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MTB ride 17th Jan - Clumber

Posted by Simon Gaddes on January 18, 2012 at 4:40 AM

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 solid leaving me on the granny ring all evening so I hope I didn’t hold anyone up too much?

The pub conversation twisted about as much as the ride ranging from stressed sleep patterns to Ty’s extraordinary bike know-how so all in all another fine B&DCC evening methinks.

Thanks all.

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2 Comments

Reply Ty Jones
04:02 PM on January 19, 2012 
Was a good ride ,the hard ground kept the pace up i thought, im looking forward to the next one already, thanx go to si.and any one who turned up.
ps. si that wasnt a lump of mud m8,it was rust,try oiling the thing from time to time :-)
Reply Steve Crapper
12:44 PM on January 18, 2012 
Good effort Fingers (i think we will stick with that Nickname this month! )...i reckon there was a bit too much road on this one, which wouldnt have been too bad , but the rest of the trails had a good percentage of fireroad, which as everything was frozen solid felt just like road.
Simon did a great job of hiding the fact that he missed a turn, i didnt know until he owned up at the end..
I did suggest that you could have freed the front mech by finding a warm stream of water from somewhere... a well known fix ! perhaps conditions were just a little too cold !

After feeling great last week, this week i just felt slooooowwwww... a combination of the cold constricting the airways and general fatigue from a lack of sleep
Enjoyed the pub company too !

Blue Bell next week