Mountain Biking

bloodiedathame said:
Just skip that gear. :D
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Haha he managed to mangle it back straight and it seems to be working ok after a quick lap around the block :D

rhysduck said:
How did you manage that?
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They said it could have been changing gears under high torque/low cadence, so grabbing for a gear while pedalling hard.

Obviously this is something I always avoid as it not only sounds bad but can obviously cause something like this! Must just be me being unfit and grabbing for those Eagle gears haha!
 
Off to hamsterly forest for first time this weekend. Anyone know of a good campsite which isn't to strict on noise and staying up late? Maybe a fire as well? Only ones I can find seem rather strict as per the norm. There's an awesome site near bike park wales where the guy put us in the far corner of the field so we could have a fire and stay up late
 
The lads have ridden with Guy before. I’ve only ever had a chat on the trails. He’s a machine! Haha. Should be fun, we were going to do Snowdon but the early start would have been a killer, penning it in later in the year to do and maybe combine it with Penmachno or Marin again for an overnighter.

I can feel a bike upgrade coming on.....
 
Not sure if I'd fancy either on a HT :D

It'll be my first ride back on the HT for over a year this weekend. Going to be an interesting one!
 
Megahurtz400 said:
How’d it go?
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It was tough. Some nice trails and views getting up to the top, took about 2hrs of riding/pushing. Some great track on the tops. Dolly Wagon Pike is the crazy bit of the decent, only managed to ride about 1/3rd of that down. After that it got better, but still bits of walking here and there. 4hrs total for the ride. It’s crossed off the list, I’d do it again but probably just a once a year thing.

Weather was great, views were amazing!
 
Came off (front wheel washed out) on Saturday on a local loop and stopped myself with my arm. Cleaned it all up in the shower after the ride and all was good. Until last night after a shower the Mrs noticed puss dripping from the cuts... Now have half my forearm all covered up. Joy :D

Took the skin clean off in patches. Was fun scrubbing that clean in the shower!
 
rhysduck said:
Came off (front wheel washed out) on Saturday on a local loop and stopped myself with my arm. Cleaned it all up in the shower after the ride and all was good. Until last night after a shower the Mrs noticed puss dripping from the cuts... Now have half my forearm all covered up. Joy :D

Took the skin clean off in patches. Was fun scrubbing that clean in the shower!
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Whereabouts? I went OTB on one of the last corners on the Twrch final descent. Ridden it about 40 times! Moment of madness.
Rode some of the trails on Risca side of the mountain on Sunday. They're awesome! Off back tomorrow to tick off the last couple.
 
Local loop up by me in Nelson. Apparently theres some decent "off piste" stuff around Cwmcarn I need to go look for.

@Muffin` Twrch is Red. Havent been over there for a while due to all the changes. It's really died a death Cwmcarn :(
 
The unofficial trails are better than the official trails!

The Twrch is fully open and so is Y Mynydd. Pedalhounds has just been re-opened and the Cafall is 2/3 opened.
 
Forget cwmcarn its rubbish, as above ride the unofficial trails up there, so so good!

Get yourself over to Wiley, Mynydd Iswlyn, Merthyr Vale, Mountain Ash, anywhere else really!
 
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