{"id":2341,"date":"2013-08-25T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:42:12","slug":"tnr-22-8-2013-eagle-and-child-to-three-shires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"TNR 22-8-2013 Eagle and Child to Three Shires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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From TNR 22-08-2013 new steeds<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Crew: G, Eric, Butty, Mr Incredible, Stunt, Coley<\/p>\n

Pub: Slim, Dunc, Dan & Nic<\/p>\n

Route: BL, Chazza, Wilboarclough to A54, Offroad across to former Eagle & Child, Gated roads to Cut thorne, Descent into 3 Shires, Field\/farm out to A54, Chumby, Standing stone, Sutton Hall<\/p>\n

Conditions: Warm & Buggy, dusty trails.<\/p>\n

Stats: 2 Punctures for G, offs for Eric (2), G (1)<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

Route conundrum of how to do 3 shires without roading to the cat leads to slighty novel route.<\/p>\n

Flying ants thick on the ground (and air) all the way to the top of chazza, where a flock of starlings were also doing patterns from the cows field when disturbed.<\/p>\n

G has his first mandatory pinch puncture at the bottom of chazza (mind the big tractor parked at the bottom!) and we see some whippet youths whizz down then back up!<\/p>\n

Good pace and chat along the valley all the way to the eagle and child track. By ‘eck its a steep start to that there trail, and when it goes rocky both G and Eric end up with rear wheel spin out low speed sideways topplings.<\/p>\n

Once at the top – great conditions for a fast thrash (or in the case of stunt on his old school voodoo as not as fast as it feels thrash!)<\/p>\n

Time does not allow for the full reverse entry to chazza so we stay on the roads to Cut Thorne.<\/p>\n

Steeper climbs now taking their toll on legs and blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n

Lights on for the loose rocky trail down where G has his second puncture (and does he have a second tube? ..well we were impressed he had a first one!)<\/p>\n

Grippy dew laden grass makes for some pushing on the way out as we start to string out, and fatigue also affects mental state – as half the party head towards danebower hollow at the top!<\/p>\n

Chumby is gnarly and wetter than for a while, although still an easy ford at the end.<\/p>\n

No time to explore the forest and big rings to the pub.<\/p>\n

Pennine Gold goes down lovely, and Slim and Dunc provide new bike goodness to admire.<\/p>\n

Other goodies on show – more space tech Gel pads (this time in Transformers yellow on black) that feel like snug arm\/leg warmers (no crash testing performed). Alpine kit and spares debates swing from doomladen to Pah! extremes. Dan demonstrates rare Alliance of Moderation willpower, whilst a slight AoE head for another, followed by chasers.<\/p>\n

Not sure we actually worked out the height gain – but surely good training whatever!<\/p>\n

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From TNR 22-08-2013 new steeds Crew: G, Eric, Butty, Mr Incredible, Stunt, Coley Pub: Slim, Dunc, Dan & Nic Route: BL, Chazza, Wilboarclough to A54, Offroad across to former Eagle & Child, Gated roads to Cut thorne, Descent into 3 Shires, Field\/farm out to A54, Chumby, Standing stone, Sutton Hall Conditions: Warm & Buggy, dusty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}