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

Found a bar one of me, post 6hour enduro of the fort william world cup track. It was a wet race and the granite sand and cement they patch the track with had gone through my waterproofs and armoured under shorts and shorts and underwear and rubbed my ringpiece and sack raw, i had issues with farting and walking for a while afterwards.
As i lived on scronged energy bars i didn't need a dump for a while, but it hurt when the time came.
I would do a smiley face but really it was painfull, hardtailer dosen't always equate to a hard ass :)

No Fuss events, knock out as many runs in 6 hours as possible, in the first race i think they hit 18 it was rejigged later to first to 15 back to back laps.

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Got some SDH stickers somewhere :)

another photoattempt

a photo of a dusty hardtail, lent up against a stack of dual sussers, outside an alpine town bar

Close enuf

Nice, looks like dry weather too.

Everytime i see a dropper seatpost on a hardtail i think "i must find that USE xcr suspension post" got one somewhere, the elastomers might have gone hard by now.......

Did a black run on it today, by accident.

Many features were avoided :( But this probably meant avoiding serious injury :D

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Aha.

Shady chairlifting, no bike hook so bike sits in your lap, don't lean forward, don't look down, don't drop bike :)
And flat pedals with long pins will hurt your tackle.

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Wow looks...crazy

Avoiding serious injury is always good.

Sorry, thats Scotland, Glencoe Mountain upper chair lifts heading for the summit way above where the actual DH tracks are.
The chair lifts are not ment for bikes, some had a sort of hook, you might notice a lack of safety bar across my lap too as the bike kinda got in the way. Glad it was a nice day and not windy :)

I huffed and puffed a bit more, start line behind me, actual summit behind me more, ski lift is a button affair so useless for us.

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Start line view from the heli

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Heliparking Glencoe summit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPoreDpqlik

If there was a rep button, I'd now be pressing it like a motherfucker...

yeaaaa.

Must try and find that on DVD as the spoof rockumentry video for that track is funny.

Anyone familiar with riding around the Chilterns? I'm getting a train to High Wycombe. Any unmissable trails in the area?

Any updates from recent Alps trips?

I'm back in London. Wish I wasn't.

Radness happened

London was shit on toast to return to, apart from the wife, obvs

Aston hill?

Did you leave the alpine dust on the bike ? so it still smells alpine fresh for a while, and the little uplift pass to flap in the wind next time you ride........

The bike will retain the radness and yearn for more, it may punish you for taking it away from proper mountains.

Back in one bit is always good too :)

Hah yes it still has a light dusting of 'the zone' attached to it :)

Might take it to the Surrey hills on Saturday - pedalling up hill be damned

:) happy days

Probably a bit too rad for me. R

Route I stole from Strava was mostly technically uninteresting: lots of double track, too much road for my liking, overall more suited to a cross bike. Good preparation for Big Dog on Saturday though. It also exacerbated the creak to a level that forced me to rebuild the entire bike which seems to have quietened it down, for now.

Also, should anyone be in the market, Specialized Purgatory 29er tyres are (or were, at the weekend at least) available from Cycle Surgery for a mere £18 each.