Pretty Damn Good Really!
Ride Date: 24/06/2016
Distance: 21 Miles
Climbing: 3500ft
Route: Mam Tor > Hope Cross > Fairholmes > Hope
Riders : Jake, Matt, Duncan, Luke, Deley & Scott
A warm dry day was on the cards as we met in Hope for this pre summer holiday extra ride.
Six of us headed out through Castleton and up the broken road of Mam Tor. From here the usual route was tweaked slightly by heading part way up Rushup Edge for a nice addition of singletrack. A small break for a puncture and it was off down the North Side of Mam Tor, there is rumour of an off part way down, I didn't see it, but I heard it. We regrouped at the bottom before the ride/push back up to Hollin's Cross and the descent into Edale. Much drier than November and running well with just a group of walkers as an interruption.
A steady climb out of the valley around Jagger's Clough before the much steeper, but shorter climb up to Hope Cross. A quick pause at the top to discuss options, we chose the very much "marmite" descent of Potato Alley, For me the top is good, the bottom is reasonable, but the middle is just mayhem, with those loose "baby's head" rocks it's a case of grit your teeth and hang on. The normally grim climb out, over the snake and up past Rowlee farm didn't seem to bad, so with us all feeling fresh it was Lockerbrook time, my personal favourite, and it was bone dry except for the stream, excellent stuff!
After trying to fix a bloke's brand new £99 bike, whose crank had fell off we headed up the fire road to the top of Lockerbrook, the heat and humidity was pretty intense on what is a very tough climb when it's cool, a short recovery at the top and a brisk ride over to Hagg Farm, superb as usual, I was feeling the effects of the last climb though and found the bottom section really hard going. This didn't bode well for the push up The Beast! It was a relief to get back up to Hope Cross and the nearly all down hill run on The Roman Road into Hope.
A cracking ride by everyone, it's probably the toughest we have done this year with the climbing and the heat. I even had to have a shandy at the pub!
Check out the video below, it's a free service from https://www.relive.cc/ you get the video link emailed to you after you upload your ride to Strava, nice to see where you've been.
Distance: 21 Miles
Climbing: 3500ft
Route: Mam Tor > Hope Cross > Fairholmes > Hope
Riders : Jake, Matt, Duncan, Luke, Deley & Scott
A warm dry day was on the cards as we met in Hope for this pre summer holiday extra ride.
Six of us headed out through Castleton and up the broken road of Mam Tor. From here the usual route was tweaked slightly by heading part way up Rushup Edge for a nice addition of singletrack. A small break for a puncture and it was off down the North Side of Mam Tor, there is rumour of an off part way down, I didn't see it, but I heard it. We regrouped at the bottom before the ride/push back up to Hollin's Cross and the descent into Edale. Much drier than November and running well with just a group of walkers as an interruption.
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| On Rushup Edge |
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| Mam Tor |
Check out the video below, it's a free service from https://www.relive.cc/ you get the video link emailed to you after you upload your ride to Strava, nice to see where you've been.
