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16 miler last night up and around Jubilee Tower/Darwen Hill.

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Agreed, If I hadn't already ordered the Heckler that was a very tempting bike.
 
richysgc said:
Today high cup nick in cumbria starting at dufton. Cracking day out and nice decent back into dufton.
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Its been a good few years since Ive been up there Richy ..and never on the route you took ( started Garrigill ) ..
Im interested in the route you took back from High Cup Nick ..would I be right in assuming it was on the bridleway over Murton Fell..skirting Murton Pike ?
Having not ridden that section what is the track like ..grassy ? rocky? highly technical or flowing ?
Also what was the little squiggly loop you did on that section ..I cant work it out from that map ..?
Or have I got the direction wrong and you climbed up from Murton?
Cheers ..
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Yesterday's ride was a test of the Rise's battery.

I set off from the upper barn at Rivington, up to the Pigeon Tower, the Pike and then the gradual climb up to the top of Winter Hill before dropping into Belmont, taking the Witton Weavers Way over to Jubilee Tower and then back again.

Just shy of 3500ft of climbing, 25.9 miles (41.5 km), 1700 kCals and arrived back with less than 20% battery (light was red on the mini switch box - need to log onto bike to see just how low it went). (EDIT: 16% left so good for at least a few more miles!)

Relive video of route...

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The Hodge said:
Its been a good few years since Ive been up there Richy ..and never on the route you took ( started Garrigill ) ..
Im interested in the route you took back from High Cup Nick ..would I be right in assuming it was on the bridleway over Murton Fell..skirting Murton Pike ?
Having not ridden that section what is the track like ..grassy ? rocky? highly technical or flowing ?
Also what was the little squiggly loop you did on that section ..I cant work it out from that map ..?
Or have I got the direction wrong and you climbed up from Murton?
Cheers ..
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i started at dufton mate and cycled upto murton then up towards murton pike and onto high cup nick that way and came straight down to dufton.
However the path up to murton gill from murton side isnt too bad, its a fire road most of the way which made an easy enough climb, could see it been abit slippery in the wet though and its quite steep.

Damn your keen eye though, that little squiggly loop was me going in the wrong direction and ended up having to push the bike back to the track ???
 
richysgc said:
i started at dufton mate and cycled upto murton then up towards murton pike and onto high cup nick that way and came straight down to dufton.
However the path up to murton gill from murton side isnt too bad, its a fire road most of the way which made an easy enough climb, could see it been abit slippery in the wet though and its quite steep.

Damn your keen eye though, that little squiggly loop was me going in the wrong direction and ended up having to push the bike back to the track ???
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Cheers for the reply Richy ..that made me laugh..?
Will have to give that a try sometime ?
 
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