Two positive results ??
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I’d see that as a win. ?
You tensed up enough to give yourself cramp??? ?
penguinni
E*POWAH Snack Master
Tollymore, Co Down, N Ireland. Yesterday.
Never had that happen during a ride or that bad. Strange. I guess it was getting on in the day. Did 2 laps of the first trail that was ez to find then that happened on the other trail but it was hard to find and i climbed probably 5km/2000ft above the enterance looking for it looking in every logging road. Came back down and found it up an overgrown logging road with my battery somewhere in the last bar. A bit tired but not bad but that, the pucker factor and the remoteness got in my head and thus my leg. Potassium shortage? Idk. Made it, it went away and was a good trail. Went around a couple sketchy gaps so ill have to go back for a lap or 3 on it soon
Mike D.
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Glad to see you're still making the rockin' world go round... ?
CBSTD
E*POWAH Master
Don’t come riding in the Cairngorms the trails are all dusty, savagely loose, full of stones, you’ll get punctures ,
life is nearly bearable
Yeah ..looks pretty shite..I will give that a miss this year ( ?)..until normal pissing down weather resumes ..hopefully by next year ?
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p.s....lucky b--tard !
pic 6 ..immediately after a wee dram ??
Great feeling though to know you can still make the ladies swoon ...??Let me spin a small yarn...
On Saturday, my wife and I decided to go up to Gisburn Forest for a ride - she would do the Blue and me the Reds (The Eight circuit). Well Bank Holiday traffic meant the motorway was at a standstill so we went across country and saw some lovely parts of rural Lancashire but got to Gisburn OK, if a little longer than anticipated.
My wife says, I've not had much breakfast, lets have the sandwiches now. She packed some for the end of our ride before we set off.
OK, we unload the bikes, go and sit at a picnic table and start on our wholemeal wraps.
I take a bite and my front bridge work (already coming loose) came out completely. So now I have two of my front teeth missing! I turn to show her and there was a little blood. She faints, falls sideways, bangs her head off her bike and knocks herself unconscious!
I'm trying to get her to come round, which she eventually does, not knowing where she is or what happened.
Manage to get her and the bikes back to the car and go back home...
So lost a day's biking and have no front teeth!
Not all lost as the Red Arrows came over on their way back to Scampston from their show at the Isle of Man.
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Went back on Sunday and did Gisburn on my own. Wife still a bit woozy...
Check out the Footage thread for a small excerpt with an innocuous OTB at the end (less than 2 mins)...
Rahr85
E*POWAH Master
Back again... Uh oh ?
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Rahr85
E*POWAH Master
Well I did have to take time off work. How they let 4 of us go to Wales is beyond me after last time ?You could at least look happy about it, some of us are stuck in work!
Did you get flashbacks. Hope you had a good one. 
Hope you had a good one. 
Is that some sort of reverse carrot and stick affair? You put the Fosters in your backpack and ride really fast trying to get away?
So how was your day, we can't take the stress of not seeing a post much longer and hoping it's not from A&E!
I luv it, if I ate cereal.......Is that some sort of reverse carrot and stick affair? You put the Fosters in your backpack and ride really fast trying to get away?
Rahr85
E*POWAH Master
Update: i'm back home and fully alive, my knees took a hammering from all the climbing. ?
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Burnsey
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Just 16 miles before dinner on some great lanes with my son and his non e bike - he smashed it.
Non e-bike ?..hell when you compare the two its like looking at a Ferrari & a Model T Ford ..?
Well done to you both ..
ant0
Active member
A few pics from Cairngorm and Macdui riding out and back from the doorstep last weekend
Single battery, 4% left.
Riding with friends on acoustic bikes, hence the ride time.
Single battery, 4% left.
Riding with friends on acoustic bikes, hence the ride time.
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Looks fantastic ..but that first pic..could you not find something at least a little bit technical ..???
As boulder fields go ..thats right up there !
It will be next year now before we can hope to get up there ( as long as Covid doesnt kick off again ) ..it's been 2years + since I have ventured that way anyway ..really looking forward to visiting on an ebike ..
An ancient spring in the woods :
Put phone back on clamp but didn't tighten properly .. snuck off for a moments relief and watched as the bike fell over into the spring - fortunately landing on the rocks, but the phone fell off and sank ..
By some miracle .. it still works, for now anyway .. so straight after - part of the spring trail ..
Put phone back on clamp but didn't tighten properly .. snuck off for a moments relief and watched as the bike fell over into the spring - fortunately landing on the rocks, but the phone fell off and sank ..
By some miracle .. it still works, for now anyway .. so straight after - part of the spring trail ..
ant0
Active member
Yeah, I definitely prefer riding there on the ebike than the acoustic. And coming down the back of Cairngorm through that boulderfield is never the same, always end up on a different line each time. Past two rides have been in super dry conditions and so so loose ?
Rahr85
E*POWAH Master
there's a line? i'd probably just have to look towards the bottom and hold on. ? When i get my bike up to aberdeen when visiting family i'm going to at least try lochnagar if i can't make it as far as aviemore/cairngorms.
Great group ride up at Kielder today ..the weather could have been better but the company was top notch ..
I didnt record the route and took very few pics ..but here's one or two..
Great meeting you all ..lets do it again soon ..
I didnt record the route and took very few pics ..but here's one or two..
Great meeting you all ..lets do it again soon ..
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