{"id":4883,"date":"2023-02-08T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:38:30","slug":"tnr-02-02-2023-an-early-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"TNR 02-02-2023 An Early Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52677825543\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"20230202-IMG_7927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52677825543_fa7f2a717e_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"20230202-IMG_7927.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Words &amp; Photos by Pete<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crew<\/strong> : 3 Sheds , Dunc,\u00a0 PTD, Chris , Doog, Pete \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conditions<\/strong> :\u00a0Cool but not cold , about 7 or 8 . Quite dry in some places, distinctly muddy in others (the chapel approach and Kerridge bridleway) . Breezy higher up . Cold on the descent of blaze hill\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52677763525\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"distinctly muddy in bits\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52677763525_342ddf099f_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"20230203-IMG_7934.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Route<\/strong> : RB\u00a0 &#8211; War memorial &#8211; Higher Lane &#8211; Lidgetts &#8211; bridleway -Waulkmill wood &#8211; Poacher\u2019s snicket &#8211;\u00a0 Oakenbank &#8211; Jumper lane &#8211; Blaze hill &#8211; Spuley Rd &#8211; Pott Shrigley &#8211; Moorside Lane &#8211; Chapel (closed for the winter) &#8211; Long lane &#8211; Stypersons &#8211; sugar lane &#8211; towpath &#8211; Poachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong> :\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5:30pm start from RB . Still vaguely light as I departed Oldham St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought we would be thin on the ground this week, envisaging it just being me, Chris and Dunc with Butty and Troll being out in the Alps. But our ranks were swelled to six ! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My venerable MTB light developed a fault last week on the descent of Cumberland Clough . So my \u201cplan B\u201d light was being road tested this week . Originally purchased in about 2015 for my commuting to UU , it is a nifty shade os something approaching metallic pink . Not quite the 2200 lumens of the other one, but it proved to be an adequate answer for tonight\u2019s route . &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a notch potch circuit tonight , with familiar , well used sections being put together in a one-off combination . But it definitely felt sufficiently off-roady with the tarmac bits being pleasantly calm and traffic free.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the top of higher lane we had the customary brief debate of \u201cwhich way from here ?\u201d&nbsp; . Well, Paul was with us tonight. I don\u2019t think there was really any appetite for a hike a bike up the quarry footpath to the top &#8211; Lidgetts was the answer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A minor comedy miss-mount by the doog at the start of the bridleway .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52677762965\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"20230202-IMG_7926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52677762965_04d796cce4_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"20230202-IMG_7926.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Surpisingly we managed to stretch out the ride so that we arrived just about bang on 8:30pm !&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bagged the last remaining portion of Steak and Stilton Pie . Talk of \u201cthe cars we had as younger men\u201d ..a lotus in Dunc\u2019s case , a loved but rusty Escort Mk2 1600 Sport in my case , a Panther Kallista in PTD\u2019s case (replete with an lsd-equipped axle) .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refreshments : White Rat Yorkshire Play Ale at 4.0% and a reasonable price, the inevitable \u00a37 guest IPA at 6.2% then a Leffe frenzy&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words &amp; Photos by Pete Crew : 3 Sheds , Dunc,\u00a0 PTD, Chris , Doog, Pete \u00a0 Conditions :\u00a0Cool but not cold , about 7 or 8 . Quite dry in some places, distinctly muddy in others (the chapel approach and Kerridge bridleway) . Breezy higher up . 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