Mountain Biking
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I had a horrible moment coming down a firmly packed track at 28mph yesterday, clay/mud/gravel mixed track. Hit a big muddy patch, bike started to squirm around, how I managed to stay on is anyone's guess.
The most stupid part of this though is that, hand on heart, I think I was only doing that particular segment to hunt down a Strava top 10.
The most stupid part of this though is that, hand on heart, I think I was only doing that particular segment to hunt down a Strava top 10.
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Descent was interesting!
This was the first time I'd ridden my bike in about a year so it was quite the introduction.
We walked up Llanberis path and went down Rangers.
A lot of the descent was fun, very technical rocky stuff, made more entertaining with it being snowy to about halfway.
I had to get off a fair few times to push down bits, either due to walkers or just because it was too difficult for an average at best biker like me.
Would I do it again? If I could get an uplift then yes, but the push up was an absolute killer!!
This was the first time I'd ridden my bike in about a year so it was quite the introduction.
We walked up Llanberis path and went down Rangers.
A lot of the descent was fun, very technical rocky stuff, made more entertaining with it being snowy to about halfway.
I had to get off a fair few times to push down bits, either due to walkers or just because it was too difficult for an average at best biker like me.
Would I do it again? If I could get an uplift then yes, but the push up was an absolute killer!!
Came in to post course preview 
Can't wait, in work sadly. So will have to sit outside to try and get wifi for Sundays race!
Nope Saturday - still the same though. That looks DRY. Bet it ****es it down for the weekend
Can't wait, in work sadly. So will have to sit outside to try and get wifi for Sundays race!
Nope Saturday - still the same though. That looks DRY. Bet it ****es it down for the weekend
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Why didn't you ride up, like you should?
I think I've only been up snowdon once, and I got the train.
Hah! The bottom half was probably rideable if you're super fit - I'm not!
I'd recommend the train myself!
My Boardman with a whopping 62 miles on it went in for a new bottom bracket today. Covered under warranty but it has got me a bit twitchy about its durability. My bottom of the range GT was faultless for well over a decade bar a bottom bracket at 6 years old when I dropped it to the hubs in sloppy mud!
Could be sloppy assembly?
No idea. When I was reading reviews on it there were a worrying number who had issues with the bottom bracket. Oh well, it is being sorted FOC so no harm no foul bar a bit of inconvenience.
Rode Gisburn on Wednesday, glorious sunny day but I'm still aching! Damn that place tires you.
Hilarious moment on the long log skinny in the trees, where my mate lost his balance... and interfaced his undercarriage with his saddle!
(much pain, but no serious damage. Had to stifle the laughing)
Hilarious moment on the long log skinny in the trees, where my mate lost his balance... and interfaced his undercarriage with his saddle!
(much pain, but no serious damage. Had to stifle the laughing)We decided not to ride Snowdon and did Coedy, The Beast instead. Looks like we made the right decision
Rangers is pretty sketchy in places but mostly rideable if you stay off the brakes. Once you lose momentum it's game over.
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Yup, the red loop is a figure of 8, but unlike Hamsterly it's pretty much all technical trail, so although it's ~22km, it does take it out of you.
Play spots include: The Hope Line, the quarry just after the Hope line, Whelpstone crag (slab descent), Dragon's Teeth, Hully gully, and then the loop re-takes you back to the bottom of the climb to the Hope line, if you've still got energy left!