches and berms to bounce off.
To avoid the tedious tarmac runout at Greenlands we hung a right and headed up to Hollin's Cross. They appear to have done some work on this trail to remove the worst of the ridges and it's now emminently rireable to the cross. I almost cleaned it, but not quite.
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then down Backtor:
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Not sure if this is Greenlands or Backtor !
Jaggers ascent was, as usual, very pleasant until the point it dumps 70m of height gain to the stream, just to rear back up with another rock filled uphill. At this point Bigyim was putting soooooo much power down that his chain broke, so I fished out a quicklink and it was quickly re-assembled...
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Then it was dissassembled again and put back on the correct side of the seatstay 🙂 Crying shame to damage his lovely new paintjob.
After a quick discussion we added on the second detour by nipping down The Beast.
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Which was bloody marvelous fun.
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Back up through Fangorn
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then along towards Winhill
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Added another detour down 'hingy
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Up Roman Road
Down Hope Brink or whatever it's called to the slightly annoying tarmac descent back to Hope, but then at least we'd got two off road descents for that one bit of tarmac. Then back Castleton, the Cavedale Option having been binned as too much to manage before the 2pm deadline. 27km with ~950m of ascent.
The chaps jumped in their cars and headed back home and I dragged Dave back into Castleton to eat Cake, Pies, Coffee and stuff. Was well thirsty by this point as my bottle appears to have escaped on Greenlands Farm descent. Then another 8km / 250hm up Broken Road back to our cars.
Had bits and pieces of rain, but nothing like as much as forecast, so happy on that front.
Some good learnings for me again. Not on the navigation front, but in prepping the routes more thoroughly and quantifying the Optional sections rather than just doing my usual "it'll be fine" as we tag on yet another hill.
Also chuffed that Dave had to avail himself of the spare gloves that I had stached in the car for exactly that reason.
After a momentary worry, was also good to see my box of 8,9,10,11 & 12 speed chainlinks in my repair kit along with the pliers. Couldn't recall seeing them on Wednesday when Ed's brakes broke, but they were indeed packed.
Need to get a non shit water bottle cage. I mean really, how hard can it be... metal cage to hold a bottle of water.
Shimano 12 speed still sounds like a bag of spanners in the mud/grit. Been dry for so long I'd forgotten how bad it actually is.
Many thanks to the chaps for coming up, let me know if you're back again en-masse later in the summer.
Busy next weekend, but could take time off midweek if there's a group wants to go out.
Also, advance notice that I'll be in the Lakes 29 May to 3 June and hoping to get out on a couple of big rides if I can. Let me know if anyone wants to join me.
Great ride that, still not done the climb back up from the bottom of the Beast yet. Went out last night as thought the forecast today looked miserable but doesn’t seem to have spoiled the ride.
Anyone up for Wednesday (19/5) afternoon ride in the Peak?
@funkrodent, @onzadog, @anorak, @crankbreaker expressed interest in a half day earlier in the thread...
Sorry, this week's not good for me. And with half term looming it's going to be 2nd week of June before mid week becomes viable again.
Yep, Wednesday might actually work for me. Just got the bike clean after yesterday.
Yep, Wednesday might actually work for me
Is that for an afternoon or evening?
Can do either. Afternoon might actually be better.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/in-celebration-of-the-group-ride/
Did anyone get a pic of @TheGeneralist highlighted against the evening skyline, while fixing the broken eBike?
I’m keen for a ride tomo but could only do eve. Give me a shout if anyone’s keen. Aiming for a 6pm start, prob Hayfield but I’m easy and open to suggestions.
6pm from Disley Station tonight. Note STATION car park (off the A6) not the Ram’s Head car park (off Buxton Old Road). They’re right next to each other but the station car park is free, the Ram’s Head isn’t unless you eat/drink in the Rams Head
Good call Jules.
IHN has set up https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmaps/route/8531017/Hague-Bar-Roman-Lakes-Canal-Paper-Mill
Right-o. Wheels roll 6pm 19 May. Disley station car park. Chilled pace random group ride
Welcome to join @frogrocket
Anyone want added to the WhatsApp group, PM me your number.
Cheers. Have PM’d for WA group
Hi.
Would anyone be interested in meeting up for a ride next week 29 May to 4 June on the Lakes?
Either a shortish ride round Duddon or a longer epic?
I'll be in Duddon Valley. Not sure which days I'll be free but if anyone is interested then PM me your number and I'll get in touch.
Cheers
Hi,
Anyone fancy a ride out either Friday, Saturday or Monday?
If nobody is out then I'll probably see if I can coax a ton out of my [ not really] new bike, just to see if I can. But would much rather take a group out somewhere good.
Options include:
Nibthwaite, Parkamoor, Breasty Haw, Fox etc ( Grizedale) with an option on Walna Scar descent to Torver.
Borrowdale and some of the other stuff NE of Staveley that I've not done.
Doctors Gate round to Cut Gate loop.
Stanage, Blackamoor, Eastern Fells route.
Some combination of these two with an option on Cavedale.
Or even the usual Rushup, Edale, Hollins, Backtor, Jagger's, Beast, Roman, Cavedale trip
Or indeed whatever anyone wants to do, but perhaps isn't sure when, how etc.
Tell me.
Really good ride Friday @onzadog . Many thanks
Bitta Plantation:
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So good, we did it twice....
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Bitta steep Tech...
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Loved this section. Real shame I've already forgotten where it was 😉
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Me and my mate doing a ladybower loop tomorrow morning (14/06) but we don't need a leader. Just standard roman Rd up, beast, nabbs wood, res, wlt, pint at the inn perhaps, back over win hill. I've been off the bike for several months due to illness so I won't be the fastest but I will bring my humour 😋😉. I think we've spoken before generalist. Starting in hope at approx between 10.30-11. We'll be driving from Stoke. Pm if you wanna join anyone.
Did this thread die or move elsewhere?
Stupidly I can't recall my exact thinking on why I didn't continue this thread. I *think* the reasoning was that it was getting very long and tricky to find the info about specific planned rides. Also that it felt a bit indulgent continuing it for too long.
There were a few (equally indulgent) spinoffs, like this one 🙂
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/phew-what-a-week-20000ft/
The main reason was because it had served its purpose from my PoV. I did loads of new rides, with loads of new people and learned/refined loads of stuff. And did my assessment at the end of summer. So all good 🙂
Alongside this thread, a WhatsApp group wat set up for rides around the Disley (West Peak) area. Ironically I've only managed to attend about 4 or 5 of those rides, but Simon, Sam and some others have been out most weeks since then.
if anyone wants to join that West Peak WhatsApp group then let me know
I've done some other great rides up in the Cairngorms and Lakes this year with the family, but we have been somewhat impacted by 4 separate Covids, the last of which the missus and me still have a bit of.
Spent some time doing my website, SEO etc and need to work out the best way of getting to the next stage.
I'm somewhat restricted at present with what time I have available, but hoping to run a trip to southern Cairngorms later in the year and do loads more in the Lakes.
Much appreciated - wish there was a general 'northern england' riding group - being in Yorkshire you're sort of close to everything but with nothing amazing on your doorstep, so most places are a bit of a mission and better shared!
