BathMTB: Ride Report 1.2.12 and ride this Sat 9am from Cadenc e

[Steve Gallagher]

Not riding this weekend road or trail, fair play for heading out on Wed, it's so freaking cold…

Steve



On 3 Feb 2012, at 1:47 pm, Boyd, Kevin wrote:

Brings a whole new meaning to the term skating on thin ice or should that be skating on thin sh!t……

Yes indeed I followed a slightly different path over the field, was doing ok too when the ice crust gave way, my front wheel sank 6 inches throwing me over the bars. Alas as my hands and right foot hit the frozen slop they also broke the frozen top resulting in me sinking up to my forearms and shin in very cold smelly cow sh!t.

Needless to say there was much laughing, at my expense I feel.

I may well have stank but at least I did not get wet, so no frost bite. It was so cold it all froze within 15 minutes so the smell calmed down a little.

Unfortunately by the time I had driven home in a nice warm car all the frozen ‘bum curry’ was melting all over my car…….yum

Smell you later………

Kevin

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Sent: 03 February 2012 13:04
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Subject: BathMTB: Ride Report 1.2.12 and ride this Sat 9am from Cadence


Hello all,

Slightly delayed ride report from Weds:

Andy, Ben, Chris, Dave, Henry, Kevin, Richard

Armadillo Trails – crunchy on the outside, soft underneath. Like hardpack with some ‘give’ in it.

Rode up the old Foxhill to Combe Down, along Sheppards Walk (the singletrack path that comes out on the main road near the Cross Keys), a bit of road and then the descent across the fields down into Midford.

It used to be a fanatic fast swoopy descent with jumps over grassy mounds. We did it once last year and it was bad. This time it was worse. Incredibly badly trodden. Super deep mud under the thin frosty crust.. as Kevin found out.. I’ll let him explain for those who weren’t there. Suffice to say we might have a contender for crash of the year already!!

>From there we did the loop around the top of the fishing lake (the off-camber singletrack) then more singletrack along the old canal into Midford.

Elected to do the road climb up to Lympley Stoke corner then a bit of the main road to get along to Pipehouse.

As some may have read on the facebook page Pipehouse has been re-surfaced!! Tonnes of type 1 material dumped on top of the rocks and steps from bank to bank and rolled flat. Must have been done a few months ago as it has already become severely rutted in places already.

Ben hit one rut, or possibly a sharp rock?, and got a double pinch flat near the top (trying to keep up with Rich who was on the front). Took a while to fix his flats as his spare was holed too (another prize winner?).

Richard and Chris (who rode down to tell him) wondered what had happened to us.

>From the bottom of Pipehouse we headed along the old railway line to the Tucking Mill viaduct, down the steps and onto the Lane.

Along to Monkton Combe and up the steps.

Ben was stuck in middle and nearly cleared it (I got in the way) and Dave I think cleared it with one or two ‘hand’ dabs.

Through Rainbow Woods along to the Uni. Amazing contrast with last week, the mud was frozen nicely.

Did the ‘round the back’ descent through the woods down to Dry Arch (the main road) (same as last week). Dropped down to the canal and into town for a pint.

Top ride. Not many opportunities to ride ‘frosty’ trails…

But here’s another: this weekend is the ‘first Saturday of the month’ so the plan is to ride from Cadence at 9am and do some Lansdown Loops finishing back at the café opposite Cadence to join the roadies at about 11:30. I know Aileen, Kevin, Chris and Dave can’t make it so I might be on my own though! Unless some of the roadies fancy a ‘safe’ off-road ride instead of risking icy patches and bad driving on the roads????

Andy





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