{"id":4216,"date":"2019-12-13T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2019-12-18T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:48:47","slug":"tnr-12-12-2019-forest-start-fudge-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"TNR 12-12-2019 Forest start, Fudge finish!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Words by Alex, Photos by Pete<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crew:<\/strong> El Pres, PTD, Slim, TJ, Dunc, Stunt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Route:<\/strong> BL, Zig, Charity, Extension, Forest Chapel, Gravel Descent, R&L side trails, Bobs Bench, 5 Clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conditions<\/strong>: Some drizzle higher up, very wet trails, cold later<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather seems to be stuck in a cycle of “rinse & repeat” with heavy rain much of the day clearing just in time for the TNR…but not in time for some excuses for no shows!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hardy core of the TNR massive duly assembled, and almost get caught up in the Puss Bank disco finish due to “where will we finish?” talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its peak xmas do season, and both the Smithy and the Dunny are full. We head uphill to continue the conversation. Mega puddles on the Zig, a hint of delayering needed, a touch of cloud at Windyways, and more on charity tarmac..with a cold wind higher up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor vis on the charity descent = slower speeds, plus big rocks in strange places from all the water (and 4×4’s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extension is clearly seen..which is just as well as there is no clear line through the debris field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PTD needs some air in his rear tyre having burped it hitting something big, but needs a CO2 boost from Dunc by the time we’ve climbed back to forest chapel on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finish plan has now evolved to 5 clouds & takeout in a bid to avoid the popular pubs, and the likely popular Picturedrome (yet to be TNR’d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurtling down the gravelly decents, then either side of the road, may not be the most techie of routes, but is still fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curse of the bumped rim not resealing causes at bike swapping pit stop from PTD, and some TNR inspection of works at the Shrubberies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plan comes good as 5 clouds is quiet, and we can stack the bikes inside. Pizza’s are procured (and delivered to our table), and the No1 pale ale at only 3% is a tasty and healthy option! The belgian sour beer was in a minority of 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Election exit poll news drove us to harder stuff, and the 10% Fudge stout was crying out to be tried (in respectable 1\/3pint portions). Rather fantastic it was too…so that would be 2\/3 then \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sensible leavers left a developing AoE contemplating a third 3rd..or did they discover something stronger on the top shelf???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words by Alex, Photos by Pete Crew: El Pres, PTD, Slim, TJ, Dunc, Stunt Route: BL, Zig, Charity, Extension, Forest Chapel, Gravel Descent, R&L side trails, Bobs Bench, 5 Clouds. Conditions: Some drizzle higher up, very wet trails, cold later Notes: The weather seems to be stuck in a cycle of “rinse & repeat” with […]<\/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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","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=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}