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Crew: Duncan, Brummie Andy, Big Nic, Kersh, TJ, Butty, Big Dan, El Pres, Slim, PTD, Dave Harrison

Route: Road to the Shining Tor Tea Rooms, Stakeside Descent to the Goyt Access Rd, Derbyshire Bridge, Buxton Old Road, Far side of Fernilee, Across the Dam, Up to Pym’s chair, Jenkin Chapel, Smith Lane, Blaze Hill, The Poachers

Conditions: Dry, warm, dusty

Stats:
– 4 hours riding
– 15.9c at 1am !!!!
– 10.30pm arrival at pub
– 4 p good

Notes:
– A PTD production …and a brilliant route even if we had to cut it slightly short.
– Excellent turn out. Good to see Dunc, Big Dan, Nic, Dave H….
– Stakeside descent and Buxton Old Rd descent were classics …conditions could not be better !!!
– it was so dry, dusty and warm it made me think of Spanish MTBing
– Kersh handled challenge from Peak Park ranger with diplomacy and humour
– Poachers was the right answer….full of Nancies as expected
– Mutiny at Pym’s chair and the Poachers was the decision
– 11 still in Poachers at 12.30 !!

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TNR 14-4-2011 SuperDry Classic

Friday, April 15, 2011

Crew: Stunt, PTD, El Pres, Nic, Butty, Coley, Brummie Andy, Dan, Slim

Pub: Mawds & El Pud

Route: BL, Old Buxton Road, RH Zag, walker barn, Chazza, Cat, Danebower hollow, RH short cut to Cumberland Clough, Standing stone, RH & LH side of forest, Church House.

Conditions: Mild, overcast and superdry under tyre

Stats:

1 chain failure (nic)

1 off (butty)

Notes:

Wind/waterproofs not required for the first time this year

Nic learns about magic links

RAI tops make a reappearance (from blue team)

Route choice to allow late starters to join at the tea rooms (but not the best for butty’s singlespeed!)

A good night for wildlife i-spy spots of Owls, Curlew, Grouse, Bats & Mice

All trails nice & dry (but not dusty)

RHS of forest near perfect (apart from a logging pile on the finish)

Gallons of Hookey gold in the Church House as Mawds challenges us to a summer orienteering wager.

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TNR 7-4-2011 Forest & Faff

Friday, April 8, 2011

Crew: El Pud, El Pres, PTD, Langley Joe, Brummie Andy,Dan, Coley, 3 Sheds, TJ, Butty, Slim , Stunt.

Pub: Eric

Route: BL, Teggs Nose, cut left & up hacked lane way, Chazza, dentists descent, standing stone, RH & LH side down and around the reservoirs, Church House

Conditions: Dry, clear & mild

Stats:

An El Pud faff production

1: Saddle clamp bolt shear

2: Puncture on Chazza

3: Loose seatpost

Notes:

The prodigal son (of mawds 😉) returns but brings with him a whole bunch of faff.

Run to failure is a valid maintenance strategy – but failure to learn is not – 3rd bolt failure & still no spare carried!!

Maybe next week a full routeplan will be completed!

Trails perfect for maximum enjoyment

Approach to dentist descent a little tricky for El Pres – but that extra ventilation in the gusset will come in handy if its a bbq summer 😉

Light till past eight = scenery to enjoy, and slim waxes lyrical about the moon.

Eric joins us in the pub for Spring Frenzy and Mad Trumpet.

Pietastic food and a short axis of single malts with talk of summer outings.

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TNR 31-3-2011 (Nowhere near) Taxal

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Crew : TJ, El Pres, Kersh, Brummie^* Andy, Aussie Steve(DNF), Steroidal Sean(DNF), Butty, PTD
Pub: Mawds (DNS), El Pud (DNS)
Route: 28 barracks – Cat – Shining Tor – Pymms Chair, Jenkins Chapel, Oakenbank, The Vale

Wevver : Windy and surprisingly chilly

Faffing : Plenty – 6 punctures.

Notes :

Big Dan turns up outside Barracks Lane for the first time in a few weeks – but sadly no bike.

