A Linacre Re-mix due to the Chesterfield marathon.
Ride Date: 20/09/2015
Distance: 25 miles
Climbing: 2900ft
Route: Baslow>Curbar>Sheepskulls>Cartledge>Shillito
Riders : Jake, Matt, Deley, Howard, Basil & Liam
This was planned to be a ride based on last years Linacre loop, However due to Chesterfield Marathon we had to make a last minute change & moved the start to Baslow. Everyone got the new plan, with one exception, however this time he got the start time right, but failed to remember Chesterfield was on lockdown.
Anyway, on with the ride. This one as is generally the case, started with a brisk warm up climb, this time we left a very foggy Baslow and climbed for 2 miles up onto Baslow Edge, there was a minor pause half way up for a bit of tweakage on Deley's brakes, many hands made light work and we were soon off again. as we reached the top of the climb we were met with the most stunning temperature inversion across the valley and fantastic blue skies above us.
After lots of photo taking we set off again along Curbar edge where the views got even better, the riding itself was superb with the trail along the edge being bone dry and fast, plenty of grins by the time we got to the road at Froggatt. A short amount of tarmac then a swing of to the left and the not unpleasant climb up past the hunting lodge and them onto the bridleway over Totley Moor, we did take a slight wrong turn and missed out the walled descent, however we still managed a quick blast on Sheep Skulls. We then hit the nice fast, Horsleygate Lane bridleway bridleway, before the excellent & famous Cartledge descent, it was superb as usual. A short link up BW took us out on to the road at Barlow.
Coming out of Barlow, we dropped onto another BW, this time one that had unfortunately been sanitised by the fun police at Derbyshire County Council since last time Matt had ridden it. This led us to a gruelling off road climb up to the main road & at 18 miles in a few were starting to flag a bit. time for a quick drink and energy boost, then off again heading back towards Baslow Edge via Shillito Woods (Moist), I think a few had some "incidents" along the edge of the woods, but details are sketchy.
The rest of the ride was incident free as we made our way along baslow Edge, negotiating a healthy group of large Highland Cattle. This just left a descent at speed back down into Baslow.
A good ride all in despite the last minute change, I probably preferred it to the previous ride from Linacre & well ridden by everyone, being 25 miles it was a fair bit longer than our usual Sunday rides.
Distance: 25 miles
Climbing: 2900ft
Route: Baslow>Curbar>Sheepskulls>Cartledge>Shillito
Riders : Jake, Matt, Deley, Howard, Basil & Liam
This was planned to be a ride based on last years Linacre loop, However due to Chesterfield Marathon we had to make a last minute change & moved the start to Baslow. Everyone got the new plan, with one exception, however this time he got the start time right, but failed to remember Chesterfield was on lockdown.
Anyway, on with the ride. This one as is generally the case, started with a brisk warm up climb, this time we left a very foggy Baslow and climbed for 2 miles up onto Baslow Edge, there was a minor pause half way up for a bit of tweakage on Deley's brakes, many hands made light work and we were soon off again. as we reached the top of the climb we were met with the most stunning temperature inversion across the valley and fantastic blue skies above us.
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| The view over Baslow |
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| Deley enjoying the views from Curbar Edge |
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| Another view of the inversion from curbar |
