{"id":2756,"date":"2015-02-01T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2015-02-02T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:46:32","slug":"tnr-29-01-2015-solos-to-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"TNR 29-01-2015 Solo&#8217;s to the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16211158678\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Words &#8211; Dunc , Pics &#8211; Dunc &#038; 3Sheds (and 1 &#8220;library pic&#8221; from Pete) <\/em><\/p>\n<div>Crew: Dunc (late ride), 3 sheds (Early ride), The Next Generation (different early ride)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pub: Dunc\u2019s Sofa<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Route (Late ride)\u00a0: \u00a0House of Dunc, BL, Buton old road, Charity lane &amp; extention, standing stone,Towards Nessit, Half Pipe descent, lower singletrack, around the reservoir and back to Tythy.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Conditions: \u00a0Clear, snowy &amp; icy. Slushy in places<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stats: None<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16397418942\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>With the core team away enjoying the high life with the european skiing jet-set, there were a couple of\u00a0murmurs\u00a0of interest in a snowy ride \u00a0from the residual TNRers, but with Eric and Nic pulling out late (Elf and safety and medical reasons respectively), this left 3 sheds out for a solo early ride and yours truly out for a late ride after much tubeless faffing. \u00a0I understand there was also good organisation from the next generation TNR lead by Mini-Pud (apparently the organisation involved lights, warm clothes and rice pudding &#8211; it was going to be\u00a0\u201cinsane&#8221; ).<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16397028282\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Off into the quiet of the fresh snowfall to find Buxton road closed and Buxton old road proving a challenge (thanks be to the freshly installed 2.4\u201d rubber). \u00a0Arrived at the start of Charity to find no bike tracks, but deer and a 4WD had beaten me to it. \u00a0After a lot of start-stop, complicated with iced up cleats, letting a few PSIs out proved the right answer, making the rest of the charity climb to the weather station much more do-able. \u00a0Charity descent proved a\u00a0little\u00a0messy with snow, slush and ice cold stream running freely &#8211; arriving at the bottom with a super-cooled behind.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16398352595\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Charity extension was untouched, on the climb to Standing Stone pulled over to let a 4WD pass to find it was a chavved up Fiesta with Mr &amp; Mrs Yoof onboard (who needs 4wd anyway?).<\/div>\n<div>The Half-Pipe descent (or Christmas tree alley as I like to call it) had more pristine snow and made for the highlight of the evening &#8211; crunchy snow, stars, snow covered Christmas Trees and that foreboding thought in the back of my mind that if something goes wrong here I\u2019m very much on my own.<\/div\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16398352805\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Pub stop consisted of Leffe and Cous-Cous at home after a shower to thaw butt-cheeks.<\/div>\n<div>Post ride analysis from the next generation: \u201dSick&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/16228453788\/in\/set-72157650176663870\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words &#8211; 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