{"id":5379,"date":"2025-02-14T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2025-02-23T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:59:16","slug":"tnr-13-02-2025-to-croker-for-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"TNR 13-02-2025 To Croker for Dan!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/54346710055\/in\/album-72177720324042224\" title=\"20250213DK10IMG_20250213_194019_121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54346710055_f551a4930f_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20250213DK10IMG_20250213_194019_121\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Words by Alex, Photos by Pete &amp; Butty<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crew<\/strong>: El Pres, Slim, PTD, Butty, Dunc, Slim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Route:<\/strong> Back Eddisbury lane, &#8220;back entrance&#8221; to Teggs, Front of Teggs descent, Leathers, across the dam &amp; up through the woods to the lane, Hanging Gate, Ridge Hill, Fourways, A54, Croker hill, Hollin lane, Sutton Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conditions: <\/strong>Nasty windchill, soft ground in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost Dan eleven years ago, strange to think he would be turning 45, so of course we have to celebrate his birthday with G&amp;T&#8217;s on Croker hill!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>True to tradition its bloomin baltic &#8211; above freezing (just) but with a biting Easterly which Buxton weather reckons means the windchill makes it feel like -6!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our eight riders are quickly whittled down to six, with Dr S having a mechanical on Coalpit lane &#8211; brake lever falling off = early bath, and Smiffy deciding that he doesn&#8217;t have sufficient clothing to be out in this weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/54346287761\/in\/album-72177720324042224\" title=\"20250213iPhone 14 ProiPhone 14 Pro back triple camera 2.22mm f-2.2IMG_9828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54346287761_65e78344e4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"20250213iPhone 14 ProiPhone 14 Pro back triple camera 2.22mm f-2.2IMG_9828\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Route debate agrees that Zag into Teggs will take too long, so we head back down Backeddisbury lane to the old road and up the hill to the &#8220;back entrance&#8221; where once off the track and onto the grass we get our first view of the Croker hill mast gently backlit by the congleton glow on the lowish clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top of teggs is nice and dry, but some quite deep soft muddy bits lower down make for some unintended rear squirms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More route debate at the car park, concluding that we are tight on time (for our 8:30 table) but that taking the road into Langley and up past the Ryles is a) a long way round, b) likely to have some fast cars on it, and c) no fun. So we stick to plan A and head up to the Smithy &#8211; being passed by a gaggle of e C#nts on the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across below the dam, and the little steep climb in the trees we exit onto a rather muddy lane to head across to the Hanging gate and ridge hill road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Pres is putting the proverbial hammer down despite carrying the provisions, and into a bitter crosswind we crest the Ridge, and descend to Fourways and carry straight on to the A54. We are finally blessed with a tailwind and arrive at Croker with 50 minutes to play with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/54346287566\/in\/album-72177720324042224\" title=\"20250213iPhone 14 ProiPhone 14 Pro back triple camera 2.22mm f-2.2IMG_9835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54346287566_24c517101c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"20250213iPhone 14 ProiPhone 14 Pro back triple camera 2.22mm f-2.2IMG_9835\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingenious use of picnic wine glasses to impale them into the ground as an anti wind measure! Pork pies with the obligatory mustard, and a new TNR phrase&#8230;as face like they have licked with mustard spoon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to head down the lumpy field, the softish ground is frosty hard in places but deep tractor ruts and boggy patches make for multiple momentum stopping sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of team co-operation at the gates and before we know it we are amazingly ahead of time on the road at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutton hall nice and warm, and quite busy&#8230;not just us with a voucher to use on it&#8217;s last possible date!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Titanic plum porter is on to our great joy, although El Pres is the turncoat all evening on aforementioned ale. Interrogation of ski trip, the can&#8217;t make it up craziness of the world at present, benefits of merino &#8212; warm, not itchy if you get the decent stuff, but prone to wearing away. Proper ribaldry eventually!  and everyone is in for an AoE whisky at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a36:50 a pint for the porter shocker at the end so just as well we were only on a 3 pint night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/54345403447\/in\/album-72177720324042224\" title=\"20250214DK10IMG_20250214_002453_842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54345403447_76342c8ac6_z.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20250214DK10IMG_20250214_002453_842\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>All available layers donned for the ride home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Alex, Photos by Pete &amp; Butty Crew: El Pres, Slim, PTD, Butty, Dunc, Slim Route: Back Eddisbury lane, &#8220;back entrance&#8221; to Teggs, Front of Teggs descent, Leathers, across the dam &amp; up through the woods to the lane, Hanging Gate, Ridge Hill, Fourways, A54, Croker hill, Hollin lane, Sutton Hall. 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