Summer in the Amber Valley.
Ride Date: 23/08/2015
Distance: 21.6 miles
Climbing: 2700ft
Route: Shining Cliff > Black Rocks > Crich Chase
Riders : Jake, Matt, Carro, Paddy, Tony, Howard & Liam
First ride after the summer break, with a few missing due to holidays & Paddy's first outing on an Ambergate ride.
All the usual for the most part, starting with the nice warm up climb through the woods to the first section of trail, Tony was the first casualty with an OTB about halfway down this section where the rock step is, the short following climb up into Shining Cliff was start of things to come, with myself & Howard having some drive train issues, mine turned out to be a bent tooth on the small chain ring.
The ride along the top was good fun and the descent down "Millstone" to the fire road was nice and dry, more trouble for Howard's gears & he also ripped the hose out of his Reverb actuator. I must add that up to this point we had assumed that Carro had overlay/forgotten/couldn't be arsed (delete as applicable) but a missed call from him showed he had the time wrong and was at the Hurt Arms, luckily for him it was the best place to happen, a few quick directions and a short ride down the fire road had him joining up with us for the rest of the ride. By now it was getting warm and humid as we climbed back up to the top of the wood and over the fields towards Black rocks. Howard was having even more gear trouble and finding it difficult to go on so left us and headed back by road & canal.
Black Rocks was bone dry and running well, Matt had a rare off at some point on the way down to the first gate. The rest was incident free as we dropped down onto Intake Lane, also this time we added in the new section of trail I had spotted on the way to the Gully on a previous ride, safe to say it went down well, the trail pixies have done a great job & although a work in progress it's very ridable and great fun. Some whispers suggest it will be extended when time allows. Down on the canal some discussions were made as to the route, due to some time constraints & a bit of tiredness we opted to skip Riber and head back, with Myself, Matt & Carro opting to do Crich Chase. We lost Carro at some point on the way down to the campsite, half my fault for saying keep left & half is fault for taking it too literally! Some shouting eventually drew him towards us & we were back on track down to the canal.
Everyone else had buggered off by the time we got to the pub, a nice cold pint of 1664 in the sun finished the ride off nicely.
Distance: 21.6 miles
Climbing: 2700ft
Route: Shining Cliff > Black Rocks > Crich Chase
Riders : Jake, Matt, Carro, Paddy, Tony, Howard & Liam
First ride after the summer break, with a few missing due to holidays & Paddy's first outing on an Ambergate ride.
All the usual for the most part, starting with the nice warm up climb through the woods to the first section of trail, Tony was the first casualty with an OTB about halfway down this section where the rock step is, the short following climb up into Shining Cliff was start of things to come, with myself & Howard having some drive train issues, mine turned out to be a bent tooth on the small chain ring.
The ride along the top was good fun and the descent down "Millstone" to the fire road was nice and dry, more trouble for Howard's gears & he also ripped the hose out of his Reverb actuator. I must add that up to this point we had assumed that Carro had overlay/forgotten/couldn't be arsed (delete as applicable) but a missed call from him showed he had the time wrong and was at the Hurt Arms, luckily for him it was the best place to happen, a few quick directions and a short ride down the fire road had him joining up with us for the rest of the ride. By now it was getting warm and humid as we climbed back up to the top of the wood and over the fields towards Black rocks. Howard was having even more gear trouble and finding it difficult to go on so left us and headed back by road & canal.
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| Time out on the way to Black Rocks |
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| A converted roadie?? |
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