{"id":3431,"date":"2017-04-14T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2017-04-17T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:42:18","slug":"tnr-13-4-2017-dinner-at-berns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"TNR 13-4-2017 Dinner at Bern&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/34026188575\/in\/album-72157679262090984\/\" title=\"IMG_2682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2936\/34026188575_4ced40d624_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"IMG_2682\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Words by Alex, Pics by Pete <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crew: El Pres, Troll, TJ, Dunc, Slim, Stunt<\/p>\n<p>Dinner: Bern, Mawds, Joe, Lee<\/p>\n<p>Route: BL, New Road, Charity, Extension, Cat, Danebower Hollow, Cumberland Clough, Standing Stone, Nessit Hill, Ressies, Coalpit lane, Bern&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions: Cool &amp; Dry<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 2 Punctures (Troll &amp; Stunt)<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>A quiet pre ride build up this week (mostly taken up with holiday travel tip swaps!) before Bern delivers a fantastic bombshell &#8211; Can&#8217;t Ride &#8211; Can Cook!<\/p>\n<p>Well it would be rude to refuse, Dinner at 9 (non riders welcome) , El Pres takes charge of ride.<\/p>\n<p>Crew assembles under clearing skies (much better than expected) and immediately de layer as its not a cool as predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Stunt tweaks a brake caliper to quell a noisy front disc on the returned chubster with newly compliant fork.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/33183188694\/in\/album-72157679262090984\/\" title=\"IMG_2679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2834\/33183188694_365e54aa2d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"IMG_2679\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>El Pres declares a classic route and we&#8217;re off.<\/p>\n<p>Great views across the plain as we climb,\u00a0it is still a novelty to be riding in the light \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Conditions on Charity are excellent &#8211; dry, but not loose &#8211; fast and fun!! Troll tells us there were some sharp rocks up there though..<\/p>\n<p>Extension is sketchier than usual with large rocks in unhelpful places&#8230;amazingly we all make it down in one piece.<\/p>\n<p>Light from the bottom&#8217;o&#8217;t&#8217;oven is gorgeous&#8230;even if we then realise the view we are admiring is the climb we now have to do.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the breeze is at our backs to take the edge off the long haul up to the tea rooms, where it is time to layer back up rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>By the top of the tea room climb the wind is literally whistling through the spokes!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/33869118532\/in\/album-72157679262090984\/\" title=\"IMG_2683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2890\/33869118532_2729f9a310_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_2683\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Danebower also nicely firm and dry, uber fast too&#8230;and it&#8217;s still light!<\/p>\n<p>Lights on to be seen on the A54, new fence posts have appeared half way down the first section&#8230;a future hazard?<\/p>\n<p>Troll discovers a front puncture at the (traditional) gate, and despite blaming all those darn sharp rocks&#8230;turns out to be a tiny thorn.<\/p>\n<p>Having had to use his tube last week&#8230;.yes he has no tube, and although slightly concerned that El Pres&#8217; donation may not be big enough (it&#8217;s a 2.5 inch tyre) and hence may cause the tyre to derim, it is safely inflated.<\/p>\n<p>A group of riders appear and we chat as they regroup before they head down\u00a0whilst we are attending to Troll&#8217;s tyre.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/33869123172\/in\/album-72157679262090984\/\" title=\"IMG_2685\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3948\/33869123172_d232590425_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_2685\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We are soon leap frogging them on the descent&#8230;THE ROCKS&#8230;..oh THE ROCKS!!!! fresh rubble including blocks a foot square has transformed Cumberland Brook, some of the riders in front are walking and muttering, we just hang on and try to find the lines&#8230;it&#8217;s brutal!<\/p>\n<p>The leap frog continues at the bottom gate, Stunt discovers that his saddle bolt has come loose with all the pounding!<\/p>\n<p>The two groups are mixed together now all the way up to standing stone, and then across to Nessit.<\/p>\n<p>Good games to play are is it a plane or a planet (plane), and the Moon&#8217;s about to rise over there (oh no it isn&#8217;t) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Properly dark at Nessit, and our trail companions head down the white rabbit route, whilst we go down &#8220;the middle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/34026197905\/in\/album-72157679262090984\/\" title=\"IMG_2688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2944\/34026197905_46c417aa6f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"IMG_2688\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Time has marched on, Bern is called (although luckily the food is a bit behind schedule), dawning acceptance that coalpit lane will be needed to be climbed, and that legs are getting tired.<\/p>\n<p>Stunt burps his rear tyre on a water bar lower down, and then has the mother of all battles to reseat it&#8230;accompanied by a faithful TJ, it takes 4 stops and much pumping before it finally holds.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are away to secure food and drink and the welcome of Bern.<\/p>\n<p>What a feast sir! Roast chicken pieces on sweet potato, salad, garlic bread, tins of beer as far as the eye can see, cheeses, a huge homemade apple and rhubard pie (it was so worth the wait)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and then the tray of multicoloured spirits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A great evening of catching up with folk, tall tales of the ride, and an axis of &#8220;nicely relaxed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sipsmith sloe gin awesome&#8230;some of the others more interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tis well past the witching hour when we trickle homewards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Alex, Pics by Pete Crew: El Pres, Troll, TJ, Dunc, Slim, Stunt Dinner: Bern, Mawds, Joe, Lee Route: BL, New Road, Charity, Extension, Cat, Danebower Hollow, Cumberland Clough, Standing Stone, Nessit Hill, Ressies, Coalpit lane, Bern&#8217;s. 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