Return of Aussie Steve and his enhanced brother Sean.

*Nawh Wil-in-all

19:03 and yes we know Pete isn’t coming …

“Yah you just need to unweight at the right time …..” Lord Kersh on how to avoid punctures on the yorkshire north shore.

Initial big plans of reaching Taxal fade fast on the Shining Tor Pathway of Punctures.

Andy first to succumb. Kersh heard to mutter – “It’s how you weight and unweight the bike over the drainage channels”. But was strangely quiet 10 minutes later whilst repairing his own puncture.

Nancy’s fly past – only to be struck down themselves shortly after.

…..10 minutes later

Shortly before it all goes wrong…

Sums up the night really …

Aussie Steve and Sean go home after seeing enough punctures repaired.
Everyone gets chilly.

Nancy’s seen again as we pass the Poachers and confess they have driven back from the Goyt.
In The Vale an open fire, superb pie, 3 pints and reminisces of ‘New Invention’ make everything seem right again.

Sheltering from the wind

Low flying B52 narrowly misses us….

This is getting tedious….

“I’m off” – first DNF of the season ?

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Cheshire Cat 2011 Sportive – Sunday 27th March

Thursday, March 31, 2011

From Cheshire Cat 2011 27th March

Main Article by Dunc (with the odd edit & pics by Slim)

Crew: Slim, Coley, Dunc & Brendan from the Duks

Pub: Slim & Dunc for a swift well earned pint in the Windmill while waiting to pick up Slim’s daughter number 2 on the route home.

Route: Crewe & back taking in the whole of Cheshire (East and West) Hassall Green, Scholar Green, Mow Cop, Rushton Spencer, Heaton (feed station #1), Wincle, Sutton, Gawsworth, Siddington, Twemlow, Holmes Chapel (feed station#2), Church Minshull, Beeston Castle, Tattenhall (feed station #3), Malpas, Crewe.

Weather: Cold (5 deg) cloudy and no wind. Gore windstopper the right answer. The sun appeared briefly in the second half of the ride.

Stats: 100 miles, 3 TNR-ers and no mechanicals (is this a first?). Slim ‘dabs’ on Mow Cop due to inappropriate gearing, heavy camelback and mudguards (and lack of meat-based snacks 😉 )

Time on bike – 6hr 43mins, Total elapsed time – 7hr 57 min

More pot-holes than turnips in Baldric’s turnip surprise

From Cheshire Cat 2011 27th March

Notes:

Joined by Brendan from the Duk’s for the first 50 when he took the planned 67 mile route.

Big queues at start, early feed station and finish.

New head scanning timing sticker – make sure you wave your helmet past the BSB square-ial like timing system.

Not a baggy short or uppy-downy seat post in sight – a refreshing change for the TNR roadie contingent

Slow and steady was order of the day, until Pete got on the front in the last ½ of the course where sprint & die seemed to be mis-guided tactics for an endurance event.

Dunc cheered up by gentle panting (with built in moan) from a female over taker on hills near plastic animals near Rushton (a.k.a. “the Lama Fields”)

What kind of Beef was in Pete’s lunchtime butties? (rumours of clembuterol)

P0rn mirage in west Cheshire.

Dreams of cups of tea and chicken dinners on the way back from Tattenhall – High 5 and bananas less appealing.

Pathetic attempt to sprint into Crewe, scuppered by a 1 in 50 rise ¼ mile from the finish reduced to a grovelling pace across the line.

From Cheshire Cat 2011 27th March

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TNR 24-3-2011 Pilgrimage to Gradbach

Monday, March 28, 2011

Crew : Slim, TJ, Butty, PTD, El Pud, El pres, Croxy, 3 sheds
Pub: Mawds
Route: 28 barracks – Sutton – Cleulow Cross – Danebridge – Swythamley – Luds Church – Foresty bits with lots of pushing uphill and down – Danebridge – Cleulow Cross – King’s Head

Wevver : Mild, dry and lovely

Faffing : Croxy’s front brake

Notes :
Dusty tracks to Lud’s Church…and spring-like weather
Good to see Croxy out again
Gradbach Woods had a (very rooty :-)) route section that must have been designed by Kersh…pushing downhill as well as uphill..unless you are PTD

