I can imagine what you mean. I experienced a flash flood while driving with a car in Milwaukee.It’s basically a lot of rain over a short period of time (20hrs). It’s not cats’n’dogs rain…it’s more like cows’n’camels.
Another one is expected in a few hours. We get a lot of rain here but 2 in a row. Our streets become rivers.
Mushrooms? Be warned. Nothing to joke about. We had a wet summer and mushrooms are growing all over. Inexperienced people go and pick them, rely on phone apps to identify and eat them. All apps tested did not work well!
Edible if prepared correctly, and hallucinogenic - allegedly Viking Beserkers ate them before going mental. Might be worth eating before trying a triple black DH route . .
It's the only way that I would try a triple black route.
Nice move getting under that felled tree, I can almost hear the curses. Dreading going down to one car but when wife retires in two years that's the plan can't justify the cost even now.Currently down to one working car in the Hodgson household and with my missus needing to use it I can't travel anywhere to ride during the week and the sick one won't get fixed until mid next week ..so I was extremely happy when Wayne said he would travel over to start a ride from my door .
The day started very cold and although not raining the ground conditions were saturated on the first moorland section we started on ...with the forest not much better but hell it was fun ..
Kielder is a large forest (250sq miles )and is still suffering the after affects of Storm Arwen ..with a lot of fallen trees that may never be cleared so it's still a bit of a lottery as to where you can ride ..the first few pics of Wayne are on a section we made passable over a year ago ..
The second batch at Shitlington Crags near the end of the ride.. when the day had turned out as forecast with sunshine & blue skies ..
Really appreciate you coming over mate ..thanks
Only the great big real ugly mudguards work im afraid. As for your rucksack that's disgusting take a week to dry hahaHad a great ride out today with me auld mucca @The Hodge. It started in fine bright sunshine when I left mine on the coast to drive the hour or so to Bellingham, West Northumberland only for the weather to turn to cold, dull, windy and damp. We headed out across very wet and sometimes boggy trails ( makes a bit of a mockery about not washing your Ebike in fear of getting water past certain seals). One thing proved today on our first real Autumn ride is that my recently purchased RRP pro rear mudguard it little more than useless at keeping your ass dry or preventing sleck covering the rear of the bike!
Once into the Forest conditions were a little better
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Neil exiting the gloom of one of the many singletrack routes we navigated. We stopped at the Skipjack half way house on Backaburn Lough for a spot of lunch with a view. Saying that the widow cleaner will be getting the old heave ho seeing the state of the window's
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Had to put the one in with trees and a blue sky as it is bit of a rarity.
Headed out on to open rolling, beautiful West Northumberland hills with the weather doing its best to make the day special
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Then home to clean every thing
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Was a really good impromptu day out in excellent company, cheers mate. Oh thanks for the use of ya shed/changing room.
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Strava stats tho top speed a little ambitious
Haha . This has been off for ages and Simon kept saying I don't get the muddy arse thing of mtb ers so I put it back on a few weeks ago. Not only is it butt ugly but it's twisted tried boiling water but no joy.I’m going to buy one Colin, don’t care what it looks like coz it’s behind me
Did you try setting it with cold water after straightening under the hot?
That's more than a little bit devastating ..especially the loss of life .
Mmm can't remember, I tied it with string though. It doesn't bother me and I wouldn't want to lise the ugliest mudguard top slot. Could do again though
Cold and bleak looking I like a bit of shelter. Saying that I'm off to an exposed bit tomorrow.
We are a small blip on the radar compared to other regions in our area (BC). I estimate that about 2/3rds of our access to trails has been cutoff. Most trails have faired fairly well, that I’ve seen, but the main access roads (3) have acted like funnels and the water erosion was too great.That's more than a little bit devastating ..especially the loss of life .
Fingers crossed you get everything in place to return the landscape back to some kind of normal .
Good luck
Good to have people like you guys! Likely there will be interest by railroad or pipeline companies for prevention measures, a.o. to protect their existing and planned long distance lines from destruction by such events. Maybe local companies could be interested to sponsor private initiatives like you Trail Builders with money or machine power to accelerate rebuilding the areas.
I’m going to buy one Colin, don’t care what it looks like coz it’s behind me
(Re)fitted my mudrocker a few weeks back, which generally works well, but even this wasn’t enough for the North Yorkshire moors yesterday … rode the route from Lordstones I did with some of you guys in mid-August (27 miles, 3600ft) and significant parts of it were a mudfest. A very different and harder ride, but I felt okay at the end so my Covid is (like the mudrocker…) definitely behind meI’m going to buy one Colin, don’t care what it looks like coz it’s behind me
I’m going to buy one Colin, don’t care what it looks like coz it’s behind me
Disgusting(Re)fitted my mudrocker a few weeks back, which generally works well, but even this wasn’t enough for the North Yorkshire moors yesterday … rode the route from Lordstones I did with some of you guys in mid-August (27 miles, 3600ft) and significant parts of it were a mudfest. A very different and harder ride, but I felt okay at the end so my Covid is (like the mudrocker…) definitely behind me
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. Dry wash folk go on about won't clean that.
I think you’re right, a re-think is in the process now because nobody wants to absorb these costs. Our area has been able to deal with exception rains…but not this much, in a short period of time. We all know that it’s not going to get any better.
