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Bike: Chameleon
Distance: 95 miles

MEGARIDE!

James had this idea about showing us some sweet singletrack he’d found. Sounds good to me. Here’s the problem though,

..if you can see that. We live right on the opposite sides of the map! Still, I had all day so thought it would be fine.

Off I set about 11:00, took my time, meandered along in the sun, mostly road so I didn’t get lost and it was nice going back to my old home town. 35 miles there. Met James and after collecting NBT and Richpips, we set off. Quite fast I might add. The lads took us upto Whaley Bridge along the canal andfromthere up into the hills about the reservoirs. We pottered about for a bit until we finally reached the top of the singletrack.

Iwas fantastic it has to be said. Rocky and twisty turny all the way down with roots and dropoffs and all sorts of things, loved it and well worth the travel. Unfortunately James, who is having some crash issues at the moment, came off a few times.

James Crash

Still, this is the first half decent video I’ve managed to get with my new 888 keyfob camera.

Not amazing quality but good enough for me and the good thing is it only cost me 8 quid plus the price of the memory card. I need to fix it to my helmet better though to stop it moving about so much, and learn how to make the quality best for uploading to youtube, my local copy is wway better than the one on there.

We finished our ride and shot off to a pub for a quick pint before heading back to James and then back to mine.

About 4 miles from James’s, I started to feel a bit funny. Maybe I should have eaten something all day.

About a mile further down the trail, I collapsed into the bushes. Hmm, maybe I should get something to eat. Properly bonked. It took an enormous amount of effort to get the tub of pasta out of my backpack but ince I had it open I wolfed it down in seconds. Some randoms went in on top of it and after ten minutes I felt strong enough to get back on my bike. I gradually felt better and better until I got back to Wharburton when I felt right as rain again, if a little tired.

I managed to limp my way home without any more food but collapsed into a chair when I got there and drink 2 pints of vimto and inhaled some chicken pasta my wife had made for me.

Quality day out.