Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

Anything further south, 7stanes, Cumbria, Peak District (probably too many walkers there though)...?

What's this for?

There are pubs at Derwent and Langsett... they're pretty useful...

:)

'97 kili team, it had all the original (except shifters and brake levers) stuff off it before putting that on, most of it was knackered and I'll use it more like this. It's well fun now though.

My first proper mountain bike was a Saracen LE 7005 alu frame, rigid with Zmax tyres and a proper bin end parts list...... i think they did a stock take and made the LE to use up overstock parts. Also mid-late 90's when high end Saracens where around 2k.
I am sure i see my old bike around town even now :)

My first was a'98 rufftrax, which was one of their cheap ones but makes me like this more. Picked up the whole bike for £15 a couple of years ago, used it for a bit but it needed mostly new everything.

Was ruff trax the base model and Tuff above that..... so long ago..... i remember the fuss over the base model frame actually having a butted seat-tube in the frame and for £199

I think ruff was steel and tuff was ali maybe?

For those interested in developing your offroad skills game the following videos from Richard Kelly of B1ke in the Surrey Hills are damn good:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrhHPwBiZnsTQEX76mthbxj3UPbsFKyiJ

Just ordered a Genesis Latitude 20 for the Strathpuffer and general blasting around my local trails.

So excited to try a 'modern' MTB after riding the ancient rigid Rockhopper!

It's going to be a total fucking revelation for you.
You know that famous scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the ape throws a bone and suddenly, Bam!, interplanetary spaceship?

Yep.

Haha, so stoked!

First ride out....go easy on the front brake..... disc brakes work really really well, even more so when bedded in and set up. :)

I missed the whole v-brake thing years ago (bought some in recent years) went straight from canti's to discs....... my word..... wet weather stopping power.

Off to the Alps in a week. Travel insurance sorted. Full-face, goggles, body armour bought.

Excited and nervous in equal measure.

Lucky, lucky, lucky bastard....

I just came back from a week In morzine, awesome.

Ok will do. I'm still on cantis on the Rockhopper too so it's going to be night and day!

Sorry @t_w!

I won't be far from Morzine, @Alkali - just over that bumpy bit in Chatel, near the other bumpy bit.

Chatel is generally full of big stuff, your lift pass will get you all over the area, If you can clear the big table under the Zore lift then you're a better man than I

I'll be taking it easy. The sky is not my natural habitat.

I'm also on my Orange Gyro, so perhaps not the best thing to be launching into the sky...

New trails opened today at Lady Cannings' Plantation near the Norfolk Arms on Ringinglow, Sheffield.

@sparky

Mine neither, but despite this I was still eventually able to clear each table on the Blue trail just off to the left at the top Of Zore.

There's a hell of a lot of different types of riding terrain in the area. Some of the XC is a bit poorly marked but take one of the free maps and you'll be fine.

Again, off the top of Zore lift but to the right as you exit there's a wicked rooty devil, it runs parallel to a bermy swoop-fest which I saw 30+ very animated Italian men being passionate on.

Have a good trip

I saw 30+ very animated Italian men being passionate on

euph?

Thanks fella! Will report back.