BathMTB: RR 8.2.12 Farewell Aileen (for a while)

[Justin Woods]

Amazing amount of grip when the mud freezes, so much more than even the
driest summers day. The pace did feel quick, it also seemed like a lot of
climbing, best of all was the freezing wet stream we walked seemed to go on
forever! Last time I say "we'll just follow you Andy".

Good luck in SA Aileen hope all goes well, see you in 3 months.

J


On 9 February 2012 13:26, Boyd, Kevin <Kevin.Boyd at uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:

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> Was a very nice ride, but jez was I cold when I got home. Due to my
> completely frozen front mech had no shifting for the last 4 miles or so
> with that I got back to the car about 9.20…..ok not quite 9.45.****
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> Best of luck Aileen, send some pics of that hot dry MTB world of South
> Africa, sorry about not going to the pub but it really wasn’t the night for
> it.****
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> *Sent:* 09 February 2012 13:05
> *To:* bathmtb at mtb-oz.com; Watson, Ben (**UK** - ****England****)
> *Subject:* BathMTB: RR 8.2.12 Farewell Aileen (for a while)****
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> Cheers Tony :-) ****
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> (I can’t access Facebook from work unfortunately)****
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> RR 8.2.12:****
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> Aileen, Andy, Ben, Kevin, Justin.****
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> Lovely frozen trails for a second week running, good company, nice (fast?)
> pace and some beautiful views of lit up cities. What night riding is for :-)
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> I managed to lock myself out without my light so we rode out Lansdown way
> via my place to pick it up.****
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> From mine we did the Stokes Lane (steep off-road) climb up to Prospect
> Stile – trails were nice and grippy and amazingly we all cleared it (first
> time ever?)****
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> I’ve gave everyone a couple of route options and the answer was ‘we’ll
> follow you’ so we did a mix of stuff we’ve not done for a while including
> the steep stream bed up to Northstoke as a climb..About half-way up that
> there were mutterings about “Remember we said we’d follow you…”!****
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> At the top of the descent into Swineford we met a guy (Chris) coming up on
> a Gary Fisher full-sus 29er and stopped for a bit of a chat.****
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> Led to a debate across the badly trampled (most unrideable) field to the
> stile at Swineford about the benefits of 29ers over 26ers. Aileen pointed
> out that most of the top X-terra riders are now on them.. of their own
> choice.. ? ****
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> Aileen wanted to be back for 9-ish. About half way round Kevin was
> convinced we’d be back at ‘about 9.45’ so I bet him it’d be 9:03..****
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> We later met Chris again with a bust light bracket and helped him out
> which held us up a bit. He gave me a couple of tips about new routes that
> could be worth exploring, including the intriguingly named ‘Granny’s Steps’.
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> Super fast drop back down the climb we’d earlier come up back into North
> Stoke, Ben and Justin creating a dust cloud even. Beautiful fast trails.
> Cold not so bad as long as you wrap up well – no such thing as too cold
> just wrong clothing I think Justin said :-)****
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> Final descent back down off Prospect Stile down the tarmac ****Dean Hill
> Lane****.****
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> Stopped at the bottom to split off: Time 09:06. So I was 3 minutes late
> (ok, the rest of them had to ride into town then!).****
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> So, farewell Aileen for a while.. no pub stop to say farewell but she’s
> back in May for a week or so, and we promised another ‘send off’ then. In
> the meantime she promised to send us pics of the Yeti being ridden around
> The Cape in 30 degree heat just to rub it in :-)****
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> Andy****
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> *From:* Andy Stewart <analogueandy at yahoo.co.uk> ****
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 08, 2012 5:40 PM****
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 9:11
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