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Anybody in the UK?
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride
sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year |
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David Waters wrote:
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Your best bet would be the whatmtb.co.uk forums or the bikemagic forums - They organise quite a few get together type rides in there. Whereabouts in NW England by the way? R |
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David Waters wrote:
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Link up with the Bogtrotters, there's a contact on http://www.bogtrotters.org/index.php Just to look at their photo gallery gets the heart pumping, well it does that to me |
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David Waters wrote:
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Bogtrotters Programme This Wednesday evening - Rivington - Easy Saturday morning - Grizedale - with the Venture Scouts - thats got to be Easy Just what you need to build fitness and refresh skills. |
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:54:43 +0000, David Waters wrote:
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Amongst the other suggestions, try the forum at singletrackworld.com |
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dardruba wrote:
David Waters wrote: Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Bogtrotters Programme This Wednesday evening - Rivington - Easy Saturday morning - Grizedale - with the Venture Scouts - thats got to be Easy Just what you need to build fitness and refresh skills. good call. am hooking up with them tomorrow! They seem like a right friendly bunch. |
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dardruba wrote:
David Waters wrote: Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Bogtrotters Programme This Wednesday evening - Rivington - Easy Saturday morning - Grizedale - with the Venture Scouts - thats got to be Easy Just what you need to build fitness and refresh skills. Hi David I've just read your Ride Report (Crash Report) on Sundays trip to the Peak District. And there was me proposing you take an 'Easy' ride with the Bogtrotters Their next Sunday and Wednesday rides are in the Borrowdale area of the Lake District, they sound like more suitable outings for you, and you can enjoy the scenery as you walkout after your next crash !! Best of Luck, Mike |
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On 2006-06-17, David Waters wrote:
Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year If you're round Manchester Bike Shack in Altrincham used to coordinate rides. -- Tim. |
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dardruba Wrote:[color=blue] dardruba wrote: Hi David I've just read your Ride Report (Crash Report) on Sundays trip to the Peak District. And there was me proposing you take an 'Easy' ride with the Bogtrotters Their next Sunday and Wednesday rides are in the Borrowdale area of the Lake District, they sound like more suitable outings for you, and you can enjoy the scenery as you walkout after your next crash !! Best of Luck, Mike Having looked at their website, I think that their moderate rides are probably at about the right level for me. I am going to go on one or two easy rides to get my face known and to make sure that i am not jumping in too deep! -- davebee |
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"dardruba" wrote in message ... David Waters wrote: Particularly in the north west that fancies meeting up for a ride sometime? I ride XC but am lacking a bit of fitness at the moment as work has caught up with me and I have not been able to get out yet this year Link up with the Bogtrotters, there's a contact on http://www.bogtrotters.org/index.php Just to look at their photo gallery gets the heart pumping, well it does that to me Nice link... You guys have some "big stones". I lived in New Mexico (USA) during the 70's. We used to get cycling magazines from the UK before US publications became popular. We were really intrigued by several articles on "Rough Stuffing" - riding off paved roads on dirt roads, tracks and trails in the UK. The folks were riding slightly modified road bikes with big clinchers and cantilever brakes. During a road race in 1975 a friend and I got dropped really badly by the pack on a climb up a 3850 meter (12,600 ft.) mountain. We gave up on chasing the pack and turned onto a dirt road. We kept riding and eventually the road turned into a single track. We ended up riding all the way to the top of the mountain on a dirt trail with road silks and gears. My friend owned a bike shop and I managed it. We were importing European cyclo cross bikes with long wheel bases, relaxed angles and cantilever brakes but had never tried them off road. We sold them for use as touring bikes. I was also building frames at the time. During the next week we put together some off road bikes and took them out that weekend. That was the start of our love for off road bicycling. My friend continued riding a cyclo cross bike with dropped bars. I built a lugged frame that was similar to early commercial models that came out during the 80's. I also opted for upright bars with some motor cycle components. We rode cyclo cross sewups on soft surfaces and I used some cheap Wolber 700 x 35C commuter bike tires for rougher rocky trails. Over the next 4-5 years we road all over the mountains in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. I ended up in Northern California working as a manufacturing engineer in metal working and machining. I had connections with many of the frame and component builders in the area. I still ride a lugged Reynolds 531 frame with 700Cs that I built about 10-12 years ago. Getting back to the original post, here's a quote from the link for the Rough-Stuff Fellowship (RSF) below: "The history of the RSF goes way back to its foundation in 1955, long before anyone had ever heard of Marin County. It was formed by cyclists who wanted to get away from roads and cycle on tracks, and byways. Bikes then were a world away from their modern-day counterparts. Steel frames, no suspension, no V-brakes and gearing to make your hair curl." http://www.rsf.org.uk/index.htm So in part, US mountain biking owes part of it's heritage to the UK! Chas. |
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