Road Rides/Races

bare hills man. i wouldnt like to do it fixed.

pussy,
only riding back tho and most of thats downhill,
me and craig went to dunnemassey instead and played frisbee it was cool,
we got asked by a drunk man if we were in tour de france and another warned us "dont go that way, a faggot lives down there"!

buxton soon tho fo sho

that blue place really exist near mcr!? id be up for a nice ride there or back?

Manc to Alton Towers
For profiles, click Show --> Elevation Profiles

The laney way, 800m of climb, 55 miles (plus some for wrong turns)
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Manc-to-Alton-Towers-1

The Buxton hilly way, 1200m of climb 50 miles
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Manc-to-Alton-Towers-2

IIRC, the short drop down to buxton at 39km is savage, though it don't look it on the profiles. If you're brakeless then you'd prob have to walk, skid stop the whole way down, or pick up fuck loads of speed and wipeout towards the bottom, braking with your face.

for some reason i'd say let's go with the first one...we'd have to set off earlier than usual to go on all the rides..there's a train back isn't there?

8 miles to Uttoxeter.
Trains at 6pm, 7pm and last at 8pm. Change at Stoke on Trent

15 miles to Stoke on Trent
Frequent back to Manc, trains until 10.55pm

Oh BTW I'm in wales this weekend so another w/e would be good for me.

yeah it will have to be after the festival anyway

think i'm up for an alton towers trip, get my audax bike in the post soon so should be looking to put some miles on it. can't do weekend of may 9th but weekend after next would be cool, on the saturday.

Are there any bogof / half price entry kinda vouchers around that you get from sprite bottles or the sun newspaper yet this year?

What audax bike you getting snoops?

£30 to get in :(

Anyone else heard that there's a public footpath "ramber's rights" / "public right of way" thing that runs into the park and you can apparently just wander in? I remember it as a kinda kids urban myth, but could be true.

oh it's nowt special, an old dawes giro audax i picked up off ebay cheap. i just want to go put some distance on it, if it's in good running order.

sure aint pretty, it'll be my hack bike, got 14 gears. £30 seem reasonable?

Got a decent range of gears has it ? Mate once lent me a Dawes Giro 300 7 speed, had a 12-19 block IIRC making hills bleeding hard work.

if you call 14 decent range? or do you mean the GI of each gear? not a clue tbh, arrives next few days though.

Aye - looks to have a reasonable spread at the back, so you should be OK for a few hills. Looks a nice bike, downtube shifters too, love 'em.

purty...me and bilesy are off cycling round Anglesey on the weekend you suggest (the first weekend of may..the end of dissertation and the festival!!!) so maybe the week after that..or the week after that!!!

yep, just name it and i'll crack open the vintage lycra.

whooop!

£30 to get in :(

Anyone else heard that there's a public footpath "ramber's rights" / "public right of way" thing that runs into the park and you can apparently just wander in? I remember it as a kinda kids urban myth, but could be true.

it is true! i have never done it but a couple of my mates used to go all the time, i think you have to climb a fence but its easy (aparantly)

yep, just name it and i'll crack open the vintage lycra.

did someone say vintage lycra? I'm there.

woohoo, dawes arrived this morning. It's in much better nick than i expected, brakes need a service but gears run smooth, wheels are true, tyres are good. One tiny ding in the top tube and i need a 10cm stem instead of the 12 on there. £30 well spent imo.

i have some look pedals now for sale if anyone needs? will swap for a 10cm black quill and some bar tape...

I noticed that yesterday in the craigslist/ebay thread. £30 is a fucking bargain.

there's a road bike for sale for 280. it's illuminous yellow and is always locked outside 8th day...pm me if you want it

nes, where are you planning on going this Saturday?

no ride today then...and i am away next week...people around the week after??? might be going to oxford...when can we get our lycra out????

Week after next ? Maybe do that Rivington one you posted up.

Nes u still up for Oxford? we need to get peeps to go!