BathMTB: RR 8.2.12 Farewell Aileen (for a while)

Thu Feb 9 18:42:56 EST 2012

Hey all

Great ride....just like they always are. A few reminiscing moments but hard
to feel too sad when your feet are frozen solid and you are counting days to
20 CJ

Looks like I will be back the week of the 21st May and will try keep that
wed free for a ride.

If any one does fancy a farewell pint, I'm convening a few people at
chequers pub for a drink at around 6ish (tomorrow, Friday). Otherwise, see
ya in May

Now you can all just go back to being boys....

Keep warm,

Aileen

Aileen Anderson

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From: Justin Woods [mailto:justinwoods29 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2012 21:52
To: bathmtb at mtb-oz.com
Subject: Re: BathMTB: RR 8.2.12 Farewell Aileen (for a while)

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:

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.

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.

Kevin

Kevin Boyd

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From: DES ESCIT-SSS AS (Stewart, Andrew C1) [mailto:DESESCIT-SSSAS at mod.uk] 
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)

Cheers Tony :-) 

(I can't access Facebook from work unfortunately)

RR 8.2.12:

Aileen, Andy, Ben, Kevin, Justin.

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 :-)

I managed to lock myself out without my light so we rode out Lansdown way
via my place to pick it up.

>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?)

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."!

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.

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.. ? 

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..

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'.

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 :-)

Final descent back down off Prospect Stile down the tarmac Dean Hill Lane.

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!).

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 :-)

O/O

Andy

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From: T Solon [mailto:tjsolon1 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2012 09:34
To: Watson, Ben (UK - England); bathmtb at mtb-oz.com
Subject: Re: BathMTB: Someone remind me how the email list works?

Sorry, link didn't paste in properly from FB, its:

http://mtb-oz.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/bathmtb

/T

From: T Solon <mailto:tjsolon1 at hotmail.com>  

Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:23 AM

To: Watson, Ben (UK - England) <mailto:Ben.Watson at eu.jll.com>  ;
bathmtb at mtb-oz.com 

Subject: Re: BathMTB: Someone remind me how the email list works?

Mailing List instructions, as per the Info section of our Facebook group are
as follows:

"We have a mailing list. 
To subscribe go to: http://mtb-oz.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/...
To Post send email to: bathmtb at mtb-oz.com"

/T

From: Andy Stewart <mailto:analogueandy at yahoo.co.uk>  

Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 5:40 PM

To: Watson, Ben (UK - England) <mailto:Ben.Watson at eu.jll.com>  ;
bathmtb at mtb-oz.com 

Subject: BathMTB: Someone remind me how the email list works?

Is it the same as topica i.e email 'subscribe' as the title?

Anyone know and can help Ben out?

Andy

From: "Watson, Ben (UK - England)" <Ben.Watson at eu.jll.com>
To: "analogueandy at yahoo.co.uk" <analogueandy at yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 9:11
Subject: Tonights Ride

Hi Andy,

I should be there tonight, however do you know how I sign up to the mailing
list?

Ben

Ben Watson

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