Bolsover & District Cycling Club

A tale of 2 falls

Jon Wardle and myself braved the wintry conditions to head round the Kitchner circuit at the Pines. After a bit of faffing from me (I got lost trying to get into the pines- its amazing how different it looks in the snow!) we headed down the hill to join the service road. cruising along chatting away suddenly Jon hit the deck. He was okay but we suddenly realised the road was like glass and proceeded with caution as any deviation saw the bike...

Congratulations to Steve on taking club honours as number one rider in the NDCXL competition. The snow started as five of us - Steve, Craig, Alan, Martin and myself - headed to the start line of the final race in this year's contest. Steve clearly had it in mind that he wanted to demonstrate that he deserves the honours and did so by badgering The Badger for a number of laps; he sat on his wheel and jumped him from behind - they really are the best of friends.... - off the last bend, sprint...

I decided that I'd missed a couple of outside rides recently that I was going to spiralling Thursday no matter what (Well almost) - but as it was dry I could always dress against the cold. huh

Paul, Bob, Dean, Myself and one other set out from the offices at 6 and split into 2 groups fairly quickly, we were due to do three laps and so paced our selves a little on the first, Although, after setting out 7 minutes after us Lee caught us up by the Mast on Oxcroft - Fantastic effort. It was ...

You would have expected that the combination of the plans to take an extension on our usual Rivelin ride out into hard man territory of the Strines and up to Langsett Cafe , together with sub zero temperatures and snow clearly visible on the peaks would have severly effected turn out on this ride.

Not so at all...

Twelve riders turned up at the Blue Bell, Me , simon Travell, Lee Hyson, Paul Chapman, Alex Whiting, Graham Whiting , Conor McGuigan, Dan Booth , Nick Clark, Bil...

Yet again the Badger picked a great day for a little trundle in the Peak District. It was cold, dry and sunny with a dusting of snow higher up. Unfortunately this made some of the climbs on this ride harder than normal. Sorry guys!

Five of us met at the car park in Millers Dale. Simon Gaddes, Ty Jones, Tony Patterson, Dave (Tony's mate from Worksop) and myself. After a bit of chat and bike adjustment we set off down the road towards Litton Mill. We then hit the first climb of the day up...

Three of us set out this Tuesday Paul, Ian and Myself, and with the absence of Lee it was up to Paul to take over in the talking department. Good ride never the less - As I was running Late Paul and Ian met me at my house and from there we picked our ride - which - as many of you will know who have been with the Tuesday ride before, bore absolutely no resemblance to the route actually taken. For a start we were to ride to Pleasley, however a quick decision later and we were turning and headin...

This course at Draycott farm was a new venue for the NDCXL. The circuit was predominately through some farmers fields that were on a hillside. The long Eaton Velo club has managed to squeeze every bit of the available features to make the course interesting which included some tricky wooded sections and of course the steep hill side. The course offered almo...

Bloody tough ride...

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The temperature had been reading minus 3 in the Carburton valley all day so it was one of those ‘shall I wear three layers or four’ nights.

I even brought gloves just in case!

To the sound of Teat owls echoing in the woods Steve, Scott, Jon, new members Ty and Mark and I set off on to the frozen hard Clumber trails. We all seemed to get a buzz from the twists and turns of the trail, even Clumber security came and said hello!

Mud on my front mech had frozen soli...

Although tonight was very chilly with a dash of frost here and there myself,Paul&Mark risked a quick 25ish miles (my Cateye doesn't like the cold and wouldn't work even with a new battery !! ).

We decided a decently lit route would be the safest option so we went from Bolsover to Cuckney,Church Warsop,Shirebrook,Pleasley,Houghton,Hillstown and then finished along a very frosty Oxcroft Lane to drop Mark off ( i expected a slide at anytime but thankfully all ...

What a great turnout for our first peak MTB ride. The sun was shining and 10 riders met at the Curbar Gap car park. I was joined by Simon Gaddes, Martin Young, Bob Smith, Scott Ellis plus a mate, Conor McGuigan with his 2 mates Nick and Chris and new club member Ty Jones. Apologies to Scott's mate for forgetting his name.

We set off along the top of Baslow edge, dodging people and horse riders. Bloody sunshine brings out the crowds! We then dropped down below the edge for a great bit of...

Although rather chilly and white over with frost it was a cracking ride today.

I met up with Ian,Mark and Paul at 10am at the cenptaph (no sign of any other 10am riders!!) and we headed out through Langwith,Church Warsop,Sherwood Pines,Wellow,Clumber Park(cafe stop),Carburton,Norton crossing,Elmton,Clowne and Bolsover which chalked up about 46miles.

Myself and Paul tagged on a cheeky spiral lap to make 56miles in total.

At times it was bitter cold...(e...

Despite Simons careful calculations to make sure that this week’s ride was to start from the Black Horse at Whaley, to take advantage of the free chips on offer after their pool tournament, i managed to balls this up by announcing it was to start from the Horse & Groom.

Georgia, Luke, Aaron, Joel, Fraser and Rory made up the little gang for our inaugural kids ride of 2012. Judging by the way the Dads (Martin, Conor, Steve and I)  were banished to a separate table by happy kids in the cafe afterwards the Blue route ride of a little under 2 hours was a success. True to form Mr C stamped his usual competitive spirit by sitting his lot on cyclo cross bikes which they handled with ease and equally true to form my two had the heaviest MTB's I could find. Luke...

The twitter buzz around this race suggested it would be a mud fest , and they werent wrong.

Another big field had cut up the course considerably during wanrm up, and it was certainly very muddy. Under normal circumstances this would not be so much of a problem, but as the day was warm , and as the mud began to lose some moisture it developed into something more akin to glue

A glue that decided to seize up both your wheels , and just so that carrying wasnt an easy option, double th...

Clowne Cricket club saw a few fresh faces mount the Turbo Trainers this week...several of the previous weeks riders were absent.

I am confident that this is due to family pressures and not that the pain of the session has scared them away. Mark Renshaw in particular had a good excuse as it was his Birthday !

Instead, Andy Wagstaff returned for more , joined by Simon Travell, John Albanese and new member Nick Clark...

With these additional faces im hopeful that next week we s...

I slept fitfully the night before ,listening to the howling wind trying to outdo my double glazing and the hammer of driving rain outside.

At 8am my thumb hovered over the send button on a group SMS intended to kill the ride, but then the weather seemed to ease a little...the "get out and ride" devil victorious in a battle over the "daytime TV" devil on my shoulder

As the wife was working, kids were ejected at my mothers and i drove over to the Pines , to park up alo...

After a bit of bike carrier shuffling at MBS's house we set off for Cannock. MBS, Big Kev, Mik Shields (rides with Nonna's in Sheff) and myself were looking forward to pristine weather and a great ride. My back was playing up from X box kinetic the night before but strong painkillers and excitment got me to the start line.

We geared up quickly and set off as MBS was on a tight time scale. From the off it was a bit skittish under the tyres (well thats what me and MBS thought). The compa...

So having been promised 4 or 5 pubs, and a nice ride out into the Peal I dragged myself out of bed to ride up carr Lane to the meet point for 9.30.  Nice to see 6 others there,  Steve, Simon, Lee H, Paul, Mark, Ian .  Plan was to ride out to the cafe at Braithwell,  I say it like I know it,  but never ever been that way self propelled I believed the others.  Pace was decent,  I had 50 Peak miles yesterday but hung on ok.  Nice to chat with everyone on t...