Climb out from Danebridge back to Cleulow Cross was good pre Cheshire Cat training for some
Brilliant Music and food and beer in the KH. Late arrival for TJ and Pete at 9.50
Pentangle of evil convened by Mawds

From tnr 10-03-2011 – 3 attempts at the Poachers

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TNR 17-3-2011 Edge of Acceptability

Friday, March 18, 2011

From tnr 17032011 Edge of Acceptability

Crew: El Pud, El Pres, PTD, Slim, 3 Sheds, Coley, TJ, Butty, Big Nic, Dunc, Stunt

Pub: Mawds & G

Route: Beech Lane Bollin Bridge, Bollin Valley to Prestbury, Withinlee Road, Oak Lane, off road edginess, Pete’s snicket to the Owl, artists lane furtlings, more edginess, Bradford Lane, Hocker Lane, Chelford road, Legh Arms

Conditions: Dry & clear, ground pretty dry

From tnr 17032011 Edge of Acceptability

Stats:

1 Off PTD

1 drivetrain malfunction 3 Sheds

Notes:

As usual an Edge expedition brings out a decent crew

..and more potential customers for TJ batteries

El Pud returns and relishes leading us around and around and around the edge 🙂

Baileys for St Patricks day

From tnr 17032011 Edge of Acceptability

Wizardy pause triggers some comments in our direction (Eric would not have been amused?)

Is the Legh arms the best pub in the world?

Wide ranging topics from bird calls to baldy apps

…and a Guinness finish..well it is good for you 😉

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TNR 10-3-2011 Into the Poachers at the 3rd attempt

Friday, March 11, 2011

Crew: G, Slim, Big Nic, 3 sheds, Coley, Butty, Stunt

Route: Rainbow bridge, Oak Lane, Higher Lane, Past Redway, Ingersley Vale, snicket to Poachers, Oakenbank lane, Jumper Lane, Down Blaze Hill, Pott Shrigley, Bakestonedale road, Bowstones, Park Moor, Moorside lane, Drop down to Shrigley Road, Poachers

Conditions: Dry & Cool with stiff breeze, soft & muddy on the tops.

Stats: 1 lighting faff from Stunt

From tnr 10-03-2011 – 3 attempts at the Poachers

Notes:

A northern enclave production (no manflu in tythy)

G ‘s route tempts & teases with close passes of the Pub

Plenty of creaking & squeaking steeds

Pace not for puffs

Stunt discovers that after 2 seasons magicshine battery packs cannot be relied upon for a full ride

Hordes of nancy’s in the poachers – but no Landlord!!

Desert Storm preferred to Nimrod, proper food portions this week (according to Slim)

Slim embraces a mini axis of evil (but is still spotted riding to work the next morning)

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TNR 03-03-2011 The Magnificent Seven (+1)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Crew : Kersh, Dave Harrison, PTD, Big Dan, El Pud, Slim, El Pres, Butty
Route: 28 barracks – Walker Barn (Options A and B) – Charity and extension – Cat and Fiddle – Danebower – Straight across A54 – Danebower then Reeve End quarries – Three Shires Head – Cuthorn escape route – A54 – Rose and Crown (Allgreave).

Return from pub: A54 Chunder climb to Wildboar – Sutton Lane Ends – Macc
Wevver: Cooling down fast and a stiff breeze at the Cat. Just about freezing.
Notes : Route to walker barn. “It’s a test, not a race.” (to quote El Pud). Mmmm
Butty leaves “Mo and “jo” at home.
Dan out two weeks running and with brilliant route.
Chazza interesting with water and ice
Cold on the ascent to Cat and Fiddle ..we do not hang about at the top.
Paul goes paddling at the quarries section.
Weird hot lemon whisky beverage from El Pud in Blackclough (pic below). Very welcome though !!!

Good climb out from the Three Shires Head
It felt like “we had been out” by the time we get to the pub
Warm welcome. The whole place to ourselves. £10 steak and chips with very good beer.