Definitely worth checking out with so many challenging trails to ride in Squamish but given a choice, I still prefer my park bike and the chairlift on a hot summer day!So so many trails here. Better than Whistler in some respects. Certainly a longer riding season.
Well worth a stop.
In the days before 1x, I fixed a bent tooth on the big ring using one flat rock as an anvil and a fist sized pebble as the hammer. Then smoothed the edges with a small pebble. Worked a treat for quite a while. Then one day I noticed that the tooth had fallen off! You can see where it used to be in the pic below. The pic is one that I took of a totally worn out ring, positioned in front of its replacement, the work carried out in the car park at Cannock Chase, UK.And this fellow biker's is the correct way to tighten the Bosch chainring.
No fancy socket or torque wrench.
Just a bloody big rock
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If that gentle breeze was all I had to contend with then I would still consider going out for a ride ..Still surprisingly dry, and at 10C very warm for this time of year, so thought a bimble today trying to avoid the worst of the West Sussex mud would be nice. Then saw this which is only 10km from us. - oh, discretion would be the part of valour methinks.
(for the benefit of @The Hodge , SW is where the wind is coming from
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Probably like you …I sing this out loud when I begin my ride on a cold winter morning.
?) ..so the pace was lot quicker than I could have hoped for ..as I climbed steadily towards the summit of Bolts Law it became obvious that the blue sky that started the ride wasn't going to last and sure enough low cloud / fog was what greeted me at the top & beyond to the Rookhope road ..where turning back the reward is a 7km ( in the main) drop back ..fantastic !
I’m not jealous, I’m not jealous, I’m not jealous …ah man, I’m jealous.
Looks like ‘Straya day was nicer than Auckland anniversary day! We had weather giving us all kinds of weathery stuff, while remaining warm enough that we felt like we’d like to be out and about, despite the weather.
. Then I tried to move the bike and realized that rear mech is stucked behind one spoke. I was on fourth gear and was sure that mech is gone, but again, I rotated the wheel little bit backwards and mech pinged back and gears worked perfectly after Posing for you that Grouse Neil . Prefer a Bells ( Afore Ye Go ) myself. Nice winter conditions you got there.Sometimes ( not often mind ) the weather gods work in your favour ..sickened by the fact that Storm Eowyn had torn to shreds our riding plans for yesterday ..I decided last night that fuggit ..I was heading out this morning and looking at the forecast it was going to get worse the longer the day progressed ..
A hard frost welcomed me as I packed the bike & gear into the car at 7.15am in the dark and 1hr 15mins later I was at the trail head in Edmundbyers, Co.Durhan to tackle a Bolts Law there & back ( thankful for the quattro system on my car after turning off onto an un-gritted road which was mainly black -ice after leaving the A68).
Even though the temperature was in the -c's I still wasn't expecting the trail to be anything other than muddy ..but not a bit of it ..frozen solid and the puddles crunchy ice ( is there a better sound while riding a bike
An unexpected treat was being able to ride on top of the trail in places on 3'deep snow ..packed solid ..
One of the best winter rides Ive ever undertaken ..
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Christmas decorations still adorn this tree ( it gets decorated every year ) ..a favourite of a lot of folks standing as it does as the only tree around for miles ..
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The return journey ..
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The famous grouse ..invited me to have a nip from the bottle he had hidden in the Cairn...well it would have been rude not to..
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Cheers fella ..
Actually the snow was the surprise ..I just didn't think there would be that much left ..
..sorry !Oh no I buy Jamesons at least twice a year as they sell half bottles in Tesco. Not had a snowy run this winter but it's not over yet.Actually the snow was the surprise ..I just didn't think there would be that much left ..
You probably won't speak to me again and not being much of a connoisseur..I prefer a Jamesons ( Irish)
11C, wow!
Hairy coos
