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<\/a>Its a fair cop \ud83d\ude42 <\/p><\/div>
\nCrew:\u00a0 PTD, Eric, Butty, Slim, Stunt, Dan<\/p>\n
Pub: Dunc, Nic & Shaun<\/p>\n
Route: BL, Teggs Nose, Smithy, Reservoirs, zig zags at bottom of Nessit, cross forest & up the steps to forest chapel, Narnia, Hardingland, Crooked Yard, Bull Hill, Rainow, Kerridge Ridge (or Oakenbank), Vale.<\/p>\n
Conditions: Rather humid and unexpectedly warm, cloudy, excellent trail conditions.<\/p>\n
Stats: Eric punctures twice!<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
A small crew post the big weekend, and Slim regrets commuting this week and requests a shorter ride.<\/p>\n
Butty astride his surly singlespeed (newfangled hub on the 456 leaking oil on sunday)<\/p>\n
Route choice reverse engineered\/made up as we went along in order\u00a0to get to the vale\u00a0– and if that was a short\/easy ride (15miles, 2,500ft climb)\u00a0 then I’d hate to see the long\/hard version (ahem)<\/p>\n
Teggs descent best conditions in ages \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Lower forest is steeper than you think – especially the cheeky path (no wonder its\u00a0fast the other way).<\/p>\n
More aggregate on the\u00a0fire roads again!!! surely there must be enough now?<\/p>\n
Eric discovers a slow punture in his rear (tyre!) but it’s soon an extremely fast one\u00a0within 100m. His skinny replacement tube isn’t man enough for Narnia water bars and its take 2 at Witches cottage.<\/p>\n
Hardingland brings out the red haze amongst the downhill daredevils (or in Butty’s case a lack of effective brakes).<\/p>\n
A\u00a0mini top gear challenge from top of crooked yard to the Vale sees the unfancied\u00a0Slim & Stunt win hands down via Oakenbank vs the direct “over the ridge ” option.<\/p>\n
As it was\u00a0a\u00a0mostly short sleeved night a mass defection to\u00a0Moravka was in order to the disgust of Dunc who arrived on pink retrobike.<\/p>\n
Slim flashes the barmaids his cash then\u00a0pays his weekend debts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Nic shares his latest mad running plan (120 miles around Anglesey in 3 days anyone!)<\/p>\n
Possibly the only time every rider has brought a lock?<\/p>\n
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